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Geography for Our Youngest Learners
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Hinde, Elizabeth R. – Geography Teacher, 2012
In the earliest days of American education, leaders in educational theory and practice believed that the curriculum should revolve around the child's lived experiences. Geography, therefore, should hold a prominent place in the curriculum since it is through geographic concepts that children first experience the world around them. Reading and…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Geography, Young Children, Geographic Concepts
Potential for both Value and Harm Seen in K-3 Common Standards
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Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2010
This article reports on the common academic standards proposed for state adoption which outline what students must master by graduation in order to flourish in college or good jobs. Defining how they reach those goals, however, means spelling out what they must learn at each step of the way, starting in kindergarten. And those expectations are…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Primary Education, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education
National Board Certification and Developmentally Appropriate Practices: Perceptions of Impact
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McKenzie, Ellen Nancy – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2013
The study investigated a relationship between National Board certification and perceived use of developmentally appropriate practices (DAP). A self-developed survey, the Early-childhood Teacher Inventory of Practices, was e-mailed to participants. Participants included 246 non-National Board-certified (non-NBCT) and 135 National Board-certified…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies