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Children Now, 2015
Every teacher, principal, and school administrator wants their young students to thrive as they move through the transitional kindergarten and kindergarten years and into the early elementary grades. With the implementation of the Common Core State Standards and the Local Control Funding Formula, school districts have new opportunities to…
Descriptors: School Readiness, State Standards, Educational Planning, Alignment (Education)
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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Hegde, Archana V.; Cassidy, Deborah J. – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
The study assessed kindergarten teachers' beliefs, stated practices and actual practices regarding developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) in India. Forty kindergarten teachers from the urban city of Mumbai (India) participated in the study. Overall, the results indicated that teachers' beliefs were more developmentally appropriate than their…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
Charlton, Lee Boyd – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined teacher education background and developmentally based teaching practices as predictors of student achievement in kindergarten. Participants were approximately 17,000 kindergarteners and 3,000 teachers from a national longitudinal study. Using multilevel regression and hierarchical linear models, this study found that only…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Individual Characteristics, Kindergarten, Certification
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Lee, Joohi – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2005
This study examined correlations between teachers' attitudes toward mathematics/teaching mathematics and the practice of developmentally appropriate mathematics. This study tested two independent variables: (1) kindergarten teachers' attitudes toward mathematics; and (2) kindergarten teachers' attitudes toward teaching mathematics; and their…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Statistical Significance, Kindergarten, Researchers