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Carmen Sherry Brown – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2023
Young children learn best through hands-on, authentic experiences that motivates, stimulates and supports their growth in all areas of development. This includes the skills necessary to enhance their literacy and language acquisition, physical and cognitive development in addition to their social-emotional development and approaches to learning.…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Amos Oyelere Sunday; Friday Joseph Agbo; Jarkko Suhonen – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2025
The recent popularity of computational thinking (CT) and the desire to apply CT in our daily lives have prompted the need for a successful pedagogical technique for learning CT in K-12 education. The application of co-design pedagogical techniques has the potential to improve students' CT learning through knowledge sharing and the creation of…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Computer Science Education, Research Reports, Teaching Methods
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Kathryn Zimmermann; Qingqing Yang; Kelly Purtell; Arya Ansari – Infant and Child Development, 2024
Many studies have established that there are important life-long benefits of attending pre-K. At the same time, recent research suggests that pre-K attenders may enter and exit kindergarten exhibiting less optimal social and learning behaviours than their non-attending peers, and little attention has been paid to what factors may contribute to…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Outcomes of Education, Kindergarten, Student Behavior
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Kathryn Zimmermann; Qingqing Yang; Kelly Purtell; Arya Ansari – Infant and Child Development, 2024
Although academic benefits of pre-K are well established, the associations between pre-K attendance and social and learning behaviours are less clear. Some research suggests that pre-K attenders may enter and exit kindergarten exhibiting less optimal social and learning behaviours than their non-attending peers, and little attention has been paid…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Outcomes of Education, Kindergarten, Student Behavior
Editorial Projects in Education, 2025
Problem-based learning (PBL) offers a powerful approach to engage students in meaningful learning experiences by connecting classroom content to real-world challenges. This Spotlight explores how PBL can be implemented across K-12 to foster critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving skills. From preparing students for the workforce…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Learning Experience, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
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Linlin Li; Mingyu Feng; Hee Jin Bang – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background/Context: Mathematics education, especially at early grade levels, continues to be an important focus for national education improvement efforts, and more districts are introducing technology as part of their solution. Along with increasing consistent delivery of personalized and individualized learning to students, technology- and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Skill Development, Game Based Learning, Elementary School Students
China Yolanda Pippin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of kindergarten teachers concerning the skills that demonstrate the five components of readiness as organized by the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP) and to identify which skills kindergarten teachers believe are most important for students to be successful. In November 2023, 136…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Teacher Attitudes, School Readiness
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Joanna Wala; Kati Hannken-Illjes; Ines Bose; Stephanie Kurtenbach – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Conversation circles in kindergartens can foster discursive abilities such as argumentation. This paper analyzes argumentation in conversation circles in a kindergarten with respect to the function of narrative argumentation. We focus on second stories as a specific narrative form that is characterized by relating in content and form to a before…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Classroom Techniques, Group Discussion, Story Reading
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Kovács, Ivett Judit – Theory Into Practice, 2023
Magic has been a very popular form of entertainment for thousands of years and the learning and developmental processes that take place during the process of practicing and performing the trick--are a precious phenomenon from an educational point of view. The MiniMagic kindergarten program was launched in September 2021 in a kindergarten in…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Skill Development, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods
Adrian Julian Gumpert – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study examined a novel learning environment in one kindergarten classroom with 90% Spanish-speaking ELLs. The design combined the interactive whiteboard platform and a student-centered, constructionist pedagogy to structure cooperative tasks, academic language and semiotic formations through the engineering design process within a…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Instructional Design, English Language Learners, Spanish Speaking
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Silvis, Deborah; Lee, Victor R.; Clarke-Midura, Jody; Shumway, Jessica F. – Information and Learning Sciences, 2022
Purpose: Much remains unknown about how young children orient to computational objects and how we as learning scientists can orient to young children as computational thinkers. While some research exists on how children learn programming, very little has been written about how they learn the technical skills needed to operate technologies or to…
Descriptors: Programming, Coding, Kindergarten, Robotics
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Kimberly Maich; Tricia van Rhijn; Carmen Hall; Sheri Mallabar; Tricia Vause; Kimberly Squires; Aislynn Hatt; Mina Ahi – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
This research examines the use of teaching triads to the classroom-wide implementation of "Stay, Play & Talk" a peer-mediated social skills program for children in an inclusive Kindergarten classroom in Ontario, Canada. This research used prompting through peers to increase initiations and responses between children identified as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Interpersonal Competence
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Brainin, Einat; Shamir, Adina; Eden, Sigal – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2022
The study's purpose was to examine the contribution of a programmable robot to an intervention program for promoting spatial ability (spatial relations, visual-memory, mental rotation) of preschool children. Eighty-four participants were randomly assigned to three intervention groups: programmable-robot-based intervention, traditional…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Robotics, Programming
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Yusuf Koç; Kevser Koç – SAGE Open, 2023
Although earlier studies have documented the importance of spatial orientation skills in early childhood development, teachers often need more experience and guidance in teaching these skills. This research investigates how two kindergarten teachers, guided by two teacher education researchers, utilized Learning Trajectories (LT) in a Professional…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Spatial Ability, Skill Development
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Lin, Xunyi; Yang, Weipeng; Wu, Lizhen; Zhu, Lifen; Wu, Duanping; Li, Hui – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: The present study investigated the effects of a 12-week inquiry-based science and engineering (IBSE) program on preschoolers' science and engineering learning experiences. The treatment versus control condition was randomly assigned to four preschool classes, which included 122 preschoolers (M = 61.10 month, SD = 3.73).…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Science Education, Engineering Education
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