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Direct linkApril Camping; Ashley Stack; Abigail Bristow; Kausalai Wijekumar; Debra McKeown; Pilar Sierra; Sandra Hotcaveg – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine the skills and types of instruction present within four commonly used writing textbooks at grades four and five via content and quantitative analyses. Determining the presence of standards-based skills and evidence-based practices may help shed light on the effectiveness and quality of these curricula. The…
Descriptors: Skills, Educational Practices, Writing Instruction, Textbooks
William J. Therrien; Vivian C. Wong; Ling Chen; Christina M. Taylor; Jennifer L. Chiu; Bruna Gonçalves; Qing Liu; Bryan G. Cook; Christian T. Doabler; Elizabeth Swanson; Priscilla B. Brame; Shannon Budin; Eunsoo Cho; Sheila J. Conway; Kimberley M. Davis; Michael W. Dunn; Michael N. Faggella-Luby; Jenna Gersib; Zaira Jimenez; Rachel L. Juergensen; Sharlene A. Kiuhara; Erica S. Lembke; Amelia K. Moody; Jared R. Morris; Reagan Murnan; Cherish M. Sarmiento; Cassandra M. Smith; R. Alex Smith; Michael Solis; Heidi R. Stinchcomb – Science Education, 2025
Elementary science education, particularly in the 4th and 5th grades, is essential for setting the foundation for lifelong science learning, fostering critical thinking, and preparing students for success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This stage is especially critical for students with disabilities, as…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Grade 4, Grade 5
Jordan, Catherine; Sajady, Mollika; Faber Taylor, Andrea – Environmental Education Research, 2023
In school-based research, isolating the potential effects of a single variable while attempting to maintain typical classroom routines is always a challenge. Unfortunately, the challenges and methodological approaches to overcoming them are often only shallowly reported, perhaps due to word limits or assumptions that those details are irrelevant…
Descriptors: Environment, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Barriers
Sarah K. Krowka; Madhavi Jayanthi; Robin F. Schumacher; Russell Gersten; Kelly S. Haymond; Rebecca A. Newman-Gonchar – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2025
Impacts of rational number interventions among U.S. students in Grades 3 through 9 with mathematics difficulties are examined using a systematic review and meta-analysis. The primary goal of the meta-analysis was to identify instructional practices that are key drivers of student impacts. From approximately 1,200 published and unpublished study…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Intervention, Literature Reviews
Gort, Mileidis; Hamm-Rodríguez, Molly – Reading Teacher, 2022
This article illustrates how two fourth-grade bilingual teachers transformed their writing instruction for bi/multilingual learners by integrating a functional approach to language and literacy teaching and learning. The authors use a systemic functional linguistics genre pedagogy to explore and elucidate the teachers' innovative instructional…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Bilingual Students, Multilingualism, Bilingualism
Nele Bleukx; Katrijn Denies; Hilde Van Keer; Koen Aesaert – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Background: Reading and reading comprehension are crucial skills, yet many students in grade 4 struggle with them. To address this, several instructional practices have gained popularity. For one, explicit reading strategy instruction (ERSI) is deemed useful, given the finding that successful readers tend to employ reading strategies. As a second…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods
H. Charles McPhee – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative descriptive study explored how general education K-6 teachers describe their ability to implement student Individualized Educational Plans (IEP) in their classrooms and the supports needed for effective implementation of IEPs in Ohio. Self-Efficacy has been defined as the confidence that an individual has in their ability to…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
Courtney Wood Samuelson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This ethnographic case study investigated literacy instruction and intervention practices within a Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) framework in upper elementary school. Multi-Tiered Systems of Support has been proposed as a system of schoolwide reform aimed to support students' academic and social-emotional development and is often used…
Descriptors: Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Elementary Schools, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods
Laura Roeker – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examines the experiences of six K-5 elementary school teachers in professional learning spaces for antiracism. Teachers from two elementary schools established school-university partnerships to begin antiracist work: one on a whole-school level, the other a group of teachers meeting voluntarily with university faculty. Given the paucity…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
Laura Jessica Romo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Students with disabilities have been inequitably served by the United States educational system for decades. This research study explores general education teachers' beliefs and pedagogical approaches to the incorporation of students with disabilities into their classrooms. 22 general education teachers (teaching grades 1-5) participated in a…
Descriptors: Regular and Special Education Relationship, Inclusion, Individualized Education Programs, Students with Disabilities
Braden, Eliza G.; Boutte, Gloria; Gibson, Valente'; Jackson, Jarvais – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2022
In this article, we chronicle two African American, male teachers' (fourth and fifth-grade teachers at the same school) use of Afrocentric praxis to demonstrate how the identities of African Diasporic students can be honored and sustained. We begin by explaining the conceptual framework and the context of the school and classrooms. We focus our…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Blacks, Immigrants, African American Teachers
McKeown, Debra; Brindle, Mary; Harris, Karen R.; Graham, Steve; Collins, Alyson A.; Brown, Megan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
In this mixed methods study, qualitative, quantitative, and single-case methods were combined to provide a comprehensive investigation of teacher and student outcomes following practice-based professional development (PBPD) for self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) in writing. Qualitative observations were used to determine outcomes among the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Individualized Instruction, Coaching (Performance), Mixed Methods Research
Carolyn A. Franklin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this longitudinal, mixed methods quasi-experimental study was to investigate the impact of balanced literacy coaching on teacher efficacy, practices, beliefs, and student achievement. The participants were third- through sixth-grade teachers from five elementary schools within the same south suburban Chicago public school district.…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Grade 3
Download full textGubbins, E. Jean; Siegle, Del; Ottone-Cross, Karen; McCoach, D. Betsy; Langley, Susan Dulong; Callahan, Carolyn M.; Brodersen, Annalissa V.; Caughey, Melanie – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2021
The importance of alignment between identification processes and program design is widely noted in gifted and talented education literature. We analyzed publicly available district gifted program plans (Grades 3-5) from two states to examine the extent to which district identification practices matched intervention strategies. Our team developed a…
Descriptors: Talent Identification, Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Program Design
Goodwin, Amanda P.; Cho, Sun-Joo; Reynolds, Dan; Silverman, Rebecca; Nunn, Stephanie – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
The current study reports on a large-scale quantitative analysis of classroom talk practices and links to different measures of reading achievement within upper elementary classrooms. Data involving 745 fourth- and fifth-grade teachers and 18,844 students from the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) study were used. Talk was quantified via…
Descriptors: Correlation, Classroom Communication, Reading Achievement, Teaching Methods
