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Jiyoung Kim; Anne Leftwich; Daniel Castner – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Many K-12 computer science (CS) education initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels have recently started to focus on engaging the young children. Although most CS education research has focused on the secondary level, only minimal research has explored how computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) can be taught in elementary…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten
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Hardy, Jessica K.; Hemmeter, Mary Louise – Young Exceptional Children, 2020
Many teachers want to provide meaningful science activities and instruction in their classroom that benefit all young children. This is consistent with the increasing focus on enhancing science experiences and instruction in preschool classrooms. Recommendations for how to engage in early childhood science activities are available, as are science…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Science Activities, Individualized Instruction, Preschool Teachers
Bagiati, Aikaterini – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Engineering education for the pre-college years is a developing academic discipline that emanates from the need to understand and improve the ways that engineers are formally educated. To date, there are no curricula available that incorporate engineering at a preschool level. The focus of this study is on the development of an early engineering…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Engineering, Engineering Education
Keenan, Marjory – Child Care Information Exchange, 1997
Provides guidance in facilitating teaching transitions between preschoolers and infants and toddlers. Discusses developmentally appropriate changes in the areas of relating to children, relating to parents, relating to co-workers, group dynamics, curriculum, routines and transitions, director support and supervision, and most important…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Planning, Infants
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Raver, C. Cybele; Zigler, Edward F. – Young Children, 1991
Reflects on Head Start's beginnings, its goal of enhancing children's social competence, and errors associated with the incorporation of evaluation measures and curricula that are cognitive in orientation into its programs. Concludes that such errors must not recur. Evaluation measures and curricula must reflect concern for the child's whole…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Curriculum Design, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Evaluation Problems
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Wien, Carol Anne – Canadian Children, 2002
Presents a case study of a fourth-year kindergarten teacher who has altered her teaching from academic to more developmentally appropriate ways and now attempts to incorporate new curriculum expectations. Examines how her teaching practice evolved, her approach to new curriculum expectations, and what tensions, worries, successes and concerns…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Problems
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Workman, Susan; Anziano, Michael C. – Young Children, 1993
Discusses the development of a webbed curriculum at the preschool level. The teacher develops the curriculum by observing children, documenting their recurring interests and the themes of their activities, and integrating and connecting class activities. (BB)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Concept Formation, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The curriculum presented in this bulletin is a response to a definite need frequently expressed by kindergarten teachers, primary teachers, and school men. The work of the different grades has been fairly standardized as to subject matter and method, and is usually outlined quite definitely for the guidance of teachers in the course of study. But…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Music Education, Art Education, Language Arts