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Korkmaz, Halil Ibrahim; Sahin, Ömer – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2020
In this study, preservice preschool teachers' pedagogical content knowledge about geometric shapes was examined in the context of children's mistakes. A total of 84 preservice teachers, who were studying in preschool teacher education program at a state university in Turkey, participated in this study. Of the preservice teachers, 34 were sophomore…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Geometric Concepts, Error Patterns
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Ariso, José María – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2019
It is expected that children increasingly learn to identify errors throughout their schooling process and even before it. As a further step, however, some scholars have suggested how a culture of error should be implemented in the classroom for the student to be able not only to locate errors but also, and above all, to learn from them. Yet the…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Teaching Methods, Identification, Classroom Environment
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Torbeyns, Joke; Verbruggen, Sandy; Depaepe, Fien – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
Teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) importantly contributes to instructional quality and student outcomes. We aimed to complement the limited insights into preservice preschool teachers' PCK, and its association with opportunities to learn (OTL), during teacher training. We offered 162 first-to-final-year preservice preschool teachers…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preschool Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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von Kotzebue, Lena; Müller, Laura; Haslbeck, Heidi; Neuhaus, Birgit J.; Lankes, Eva-Maria – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2020
Cognitive activation is one of the central quality characteristics of teaching. Studies which analyzed cognitive activation in science instruction and its influence on the achievement and the interest of students, took most of the times place in higher grades. Since scientific thinking can be taught at a very early stage and, in particular,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Schools, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
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Elkin, Mollie; Sullivan, Amanda; Bers, Marina Umaschi – Computers in the Schools, 2016
KIBO is a developmentally appropriate robotics kit for young children that is programmed using interlocking wooden blocks; no screens or keyboards are required. This study describes a pilot KIBO robotics curriculum at an urban public preschool in Rhode Island and presents data collected on children's knowledge of foundational programming concepts…
Descriptors: Programming, Preschool Children, Robotics, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
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Barton, Erin E.; Chen, Ching-I; Pribble, Lois; Pomes, Maria; Kim, Young-Ah – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2013
The purpose of this article is to describe two studies that examined the effects of training and coaching on preservice teachers' implementation of an intervention focused on teaching play to young children with disabilities. A multiple-baseline across teachers single-case research design was used to systematically examine the relation between…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Play, Skill Development, Disabilities
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Foster, Brandon W.; Roberts, Mark W. – Child & Family Behavior Therapy, 2007
Among the many methods of teaching skills to parents of disruptive children, videotape modeling of specific parent-child interaction sequences has been particularly effective. Given the likelihood of timeout resistance in defiant children, the authors tested the effectiveness of videotape parent training with a sample of clinic referred,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preschool Children, Clinics, Parent Education