In the realm of elementary education, the influence of teacher empathy on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) remains a critical yet nuanced aspect. This qualitative study explores the integral role of teacher empathy in shaping SEL environments in K-5 classrooms. Teacher empathy, defined as the capacity to perceive situations from students'…

In order to test the hypothesis that children's toy preferences may be influenced by knowledge of the usual preferences of their own sex, the effect of experimentally manipulating sex-typed information were examined, as expected, the data revealed that children matched the alleged preferences of their own sex at a level significantly above chance.…

Describes a study of 190 first graders' sex typing of the occupations of teacher and principal. Reports that children with female principals were more nonstereotypical than children with male principals and suggests that the presence of both sexes as models for school principal can positively affect children's perceptions. (KH)

The socialization function of education is examined through a study of how teachers' positions regarding responsibility affect the behavior and attitudes of their first-grade pupils. (LH)

Instruments to measure sex role standards of reading, readiness to assume feminine attributes, and reading achievement were developed and administered to 78 first grade boys. The treatment designed to masculinize reading consisted of three elements: (1) a weekly 20-minute exposure to a narrated slide presentation showing male figures in…

Investigated what stereotyping attitudes children at the Berry College Child Development Center and Laboratory School (Florida) developed regarding task performance in the home or family setting. Children manifested strong sex-role stereotyping toward male and female roles; they also perceived reading to be a nonsex-typed item. (GLR)

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects of modeling on sex-role development in first-grade children. It was hypothesized that when male-female pairs of children observed a male-female pair of models each child would probably shift his sex-role behavior toward that of the like-sex model. Sixty children served as subjects. The…

The relative weakness of sex-role labels as reinforcers, and the disappearance of differential effectiveness of male and female labels at the fourth-grade level would appear to be congruent with Kohlberg's (1966) cognitively based theory of sex-role acquisition. (Authors)

Objectives of the fourth unit of the first grade section of the Focus on Inner City Social Studies (FICSS) series (see SO 008 271) are to help the student develop an understanding of his needs and his economic environment. The many learning activities, focus on the economic system -- consumers, money, exchange of goods, use of resources,…

This first grade unit is one of the Focus on Inner City Social Studies (FICSS) series (see SO 008 271) developed in accordance with the needs and problems of an urban society. The discovery of self and of groups is the focus of the unit, demonstrating to students the things that groups do for individuals and how individuals help groups. A sample…

Role-taking skills of ethnic minority children were studied to determine the effect of conflict in the self-identification process on the ability to adopt the perspectives of another person. The subjects were Canadian Indian children around the age of eight for whom there was evidence of conflicting ethnic identification tendencies. These children…

The factors involved in assuming the role of members from different social groups were studied in six- and eight-year-old white Anglo-American children. The role taking task involved rating various ethnic members in terms of their desirability as uncles or nephews for the role person. A cognitive-developmental factor was manipulated by choosing…

Instructional and assessment activities in language arts are presented in this teacher's guide to unit two of a Spanish language arts curriculum for first graders. Focus, objective, and materials for each activity are given in English and Spanish, with teacher instructions only in Spanish. Four small picture books for students (brief Spanish…