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Beard, Darlisha – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Researchers have concluded that parental involvement is necessary for students' success in school because parent involvement in school activities can positively affect children's learning and school experiences. Parent presence and participation is lacking in an urban school district in western Tennessee. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Participation, Urban Schools
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Wahl-Alexander, Zachary; Schwamberger, Ben; Neels, Darren – Physical Educator, 2017
The Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program approach has been suggested to provide students with additional opportunities for physical activity (PA) outside of traditional physical education (PE). Although research suggests that this program is successful at increasing children's levels of PA, research on implementing pedagogical models to…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, After School Programs, Athletics
Haywood, Paula – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Collaborating teachers need common planning time to plan instruction to teach students with diverse needs in their classroom. Teachers usually have limited common planning time or no time. It therefore became incumbent upon collaborating teachers to be mindful of how productively they use the limited planning time. This qualitative case study…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Case Studies, Educational Planning
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Thompson, Stephen L.; Lotter, Christine; Fann, Xumei; Taylor, Laurie – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2016
Researchers examined how an inquiry-based instructional treatment emphasizing interrelated plant processes influenced 210 elementary pre-service teachers' (PTs) conceptions of three plant processes, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and transpiration, and the interrelated nature of these processes. The instructional treatment required PTs to…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Plants (Botany), Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Science
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Hertel, Jonathan D.; Cunningham, Christine M.; Kelly, Gregory J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
Engineering design challenges offer important opportunities for students to learn science and engineering knowledge and practices. This study examines how students' engineering notebooks across four units of the curriculum "Engineering is Elementary" (EiE) support student work during design challenges. Through educational ethnography and…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, Coding
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Gee, Donna; Whaley, Jerita – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2016
Elementary teachers were involved in a two-year grant focused on professional development using lesson study processes to increase their understanding of mathematics content and effective mathematics pedagogy. The primary research questions focused on how 16 elementary teachers described their professional growth after being involved in lesson…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration
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Reeves, Jocelyn; Le Mare, Lucy – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2017
We examined the beliefs and experiences of three elementary school teachers who, over one school year, participated in bi weekly, guided discussions of attachment and care theories that introduced them to relational pedagogy as a way of supporting students? positive social, emotional, and academic growth. Teachers? beliefs about the aims of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Teaching Experience
Simmons, Timothy Joshua – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this qualitative collective case study was to understand how first-career skills were utilized by highly effective second-career elementary school teachers in northeast Tennessee. The guiding research question for the study was: How do the skills acquired in a first career affect second-career elementary school teachers? The…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Job Skills, Career Change
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Casey, Erin M. – Journal of International Social Studies, 2016
Intercultural education, focused on understanding, respecting, and engaging in dialogue among and about different cultures (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO], 2006) adds to multicultural educational efforts by addressing diverse needs in learning and teaching students. This paper argues for focus on…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Social Studies, Elementary Education, Methods Courses
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Fair, Cynthia D.; Delaplane, Emily – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2015
Service learning has become increasingly popular across all levels of education. Previous literature emphasizes that reflection is an important aspect of service learning. However, limited focus has been given to appropriate methods of reflection for younger children. This longitudinal study followed 31 second-grade children (15 females; mean age…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Longitudinal Studies, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
Scott, Rachel Amanda Garner – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to investigate the perceptions that K-5 teachers have toward Georgia's mandated Early Intervention Math Program (EIP) on at risk learners in an elementary school in a rural, North Georgia community. The following questions guided the study: 1. How do K-5 teachers describe their experience with…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Rural Schools
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DeFauw, Danielle L. – Reading Horizons, 2017
High-quality writing instruction needs to permeate elementary students' in- and outside-of-school experiences. The aim of this research was to explore how teaching writing to parents may support home-school literacy connections. This qualitative case study explored parents' experiences in interactive writing sessions. The descriptive coding and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Oral Reading, Pictorial Stimuli, Elementary School Students
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Yaacob, Aizan; Walters, Lynne Masel; Ali, Ruzlan Md; Abdullah, Sarimah Shaik; Walters, Timothy – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2014
Purpose: In this study, 37 English Language Teaching (ELT) teacher trainees from a Malaysian university conducted an action-research project to determine whether journals kept during their fieldwork in primary schools located in an area close to the university allowed them to reflect on their beliefs and behaviors in the classroom. Methodology:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Preservice Teachers
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Stuhr, Paul T.; Sutherland, Sue; Ward, Phillip – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2012
Teaching is an occupation that requires a considerable amount of emotional energy when interacting with students. Through in-depth interviews, field notes and journal entries the investigators examined the phenomenon of lived-positive emotionality (LPE) involving two physical education (PE) teachers. The purpose of this study was to determine the…
Descriptors: Interviews, Journal Writing, Physical Education Teachers, Emotional Response
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Park, Ho-Ryong; Kim, Deoksoon – CALICO Journal, 2016
This study investigated four elementary-level English language learners' (ELLs') use of strategies for reading computer-based texts at home and in school. The ELLs in this study were in the fourth and fifth grades in a public elementary school. We identify the ELLs' strategies for reading computer-based texts in home and school environments. We…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Public Schools, Grade 4, Grade 5
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