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Nimnicht, Glen P.; Brown, Edna – Young Children, 1972
On the assumption that parents can provide significant educational experiences for their preschool children, a Parent/Child course has been initiated in conjunction with the Toy Library at the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Criteria, Library Circulation, Parent Education
Nimnicht, Glen P.; And Others – 1970
This second of a series of papers evaluating the Parent/Child Program describes the procedure used to decide whether the nine toys and their accompanying learning episodes are appropriate for use by young children in the Parent/Child context. Parents in four courses (Preliminary and Performance Test Situations) were given instructions on how to…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Educational Games, Evaluation Methods, Learning Activities
Nimnicht, Glen P.; And Others – 1971
Intended for librarians, this manual provides a framework for operating a toy library and a training course which will teach parents how to use toys and games that help preschool children learn important skills and ideas, and which in turn will assist parents in understanding some basic things about how a child learns to think. Toys used in the…
Descriptors: Childrens Games, Guides, Librarians, Library Extension
Nimnicht, Glen P. – 1970
This report gives an overall evaluation of the Parent/Child Program of preschool education for 3- to 4-year-olds. The program objectives are: (1) to aid parents to help their children develop a healthy self-concept, (2) to help parents to promote their children's intellectual development through educational toys, (3) to help parents stimulate…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Intellectual Development, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship
Nimnicht, Glen P.; And Others – 1971
The Parent/Child Toy-Library Program is described and a report is given of its evaluation. The program is a 10-week course for parents of three- and four year-old children, an educational Toy Library for the parents, and a training program for the teacher-librarians who will teach the course and operate the library. Two toys were rejected on the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Materials
Nimnicht, Glen P. – 1970
The Responsive Model program assumes that the school environment should be designed to respond to the learner, and that school activities should be autotelic, or self-rewarding, not dependent upon rewards or punishment unrelated to the activity. Developmental theory, certain ideas of operant conditioning, and flexible learning sequences are used…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Blacks, Developmental Programs