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Alvarez, Adriana – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2020
This qualitative case study examined the creation process and final artifacts of two biliteracy family projects that children and families from Mexican immigrant backgrounds collaboratively created as part of classroom instruction. Data were collected during five months in a first grade bilingual classroom with 22 students and centered on six…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Mexican Americans, Immigrants, Grade 1
Pegram, Mary – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Administrators and teachers are concerned that English Language Learners (ELLs) in an urban elementary school in a southern part of the United States are not meeting required state standards in reading. Teachers have indicated that they do not always know how to differentiate instruction for ELLs. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
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Kim, Mi Song – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
Due to globalisation and rapid technological change, today's educators need to help students develop multi-literacy competencies to enable them to function successfully in our culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) and increasingly connected global and digital society. A qualitative, longitudinal case study attempted to uncover the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Multiple Literacies, Informal Education, Qualitative Research
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Baker, Elizabeth A. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2017
Informed by sociocultural and systems theory tenets, this study used ethnographic research methods to examine the feasibility of using speech recognition (SR) technology to support struggling readers in an early elementary classroom setting. Observations of eight first graders were conducted as they participated in a structured SR-supported…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Ethnography, Grounded Theory
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Jun, Eun Jeong – Multicultural Education Review, 2016
This study examines the ways in which two teachers who have previously taken a multicultural education course put into practice multicultural teaching in a first grade afterschool program. Banks' five dimensions of multicultural education are used as the theoretical framework for analyzing past research on multicultural education courses and for…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Curriculum Implementation, After School Programs, Grade 1
Hughes, Kimberly – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This study set out to examine how interactions between a mathematics instructional coach and a teacher influence teacher pedagogical content knowledge, instructional practices, and a classroom culture of mathematical inquiry (CCMI). The research literature on mathematics instructional coaching was limited, but showed promise in supporting…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Methods, Classroom Environment
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Bleeker, Cheryl; Stols, Gerrit; Van Putten, Sonja – Perspectives in Education, 2013
This case study describes and investigates the instructional practices of Grades 1 to 5 teachers and the levels of geometry thinking of the learners, according to the Van Hiele model, with a view to determining whether there is a match between the instructional practice and the learners' level of thinking. The instructional practices of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geometry, Case Studies, Elementary School Students
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Arar, Khalid; Massry-Herzalah, Asmahan – School Leadership & Management, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to exemplify a "grass-roots" change based on Dewey's experimental progressive education model employed in the "Bridge over the Valley" bilingual school, a Palestinian-Arab and Jewish school in Israel. In order to identify the progressive "approach" underlying this change, the…
Descriptors: Arabs, Jews, Intergroup Relations, Educational Theories
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Berg, Alissa; Mensah, Felicia Moore – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
This study identifies and explores the dilemmas experienced by three first-grade teachers in teaching elementary school science. The impact of coaching and teachers' career stages on how teachers reconcile their dilemmas was examined. Results of this comparative case study indicate teachers perceived tensions between focusing instructional…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Coaching (Performance), Elementary School Teachers, Grade 1
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Spence, Lucy; Tanaka, Toshiya – Childhood Education, 2016
As young children enter formal schooling, they are at various points along their individual developmental paths toward literacy. Generally, their egocentric speech is becoming more social and they are building their capacity for logical thought and concrete problem-solving. This is a gradual development and teachers can support children's literacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Child Development
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Sensevy, Gérard – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2014
This paper presents an exploratory study of two consecutive reading sessions conducted in primary school by two different teachers. Our purpose is twofold. From a theoretical viewpoint, we propose a tentative set of conditions of teaching effectiveness by relying on the Joint Action Theory in Didactics. From a methodological viewpoint, drawing on…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Primary Education, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
Robinson, Isaac, III – ProQuest LLC, 2010
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, reading skills for African American male students in Grades 4 and 8 have improved over the past decade. However, a significant reading achievement gap still exists between African American male students and their European American counterparts. The purpose, as well as the central…
Descriptors: Social Change, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Naraian, Srikala – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2011
Mainstream research in the education of students with significant disabilities, which seeks to improve the ways these students can participate successfully in general education settings, has established the importance of teachers and classroom contexts in mediating relations between students with significant disabilities and their peers in the…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Severe Disabilities, Inclusion, Case Studies
Stover, Katherine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The need for twenty-first century learning skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and the use of technology are paramount to success in today's classroom. The purpose of this study was to explore what happened when children engaged in collaborative and critical discussions of themes related to social skills and social…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Charter Schools, Critical Literacy, Childrens Literature
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Schneider-Zioga, Patricia – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2012
Developmental dyslexia is believed to involve a phonological deficit of which the exact properties have not been clearly established. This article presents the findings of a longitudinal case study that suggest that, at least for some people with dyslexia, the fundamental problem involves a disturbance of temporal-spatial ordering abilities. A…
Descriptors: Syllables, Dyslexia, Phonology, Case Studies
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