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Yazicioglu, Tansel – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
Legal arrangements about the special education carried out in Turkey during the 1980's are not sufficient. One of the significant advances in this regard is the law on children with need of special education numbered 2916 which came into effect on 12 October 1983. Also, there are legal regulations about the inclusive educational practices. The aim…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Inclusion, Foreign Countries
Catherine, L'Ecuyer; Javier, Bernacer; Francisco, Güell – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2020
Maria Montessori developed an educational program during the first half of the 20th century. Nowadays, the Montessori method (MM) is considered one of the main alternatives to teacher-paced conventional preschool education. This review aims to open a dialogue between the MM and current understanding of neurodevelopment. Four conceptual pillars of…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Montessori Method, Teaching Methods, Preschool Education
Grahl, Josie; Kong, Jean-Louis – Journal of Character Education, 2020
Donald Stewart Early Childhood Center is a dual-language preschool located in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The school is comprised of 22 classrooms in which students are grouped by age group and includes two special education classrooms. Donald Stewart has high academic expectations for all 308 of it's students. In order to help each learner meet these…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Self Motivation, Student Motivation
Vallberg Roth, Ann-Christine – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This paper addresses national concern about teaching in preschool, building on the challenges, opportunities, and requirements facing today's preschools due to the higher expected level of preschool assignments. The aim is to build knowledge of how preschool teachers and managers from 10 Swedish municipalities characterise preschool teaching. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Teacher Attitudes
McAndrews, Stephanie L. – Guilford Press, 2020
Packed with useful tools, this practitioner guide and course text helps educators assess and teach essential literacy skills and strategies at all grade levels (PreK-12). All six literacy modalities are addressed--listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing, and visually representing. Chapters on specific literacy processes integrate…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Literacy, Metacognition, Instructional Effectiveness
Green, Timothy D.; Donovan, Loretta C.; Green, Jody Peerless – Eye on Education, 2020
"Making Technology Work in Schools" is an easy-to-use guide for transforming your school into a learner-centered, tech-rich environment. School systems are increasingly adopting ambitious new educational technologies, but how do you make sure they are yielding effective teaching and learning experiences? The authors' proven, intuitive…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2020
Children's play experiences have a profound impact on all areas of their growth, learning, and development. Play Today: A Guide for Families describes ideas and examples of quality play experiences that can be offered to preschool and school-age children by their families and caregivers. This guide puts a focus on play-based learning for children…
Descriptors: Play, Child Development, Learning Processes, Inquiry
Irwin, Clare Waterman; Cook, Kyle DeMeo; Gallo, Audrey – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
Vermont provides state-funded preK to all 3 to 5 year olds through a mixed-delivery system. This study describes the enrollment rates of children with different characteristics who enrolled in different types of preK programs in the first year of implementation (2016/17). Overall, these findings indicate higher proportions of higher-needs students…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, State Aid, Educational Finance, Enrollment
Taggart, Jessica; Heise, Megan J.; Lillard, Angeline S. – Developmental Science, 2018
Pretend play is a quintessential activity of early childhood, and adults supply children with many toys to encourage it. Do young children actually prefer to pretend, or do they do it because they are unable to engage in some activities for real? Here we examined, for nine different activities, American middle-class preschoolers' preferences for…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preferences, Physical Activities, Learning Activities
Degotardi, Sheila; Sweller, Naomi; Fenech, Marianne; Beath, Alissa – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2018
Background: This paper investigates Australian parents' child care decision-making, including the motivational and influential factors that they attribute to their choice. Research demonstrates that child care decision making is multifaceted, involving a combination of child-related, personal, familial and contextual considerations. Existing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Child Care, Preschool Education
Caiman, Cecilia; Lundegård, Iann – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2018
This research is concerned with how children's processes of imagination, situated in cultural and social practices, come into play when they invent, anticipate, and explore a problem that is important to them. To enhance our understanding of young children's learning and meaning-making related to science and sustainability, research that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Imagination, Preschool Children
Emma Shanahan; Seohyeon Choi; Jechun An; Bess Casey-Wilke; Seyma Birinci; Caroline Roberts; Emily Reno – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2025
Although data-based individualization (DBI) has positive effects on learning outcomes for students with learning difficulties, this framework can be difficult for teachers to implement due to its complexity and contextual barriers. The first aim of this synthesis was to investigate the effects of ongoing professional development (PD) support for…
Descriptors: Data Use, Individualized Instruction, Learning Problems, Students with Disabilities
Hernandez, Giselle – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of the present study was to understand how number writing in a class of low-income, pre-kindergarten children (N = 15) developed over the course of a school year, and to see what role that development played in their overall math readiness. The study used a mixed-methods approach. The target class was explicitly taught number writing…
Descriptors: Numbers, Written Language, Low Income Students, Preschool Children
Pérez, Michelle Salazar; Kim, Koeun; Cahill, Betsy – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2019
In this article, the authors reflect on Myrna's Children's Village, their university laboratory school located in southern New Mexico in the USA. The Village serves children from the age of six weeks to five years through an array of early childhood programs. This diversity provides a unique context, while also posing issues and concerns, such as…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Educators, Laboratory Schools, Preschool Education
Syslová, Zora – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2019
Many developed countries have been concentrating lately on the quality of preschool education. Generally, what is considered one of the most important aspects of quality preschool education is quality teaching performance, which has been focused on in many research studies. Research also investigates the level of reflection in preschool teachers,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Educational Quality, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness