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Nieuwmeijer, Christiane; Marshall, Nigel; van Oers, Bert – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
Musical play is an activity in which young children more or less freely explore and create with sound with limited guidance from a teacher. This study explored the occurrence of musical play in Dutch early years education (4-5 year olds). Twenty early years classroom teachers were interviewed about the content of the music education taking place…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Music Education, Play, Preservice Teacher Education
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Atabek, Oguzhan; Burak, Sabahat – International Education Studies, 2019
Printed educational materials such as teacher's handbook may affect the quality of education as much as teachers, curriculum, educational environment, and the other course materials. Perspectives of eighty-two pre-service elementary teachers regarding the activities and songs included in the teacher's handbook for music course were examined by…
Descriptors: Faculty Handbooks, Instructional Materials, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
Gahungu, Athanase – Online Submission, 2019
Two years after the State of Illinois enacted an extensive non-exclusionary discipline reform in schools, 322 key discipline gatekeepers in schools were surveyed about the extent and impact of its implementation. The results showed that a number of core provisions of the reform had not been fully implemented or addressed through professional…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Zero Tolerance Policy, Educational Change, Suspension
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Kemple, Kristen M. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
The purpose of this article is to examine the nature of appropriate social studies education in the Kindergarten and Pre-Kindergarten years. The importance of social competence development as a basic foundation of the social studies in the early years of schooling is examined, with particular attention to the commonalities shared between goals and…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Citizenship, Interpersonal Competence, Preschool Education
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Groccia, Steven W.; Moosbrugger, Michelle E.; Mirando, Kevin M. – Physical Educator, 2021
Although the number of homeschool students in the United States has increased to approximately 2 million K-12 students as of spring 2010, there has been limited research on homeschool families and physical education. In particular, investigations of parent perceptions of homeschool physical education programs are lacking. The purpose of this study…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Parent Attitudes, Physical Education, Comparative Analysis
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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
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Hardy, Jessica K.; Hemmeter, Mary Louise – Young Exceptional Children, 2020
Many teachers want to provide meaningful science activities and instruction in their classroom that benefit all young children. This is consistent with the increasing focus on enhancing science experiences and instruction in preschool classrooms. Recommendations for how to engage in early childhood science activities are available, as are science…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Science Activities, Individualized Instruction, Preschool Teachers
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Jansen, Katie; Kiefer, Sarah M. – Middle School Journal, 2020
Effective educators value young adolescents, are prepared to teach them, and are knowledgeable about this age group. Middle level educators' understanding of adolescent brain development and developmentally responsive teaching strategies can help to support all adolescents' cognitive and social-emotional development in school. This article…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Cognitive Development, Social Development
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Bulut, Ayhan – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2020
Introduction: Disasters and emergencies adversely influence around 70 million children worldwide. Regrettably, those who suffer the most from the consequences of any natural disaster and do not have any knowledge on how to protect themselves in such situations are children. Particularly, educating and raising the awareness of children in this…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Natural Disasters, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
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Salas, Rachel G.; Didier, Kurt A. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2020
In 2017 the California Legislature, recognizing the efficacy of education as a trafficking prevention tool, enacted the first state law in the Union mandating anti-trafficking education in the 7th through 12th grade public school curriculum. Set against the backdrop of Congress' Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, this article examines…
Descriptors: Crime, Slavery, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse
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Morsa, Maxime; Gagnayre, Rémi; Pomey, Marie-Pascale; Deccache, Carole; Lombrail, Pierre – Health Education Journal, 2020
Introduction: Patient education is recommended to improve the transition from paediatric to adult care for young people with chronic conditions. But a consensus has not been reached regarding a particular model. This study aimed to understand how to prepare for the implementation of a Developmentally Appropriate Patient Education during Transition…
Descriptors: Patient Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Health Services, Health Personnel
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Elise T. Pas; Christine Crimmins; Mary Kay Connerton; Ryan Voegtlin; Jessika Bottiani; Katrina Debnam; Kathryn B. Rockefeller; Megan Lewis; Susan Love; Catherine P. Bradshaw – Grantee Submission, 2024
Educators have embraced the promotion of social emotional development, student well-being, and mental health as essential educational objectives to promote academic readiness and growth. To address known research-to-practice gaps and limited availability of evidence-based, universal high school programs, we took a community-based participatory…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Wellness, Health Promotion, Instructional Design
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Stotz, Megan; Columba, Lynn – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2018
This study evaluated a classroom implementation of augmented reality (AR) for improving subitizing skills of preschool students. Children explored the mathematical concept of subitizing by using an AR enhanced board game, called "Creature Counting." The AR markers, which were friendly creatures, triggered the augmented reality functions.…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten
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Donica, Denise K.; Giroux, Peter; Faust, Amber – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2018
Using computers and keyboarding skills for written communication have been common adaptations recommended by occupational therapists which are now important for all students. We used a quasi-experimental, pre-test/post-test design to examine the effectiveness of a developmentally based curriculum, Keyboarding Without Tears®, as compared to free…
Descriptors: Keyboarding (Data Entry), Elementary School Students, Instructional Effectiveness, Skill Development
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Williams, Laura – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2018
In November 2017, Ofsted published Bold Beginnings, a report on its findings about teaching in the Reception year. Like very many practitioners in the early years, the author of this article believes this report to be of concern, as the recommendations it proposes would be so damaging for the early education of young children. She believes its…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Play
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