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Forsberg, June T.; Ghazale, Brenda; Siefeldeen, Samer; Schultz, Jon-Håkon – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2023
The evolving situation in Lebanon is characterized by multiple crises that affect education and can negatively affect a student's school-functioning and mental health. The Ministry of Education and Higher Education decided in 2019 to further intensify and upscale implementation of school-based psychosocial support. This study is a…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Well Being, Psychological Patterns, Mental Health
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Baghurst, Timothy; Fink, Kevin – Physical Educator, 2018
After-school physical activity programs for youth can develop and extend physical and mental skills necessary for health across the life span. With the considerable time and effort required to operate such programs, it is important that youth are achieving tangible goals and benefit from the programs. Unfortunately, many after-school programs lack…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Physical Activities, Success, Program Design
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Hwang, Ming-Yueh; Hong, Jon-Chao; Hao, Yung-Wei – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
Teachers' professional development (PD) receives a great deal of attention in current educational settings. However, research has shown that many teachers hesitate to attend PD programs. In this study, data were collected from 270 elementary school teachers and were subjected to confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Faculty Development
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Petrie, Kirsten; McGee, Clive – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
One of the challenges in in-service teacher education is how teachers can be given professional development (PD) that enables them to respond to national curriculum and policy change. In recent years primary teachers in New Zealand have been inundated with Ministry of Education-funded professional development programmes to help them implement a…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Physical Education, Physical Activities, Foreign Countries
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Auerbach, Susan; Collier, Shartriya – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: As accountability pressures have mounted toward ever-higher targets under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, low-achieving schools have sought new tools for raising achievement. The association between parent involvement and student achievement is well established, though the association is an indirect relationship mediated…
Descriptors: Accountability, Immigrants, Reading Skills, Family Literacy
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Dubiner, Deborah – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2010
For many decades now, applied linguistics studies have investigated the impact of second language acquisition on various aspects of the development of school children. Few studies, however, have focused on the simultaneous acquisition of two additional/second languages in the classroom. The present paper explores the impact of a spoken Arabic…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Control Groups