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Jessica Prioletta; Julia Srouji; Shannon Roy – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2025
In this paper, we draw on critical theorisations to examine kindergarten teachers' approaches to sexuality education. A qualitative study was carried out using semi-structured interviews with ten teachers and classroom observations in four classrooms in Quebec, Canada. Data analysis revealed that the teachers in the study agreed that sexuality…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Mei B. Tran – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This phenomenological study investigated the lived experiences of how primary teachers (K-2) perceive and manage accountability pressures. Accountability pressures are the consequences of high-stakes and standardized testing. This can be overtly represented by inappropriately aligned standards or a fast-paced curriculum design to match tested…
Descriptors: Accountability, Stress Variables, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Coxon, Steve – Childhood Education, 2023
STEM learning in not merely a matter of training children for current jobs--the job market is likely to change radically before a current kindergartner graduates from college, as artificial intelligence, robotics, and other technologies evolve and new technologies emerge. STEM education is an integrated, cross-disciplinary approach to teaching…
Descriptors: Play, STEM Education, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students
Nicole Larsen; Angela Pyle; Erica Danniels; Marsha Marzouca; Raadiyah Nazeem – Education Inquiry, 2025
Play occupies a critical role in the kindergarten classroom, and the expansion of formal play-based learning programmes have brought connections between play and learning to the forefront. With respect to social and emotional learning (SEL), child-directed play has been viewed as critical, while teacher direction has been framed as a potential…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Social Emotional Learning, Play
Ellen McKenzie – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2023
Around the world, on every continent, and in every country, children play. Though culturally contextualized, play is a global common childhood experience. There are cultural variations in children's play activities, and though play looks and sounds different across the world, there are also commonalities. Though scholars find it difficult to…
Descriptors: Play, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods, Young Children
Ankrum, Julie W. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2022
This manuscript describes the current debate about the use of leveled readers during literacy instruction. Some experts claim that leveled readers are overused in classrooms, at the expense of more complex texts. As a result, students may lack exposure to sophisticated vocabulary and varied text structures. In contrast, other experts assert that…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Yu-Hui Ching; Yu-Chang Hsu – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2024
Educational robotics has been adopted to create interactive and engaging learning environments to develop computational thinking (CT) in K-12 learners. This study systematically examined 22 peer-reviewed empirical research articles on the use of educational robotics to develop CT in young learners (pre-kindergarten to 6th grade) published between…
Descriptors: Robotics, Educational Technology, Preschool Education, Elementary Education
Richard Harris; Maria Kambouri; Ann E. Wilson-Daily; Meggie Copsey-Blake – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2025
This paper reports on findings from a survey conducted within a larger collaborative project, working with primary school teachers and parents to normalise conversations about LGBTQ+ issues in four English primary schools. Survey data from 96 teachers and parents highlight different perspectives on the inclusion of LGBTQ+ issues. Existing research…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, LGBTQ People, Elementary Schools, Parent Attitudes
Dennis, Lynn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain understanding of how Midwestern kindergarten teachers use developmentally appropriate play-based practices to support the standards in their classrooms. Five participants were selected based on meeting the criteria of being a kindergarten teacher in a Midwestern school district who incorporates…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Play
Charmaine Bonds – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Early childhood teachers had to restructure instruction when the COVID-19 pandemic began, and instruction was completed online. The problem was that early childhood teachers faced challenges using developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) in online instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics
Melissa A. Gallagher; Jennifer E. Scholla – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2025
Adaptive teachers use student data to guide instruction. Learn about using an anecdotal record form to support adaptive teaching. In this article, the authors describe how teachers can use learning trajectories to make adaptive decisions to meet the needs of their students. They provide an example using the U .S. Math Recovery Council's learning…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Learning Trajectories, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Student Needs
Sweeney, Sophia J.; McComas, William F. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
National science reform documents recommend several nature of science (NOS) elements to introduce to children early in the science curriculum. A researcher developed questionnaire was used to gather information from a random, national sample about early elementary teachers' perceptions of the developmental appropriateness of 12 NOS aspects for the…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Doll, William J. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to determine current kindergarten teacher understandings of early phonics instruction and how teachers are meeting readers' early phonics needs during guided reading instruction. Using Vygotsky's (1979) social constructivist theory and Ehri's (1995) connectionist theory and by focusing on age-appropriate instruction,…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Teacher Attitudes, Knowledge Level
Bharathi Venkat – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Incidences of school shootings have surged in the United States. The increases in school shootings and the implementation of active shooter drills in various formats in response to these incidences have been identified as causing psychological issues in many students, including fear, vicarious trauma, and anxiety, and as causing diminished…
Descriptors: Bibliotherapy, Drills (Practice), Trauma, School Violence
Emily Relkin; Sara K. Johnson; Marina U. Bers – Educational Technology & Society, 2023
"TechCheck" is an assessment of Computational Thinking (CT) for early elementary school children consisting of fifteen developmentally appropriate unplugged challenges that probe six CT domains. The first version of "TechCheck" showed good psychometric properties as well as ease of administration and scoring in a validation…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Computation, Thinking Skills