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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Kindergarten curriculum"”.
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An Open Education Kindergarten Curriculum Guide
… of this project was to develop an open education kindergarten curriculum guide utilizing learning centers. This curriculum guide consists of a discussion of specific aspects of implementation of learning centers and a detailed analysis of twelve learning centers. Whether learning centers are …
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A Kindergarten Curriculum Guide in Environmental Education
… needs to be started as early as possible, kindergarten age children will be the focus of this project. Here the school should use the opportunity to begin developing the environmentally aware citizen. Unfortunately, few texts and guides in environmental education have been developed for …
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An analysis of the affirmation of personhood in United Methodist Church kindergarten curriculum
<p>An analysis of the United Methodist Church kindergarten curriculum has been made in this thesis in an attempt to determine to what extent the curriculum affrims personhood, The study is limited to six years of kindergarten curriculum, fall 1967 through summer 1973.</p><p>The first objective is …
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Investigating the Place of Children’s Home Literacy in the Ontario Kindergarten Curriculum: A Document Analysis
The Ontario Kindergarten programmatic curriculum was examined to determine and articulate how it represents children’s and families’ funds of knowledge and how it relates to home literacy and literacy learning at school. The Kindergarten Program (2016) was the primary source within the document …
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The Development of a Reading Readiness Program Designed to be Implemented into a Kindergarten Curriculum
… program which could be implemented into a given kindergarten curriculum. The focus of the paper was to identify the basic, skills necessary for successful reading and to list activities that the classroom teacher could use to increase a child's level of ability in each area. The seven basic …
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Leadership Effectiveness In Curriculum Adoption For A Kindergarten
… on adoption, implementation, and evaluation of kindergarten curriculum. The researcher evaluated leadership effectiveness through the processes and outcomes of the team’s decision-making. Research questions were: How does the kindergarten leadership team make decisions about adoption of …
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Read-aloud activities in the kindergarten: The structure of kindergarten read-aloud events and the place of such read-aloud events in the kindergarten curriculum
… to examine how read-aloud events fit into the kindergarten curriculum, how these read-aloud events were conducted, and how teacher decisions about read-aloud events were made.
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A Three-Part Dissertation: Staff perceptions of the Newly Restructured Professional Development Program for ELL and Bilingual Teachers; Bilingual Kindergarten Curriculum and Instruction; Biliteracy in Transitional Bilingual Education Programs: A Policy Advocacy Document
<p>Program evaluation should include a focus on evaluating how stakeholders perceive the effectiveness of the professional development plan in their district as it addresses the specific professional training needs of bilingual/ELL teachers. Administrators have a personal interest in understanding …
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A Three-Part Dissertation: Staff perceptions of the Newly Restructured Professional Development Program for ELL and Bilingual Teachers; Bilingual Kindergarten Curriculum and Instruction; Biliteracy in Transitional Bilingual Education Programs: A Policy Advocacy Document
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p>The biliteracy model of instruction for all bilingual students calls for teachers to be familiar with ways to teach reading at all grade levels in Spanish and English. This model seeks to continually develop student literacy skills in both languages so that the …
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A Three-Part Dissertation: Staff perceptions of the Newly Restructured Professional Development Program for ELL and Bilingual Teachers; Bilingual Kindergarten Curriculum and Instruction; Biliteracy in Transitional Bilingual Education Programs: A Policy Advocacy Document
<p>The Biliteracy framework capitalizes on the linguistic resources that English language learners bring to their classroom (Escamilla et al., 2014). Research indicates that success for English language learners hinges on comprehensible content instruction and literacy instruction in their native …
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Components in a Comprehensive and Integrated Sex Education Program for the Kindergarten
… a program of meaningful sex education into the kindergarten curriculum; and (3) to provide reference to available resource material for teachers and parents so that there may be a home-school-child triangle of learning.</p>
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Reading in the Kindergarten: a Comparative Study of Opposing Views
… teaching of formal reading skills to children of kindergarten age. In order to establish evidence relevant to the problem, the following question was considered: Should the teaching of formal reading skills be a part of the kindergarten curriculum? In view of the question, this paper attempted to …
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Educators’ attitudes about professional development, self-efficacy, and subjective well-being in early childhood programs
… Start teachers with interventions based on two curriculum approaches. Teachers volunteering as participants, (n = 255), were employed at Head Start Centers located in Central Texas that shared a preschool program-based partnership with an Independent School District in the Central Texas, serving …
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Using multicultural literature in the classroom to encourage tolerance and respect
… children's literature is used to supplement the kindergarten curriculum. Over the course of four weeks, students were read eight books about diverse cultures during centers and during circle time. Qualitative inquiry strategies such as parent questionnaires, audio recordings of small group and …
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Play-based kindergarten in an era of academic rigor: A case study of one teaching team’s experience
… went through as they integrated play with their kindergarten curriculum by studying their individual and collaborative processes of implementation. Based on strategic sampling, this study was conducted with kindergarten teachers who reported that time for play was a part of their daily schedule. …
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A Parent Involvement Program Focusing on Fine Motor and Language Development and its Effect on Parent Participation at Home
Kindergarten curriculum today has become more academically oriented, particularly emphasizing the development of literacy. However, when children come to school lacking fine motor, language development skills, and exposure to literature, they are at a disadvantage. Fine motor skills are necessary …
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Blended-Art at the Kindergarten Level
… will enhance the development of the kindergartener. In today's standards driven classroom environment, art is often overlooked in place of text based curriculum. The idea of this project is to blend two approaches to teaching art and intertwine this approach into the rigorous daily …
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Language development in kindergarten students using melodic learning
… in addition to the typical elements of the Kindergarten curriculum to establish growth over the one month study period. Each week of the study, songs were introduced and discussed, sight words were practiced with the use of chants, and nursery rhymes were repeatedly read. This melodic …
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Effects of four different modality training programs on IQ and reading readiness performance in the lower socio-economic level kindergarten child
… were incorporated into an individualized kindergarten curriculum for disadvantaged children. One program stressed general auditory and visual perceptual skills, a second auditory skills specific to decoding, a third visual skills specific to decoding, and a fourth auditory and visual …
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