The Coalition for Community Schools Early Childhood/Community School Linkages Projectt applied some of the implementation lessons of the Perry Preschool Project and Abecedarian programs in three community school settings.
The successful implementation of the lessons and the positive student responses indicate that young learners are capable and eager to learn evolutionary science.
Throughout their calm, steady, consistent implementation of the lessons they learned, they achieved their goals.
The implementation of the lessons was monitored using a checklist for the educators to complete after each lesson, to see whether the lessons were executed completely.
"And to me, the lesson of Iraq is that implementation is nine-tenths of policy.
We assessed the rationale, acceptability, effectiveness, impact and implementation lessons of these strategies to inform effective typhoid vaccination strategies for the future.
From watching the full lesson videos, the PD leader learns a great deal about the strengths and weaknesses of the lessons and of teacher implementation of the lessons and uses this knowledge to identify key issues that could be productively examined through video analysis.
Teachers were provided with a variety of materials to aid in their implementation of the lesson, including detailed and condensed lesson plans, poster-sized visual aids, and concrete and virtual manipulatives.
While the evaluation did not document permutations in implementation, it is important to note that even for those who trialed most or all of the lessons, fidelity of implementation varied.
Finally, these components are integrated into the classroom lesson plan by making sure that activities and assessments support the learning objectives, beneficial feedback is provided to support student learning, and situational factors will not hinder implementation of the lesson (Fink 2009).
