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Julia Shields Chrestay; Kyra Atterbury, Contributor; Janet Chance, Contributor; Stecy Mbemba, Contributor; Helena Miller, Contributor; Joe Alberti, Contributor; Sara Caselle, Contributor; Suzanne Cilli, Contributor; Katherine Collier, Contributor; Erica Darken, Contributor; Emily Goedde, Contributor; Rochelle Krauss, Contributor; Bernadine Magee, Contributor; Noga Newberg, Contributor; An Nguyen, Contributor; Candice Smith, Contributor – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
Need in Deed's work with Philadelphia public school teachers and their students centers empathy, informed investigation, and civic action. Bolstered by these values and with the support of the My Voice framework and dedicated Need in Deed staff, educators are equipped to co-create authentic classroom communities with their students. In Need in…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Citizen Participation, Public School Teachers, Empathy
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Said-Metwaly, Sameh; Fernández-Castilla, Belén; Kyndt, Eva; Van den Noortgate, Wim; Barbot, Baptiste – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
The development of divergent thinking (DT) in school-age children and adolescents has received considerable attention in the educational psychology literature since the 1970s. A body of research has outlined the existence of slumps (i.e., temporary declines) in this development with, however, conflicting findings concerning the magnitude and…
Descriptors: Creativity, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 7
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Yueyang Shao; Hongyun Liu; Pingping Zhao; Qimeng Liu; Jian Liu – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
Inspired by complex system theory, this study adopts a multilevel piecewise regression model to examine the relationship between homework time and the development of students in different grades using a large-scale testing database in China. The results indicate that the relationship between homework time and students' performance is positive when…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homework, Time on Task, Grade 4
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Mandlenkosi Sibanda; Hanlie Dippenaar; Amanda Swart – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2024
Background: The high number of poor-performing learners in reading comprehension in South African schools is a concerning factor that calls for studies to mitigate this problem. The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) of 2021 indicates that about 81% of South African Grade 4 learners who participated, failed to reach the…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Grade 4, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
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Regan, Kelley; Evmenova, Anya S.; Mergen, Reagan L.; Verbiest, Courtney; Hutchison, Amy; Murnan, Reagan; Field, Sara; Gafurov, Boris – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2023
Rubrics can be used to give students targeted feedback on their writing and, therefore, teachers should be able to use them as a type of formative assessment to guide writing instruction. This article describes an exploratory study of how three teachers provided instruction for fourth, fifth, and seventh graders with learning disabilities and…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 7, Elementary School Students
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Druken, Bridget Kinsella – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2023
Although lesson study has been shown to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics, little research has focused on reasons for engaging in it from a teacher's perspective, particularly after sustained engagement with lesson study. This qualitative study reports on thirty-three teachers from the United States who were involved in twelve…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Algebra
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Erol Koçoglu; Sule Egüz; Kübra Melis Avcu – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2024
Türkiye is a region that bears the traces of many different civilizations from the past to the present. This diversity has endowed the country's culture with a deep and rich dimension. This study examines the role of social studies education in the preservation of cultural heritage in Turkey and its relationship with tourism. The aim of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Binfet, John-Tyler; Passmore, Holli-Anne – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2019
The aim of this exploratory study was to examine fourth to eighth graders' conceptualizations of kindness at school (i.e., their definition of kindness, an example of an act of kindness they have done, who they see as the most salient adult agent of kindness, and which location they deem that kindness happens most). To date, kindness research has…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Altruism, Social Development, Emotional Development
Steven Keyser Skolfield – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Saint Edmond's Academy is a small, independent, Catholic school in Wilmington, Delaware. Students in Grades 4 to 7 are falling below their peers in other independent schools on standardized tests in mathematics, specifically the Educational Advisory Company Comprehensive Testing Program assessment. Within the scope of this work, my goal was to…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Private Schools, Small Schools, Grade 4
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Gagné, Monique; Guhn, Martin; Janus, Magdalena; Georgiades, Katholiki; Emerson, Scott D.; Milbrath, Constance; Duku, Eric; Magee, Carly; Schonert-Reichl, Kimberly A.; Gadermann, Anne M. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Immigrant and refugee children and adolescents form a growing socially, culturally, and economically diverse group with the potential for wide-ranging adaptation outcomes. The goal of the study was to examine whether developmental competencies (social-emotional and academic) and sociodemographic disparities (e.g., SES and migration class)…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, Young Children, Adolescents
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Eray Alaca – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2023
The needs of individuals are increasing and diversifying in the rapidly changing world. Individuals cannot continue their lives in society through the only theoretical knowledge, and they also use the skills they have gained. In this regard, the social studies course has an important function in terms of where and how the skills will be used. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Skill Development, Elementary Education
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Sørlie, Mari-Anne; Hagen, Kristine Amlund; Nordahl, Kristin Berg – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2021
This study examined the development of social skills across five measurement points from 4th through 7th grade, and the influence of child gender and school-related factors on the level and growth of social skills, in a large sample of normally developing children in Norway (N = 2,076). On average, children's social skills scores increased…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Social Development, Interpersonal Competence, Elementary School Students
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Rose, Joel; Watson, Michael – State Education Standard, 2022
Teachers have long struggled with the tension between ensuring a rigorous education for all their students and the reality that students arrive at the start of a school year with vastly different skills and conceptual understandings. The tension can be even more acute in math, which relies heavily on students mastering foundational concepts in…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Program Divisions, Knowledge Level
Mallory R. Shackelford – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Educators are always looking for new ideas and best practices to positively impact student learning. Particularly after the learning interruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, schoolteachers and leaders are seeking strategies to increase the rate of student academic growth. One approach that can be borrowed from leadership development is the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 4, Grade 8
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Blanco, Megan – State Education Standard, 2019
A number of states have taken steps toward promoting student wellness, with many of their state boards of education in the middle of the action. This article contains some examples of states leading on student wellness by addressing physical fitness, social and emotional learning (SEL), and mental health supports. The Every Student Succeeds Act…
Descriptors: Wellness, Child Health, Physical Fitness, Social Development
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