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Marulis, Loren M.; Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan; Berhenke, Amanda L.; Whitebread, David – Metacognition and Learning, 2016
Historically, early cognitive skills have been underestimated, largely as a result of the ways these competencies have been measured, which is particularly pervasive in the area of metacognition. Only recently have researchers begun to detect evidence of contextualized metacognition in 3-5 year old preschool children through the use of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Preschool Children, Interviews, Thinking Skills
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Delaney, Katherine K. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2018
Within the United States, publicly funded pre-Kindergarten (pre-K) is a borderland of teacher practice--somewhere between early childhood and Elementary approaches to pedagogy. For pre-K teachers, this can mean negotiating many different, and oft-competing conceptions of what curriculum and practice should look like in order to support the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Best Practices, Preschool Education, Time
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Chou, Mei-Ju – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
There has been a growing awareness of the contribution of play to the young children's learning and development. This study aims to investigate the implement of board games play on children's aesthetic experience and interpersonal understanding in Montessori and Constructivist classrooms. With the underlying framework follows a developmentally…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Games, Aesthetics, Interpersonal Relationship
Johnson-Ferguson, Melita Sutton – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore how instructors became aware of culturally relevant teaching (CRT) and developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) that support African American students' academic achievement. The Grounded Theory approach was used to uncover themes from the individual interviews of African American…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Culturally Relevant Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Grounded Theory
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Tsong, Chau Kien; Chong, Toh Seong; Samsudin, Zarina – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
Multimedia augmented with tangible objects is an area that has not been explored. Current multimedia systems lack the natural elements that allow young children to learn tangibly and intuitively. In view of this, we propose a research to merge tangible objects with multimedia for preschoolers, and propose to term it as "tangible…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multimedia Instruction, Case Studies, Observation
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Martello, Julie – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2004
This article explores some of the implications inherent in the pedagogical strategy of encouraging students to 'try' or 'have a go', particularly within the context of early writing and spelling. Pedagogical approaches built on the assumption that the learner will need to try in order to learn are construed here as emanating from and contributing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Linguistics, Spelling, Emergent Literacy
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Bers, Marina U.; New, Rebecca S.; Boudreau, Laura – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2004
Within the field of early childhood education, there is a strong tradition of integrated, emergent, and arts-oriented curriculum that must now respond to a growing and competing emphasis on literacy-based experiences. Considerably less priority (or teacher expertise) has been or currently is demonstrated in the areas of science, math, engineering,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Participation, Integrated Curriculum