University of Santa Clara - Redwood Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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Taking advantage of the ever-increasing availability of practicums, more than 20 students participated in a psychology department practicum which involved work in the numerous Head Start Centers in the San Jose area. The students worked for four hours each Wednesday morning in the centers, helping the Head Start teachers supervise young childr en in activities that ranged from finger painting to visits to pumpkin patches. To receive course credit for the practicum, students had to spend the entire year in the program and develop an evaluation of the program. The students chose the center where they worked on the basis of the approach (such as the Sesame Street approach) which the center uses. In an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of the practicum program itself, meetings were held in spring quarter in which students who left the program explained their reasons for leaving to those who remained.

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