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Direct linkKristie J. Napolitano – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Teachers in my school district observed students struggling with their social and emotional skills in the classroom and on the playground; therefore, a group of teachers and administrators began to search for programs to help the school district strengthen student social and emotional skills prior to the COVID-19 global pandemic. The team…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Social Emotional Learning, Intervention
Peer reviewedBarbara Maria Sageidet; Ove Bergersen – Environmental Education Research, 2025
The Anthropocene is a geo-stratigraphic unit of the upper Earth's layers, impacted by human disturbances, but also humankind's historical record, and children's place to live on. It is an unfinished narrative. This study explores how garden and soil-related activities with kindergarten children, guided by well-informed teachers, may have the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Sustainable Development, Environmental Education
Cynthia F. Dicarlo; Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell; Michelle Fazio-Brunson; Sarah W. Gauthreaux – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Early childhood leadership leads to positive outcomes for young children, including social competence. Objective: The purpose of the present study was to examine the leadership behavior exhibited by three preschool aged children and to determine if teacher prompting could increase the frequency of leadership behaviors exhibited by…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Skill Development, Student Development, Teaching Methods
Lavery, Shane; Sandri, Sandro – Issues in Educational Research, 2021
This study, which is a replication of three previous studies, explored the perceptions of pre-service primary and early childhood teachers who undertook a service-learning course as part of their Bachelor of Education degree at an Australian university. The practical component of the service-learning entailed 13 hours of community engagement where…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Early Childhood Teachers, Student Attitudes
Download full textJulia Shields Chrestay; Kyra Atterbury, Contributor; Janet Chance, Contributor; Stecy Mbemba, Contributor; Helena Miller, Contributor; Joe Alberti, Contributor; Sara Caselle, Contributor; Suzanne Cilli, Contributor; Katherine Collier, Contributor; Erica Darken, Contributor; Emily Goedde, Contributor; Rochelle Krauss, Contributor; Bernadine Magee, Contributor; Noga Newberg, Contributor; An Nguyen, Contributor; Candice Smith, Contributor – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
Need in Deed's work with Philadelphia public school teachers and their students centers empathy, informed investigation, and civic action. Bolstered by these values and with the support of the My Voice framework and dedicated Need in Deed staff, educators are equipped to co-create authentic classroom communities with their students. In Need in…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Citizen Participation, Public School Teachers, Empathy
Ashley Leann Sullivan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Even though small group instruction is a research-based intervention and has many benefits, researchers have shown that many students are reading below grade level and struggle with mastering reading skills, and this may be due to the ineffectiveness of small-group reading instruction. The problem that was addressed in this study was teachers'…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Teacher Attitudes, Employee Attitudes
Chang, Seung Ho; Ward, Phillip; Goodway, Jacqueline D. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2020
Background: Recent studies have found the effects of improvements in teachers' content knowledge (CK) on enacted pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and student learning outcomes. However, there is little research exploring the relationship between PCK and student learning in an individual fundamental motor skill-based elementary physical…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Faculty Development, Workshops, Psychomotor Skills
Dusenbury, Linda; Weissberg, Roger P. – Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, 2017
Momentum has been growing across the country to support statewide implementation of social and emotional learning (SEL) in preschool through high school. In this brief we present an update on states' involvement in articulating goals and developing guidelines for student SEL. [Additional support for this work was provided by Pure Edge, Inc.]
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Beecher, Constance C.; Strand, Paul; French, Brian F. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2018
This study modeled the time-dependent nature of pre-academic skills development for a multi-lingual sample of 382 preschoolers attending Head Start. A two-slope latent variable model accurately described the trajectories, which included five assessment points obtained throughout the school year for both pre-literacy and pre-numeracy variables.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Early Intervention, Preschool Education, School Readiness
Blaauw, Janet – Teachers and Curriculum, 2016
Children in mainstream schools who struggle academically and disengage in regular schooling may be helped when teachers change their practice to include what the students themselves have reported makes a difference. Student voices need to be listened to, not as a token gesture, but as a way of making a positive difference in their lives at school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primary Education, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
de Haan, Annika K. E.; Elbers, Ed; Leseman, Paul P. M. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2014
The aim of this study was to assess whether children's development benefited from teacher-and child-managed academic activities in the preschool and kindergarten classroom. Extensive systematic observations during four half-days in preschool ("n"?=?8) and kindergarten ("n"?=?8) classrooms revealed that classrooms differed in…
Descriptors: Student Development, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Observation
León, Jenny Melo – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2015
The purpose of this study was to identify the different incidents of critical thinking in five preschool classrooms in one school, and the instructional strategies preschool teachers employed in the development of children's critical thinking. The participants in this study were five self-contained preschool teachers and their corresponding…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Preschool Education, Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods
Margolin, Ilana – Journal of Case Studies in Education, 2012
This qualitative case-study explores the ways in which an innovative M.Ed. program facilitated the development of future ECE reflective leaders. Using case study methodology, it presents the transformational process two recent graduates underwent during their studies. The findings indicate four main sources that initiated the deep student…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Reflection, Educational Research, Qualitative Research
