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Simone Dunekacke; A.-K. van den Ham; M. Grüßing; A. Heinze – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2024
Mathematical competence in school-related contexts is a multidimensional construct that encompasses several content areas and cognitive components. Kindergarten children have experiences with different types of mathematical content. However, empirical research has focused mostly on children's numerical skills, and less is known about their…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Mathematics Skills, Young Children, Competence
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Rebecca April Gibson – School-University Partnerships, 2024
Purpose: This case study sought to investigate the relationship between pre-service teachers' participation in designing and delivering one-on-one literacy intervention lessons to beginning readers and their own evolving self-efficacy in literacy instruction. Design/methodology/approach: The study was embedded within a 4000-level course in the…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Intervention, Beginning Reading, Preservice Teachers
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Hughes, Ryan E.; Journell, Wayne – Social Studies, 2023
In this study, we investigate how a third-grade teacher enacted controversial issues discussion about the use of Indigenous people as sports mascots. We highlight how the teacher supported eight students' sensemaking about the issue during small-group instruction. We provide suggestions for controversial issues teaching in elementary social…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Discussion, Elementary School Students, Social Studies
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Grenz, Gretchen; Chitiyo, George; Fidan, Perihan – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2023
Teachers need training in order to be adequately prepared to serve English Learners in the general education setting. The consideration of teacher perceptions becomes important when considering designing professional development for teachers of English Learners. The purpose of this study is to examine teachers' perceptions regarding educating…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, English Language Learners, Course Content, Teaching Methods
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Johnson, Marcus W. – Education 3-13, 2023
Research has shown that classroom instruction can be precarious when addressing potentially 'controversial' issues. Yet, students can benefit from examining the narratives of those who have questioned the merits of United States democratic citizenship. By employing critical childhood studies and windows, mirrors and sliding glass doors as…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Elementary School Students, Racism, Activism
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Staley, Sara – Curriculum Inquiry, 2023
The scholarly conversation on preparing teachers to organize safer, more humanizing learning environments for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) youth generally does not intersect with conversations unfolding in the broader teacher education literature, specifically around what "practice" means in…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Kindergarten, Inclusion, Curriculum
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Gal, Adiv – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to examine the perceptions of undergraduate students studying early childhood education who took an academic course in which transformative pedagogy is adopted as part of a holistic approach designed to create transformative change and strengthen the students' self-efficacy for sustainability, and thus, help reduce the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Early Childhood Education, Student Attitudes, Sustainability
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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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Himmelsbach, Zachary; Weisenfeld, Dana; Lee, Jihyun Rachel; Hersh, David; Sanbonmatsu, Lisa; Staiger, Douglas O.; Kane, Thomas J. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
As a growing base of evidence links student success with attendance, many states have chosen to include measures of student absenteeism in their accountability systems under ESSA. Consequently, school districts face strong incentives to improve attendance. We report on a randomized field experiment in which parents of early elementary students…
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Attendance, Elementary School Teachers, Family School Relationship
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Lucas Vasconcelos; Cory Gleasman; Duygu Umutlu; ChanMin Kim – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2024
Science teachers have been urged to use emerging technologies, such as robots, in ways that empower K-12 students as active participants responsible for their learning and knowledge development within the scientific domain. And yet, little is known about whether the use of robots effectively supports students' epistemic agency in science learning.…
Descriptors: Robotics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Video Technology
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Raphaël Gani; David Scott – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Many social studies teachers have argued that the mandate to distinctively value Francophone and Indigenous perspectives is unjust without similarly valuing other perspectives within Alberta's K-12 social studies curriculum (Gani, 2022a; Gani & Scott, 2017; Scott & Gani, 2018). Rather than outlining why these two sets of perspectives need…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French Canadians, Geographic Regions, Teacher Attitudes
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Redvaldsen, David – History Education Research Journal, 2023
This article reports a local study of the presence of history as a subject in the kindergartens of Kristiansand, a municipality in southern Norway. There is no syllabus for history in the national curriculum; nevertheless, the research sought to find historical content in the kindergartens. The research method was informed by a precept of history…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, History Instruction, National Curriculum
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Mimi Engel; Robin Jacob; Anna Hart Erickson; Shira Mattera; Danielle Shaw Attaway; Amy Claessens – AERA Open, 2024
Preschool through third grade (P-3) alignment is regularly named as a key aspect of early childhood education and the transition to formal schooling. However, little is known about P-3 alignment in practice. Using data from 265 observations of math instruction in preschool, kindergarten, first-, and third-grade classrooms in New York City public…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Mathematics Instruction, Preschools, Kindergarten
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Kim, Nanyoung – Art Education, 2023
The author writes this article to remind art educators of the importance of crafts in art education. They have noticed that scant attention is given to crafts in contemporary art education in the United States. Through this article, the author would like to reflect on why crafts are essential in art education by considering their role in…
Descriptors: Handicrafts, Educational Change, Art Education, Kindergarten
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Taylor, Cynthia E.; Jackson, Christa; Buchheister, Kelley – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2022
Culturally rich stories may not explicitly refer to mathematical content. Consequently, teachers may overlook the potential for using content-invisible literature as a resource for mathematical investigations. Reflecting on the key elements of the what from the What-How-Who structure builds teachers' capacity to develop paramount tasks from…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Mathematics Instruction, Self Concept, Grade 3
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