Michigan Reading Journal Michigan Reading Journal

Volume 7 Issue 3 Article 7

October 1973

1974 MRA Program Planning Committee 1974 MRA Program Planning Committee

Michigan Reading Journal

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1974 MRA PROGRAM PLANNING COMMITTEE

Chairperson Mrs. Sybil Michener Flint Community Schools

Steering Committee Mr. Richard Caderette ......................... Southfield Public Schools Mr. Dwight Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jackson Public Schools Dr. Clarice Stafford ........... . .................... Marygrove College Dr. Diana Umstattd ............................. Saginaw Public Schools

Program Task Force Dr. Rose Braiker ............................... Detroit Public Schools Dr. Barbara Burke ............... . .... . Michigan Department of Education Dr. Sandra Caldwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marygrove College Mrs. Betty Childs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wyoming Public Schools Mrs. Allaseba Gauthier.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wyoming Public Schools Mrs. LaBarba Gragg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wayne County Intermediate Schools Mrs. Glenowyn Jones ................. Genesee Intermediate School District Mrs. Evelyn Mulka......................... Saginaw Intermediate Board Mrs. JoAnn Panter .......................... Traverse City Public School Mrs. Donna Read .............................. Saginaw Valley College Mr. Richard Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manistee Intermediate School Mrs. Elaine Webber ........................... Michigan State University Dr. David Yarrington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aquinas College

Ex Officio Mrs. Beverly Chamberlain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . State Organization Chairman

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MICHIGAN READING ASSOCIATION EXEMPLARY ONGOING PROGRAMS

RIGHT TO READ A. PLANNING FOR

ISSUES ALL CHILDREN

PROGRAM - Average Learners I. PLANNING AND - Superior Learners

DEVELOPMENT - Disabled Learners - Minority Group Learners

11. GOALS AND - Performance Objectives OBJECTIVES

METHODS AND - Basal and Supplementary Texts Ill.

MATERIALS - Program Packages - Instructional Media Centers

- Individualized Instruction IV. ORGANIZATIONAL - Open Classroom

PLANS - Regular Classroom

MANAGEMENT - Contingency Management V. SYSTEMS

- Student Contracts - Management by Accountability

VI. ASSESSMENT AND - Diagnostic Testing

EVALUATION - Cognitive Mapping - Culture Free Tests

- Adult Literacy

VII. COMMUNITY - Pre-School Education INVOLVEMENT - Homework Packages

- Minority Groups

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B. PERSONNEL

- Role of Administrators - Role of Reading Specialist - Role of Classroom Teachers

- Pre-Service Education - Inservice Education

- Teacher Management - Use of Para-professional

- Differentiated Staffing - Reading Support Teachers - Support Services (Psychologist)

- Recruitment of Staff

- Cert.-Competency Exams. - Staff Competency

- Classroom Aides - Volunteers - Guest Speakers

C. RECORDS D. LEGISLATION E. INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY

- Forms for Title 1 - School Entrance Requirements - Individual Study Modules - Forms for Chapter 3 - Attendance Policies - Reading Systems

- High School Exit Standards - Curriculum Planning

- Pupil Progress Profiles - State Performance Objectives - Cognitive Mapping - Learning Sequences

- Records of Instruction - Enabling Objectives - Wisconsin Design - Records of Materials Used - Program Descriptions - Design of Checklists

- Teacher Tenure - Open Classroom - Para-professionals - Alternative Schools - Student Teachers

- Mastery Learning Model - Local Control - Prescriptive Teaching - Performance Contracts

- Long Range Pupil Progress - Norm-Referenced Tests - Teach and Evaluate Objectives - Program Evaluation - Criterion-Referenced Tests

- State Assessment

- Reporting to Parents - Financial Support - Parent Aides - Categorical Aid - Peer Tu to ring

- Cross-Age Tutoring

1973-1974

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