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Stephanie T. Holmberg – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This instrumental mixed methods case study investigated Grades 3-5 classroom teachers' perceptions of teaching for creativity and the effects of a researcher-developed, one-day, online professional development creativity module intervention within a suburban school district in south-central Pennsylvania. Creativity has been identified as a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Jacob Pleasants; Kristyn Sartin – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
Engineering design is being increasingly included in elementary education, typically to provide students with opportunities to apply science and mathematics concepts while developing their engineering practices. An important question is how to prepare teachers who can help students develop more informed engineering practices during classroom…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Elementary School Teachers, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Mathematical Concepts
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Aisja Jones; Suzy Hardie – PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, 2025
Purpose: For this study, 12 fifth-grade students read expository text, employed reciprocal teaching strategies, collaborated face to face online using a Web 2.0 tool during the reading workshop. The purpose of this action research was to evaluate the impact of reciprocal teaching embedded in the Wakelet Curation Tool, a Web 2.0 tool, on…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Teacher Role, Student Role, Reading Instruction
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Christopher P. Brown; Da Hei Ku; Kate Puckett; David P. Barry – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2024
The first year of teaching has and continues to be fraught with challenges for early educators in public school contexts across the United States. A persistent problem that has been documented across the globe is the ability of novice teachers to engage in developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) with their students. We examine this issue…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Professional Development, Barriers
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Eliza Braden; Michele Myers; Natasha Thornton; Sanjuana Rodriguez; Kamania Wynter-Hoyte – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
This qualitative study explores how teachers implement literacy pedagogies that affirm and engage students despite facing restrictive literacy mandates. We interviewed a focus group of four veteran Revolutionary Loving kindergarten through fifth-grade teachers from three Title 1 schools in the southeastern United States. Additionally, the study…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Literacy Education, Learner Engagement
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Latifa Sebti; Brent C. Elder – School-University Partnerships, 2024
Purpose: In this article, we highlight ways in which disability critical race theory (DisCrit) (Annamma et al., 2013), inclusive education and community-based participatory research (CBPR) can be used within professional development schools (PDS) to provide students with disabilities with more access to inclusive classrooms. At a grade 4-6…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Students with Disabilities, Partnerships in Education