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Larsen, Shannon M.; McCormick, Kelly; Coburn, Lisa; Henry, Colleen – Childhood Education, 2023
In 2014, over 30 classroom teachers and administrators from one district joined higher education faculty and researchers from an educational non-profit organization to begin a three-year collaborative project. They wanted to find ways to leverage the use of one-to-one mobile technology (tablets) in kindergarten-2nd-grade mathematics classrooms to…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Mathematics Education
Wong, Kit Mei; Wang, Zhijing; Fu, Li – Childhood Education, 2023
As a consequence of both the political turmoil in late 2019 and the COVID-19 pandemic, kindergarten children in Hong Kong were unable to attend school for three years. Various class resumption plans were developed from time to time. Overall, kindergarten children had in-person classes for only 103 days in the 2019-20 year and 174 days in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Kindergarten
Ng, Rebecca; Lim, Cynthia – Childhood Education, 2023
This article illustrates the potential of using children's play and interest in constructive materials like LEGO bricks to support early literacy, particularly in improving the use of descriptive language. The article describes an action plan using storytelling and constructive LEGO play to improve the children's use of descriptive language and…
Descriptors: Toys, Play, Story Telling, Language Usage
Kim, Kyoung Jin; Han, Minkyung; Jung, Eunyoung; Sohn, Ji-Hyang – Childhood Education, 2022
As environmental education and sustainability education play a fundamental role in training citizens who are more aware of global change and more environmentally responsible, organic learning is a recommended alternative learning experience for young children. This article describes how one kindergarten class in South Korea applied organic…
Descriptors: Child Development, Environmental Education, Learning Experience, Kindergarten
Lingyan Wang; Yicong Chang; Yini Ouyang; Hui Mao – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Resilience is gaining attention as an important factor in helping novice teachers to adapt to their new environment and increase their willingness to stay in their jobs. This study surveyed 5,739 novice kindergarten teachers in China to construct a system of indicators influencing the resilience of novice teachers and to quantify the relative…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Resilience (Psychology)
Jennifer J. Chen; Xiaoting Liang; Jasmine C. Lin – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This study investigated how children's social and emotional learning (SEL) might reflect their teachers' social and emotional teaching (SET) by means of social learning. To this end, the research team conducted 20 videotaped observation sessions of four teachers' SET and 71 children's SEL during whole-group instruction in four kindergarten…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Emotional Learning, Kindergarten, Metacognition
Hui Zhang; Xiulan Cheng; Yueyue Ai – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Although teacher social-emotional competence (SEC) has been recognized as a crucial indicator of teacher professional development as well as an effective predictor of their psychological well-being, little is known about how teachers' SEC contributes to job burnout. The objectives of the present research were to explore the impact of SEC on job…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Well Being, Teacher Burnout, Rural Schools
Jin Sun; Xiaohui Xu; Kerry Lee; So Sum Chow; Yushu Wang; Li Zhang – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The development of self-regulation is influenced by children's experiences at home, with parenting styles and parenting stress being important contextual factors. However, little is known about how parenting styles and stress are related to the emotional (hot) and cognitive (cool) aspects of self-regulation. This study examined the relationships…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Stress Variables, Stress Management, Parent Child Relationship
Dimity Franks; Lennie Barblett; Gillian Kirk – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Self-efficacy has been associated with benefits to everyday life such as resilience to stress and adversity, healthy behaviours, improved performance, and academic achievement. Research into self-efficacy development is scarce in early childhood, yet self-efficacy is associated with numerous skills and competencies taught in the early years of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Kindergarten
Dominic F. Gullo; Katie Mathew – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This study examined the longitudinal changes in kindergarten demographics and child outcomes by comparing data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey (ECLS-K) 1998 and 2011 cohorts. Results demonstrated that there were significant changes in kindergarten in general and with regard to FDK and HDK schedules between 1998 and 2011. These…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Kindergarten, Demography, Outcomes of Education
Amanda L. Witte; Lisa L. Knoche; Susan M. Sheridan; Natalie Koziol – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The use of data to inform instruction has been linked to improved student outcomes, early identification of intervention needs, and teacher decision-making and efficacy. Additionally, data are used as a means of accountability within educational settings. However, little is known about data use practices among early grades teachers. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Preschool Teachers, Data Use
Ming-Fang Hsieh – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This qualitative study examined kindergarten children's responses to their favorite books and their perspectives on reading at home and school. Data included observations, interviews with teachers, parents, and children, and "My Favorite Book" response sheets completed by children. Children's favorite books reflected various genres,…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary School Teachers, Childrens Literature, Reading Skills
Char A. Moffit – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This qualitative multiple-case study examined kindergarten students' engagement in science concepts and literacy learning in a classroom in which these two subjects were integrated through Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI). CORI is an instructional framework created to increase reading engagement by teaching reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Scientific Concepts, Literacy Education, Reading Instruction
Nesrin Isikoglu; Kadriye Selin Budak; Müzeyyen Guzen – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The current study aims to identify changing trends in digital play addiction tendencies among young children and parental guidance strategies before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of the bioecological model of development, it was hypothesized that the pandemic would have a significant impact on the addiction to digital play…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Addictive Behavior, Parent Role
Cristina Rodríguez; Juan E. Jiménez; Jennifer Balade – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This study aimed to investigate the roles of transcription skills and oral language abilities in predicting writing quality and productivity among Spanish-speaking kindergarten children (N = 159). Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), the study examined associations between these foundational skills and writing outcomes. The model demonstrated…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Oral Language