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Mark T. Witwer – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2024
Relating faith and learning is central to Christian education, but few large studies have examined how grade-school teachers understand this task. Witwer previously reported Likert-type data from 1059 teachers in Christian elementary and secondary schools. The present paper reports findings from 2356 open responses by 655 of those teachers.…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Wendy S. Wagoner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this professional practice dissertation (PPD) is to create an annual program evaluation and provide Christian schools with effective practices for K-2 students for spiritual formation and biblical worldview. The evaluation process helps to identify areas of strength and growth that adhere to the school mission, Flourishing Faith…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Christianity, Religious Schools, Educational Practices
Jennifer R. Merkey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study focused on intervention strategies for struggling kindergarten readers in Christian schools and the strategies' perceived effectiveness. This study examined the reading strategies implemented in Christian schools and their perceived strengths and weaknesses. The history of reading instruction in the United States was covered in a…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Schools, Kindergarten, Young Children
Fisher, William R. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Christian schools seek to educate students from a biblical worldview to produce graduates who know God and can discover their unique role in furthering God's kingdom. To achieve this goal, Christian schools need teachers steeped in a biblical worldview. However, studies have shown that many Christian school teachers trained in secular educational…
Descriptors: Christianity, World Views, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
Erin E. Hart – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Although the importance of school leadership in student learning and staff retention has been well-documented by research, minimal research exists on the practices of effective Christian school leaders and how those contribute to school sustainability and fulfillment of mission. Steward leadership theory has been researched and applied to other…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Christianity, Religious Schools, Kindergarten
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Jue Wang – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2024
This article is a critical ethnographic study that examines rural Chinese girls' literacy practices in sanctioned and unsanctioned spaces, and their negotiations with the articulated and delivered literacy program. In particular, this study focuses on a group of 1st-grade girls, who I call the "Spy Girls," engaged in the celebration of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
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Witwer, Mark T. – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2023
Relationships between faith and learning are central to Christian education. However, few large studies have examined grade-school teachers' faith-learning perspectives, especially the influence of academic discipline and theological tradition. I investigated these among 1,059 teachers certified by the Association of Christian Schools…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Christianity, Religious Schools, Teacher Attitudes
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Alison Johnson; Matthew H. Lee; Albert Cheng – Journal of Religious Education, 2024
Research shows that teacher quality is the most important school-related input correlated with student success. In religious private schools, teachers do not merely influence academic outcomes; they may also play a role in spiritual formation. Religious school administrators report that their faith informs their hiring decisions. However, little…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Schools, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Characteristics
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Laura Scholes – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2024
Acceleration of digital communication has changed the nature of reading and young people today need to engage multimodal skills for reading success in the digital world. While historically there have been social justice issues for marginalised students in terms of reading, the digital age is creating new equity issues across the globe. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Catholic Schools
Rebecca L. Witte – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This ethnographically-oriented, multi-year study examined an epistolary writing relationship between third grade students and the teacher's uncle, known to them as Uncle Billy, who, at the time of the study, was corresponding from prison. Taking place within a Reformed Christian school, this study encapsulates the pedagogy of Ms. Thompson, the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Christianity, Religious Schools, School Community Relationship
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Nishida, Yukiyo – History of Education Quarterly, 2022
In the mid to late nineteenth century, many missionary women from Western countries arrived in Japan to engage in educational work. They made a significant impact not only on the establishment of Christian kindergartens and kindergarten teacher training schools but also on the dissemination of Friedrich Froebel's theory of kindergarten education…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Teacher Education Programs, Educational History, Christianity
Jeanette Wahlstrom – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teachers must meet a variety of students' mathematics learning needs but are often not trained to do so. Little is known about how teachers perceive their efficacy to meet diverse math learning needs. The purpose of this qualitative collective case study was to explore teacher attitudes and perceptions of professional development (PD) and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Christianity, Socialization
Amy Michelle Erickson Soper – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Coaching is an accepted on-the-job training and development approach for professionals in many career fields, including education, yet there is limited research on its efficacy in promoting sustained behavioral change and positive organizational outcomes. This basic qualitative study explored the perceptions of prekindergarten (PK) through…
Descriptors: Religious Schools, Administrator Education, Coaching (Performance), Preschool Education
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Smith, David I.; Green, Beth; Kurkechian, Mia; Cheng, Albert – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2021
This essay proposes that efforts at assessing the contribution of faith-based schools to faith formation be grounded in an account of student vocation framed by Christian practices. We identify gaps in research on assessment of school effectiveness and suggest that a focus on the present vocation of students may fruitfully connect faith and…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Education, Religious Schools, School Effectiveness
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María G. Leija; Myriam Jimena Guerra; Brenda Ayala Lewis – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
The article examines how a Mexican second grade dual language teacher guided his Latinx bilingual students in exploring Día de los Muertos, a cultural practice. Through the Día de los Muertos project, parents responded in a variety of ways. Some parents learned about Día de los Muertos for the first time, other parents remembered participating in…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Hispanic American Culture, Teaching Methods, Parent Attitudes
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