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Using Informance to Educate Parents and Demonstrate the Music Learning Process
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Nowmos, Christine M. – General Music Today, 2010
Informances, informal and informative presentations of student learning that emphasize the learning process, provide an alternative to traditional concerts or programs, which may take general music classroom time away from activities not geared toward a specific performance. Informances are an excellent means of communicating educational…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Music Activities, Educational Objectives
Increasing Social Reciprocity in Young Children with Autism
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Leach, Debra; LaRocque, Michelle – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2011
Research and education law support the use of routines-based interventions for young children with disabilities in the children's natural environments. However, systematic training and practice can provide individuals with the strategies and skills that can enhance these interventions. This article provides guidance for implementing intervention…
Descriptors: Autism, Young Children, Parents, Interpersonal Competence
Making Learning Visible in Kindergarten Classrooms: Pedagogical Documentation as a Formative Assessment Technique
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Buldu, Mehmet – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
This study investigated interactions between pedagogical documentation--a formative assessment technique and instructional intervention designed to increase student learning by recording children's experiences--and kindergarten children, families and teachers in the UAE. The study sample comprised six teachers in six kindergarten classrooms, 141…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Parents, Parent School Relationship
Expanding Preschooler Awareness.
Weiss, Patricia F. – G/C/T, 1985
Parents can pursue expansion of ideas with their preschoolers in areas of math, science, social, and reading awareness. General recommendatons and suggestions for activities with the preschooler are offered. (CL)
Descriptors: Gifted, Learning Processes, Parent Role, Preschool Education
Beginner's Bibliography--1986
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Young Children, 1986
Presents an annotated bibliography which is especially valuable for parents, teachers, and others who want to learn more about how young children grow and learn. This sampling of recent and classic books, brochures, and periodicals represents the burgeoning knowledge about early childhood education and child development. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Learning Processes, Resource Materials
Children's Museums: Meaningful Processing or Superficial Surfing?
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Haensly, Patricia – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1998
Addresses the role of children's museums, recounting both positive experiences of meaningful interactions and negative encounters in which such interactions were discouraged or were too cursory. Suggestions for scaffolding children's discovery and problem-solving learning with children's museum activities are offered. (DB)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Children, Community Resources, Discovery Learning
Seizures and Teens: When Seizures Aren't the Only Problem
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Kanner, Andres M.; Shafer, Patricia O. – Exceptional Parent, 2006
Some teenagers with epilepsy only have to deal with seizures, which can be tough enough, but for other teens, seizures are not the only problem. Parents and caregivers often report changes in their teens' abilities to think clearly, learn in school, or remain focused in class. Mood and other behavioral problems may also be seen. It is critical…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Behavior Problems, Seizures, Epilepsy