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Karina M. Moussa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The U.S. Surgeon General defines determinants of health as "the range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status" (Donatelle, 2019). These determinants encompass various health goals but despite them, health-related issues persist across the population, indicating a need for comprehensive…
Descriptors: Wellness, Health Education, Holistic Approach, Elementary School Students
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Alison Willis – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
Survey research among Australian teachers revealed that teachers experience tensions between student well-being concerns and the demands of academic performance and improvement agendas. Qualitative findings revealed teachers view student-teacher relationships as imperative to student well-being and academic development. However, in a time of…
Descriptors: Student Welfare, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Teacher Student Relationship
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Katewongsa, Piyawat; Choolers, Panya; Saonuam, Pairoj; Widyastari, Dyah Anantalia – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to examine the effectiveness of a whole-of-school approach by using the 4PC model (Active Policy, Active People, Active Program, Active Place, and Active Classroom) in improving physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior of school children in Thailand. Method: We employed a quasi-experimental cohort design in which…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Health Promotion, Health Behavior, Program Effectiveness
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Ní Chróinín, Déirdre; McMullen, Jaimie – European Physical Education Review, 2020
Understanding factors that influence children's participation in sport and physical activity is critical to designing more appealing youth opportunities and programmes. Whole-of-school initiatives offer one way to promote children's physical activity, but little is understood about how celebration within these initiatives influences children's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Participation, Elementary School Students, Physical Activities
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Xin Gong; Huixia Gu; Wei Gao; Siyuan Wang – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2025
In 2021, China issued the "Double Reduction" (DR) policy to reduce the within- and outside-school burden on students. The policy requires all compulsory education schools to provide after-school services such as homework tutoring and well-rounded development activities for willing students. Based on student survey data from 13 schools in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, After School Programs, Social Emotional Learning, Tutoring
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Mills-Guest, Amy; Crippen, C. – Journal of Education, 2021
In British Columbia (BC), the use of cross-age mentoring programs, commonly referred to as buddy programs, is not systemically evaluated and there are no clear program goals. Although the use of buddy programs is widespread across school districts in BC, research remains scarce regarding both the origins of buddy programs and their purpose.…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Student Empowerment, Elementary School Students, Children
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Expósito-López, Jorge; Chacón-Cuberos, Ramón; Romero-Díaz de la Guardia, José Javier; Parejo-Jiménez, Noelia; Rodríguez-Fernández, Sonia; Estrada-Vidal, Ligia Isabel – Education Sciences, 2020
The school burnout of children, defined as physical and mental exhaustion due to a lack of adjustment to the educational context, constitutes a serious problem in contemporary education. Thus, the determination of the elements that influence it and the possible strategies for avoiding it are key in the process of improving children's well-being. A…
Descriptors: Burnout, Preadolescents, Elementary School Students, Tutoring
Lisa Wilken; Jon Tak Lee; Danica Mavroudis; Rita Rodriguez; Jae H. Paik – Communique, 2024
With the aim of providing holistic approaches to education, social and emotional learning (SEL) has gained significant attention within school systems across the world. SEL has been defined as the process through which individuals understand and regulate emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy towards others, establish and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Emotional Learning, Elementary School Students, STEM Education
Shelley R. Hart; Celene Domitrovich; Dennis D. Embry; Kimberly Becker; April Lawson; Nicholas Ialongo – Remedial and Special Education, 2021
A group, randomized, comparative effectiveness trial of two elementary universal preventive interventions (PAX Good Behavior Game [PAX GBG] and the integration of PAX GBG with Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies [PATHS to PAX]) was carried out in general education classrooms in 27 urban elementary schools. Ialongo et al. report on results of…
Descriptors: Prevention, Intervention, Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities
Perez, Renante B. – Online Submission, 2019
The growing number of environmental problems in the modern world call for a more effective and efficient environmental education. Local educational leaders emphasized that the enrichment of learnings about the environment can be done through co-curricular activities. Accordingly, the Youth for Environment in Schools Organization (YES-O) is the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Youth Programs, Conservation (Environment), Program Effectiveness
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Kerret, Dorit; Orkibi, Hod; Bukchin, Shira; Ronen, Tammie – Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
To examine inconsistent past findings on green schools' influences on students, a mediation model was tested for 1903 Israeli students in Grades 5-6 in 30 green and 16 non-green schools. Results indicated that green school students reported more pro-environmental behavior (PEB) and more school satisfaction compared to their peers at non-green…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Well Being, Positive Attitudes, Program Effectiveness
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Haydey, Donna Copsey – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2018
A collaborative partnership was developed within a school division, inner-city school and nearby daycare to provide an intervention program for children in nursery school and kindergarten known to be at-risk for school success. The plan was to offer an additional half-day of programming focused on a whole-child vision including language, literacy,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, School Schedules, At Risk Students, Preschool Children
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Jung, Jeesun; Recchia, Susan; Ottley, Jennifer – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2021
This qualitative study explores how a group of preservice teachers, all of whom had been well prepared to become primary-grade teachers, made a transition into infant/toddler group care settings. The authors used the teachers' daily journal entries, individual interview, document analysis (course syllabus, weekly planning sheets), and weekly team…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Infants, Toddlers
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Moreno, Amanda J. – Childhood Education, 2017
As mindfulness practices become more widely implemented in schools, they are attracting both keen interest and strong criticism. It is important that mindfulness-based programs adhere to sound child development principles, be aligned with the neuroscience of stress, be integrated in a holistic manner by teachers throughout the school day, and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Ethics, Elementary School Students, Child Development
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Paul Caldarella; Ross A. A. Larsen; Leslie Williams; Howard Wills; Debra Kamps; Joseph H. Wehby – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2018
Students with deficits in social skills have been found to experience both short- and long-term problems, including interpersonal conflicts and academic difficulties. These problems are compounded for students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Classwide function-related intervention teams (CW-FIT), a multitiered classroom management…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances, Interpersonal Competence
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