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Use of the Curriculum Research Framework (CRF) for Developing a Reading-Comprehension Curricular Supplement for the Primary Grades
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Elementary School Journal, 2016
This article describes nine phases of curriculum-development activities conducted by the Language and Reading Research Consortium (LARRC), the end result of which was to arrive at a research-based supplemental curriculum that could be used by teachers of English-speaking or bilingual Spanish-English-speaking children in prekindergarten and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Preschool Education, Kindergarten
Teachers' Readiness to Embrace Change in the Early Years of Schooling: A Northern Ireland Perspective
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Walsh, Glenda; Gardner, John – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
Early years classroom practice in Northern Ireland is perceived to be dominated by a traditional teacher-directed model to the detriment of a more constructivist, play-based and child-initiated learning environment favoured in many nations' early education provision (see for example Walsh, 2000). In 2002, the Northern Ireland Council for…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development