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Hoffman, Emily Brown – Childhood Education, 2019
Communities serve as a vital resource for educators seeking ideas to advance their practice. Online professional development capitalizes on technological communication to facilitate such sharing.
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Faculty Development, Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication
Bustamante, Andres S.; White, Lisa J.; Greenfield, Daryl B. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Approaches to learning are a set of domain-general skills that encompass curiosity, persistence, planning, and engagement in group learning. These skills play a key role in preschoolers' learning and predict school readiness in math and language. Preschool science is a critical domain for early education and facilitates learning across domains.…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Learning Strategies
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Folque, Maria Assuncao; Siraj-Blatchford, Iram – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2011
This article reports upon a Portuguese pedagogical model, where children engage with the teacher in planning and assessment during routine activities like "Council Meetings", "Communication Time," and using specific tools such as an "Activities Chart" and a "Diary." The article questions how these processes generate a community of practice in…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Video Technology, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies
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O'Hanlon, Catherine G.; Roberson, Debi – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2007
In this study, 3-year-olds matched on vocabulary score were taught three new shape terms by one of three types of linguistic contrast: corrective, semantic, or referential. A 5-week training paradigm implemented four training sessions and four assessment sessions. Corrective contrast ("This is concave, it is not square," where "square" is the…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Training, Semantics, Preschool Children
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Horner, Sherri L. – Reading Psychology an international quarterly, 2004
This study investigated the effects of observational learning on preschoolers' use of a questioning technique, attention to print, and knowledge of the alphabet. Preschoolers who observed a model ask questions asked more questions during a shared book episode than did children who did not observe a model ask questions. Children who observed a…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Learning Strategies, Prereading Experience, Alphabets
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Labrell, Florence; Ubersfeld, Guillaume – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2004
In order to study the influence on memorization of external inputs as well as children's own strategies, we examined both parental discourses in terms of distancing (Sigel, 1970) and spontaneous rehearsal by children during a memory task. Our aim was to assess the influence of each factor for children between 3 and 5 years of age. In our study of…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Young Children, Memorization, Parent Influence