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Monica Shire – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This Educational Leadership Portfolio (ELP) addresses the issue related to children's screen time and indoor sedentary behavior. Research shows that young children need to have time outside in nature to ensure holistic development in the twenty-first century. The overarching goal of this work is to reduce the extent of children's indoor sedentary…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Outdoor Education, Environmental Education, Universities
Felix-Strishock, Lisa – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation investigates the "Competence Model for Environmental Education" (Kaiser, Roczen, & Bogner, 2008), a theoretical environmental-behavior change model, for use in the United States with elementary-aged students. Paper #1 tests two new instruments developed for use with the "Competence Model," the Expanded…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Competency Based Education, Elementary School Students, Program Implementation
Bjork, Claire Catherine Shaller – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The human dimensions of ecological restoration have been considered with increasing focus over the past several decades. The Earth Partnership program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has presented an evolving model of restoration as education since 1991, with growing awareness of the need for multicultural approaches to learning about and…
Descriptors: Ecology, Conservation (Environment), Land Use, Cooperative Learning
Goff, Lori Schultz – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Children experience limited time outdoors and have few opportunities for outdoor learning in schools, putting them at risk for being unprepared to engage in solving environmental and societal problems. Researchers have examined outdoor learning at the preschool and high school levels; elementary school experiences have been explored less…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Outdoor Education, Barriers
Parker, Melanie Denise – ProQuest LLC, 2017
To uphold Maryland's environmental literacy high school graduation requirement and curricular standards, local school districts must develop programs that graduate environmentally literate students and provide effective teacher professional development. This study focused on assessing the confidence and ability of elementary teachers in a Maryland…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Environmental Education, Literacy, Standards
Reed, Carolyn Mascia – ProQuest LLC, 2009
To be effective in providing a writing literacy program, regardless of communication approaches, educators should establish program-wide conditions that promote English writing literacy over time. The researcher's purpose for this study was to identify shared characteristics of writing intervention programs in three different communication school…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Program Design, Intervention, Day Schools