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Louisiana Department of Education, 2022
The "Developmental Screening Guidebook" is designed as a reference guide on how to best support healthy growth and development of children throughout key developmental intervals and identify children who may benefit from specialized support. Early childhood program staff, service providers, health care systems, families, and communities…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Screening Tests
Vitulic, Helena Smrtnik; Lesar, Irena – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2017
In a longitudinal study, we determine the beliefs of primary education students regarding the factors of academic achievement, good teachers, and the developmental characteristics of children, and we present which experiences mostly shape these beliefs. The same group of students (N = 59) completed the same questionnaire at the beginning of their…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Longitudinal Studies, Academic Achievement, Questionnaires
Newcomb, Michelle; Burton, Judith; Edwards, Niki – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2017
Many students pursuing social work and human services courses have experienced adverse childhoods. This article focuses on their learning about self-care, an important skill for future practice. Interviews with 20 undergraduate students with a history of childhood adversity found unmet needs both for conceptualizing self-care and developing…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Disadvantaged, Child Development, Role Models
Louisiana Department of Education, 2020
This guidebook is designed as a reference guide on how to best support healthy growth and development of children throughout key developmental intervals and identify children who may benefit from specialized support. Early childhood program staff, service providers, health care systems, families, and communities all play important roles in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Screening Tests
Peterson, Tiina; Veisson, Marika; Hujala, Eeva; Härkönen, Ulla; Sandberg, Anette; Johansson, Inge; Bakosi, Eva Kovacsne – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
The current study investigated the ratings of Estonian, Finnish, Swedish and Hungarian preschool teachers and principals regarding the professionalism of preschool teachers within a cross-cultural context. According to reports commissioned by the European Commission and OECD, the professionalism of preschool teachers is a key factor in ensuring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Professionalism, Principals
Brown, Christopher P.; Lan, Yi-Chin – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: The National Association for the Education of Young Children's guidelines for developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) have been imported and researched by others across the globe. A central issue that has arisen for these international early childhood educators is whether these best practices are sensitive to the…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Teaching Methods, Guidelines, Preschool Education
Ohwojero, Chamberlain Joseph – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The school system is an institution where teachers adopt different teaching methods to impact knowledge and skills. The teaching method adopted by a class teacher has a great effect on children interest, academic achievement and brain development of a child. To support this fact the researcher used two groups of children from ten schools to carry…
Descriptors: Brain, Child Development, Teaching Methods, Control Groups
Nowak-Fabrykowski, Krystyna Teresa – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
The goal of this study is to investigate early childhood teachers' perspective of teaching foster and adopted children. The main purpose is to seek suggestions how teachers can nurture the development of foster and adopted children. A 6 question survey was sent to 44 teachers pursuing graduate studies in early childhood education. Of this 50%…
Descriptors: Child Development, Foster Care, Adoption, Early Childhood Education
DesJardin, Jean L.; Doll, Emily R.; Stika, Carren J.; Eisenberg, Laurie S.; Johnson, Karen J.; Ganguly, Dianne Hammes; Colson, Bethany G.; Henning, Shirley C. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2014
Parent and child joint book reading (JBR) characteristics and parent facilitative language techniques (FLTs) were investigated in two groups of parents and their young children; children with normal hearing (NH; "n" = 60) and children with hearing loss (HL; "n" = 45). Parent-child dyads were videotaped during JBR interactions,…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Hearing Impairments, Comparative Analysis, Parents
White, Jane; Connelly, Graham; Thompson, Lucy; Wilson, Phil – Educational Research, 2013
Background: Emotional and behavioural disorders in early childhood are related to poorer academic attainment and school engagement, and difficulties already evident at the point of starting school can affect a child's later social and academic development. Successful transfer from pre-school settings to primary education is helped by communication…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Teachers, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods
Tobin, Tierney; Boulmier, Prairie; Zhu, Wenyi; Hancock, Paul; Muennig, Peter – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2015
There are 25 million displaced children worldwide, and those receiving schooling are often educated in overcrowded classrooms. Montessori is a child-centred educational method that provides an alternative model to traditional educational approaches. In this model, students are able to direct their own learning and develop at their own pace,…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, Refugees, Questionnaires
Tigistu, Kassahun – Childhood Education, 2013
Despite claims about the significance of early childhood education in improving later outcomes in an individual's life, this stage of development has not received sufficient attention by education systems across the world. Until recently, early education or preschool education did not come under the purview of the formal education system in most…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Educational History, Child Care
Guiberson, Mark; Rodriguez, Barbara L. – Early Education and Development, 2013
Research Findings: The present study describes developmental trends in false belief (in other and self) in 46 Mexican-dialect Spanish-speaking children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds with and without language impairment (LI). Results indicate that typically developing children's performance on false belief tasks improves with age, with very…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Low Income, Cognitive Processes, Beliefs
Abdelhalim, Safaa M. – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study examines the effectiveness of a proposed English language program based on integrating two forms of children literature, mainly short stories and songs, in developing the needed life skills and language learning strategies of primary school students. Besides, it emphasized the importance of providing EFL fifth year primary students with…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Childrens Literature, Teaching Methods
Ren, Fujun; Li, Xiuju; Zhang, Huiliang; Wang, Lihui – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
For almost a century, researchers have studied creative imagination, most typically that of children. This article reports on a study of the development of creative imagination of Chinese youths and its relation to the educational environment. Data consisted of 4,162 students from grades 4 through 12. Findings showed that students' creative…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Foreign Countries, Creativity, Imagination