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Stonefelt, Heather – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This explanatory mixed-methods research study investigated the relationship between kindergarten teachers' phonemic awareness (PA) knowledge and PA instructional practices. Despite the understanding that PA acquisition is a critical foundational literacy skill needed for future reading achievement (Kilpatrick, 2016; Moats 2020a; Shaywitz &…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary School Students, Phonemic Awareness, Knowledge Level
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Li, Xia – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: The aim of this study was to investigate U.S. preschool teachers' math teaching knowledge in a specific content domain: counting and numbers. One hundred in-service and pre-service teachers participated in the study; they completed a questionnaire that is composed of learning scenarios and scenario-based math teaching questions.…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students
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Kutluca, Ali Yigit – Journal of Science Learning, 2021
This study aimed to explore the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of preschool teachers. This multiple case study was conducted with the participation of two preschool teachers. In this way, two preschool teachers' PCK about science teaching was examined, and it was attempted to determine the underlying causes of their pedagogical…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Young Children, Public Schools
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Susan B. Neuman; Katie Danielson – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: This study examines the complexities of enacting an explicit content-rich curriculum in a large urban school district. Thirty-six teachers from 12 elementary schools, preK through Grade 1 were recruited to teach the "World of Words," an integrated science and literacy supplementary curriculum. Prior to the start of the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Integrated Curriculum, Content Area Reading, Elementary School Science
Briand-Newman, Hannah; Wong, Monica; Evans, David – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2012
Pedagogical content knowledge has been widely acknowledged by researchers and practitioners as a significant factor for improving student knowledge, understanding and achievement. Recently, the knowledge teachers need for teaching has expanded to include teacher horizon content knowledge, "an awareness of how mathematical topics are related…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Competencies, Case Studies
Williams, Jennifer S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In 2011, a small Midwestern school district referred an increasing number of 2nd-4th grade students, with reading problems due to phonetic and phonological awareness deficits, to the district's intervention team. Framed in Shulman's pedagogical content knowledge model and the International Dyslexia Association's phonological deficit theory of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Dyslexia, Phonological Awareness, Kindergarten