Research Findings: This article investigates how a sample of families, educators, researchers, advocates, and policymakers (n = 93) made sense of how children are and should be taught in kindergarten. By examining their conceptions of instruction that define kindergarten in this current era of standards and accountability and what opportunities…

Play is how children explore, discover, fail, succeed, socialize, and flourish. It is a fundamental element of the human condition. It's the key to giving schoolchildren skills they need to succeed--skills like creativity, innovation, teamwork, focus, resilience, expressiveness, empathy, concentration, and executive function. Expert organizations…

This address attempts to focus on some of the operational problems encountered in setting up five Child Development Associate Pilot Training Programs in Texas. Areas of concern include: (1) need for a clear statement of roles and responsibilities; (2) need for institutional support and flexibility; (3) recruitment, selection, and initial…

Questionnaire responses from kindergarten teachers and their principals indicated that teachers did not believe in emphasizing academics but did believe in the use of child-centered activities and the value of motor, art, and physical activities in early childhood education. (BC)

This curriculum guide, developed for use in secondary vocational home economics education in Texas, is correlated closely with the essential elements prescribed by the State Board of Education. The competencies in each guide are the essential elements, and the subcompetencies are the subelements prescribed in the Texas Administrative Codes for…

This curriculum guide, developed for use in secondary vocational home economics education in Texas, is correlated closely with the essential elements prescribed by the State Board of Education. The competencies in each guide are the essential elements, and the subcompetencies are the subelements prescribed in the Texas Administrative Codes for…

Preschool teachers from Texas school districts with high and low Hispanic populations completed surveys examining their knowledge and beliefs about early childhood bilingualism and developmentally appropriate practice. Positive beliefs about the use of native language to develop emergent cognitive-academic language proficiency through active…

FROM A REVIEW OF ADULT EDUCATION LITERATURE, AN ANALYSIS OF THE ANNUAL REPORTS OF VOCATIONAL HOMEMAKING COURSES FOR ADULTS IN TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS DURING 1949-1959, AND INTERVIEWS WITH SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS AND HOMEMAKING TEACHERS IN 75 SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS, TRENDS AND METHODOLOGY IN ADULT EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY HOMEMAKING…

The teacher's guide and student reference book presented here were developed as resources to facilitate school-age parenting education. The materials were organized around the nine essential elements for the Parenting Education for School-Age Parents course in Texas. The teacher's guide contains teaching strategies, teaching aids, paper-and-pencil…

This curriculum guide is one of a number of curriculum guides developed for use in vocational home economics education in Texas. The guide is correlated closely with the essential elements prescribed by the State Board of Education. The competencies in the guide are the essential elements, and the subcompetencies are the subelements prescribed in…

This teacher resource guide is an instructional resource for these three separate courses: exploring education careers, elementary school teacher assistant, and elementary school teaching internship. (Exploring education careers is designed as a field-based internship that provides students a background knowledge of child and adolescent…

This curriculum guide contains instructional materials for a one- or two-year field-based internship that provides students a background knowledge of child and adolescent development principles and principles of effective teaching practices by allowing students to work under the joint direction and supervision of both a family and consumer…

This teacher's instructional guide, which is part of a family and consumer sciences education series focusing on a broad range of employment opportunities, is intended to assist teachers responsible for teaching one- and two-year child development programs for Texas high school students. The following are among the items included: (1) introductory…