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Jinhee Kim – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
This qualitative study examines how elementary school teachers teach the notion of home in the curriculum, centring on the 'All About Me' and 'Where We Live' units. This study also illustrates how the notion of home presented through teaching practices can marginalise children, particularly those who are experiencing homelessness. Through…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 1, Family Environment, Homeless People
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Sayers, Judy; Petersson, Jöran; Rosenqvist, Eva; Andrews, Paul – Education Inquiry, 2023
Motivated by earlier research highlighting Swedish teachers' beliefs that the setting of homework compromises deep-seated principles of educational equity, this paper presents an exploratory study of Swedish parents' perspectives on homework in their year-one children's learning. Twenty-five parents, drawn from three demographically different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Homework, Parent Attitudes
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Rina Zviel Girshin; Nathan Rosenberg; Ida Kukliansky – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2024
This longitudinal study of robot programming in early childhood (ROPEC) was performed based on summative and formative assessments of the robotics program in kindergarten and year one of elementary school. The study aims to broaden our knowledge about children's understanding of programming, their confidence in ability to read and write programs,…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Early Childhood Education, Computation
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Kavitha Govender; Julie Shantone Rubbi Nunan – Curriculum and Teaching, 2023
Inclusive education (IE) was introduced in 2001 in South African schools. Still, its implementation in mainstream classrooms has not attained optimum potential. To highlight the shortcomings, this study explores factors preventing teachers from effectively implementing IE in a combined school. Qualitative data were collected through interviews,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Administrators, Inclusion
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Colleen E Whittingham; Emily Brown Hoffman; Kathleen A Paciga – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2024
The nature of the literacy assessments valued in the persistent accountability climate within U.S. public education, coupled with an increasingly polarized discourse around what counts as the science of reading (SOR), have resulted in instructional gatekeeping that privileges constrained skill teaching and learning in K-3 settings. The gatekeeper…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Kindergarten, Grade 3, Grade 2
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Elena E. Forzani; Christina Dobbs; Christine Leider; Emily Malik; Melanie Gragg; Clara Greszczuk; Courtney Jesberger – Reading Teacher, 2024
This article offers a framework for more equitable classroom reading assessment known as a Critical Assessment Practices (CAPS) approach. CAPS includes a set of four principles that teachers can use to partner with, and to empower, students to support more equitable and informative classroom-based reading assessment. Teachers can apply the CAPS…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Empowerment, Educational Principles
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Francisco Azpitarte; Louise Holt – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
This paper sets out original findings from analyses of the English National Pupil Database of Key Stage 1 (KS1) attainment, to examine educational outcomes of children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). The schooling of these children has been entirely within the context of the current SEND system, defined by the 2014-2015…
Descriptors: Special Education, Special Needs Students, Students with Disabilities, Outcomes of Education
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Mitchell Parker; Jessica Mantei; Lisa Kervin – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2024
Digital technology has long been ubiquitous in many communities within Australia and internationally, thereby requiring suitable digital proficiencies. While a majority of Australian children experience digital literacies as part of their everyday lives, limitations in access disadvantage others. In educational settings, there is a clear need for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Equal Education
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Michael Gottfried; Phil Kim; Tina L. Fletcher – AERA Open, 2024
When it comes to understanding the consequences of school absenteeism, how missing school might be linked to student-teacher relationships remains relatively unexplored. Our work helps to further detail this context by specifically investigating whether teachers' perceptions of students are different based on how frequently those students are…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Shari Clarke – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students in Title 1 school districts continue to fall far behind their peers academically in comparison to neighboring suburban districts. School reform has unsuccessfully attempted to improve test scores by consistently changing reading curriculums and mandating the use of various resources that fail when implemented. Struggling school districts…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Young Children, Kindergarten
Jahneille Cunningham; Sola Takahashi; Kate Hirschboeck – WestEd, 2024
In math classrooms, actively engaging with the subject matter can be crucial to learning. However, not all students speak up, ask questions, or express their ideas. Aware of the importance of the equitable participation of all students, mathematics education experts developed an observation tool called Equity Quantified In Participation, or EQUIP.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Participation, Equal Education, Mathematics Education
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Curtis Jones; Marlo Reeves; Dongmei Li – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Background/Context: Future Forward (FF) is an early elementary literacy program, administered by Education Analytics (EA), that combines one-on-one tutoring with parent engagement to promote student literacy development both at school and at home. In 2011 FF was funded by an i3 grant to develop the program and test its impact in Milwaukee. Two…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education, Tutoring
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Rosebud Elijah; Andrea Libresco; Sandra Stacki; Christina Drago-Botti; Debra Goodman; Judith Kaufman – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2023
At the end of a two-year discussion about the value of homework in elementary school, the Seaview district decided to move away from the traditional model of homework, and introduced Wonder, Reading, and Play (WRaP) intended to be more equitable and authentic. A case study was conducted to assess the district's goals for and implementation of more…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 1
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Christopher Dignam; James A. Gates; Matthew A. Cooney – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2024
Public school board members are charged with the responsibility and accountability to provide governance-level advocacy for equity and excellence in public education. This qualitative study examined the perceptions of school board members in three K--8 school districts in the midwestern part of the United States regarding the 50+ year Race-Based…
Descriptors: Governance, School Districts, Educational Administration, Leadership
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Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
To assess education progress in the early grades and identify achievement gaps, this study examined reading achievement data for kindergarten and grade 1 students in two districts in Illinois: District U-46 (Elgin Area Schools) and District 186 (Springfield Public Schools). Drawing on a different reading assessment in each district, the study team…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Achievement Gap, Reading Achievement, Kindergarten
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