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Charmaine Bonds – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Early childhood teachers had to restructure instruction when the COVID-19 pandemic began, and instruction was completed online. The problem was that early childhood teachers faced challenges using developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) in online instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Yun, Cathy; Melnick, Hanna; Wechsler, Marjorie – Learning Policy Institute, 2021
High-quality early childhood programs aim to foster children's learning through developmentally appropriate practices and environments. Early childhood assessments, when well designed and well implemented, can support developmentally appropriate early learning experiences by providing information to guide instruction and support whole child…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Student Evaluation
Bird, Kisha – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2016
Youth of color are full of promise; they are courageous, intelligent, creative, curious, bold, and resilient. An investment strategy placing them at the center and addressing the structural barriers that keep them locked out of social, emotional, and economic prosperity because of their race/ethnicity, gender, and/or zip code is both fiscally…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Investment, Youth Opportunities, Social Justice
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Alexander, Curby; Langub, Lee Woodham; Rosen, Dina – International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 2014
This article presents the WDT Framework, which consists of three levels of integrating field-based technology experiences into early childhood education coursework. Early childhood teacher education programs have historically utilized field experiences for the purpose of helping pre-service teachers build their understanding of developmentally…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teachers
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Flowers, Ami A.; Carroll, John P.; Green, Gary T.; Larson, Lincoln R. – Environmental Education Research, 2015
Construction of developmentally appropriate tools for assessing the environmental attitudes and awareness of young learners has proven to be challenging. Art-based assessments that encourage creativity and accommodate different modes of expression may be a particularly useful complement to conventional tools (e.g. surveys), but their efficacy and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Art, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Art Expression
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Hamlet, Helen S.; Gergar, Patricia G.; Schaefer, Barbara A. – Professional School Counseling, 2011
To investigate the current practices of schools and school counselors working with students with chronic illness and the protocols for providing these services, the authors conducted a mixed design, grounded theory study, with an eye toward pinpointing any trends or patterns in service provision. They identified a collaborative, developmental,…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Chronic Illness, School Counselors, Coping
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. – 1989
Information about Georgia's Special Instructional Assistance Program (SIA) is presented. The program is designed to serve children in kindergarten through grade five who are functioning below the normal expectations for their age range, usually as a result of deficient language and cognitive development. The vast majority of SIA teaching and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Delivery Systems, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Elementary Education
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Sibley, Annette; And Others – 1996
The five-year Georgia Head Start Quality Initiative was founded in 1994 to provide training and technical assistance (consisting of monthly group training sessions and individual on-site consultation) for Georgia Head Start administrators as they pursue National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) accreditation. This document…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Administrators, Community Programs, Day Care Centers