Presents data collected concerning scientific, religious, and magic-occult connections from Finnish, Estonian, and Michigan primary teacher students to answer questions such as Do we find any differences between the credibility estimates?, Are there any differences between primary teacher students raised in different societies and educated in…

Reports on elementary school teachers' ideas on the integration of science and literacy and its effects on teachers' instructional practices. (YDS)

Describes an undergraduate chemistry course designed for prospective elementary school teachers. (Contains 18 references.) (YDS)

Veteran first-grade teacher describes her 2-year inclusion experience with three special-education students. Offers other teachers suggestions for planning and implementing inclusion. (PKP)

The purpose of the study was to identify strategies used by preservice elementary teachers to index distributions of data. A secondary purpose of the study was to investigate whether representational form influenced the type of representative values constructed. Two hundred eighty-three preservice teachers were administered a selection of tasks…

At the elementary level, when children learn best through hands-on activities, when is the best time to use literacy and make that connection to enhance learning? For teachers involved in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Science Teacher Enhancement Program Unifying the Pikes Peak Region, STEP-uP professional development program for teachers, it is…

A case of Jill, an elementary school teacher who takes a reflection practitioner stance on her teaching is described. Three different social practices used by Jill to help her struggling third-grade students learn to write and some of the lasting impressions based on the whole experience are highlighted.

Stories illuminate attitudes, beliefs, and pre-dispositions about how mathematics is taught and what kind of mathematics should be taught. The purpose is to bring the idea of using mathematics stories into the open and make the mathematics-story methodologically accessible to mathematics educators and elementary school teachers.

This document is an account of the authors' experience as principal for a day at an elementary school in his hometown. This experience cause the writer to reflect on what it meant to be a teacher.

This article describes a teacher study group focusing on After School Writing Circles for elementary students as a site of Thirdspace professional development. Borrowing the concept of Thirdspace from postmodern geographer Edward Soja, the authors argue that professional development works best when teachers engage in the dual work of imagining and…

A large-scale longitudinal study was conducted in which the elementary mathematical knowledge and skills of a large group of Flemish preservice elementary school teachers from 15 different institutes was assessed by means of a paper-and-pencil test that was administered both at the beginning and at the end of their 3-year training. The 30-items…

In an elementary-school professional development program, a group of primary teachers and a university consultant reviewed the research on morphemic analysis and then explored ways to give pupils in grades 1, 2, and 3 an early start on using prefixes, suffixes, and roots to construct word meaning. The teachers examined some middle-grade strategies…

In this study, the authors investigated the effects of child gender and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptom type on elementary school teachers' referral decisions. Participants (N =199) read a profile of a fictional child's academic record and rated the likelihood of referring the child for an evaluation. The profiles varied by…

A school's science coordinator may find himself/herself responsible for running a training day. This jewel in the crown of a good primary school will be even better if he/she follows reliable instructions. In this article, the author offers tips on how to run a good training day based on plan, do, and review. These tips represent the crystallised…

This study explores 354 elementary teachers' views of the interventions generated by prereferral intervention teams and examines teachers' perceptions about receiving direct assistance in implementing the proposed interventions. Results, which parallel earlier findings, suggest that teachers largely refer students to the prereferral intervention…