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Thornberg, Robert – Research in Education, 2008
This article reports an overview of the findings from an ethnographic research project conducted in two Swedish primary schools with the aim of exploring values education that takes place in day-to-day interactions of teachers and students. Teachers' main concern in their practice of values education is to attempt to teach students to be nice and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Ethnography, Values Education, Student Behavior
Rosenkoetter, Lawrence I.; Rosenkoetter, Sharon E.; Acock, Alan C. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2008
In an attempt to minimize the adverse effects of television violence, the authors implemented a classroom-based intervention with 496 children in 32 classrooms (grades 1 to 4). The intervention consisted of 28 brief lessons conducted by university staff over the course of 7 months. Participants were individually interviewed prior to the…
Descriptors: Television Viewing, Intervention, Violence, Elementary School Students
Nielsen, Lynn E.; Finkelstein, Judith M.; Schmidt, Amy; Duncan, Annette – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2008
During the 1980s, two of the authors of this article were inspired to link good citizenship to solid classroom practices. These practices were articulated as the "Democratic Classroom Interaction Model," which grew directly from the authors' classroom experiences. The purpose of this model was to identify and illustrate how teachers could organize…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizenship Education, Interaction, Grade 2
Franzen, Kate; Kamps, Debra – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2008
Rates of problem behavior at urban elementary school playgrounds are of growing concern. The purpose of this study was to examine how the implementation of a recess intervention within the context of School-wide Positive Behavior Support (SwPBS), a systemwide, team-driven, data-based decision-making continuum of support, affected disruptive…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Investigations
Winebrenner, Susan – Understanding Our Gifted, 2007
With the passage of the "No Child Left Behind Act" (NCLB), the emphasis is for all children to reach proficient levels. Since they already work above this benchmark, the needs of gifted students are often de-emphasized. If teachers define learning as moving forward from the knowledge a student already has, they find that those who are at…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Federal Legislation, High Achievement, Classroom Environment
Plummer, Julia D. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2009
The National Science Education Standards [National Research Council (1996) National science education standards. Washington, DC: National Academy Press] recommend that students understand the apparent patterns of motion of the sun, moon and stars by the end of early elementary school. However, little information exists on students' ability to…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Motion, Visual Environment, Grade 2
Rimm-Kaufman, Sara E.; Chiu, Yu-Jen I. – Psychology in the Schools, 2007
This exploratory study examined the contribution of the "RC" Approach over a two-year period. The "RC" Approach integrates social and academic learning in order to produce classroom environments that are conducive to learning by integrating social and academic learning. Two questions are addressed. First, how does teachers' use of "RC" practices…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement, Assertiveness, Academic Achievement
Mount-Cors, Mary Faith – ProQuest LLC, 2010
An economics-driven discourse about early literacy (Trudell, 2009) in sub-Saharan African settings often includes a list of reasons for poor levels of literacy that remain mired in deficit thinking or a deficiencies model in which the problem lies within the non-literate people themselves. Meanwhile, the established post-colonial educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Feminism, Literacy Education
Matthews, J. S.; Kizzie, Karmen T.; Rowley, Stephanie J.; Cortina, Kai – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
In this study, the authors examined the racial and gender gap in the academic development of African American and White children from kindergarten to 5th grade. Their main goal was to determine the extent to which social and behavioral factors, including learning-related skills, problem behaviors, and interpersonal skills, explain these gaps and…
Descriptors: African American Students, Behavior Problems, At Risk Students, Males
Quinones, Anna M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation study describes and interprets the dialogue between Latino parents and their children during home literature conversations. The participating students were enrolled in my first and second grade classroom in East Los Angeles, California. I was guided by the following research questions in this qualitative teacher research study:…
Descriptors: Reading, Bilingual Education, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
LaBillois, James M.; Lagace-Seguin, Daniel G. – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
The central goal of the present study was to examine how a child's emotion regulation ability may moderate the relations between teaching styles and anxiety in childhood. Participants were 33 children (21 males, 12 females; mean age 7.5 years, standard deviation = 0.42), their mothers and teachers. Children completed the Early Adolescent…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Teaching Styles, Teacher Characteristics, Mothers
Stichter, Janine P.; Lewis, Timothy J.; Whittaker, Tiffany A.; Richter, Mary; Johnson, Nanci W.; Trussell, Robert P. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2009
The importance of effective instruction on student academic and social achievement has been well documented. Strong classroom management and the use of high rates of opportunities to respond (OTR) have been two advocated classroom practices to positively impact student performance. This article presents an analysis of data collected across 35…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Schools, General Education, Elementary School Teachers
Evans, Gary W.; Brauchle, Gernot; Haq, Aliya; Stecker, Rachel; Wong, Kimberly; Shapiro, Elan – Environment and Behavior, 2007
Two reliable and valid instruments to assess first- and second-grade children's (N = 100, M = 6.8 years) environmental attitudes and behaviors are presented. A series of games derived primarily from dimensions of the new ecological paradigm theory of environmental attitudes are described for the assessment of environmental attitudes. The games…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Environmental Education, Grade 1, Grade 2
Sawyer, L. Brook E.; Rimm-Kaufman, Sara E. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2007
This mixed-method study examined characteristics and predictors of teacher collaboration. Limited research exists that describes the characteristics of teacher collaboration, and surprisingly little work explains the ways in which teaching experience and teachers' perceptions of the school environment influence teacher collaboration. Questionnaire…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teacher Collaboration, Cooperation, Teaching Experience
Paugh, Patricia; Carey, Jane; King-Jackson, Valerie; Russell, Shelley – Language Arts, 2007
This article focuses on the evolution of the classroom literacy block as a learning space where teachers and students renegotiated activities for independent vocabulary and word work within a high-stakes reform environment. When a second grade classroom teacher and literacy support specialist decided to co-teach, they invited all students in the…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Literacy, Classroom Environment, Critical Reading