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Direct linkGabriele Russo; Andrea Ceciliani – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2024
This study investigated the involvement of Italian preschool and primary school teachers in outdoor education and scouting activities and their association with student cooperation and personal care. While outdoor education has various psychophysiological, psychosocial, social, and pedagogical benefits, some teachers express concerns about their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Outdoor Education, Teacher Participation
Boonstra, Kathryn E.; Miesner, Helen Rose; Graue, Elizabeth; Grodsky, Eric – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2023
Professional collaboration is widely seen as an important component in educator professional development, but we know little about the interactional processes that undergird teacher learning in collaborative workgroups. This paper focuses on four collaborative workgroups in a yearlong, mathematics-focused professional development series for…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Participation, Communities of Practice, Mathematics Education
Caroline Barratt-Pugh; Susan Hill; Nicola F. Johnson; Lennie Barblett; Alia Parker – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Texting-based programs are increasingly used to support parents as their child's first teacher and create links between home and school. However, there is scant evidence about the influence of program implementation on parent uptake and attrition--a key component of such programs. This article describes the design and delivery of Kindytxt, a…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Parent Participation, Kindergarten
Lena O. Magnusson; Annika Elm – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
The study presented in this article shows some aspects of how children between the ages of three and five and their educators perceive and describe the educational environment in early childhood education in Sweden. The data is generated using "pedagogical walk-throughs" with the educators and "camera tours" together with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Preschools
Joana Cadima; Tiago Ferreira; Carolina Guedes; Diana Alves; Catarina Grande; Teresa Leal; Filipe Piedade; Ana Lemos; Andri Agathokleous; Vicky Charalambous; Charalambos Vrasidas; Demos Michael; Manuela Ciucurel; Georgeta Chirlesan; Bogdan Marinescu; Delia Duminica; Anastasia Vatou; Maria Tsitiridou-Evangelou; Evridiki Zachopoulou; Vasilis Grammatikopoulos – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Professional Development (PD) can be a powerful lever for improving the quality of teacher-child interactions in early childhood education and care (ECEC) and teachers' feelings of support and competence. However, there is a dearth of studies examining different formats of PD and their links with workplace features. The present study aims to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
J. Despois; A. André – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2024
Based on a complex dynamic system approach, this study examined the dynamic of interactions between adults (a teacher and teaching assistant) and two children with ASD. We observed two preschool classrooms, each containing one child with contrasting ASD characteristics. Child engagement and adult participation during welcome time activities were…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Inclusion, Preschool Children, Interaction
Damjanovic, Victoria; Blank, Jolyn – Professional Development in Education, 2021
Considerable research has shown professional learning communities (PLC) within schools as a beneficial way for teachers to develop professionally within the context of their own work environment. Although the positives are often highlighted in PLC's, there is limited information as to how teachers function within these spaces. This qualitative…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration, Preschool Teachers
Tam, Angela Choi Fung – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
This two-year longitudinal study explores whether a professional learning community (PLC) helps shift language teachers' beliefs about implementing play-based learning. Ten practitioners from a preschool participated in this case study. Data were collected through interviews and observations of participants' practices engaged in the PLC. The…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Preschool Education, Beliefs, Play
Foregrounding Anishinaabek Culture and Collaborating with Children in Their Multimodal Text Creation
Download full textNazila Eisazadeh; Sudhashree Girmohanta; Shelley Stagg Peterson; Jeffrey Wood – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2024
In this paper, we examine 4- and 5-year-old Anishinaabek children's text creation and identity (re)formations while involved in collaborative writing with their Anishinaabek teacher about the moose hunting practices of their northern community. The teacher took on a role as an emergent writer alongside the children, voicing her memories of moose…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Personnel
Ade Dwi Utami; Marilyn Fleer; Liang Li – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2025
Structured and teacher-directed play focused on children's academic outcomes has proven problematic in Indonesian early childhood education. This contrasts with the PlayWorlds model, which emphasises both the primary activity of play and conceptual learning. However, there has been little research in Indonesia on the pedagogical aspects of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Play
Tunyia L. Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Low achievement in literacy for children entering kindergarten exists despite district-sponsored professional development (PD) in literacy pedagogy for prekindergarten teachers. PD has been shown to be important in improving teachers' instruction, so low achievement of children is unexplained. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Preschool Teachers, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes
McWayne, Christine M.; Mistry, Jayanthi; Brenneman, Kimberly; Zan, Betty; Greenfield, Daryl – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: In the context of increasing accountability mandates in the preK-12 education system, the importance of professional development (PD) supports for early childhood educators is recognized. Education leaders emphasize the importance of partnering with teachers to inform the development of effective PD approaches. This partnering…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Accountability, Faculty Development, Teacher Participation
Pölzl-Stefanec, Eva – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
Online professional development programmes have a long tradition in adult education. However, in early childhood education, such programmes are only just beginning to be developed. Before online professional development courses can be made inclusive, accessible and widely available to early childhood educators, they must meet a few basic…
Descriptors: Barriers, Faculty Development, Preschool Teachers, Foreign Countries
Özkut, Berna; Kaya, Saibe Özlem – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2019
The aim of this research is to reveal the accumulation of musical culture of preschool teachers and to get their viewpoints about music culture. The sub-objectives of the research are consisted of finding answers to "To what extent pre-school teachers support the music activities in the city where they work", "how often they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Popular Culture
Ilgan, Abdurrahman; Basaran, Yagmur – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2023
Introduction: The aim of the study was to describe the teachers' views on the professional development activities, the frequency of the teachers' participation to such activities and effectiveness of these professional development (PD) activities. What's more, it was aimed to analyse the relationship between PD activities that the teachers…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
