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Wei, Yonggang; Wang, Lu; Tan, Li; Li, Qinglong; Zhou, Dongmei – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
This study highlights a survey on 5783 kindergarten teachers' occupational commitment and its influencing factors in the socioeconomic context of China during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected through the WenJuanXing public online platform. Quantitative analysis results showed that kindergarten teachers' occupational commitment was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Persistence, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
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Kim, Yanghee A.; An, Sohyun; Bell, Douglas; Jean-Sigur, Raynice; Basch, Mary – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2021
In the US state of Georgia, teachers licensed to teach children from birth through Kindergarten (B-K, ages 0-5) or pre-Kindergarten (pre-K) to Grade 5 (p-5, ages 4-10) can teach pre-K and K in the public school system. Concerns have been raised about the unequal job opportunities for B-K candidates in the public school system because of the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Student Attitudes, Preschool Education, Kindergarten
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Cardullo, Victoria; Wang, Chih-hsuan; Burton, Megan; Dong, Jianwei – Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between factors in the extended technology acceptance model (TAM) model and teachers' self-efficacy in remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the authors sought to listen to classroom teachers as they expressed their unbiased views of the advantages,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Kindergarten, Teachers, Distance Education
Shakita Bagwell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teaching reading has been an ongoing challenge for many educators across the United States. Numerous studies suggest that teachers feel they were not adequately prepared to teach reading and have low efficacy in delivering literacy instruction. Teaching reading requires educators to be knowledgeable about the alphabetic principle, decoding new…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Faculty Development
Kristin M. Villanueva – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The expectation for classroom educators to engage in evidence-based decision-making is standard protocol in most K-12 classrooms, yet translating educational research into effective practice is mired with implementation challenges. The research-practice partnership (RPP) model has emerged as a promising framework to support stakeholders as they…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Research and Development, Cooperation, Educational Policy
Angela D. Clarke – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In education, there is often a disconnect between theory and practice. Urban school counselors must balance the reality of their daily work with the standards set by the ASCA National Model (2019), widely regarded as the benchmark for K-12 school counseling best practices. This study aimed to describe urban school counselors? perceptions of their…
Descriptors: School Counselors, School Counseling, Urban Schools, Counselor Role
Matthew Eric Andrews – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this two-phase, sequential explanatory mixed-methods research study was to examine the correlation between kindergarten through fifth-grade teachers' self-efficacy and the impact on literacy achievement to determine how professional development (PD) positively impacted teachers with high self-efficacy. The study was conducted in a…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Faculty Development, Teacher Effectiveness
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Fyssa, Aristea; Tsakiri, Maria; Mouroutsou, Stella – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
Early childhood inclusion for disabled children is a priority area as jointly stated by United Nations' and European Commission's policies. Educators have a crucial role in supporting all children's learning by working cooperatively with parents. However, their internalized ableist/disablist beliefs and misconceptions can inhibit the process of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Inclusion
Kerry Kisiel Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Public elementary schools throughout the nation have hired increased numbers of support staff, including literacy tutors, through federal Elementary and Secondary Schools Emergency Relief (ESSER) grant funding. Prior research on volunteer tutors and preservice teachers highlights the potential impact of tutoring on student learning outcomes. Yet…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Schools, Tutors, Self Efficacy
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Magen-Nagar, Noga; Schwabsky, Nitza; Firstater, Esther – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2021
In recent years, the kindergarten teachers' role has evolved to assume leadership tasks in addition to the traditional caring and instructional ones. This study examined the contribution of the self-efficacy variables of Israeli kindergarten teachers to predicting their educational leadership efficacy. This empirical study is based on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Role
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Convertini, Josephine – Education Sciences, 2021
Argumentation is an important aspect in the field of education because of its impact on learning processes. At the same time, argumentation is a complex activity in terms of cognitive, relational, emotional and social dynamics. In this paper, I investigate and I describe possible difficulties encountered by children during the argumentative…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Persuasive Discourse, Problem Solving
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Bekir Yildirim – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Background: This study investigated how an online professional development program (OPDPs) affected preschool teachers' STEM teaching competence, what technological tools and materials they used during STEM education after the program, and what they thought about OPDPs. Purpose: This study aimed to focus on all dimensions of the effects of OPDPs…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Online Courses, Preschool Teachers, Program Effectiveness
Rachael C. Rost-Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With large-scale wicked problems threatening our world, the integration of sustainability into teacher professional learning is systemically lacking in the United States. The purpose of this case study was to understand the impact of a multi-session, sustainability-related professional learning program on twelve PreKindergarten-8th grade educators…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Faculty Development, Private Schools, Self Efficacy
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Sung, Woonhee; Ahn, Junghyun; Black, John B. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2022
Using robotics and programming, this study investigated the effects of different levels of embodied instruction on the problem-solving, debugging, programming proficiency, self-determination, and self-efficacy of students in ethnically diverse elementary classrooms. The first small-scale, quasi-experimental study involved 37 second-graders, who…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Robotics
Powers, Rebekka – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy levels of kindergarten through second-grade teachers in their ability to provide reading instruction to students with a focus on the five foundational areas of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. In addition, the study sought to make recommendations…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Kindergarten
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