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Sun, Xiaoyan; Siu, Angela F. Y.; Fong, Shuk Yi; Chu, Tina S. F. – Education 3-13, 2023
This study looked into the experience of a group of elementary school students as well as their parents from Hong Kong, in a service-learning programme that aimed at facilitating the social-emotional development among gifted students. A total of 51 students and 72 parents participated in the focus group interview three months after the…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Service Learning, Academically Gifted, Foreign Countries
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El Hassan, Karma; Baassiri, Mariam – Education 3-13, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the alignment between the fourth-grade summative classroom assessments and the 'Matter and Energy' unit in the Lebanese science curriculum using: content and cognitive levels. Summative assessments were collected from a sample of 17 schools. The alignment between the classroom assessments and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Science, Alignment (Education), Summative Evaluation
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Nasra Ali Al Abrawi – Education 3-13, 2024
This article considers students in Grades 3 and 4 and their parents' views regarding learning English as a modern foreign language (MFL) in the primary school, through questionnaires in the Muscat region and AL Dahira region, and interviews with students. This study found that Omani people are interested in language learning. Parents were willing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Al Abrawi, Nasra Ali – Education 3-13, 2023
This paper focuses on the positive outcomes and the challenges that teachers experienced after the introduction of the English primary curriculum reform of grades 3 and 4 in Omani state schools. Three focus group interviews were conducted with English teachers (n = 15) in three regions (Muscat, AL Sharqia South and AL Dahira regions). Although the…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Barriers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hastie, Peter Andrew – Education 3-13, 2013
The purpose of this article is to describe the outcomes of a parallel curriculum project between life sciences and physical education. Throughout a 6-week period, students in grades two through five became members of teams that represented different animal species and biomes, and concurrently participated in a season of gymnastics skills and…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Integrated Curriculum, Biological Sciences, Curriculum Development
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Chou, Mu-hsuan – Education 3-13, 2014
In Taiwan, English was only officially taught at the secondary and tertiary levels before 2001. Since 2001, English courses have been formally incorporated into the curriculum in primary schools. Research on teaching and assessing English in primary school education is relatively new compared with research on other levels of education in Taiwan.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Kang, Sunjoo – Education 3-13, 2010
This study explores how a group of nine year olds in Korea form historical inferences using pictures of historical paintings. It investigates whether they have the ability to form plausible inferences about the lives of people depicted in these pictures, what they can infer about the lives of people depicted in the pictures using prior knowledge,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asian History, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
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Grant, Katrina; Mistry, Malini Tina – Education 3-13, 2010
This paper investigates role-play activities and how they can be used within learning for English as an Additional Language (EAL) pupils in a Key Stage 2 setting in England. Through observations, results showed effective role-play activities can be beneficial to EAL pupils, allowing them to practice words and phrases in a relaxed atmosphere…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students