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Mei B. Tran – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This phenomenological study investigated the lived experiences of how primary teachers (K-2) perceive and manage accountability pressures. Accountability pressures are the consequences of high-stakes and standardized testing. This can be overtly represented by inappropriately aligned standards or a fast-paced curriculum design to match tested…
Descriptors: Accountability, Stress Variables, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Isidro, Elizabeth I. – Reading Teacher, 2021
Disciplinary literacy approaches recently have been finding their way into early elementary classrooms (K-2) and preschool, but this idea still needs more careful study, discussion, and operationalizing before determining its value and place in the early grades curriculum. The purpose of this article is to describe a case of curriculum exploration…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Primary Education, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Stein, Abigail; Coburn, Cynthia E. – Educational Policy, 2023
In an effort to improve learning for young children and respond to preschool fade out, some districts are working on "PreK-3" initiatives to create better connected learning pathways for children. In these pathways, primary grades continue to build on what children learn in preschool; they also present potential implementation challenges…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Primary Education, Alignment (Education), Developmental Continuity
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Huth, Kerrin; Brown, Raymond; Usher, Wayne – Journal of Religious Education, 2021
This systematic quantitative literature review explores the use of story in early childhood religious education to inform the research question "What are the pedagogical benefits of using story in religious education in the early years of primary school?" Searches were conducted across multiple databases and individual journals for…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Primary Education, Young Children, Story Telling
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Allee-Herndon, Karyn A.; Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth – Journal of Education, 2021
The amount of intentional, instructional, purposeful play has decreased in primary grades, and didactic, test-driven instruction has increased. Emerging neuroscientific evidence is beginning to highlight the significant effects the toxic stress from poverty has on developing brains. Almost half of American children can be considered to come from…
Descriptors: Play, Primary Education, Young Children, Social Development