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Kimberly L. Chambers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explored the impact of developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) on reading test scores as measured by the Mississippi Academics Assessment Program (MAAP) for students in grades 3-5. The research problem is centered on the potential disconnect between traditional teaching methods and the developmental needs of students, which…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Leslie Barger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The perceptions of Tennessee educators who successfully implemented blended learning in their classrooms were the main focus of this phenomenological study. Blended learning is a modality that uses stations which consist of a teacher-led station, an online station, and an off-line station. Teachers work in small groups with students while others…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, School Districts, Blended Learning, Teaching Methods
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Mede, Enisa – Education 3-13, 2017
This study investigated the perceived beliefs and reported practices of fourth-grade English teachers in primary (elementary) public schools in Turkey. Significantly, it aimed to examine the participating K-4 English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers' beliefs about the developmentally appropriate and inappropriate practices, discover the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), 2012
"Ready, Set, Respect!" provides a set of tools to help elementary school educators ensure that all students feel safe and respected and develop respectful attitudes and behaviors. It is not a program to be followed but instead is designed to help educators prepare themselves for teaching about and modeling respect. The toolkit responds to…
Descriptors: Cues, Dramatic Play, Playgrounds, Young Children
Sweeney, Sophia Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2010
A researcher-developed questionnaire regarding the importance and developmental appropriateness of 12 specific elements of the nature of science (Alshamrani, 2008) for early elementary (kindergarten through fourth grade [K-4]) science instruction was mailed to a random sample of U.S. K-4 teachers. At least half (N = 377) of the respondents…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers, Science Instruction
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Kelly, Deirdre M.; Brooks, Mary – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2009
This study investigates what preservice elementary school teachers assume about children's capacities to learn about equity issues and how teachers might translate teaching for social justice into actual classroom practices. Participants said they did not see the age of their students as a barrier to teaching for social justice, although their…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Preservice Teachers, Social Action, Elementary School Teachers