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Potts, Anthony – Educational Studies, 2006
When students set off for school each day how many of them or their caregivers consider for a moment that they will spend the day at a potentially dangerous place? On the contrary, students and caregivers probably view schools as safe havens, and official research suggests that this is the case for the majority of teachers and pupils. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Security, Educational Environment, School Culture

Maple, Ted L. – Childhood Education, 2005
Traditionally, early childhood educators address the gaping hole in their planning books under the "social studies" header by teaching a smattering of thematic units. Most early childhood educators now know the importance of planning experiences for social studies, or any other content area, that are integrated, meaningful, and of high interest.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Social Studies, Thematic Approach, Student Projects
Anhalt, Karla; Telzrow, Cathy F.; Brown, Courtney L. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2007
An emerging literature suggests that maternal distress during the prenatal and perinatal period may adversely affect offspring development. The association between maternal stress and emotional status in the perinatal period (defined as 1 month after birth) and adjustment of first-grade children was examined in 948 mother-child dyads from the…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Child Behavior, Check Lists, Depression (Psychology)
Dantas, Maria Luiza – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2003
This paper examines the co-constructed nature of classroom life, and what became constituted as one child's story of literacy learning in first grade. It takes an over-time look at how opportunities for literacy learning were constructed within multiple, intermingling contexts (classroom, school, district, and family). Derek's literacy learning…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
Park, So-Young – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2005
The study explored how much student engagement and classroom variables predicted student achievement in mathematics. Since students were nested within a classroom, hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) was employed for the analysis. The results indicated that student engagement had positive effects on student academic growth per month in math after…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Student Motivation, Student Participation, Classroom Environment
Hertzog, Nancy B. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2007
This study explores how a project-based approach, based on gifted education pedagogy, was implemented in a public school program where the majority of students were from low-income families. The 2 first-grade teachers in this study were able to change their teaching practices to include more strategies commonly found in gifted programs such as…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Group Activities, Educational Change, Low Income Groups
Hickman, Lisa N. – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
The issue of child care is still widely debated, with some scholars arguing that children fare best in parental care, whereas others suggest center care may enhance children's development. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten Cohort of 1998 to 1999, the author demonstrates how the use of cross-sectional versus longitudinal…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Reading Skills, Child Care, Family Environment
Bathurst, Effie, G. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1940
That which legislation many times fails to accomplish with adults, organized public education achieves through children. There is no better way, and perhaps no other way, to save the Nation's natural resources from three centuries of ruthless exploitation than by a program of adequate instruction in the Nation's schools. Children cannot begin too…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Natural Resources, Public Education, Elementary Education
Tsokalidou, Roula – International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism, 2005
This paper presents the results of a research project involving bilingual children in selected primary schools in Volos, Greece, focusing mainly on the findings that have led to the proposal of two class activities, with the aim of promoting "bilingual awareness" in primary schools. The activities are the creation of "The bilingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 2, Multilingualism, Learning Activities
Donne, Vicki J.; Zigmond, Naomi – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2008
An observational study of reading instruction, using the MS-CISSAR protocol, was conducted in general education classrooms, resource classrooms, and self-contained special education/deaf education classrooms in Grades 1 through 4 in public schools within the tri-state area of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Participants were 24 students who…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Partial Hearing, Deafness, Grade 1
Blom-Hoffman, Jessica – Psychology in the Schools, 2007
Rates of childhood overweight have reached epidemic proportions (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2001), and schools have been called on to play a role in the prevention of this medical condition. This article describes a multiyear health promotion effort--the Athletes in Service fruit and vegetable (F&V) promotion program--which…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Health Promotion, Kindergarten, Grade 3
Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL), 2004
Hannah is a Pacific island grade 1 teacher in a local village school. She teaches in her native Pacific language and has established a 90-minute daily literacy block in which she focuses on literacy-related activities. As Hannah begins to prepare for the year and map out her ideas, she is aware of the need to gather basic information on each of…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Emergent Literacy, Beginning Reading, Pacific Islanders
Matthews, Mona W.; Cobb, Mark B. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2005
Sociocultural theories provide a useful lens for interpreting behaviors as individuals enter contexts requiring social interactions. These theories help us understand that learning is stimulated and nourished by interactions with others, supporting a view that learning is essentially a socially inspired process. This emphasis on the social and…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Young Children, Social Theories, Child Behavior
Akcan, Sumru – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2005
This article describes a learning context in which the first grade classroom teacher creates a learning community where she uses different teaching strategies to encourage children's second language use and learning. The first graders share, discuss, and learn both the second language (German) and content.
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, German, Grade 1
Coker, David – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
The purpose of this study was to investigate predictors of early writing for low-income, urban students. Drawing on research and theory characterizing literacy development as a complex, integrative process, the author analyzed growth in the descriptive writing of students in Grades 1-3. The participants were 309 low-income children enrolled in 16…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Descriptive Writing, Predictor Variables, Emergent Literacy