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Kovács, Ivett Judit – Theory Into Practice, 2023
Magic has been a very popular form of entertainment for thousands of years and the learning and developmental processes that take place during the process of practicing and performing the trick--are a precious phenomenon from an educational point of view. The MiniMagic kindergarten program was launched in September 2021 in a kindergarten in…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Skill Development, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods
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Davis, Susan J.; Lettis, Melissa B.; Mahfouz, Julia; Vaughn, Margaret – Theory Into Practice, 2022
When inequitable situations arise, principals with strong SEL skills have a clear understanding of social emotional learning implementation to support teachers and are prepared to expose implicit bias with difficult conversations that allow teachers to examine personal beliefs and behaviors. In this article, we outline how to support SEL learning…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Social Emotional Learning, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
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DeMartino, Linsay; Fetman, Lisa; Tucker-White, DeAnne; Brown, Amanda – Theory Into Practice, 2022
Schools are adopting social emotional learning (SEL) programs, intending to provide students with intrapersonal and interpersonal skills to better prepare them for life. Transformative SEL is designed to promote the building of relationships between diverse students and educators to build more just schools and society. Because SEL models are…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Social Emotional Learning, Teaching Methods, Interpersonal Competence
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Wohlwend, Karen E. – Theory Into Practice, 2015
This article examines the digital literacy practices that emerge when young children play together with digital apps on touchscreen devices. Children's collaborative composing with a digital puppetry app on a touchscreen--with many hands all busy dragging, resizing, and animating puppet characters, and many voices making sound effects, narrating,…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education, Young Children, Puppetry
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Rowsell, Jennifer; Harwood, Debra – Theory Into Practice, 2015
iPads are increasingly being put in the hands of children in schools and educational contexts, yet there continues to be larger questions about how they fit into the fabric of daily classroom life and what new stories will emerge (de Certeau, 1984, 1984/2000). In this article, we feature vignettes of data from a 2-year government-funded research…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Literacy, Early Childhood Education, Ethnography
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Baker, Dale – Theory Into Practice, 2013
This article identifies instructional strategies, curricula, and organizational structures in the research literature that have been successful in encouraging girls' participation and achievement in science: science instruction in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten, relevant curricula that address girls' interests and provide…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Science Interests, Females, Student Participation