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Alex Adams; Tyler Goad; Alysia Jenkins; Don Belcher – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2025
This article explores the potential of video-based strategies to enhance learning in K-12 online physical education (OLPE), namely: video instruction, analysis, and feedback. Video instructions can optimize attention and effectively promote independent practice of motor skills when they are short, focused, and contain expert demonstrations. Video…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Physical Education, Video Technology, Kindergarten
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Biasutti, Michele; Habe, Katarina – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
The current study focuses on motor creativity in children by analyzing the factors related to teaching dance improvisation. A qualitative methodology is adopted to collect the expert dance instructors' conceptions of using dance improvisation in their teaching practice. Participants took part in semi-structured interviews that included questions…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Creative Activities, Holistic Approach, Teaching Methods
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Bonneton-Botte, Nathalie; Beucher-Marsal, Claude; Bara, Florence; Muller, Julie; Corf, Laurence Le; Quéméneur, Marielle; Dare, Maud – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2021
The process of teaching and learning handwriting is complex and laborious. A digital learning environment in the form of a tablet app could enhance teachers' knowledge of writer characteristics and their management of classroom diversity. This study aims to identify the needs of cursive writing teachers from a survey of 164 kindergarten teachers…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Teaching Methods, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Classroom Techniques
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Weimar, Wendi H.; Martin, Ellen H.; Wall, Sarah J. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2011
Background: The teaching strategies of modeling and the use of cue words are employed by both experienced and inexperienced teachers. While these strategies have received some attention in the literature, the effectiveness of these strategies in terms of the resultant change in the quality or kinematics of the motor skill performance has been…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Rural Schools, Kindergarten, Psychomotor Skills
Graue, Elizabeth – School Administrator, 2009
The traditional kindergarten program often reflected a rich but generic approach with creative contexts for typical kindergartners organized around materials (manipulatives or dramatic play) or a developmental area (fine motor or language). The purpose of kindergarten reflected beliefs about how children learn, specialized training for…
Descriptors: Play, Dramatic Play, Young Children, Kindergarten
Forry, Nicole; Wessel, Julia – Child Trends, 2012
Increased emphasis has been placed on children's ability to enter kindergarten ready to learn, a concept referred to as "school readiness." School readiness has been defined by the Maryland State Department of Education as "the stage of human development that enables a child to engage in, and benefit from, primary learning…
Descriptors: Comprehension, School Readiness, Disadvantaged Youth, Kindergarten