Research Roundtables
Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Patterns of Beginning Reading Instruction: Applying Cambourne's Dimensions of Effective Teaching
Learning from the past, living in the present, reading for the future with regard to beginning reading instruction.
Patricia E. Murphy, Arkansas State University, State University, AR
Integration of Visual Arts and Social Studies: Beyond the Basics
Perceptions of pre-service teachers about social studies and visual arts integration and how to expand understanding beyond the standards and into exemplary practice are discussed.
Andrew Brewer, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Susannah Brown, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Gender Differences in Young Children's Creative Product and Preferences: A Naturalistic Observational Study
This study examines the differences in boys and girls in their creative products and preferences in three areas of creativity: writing, drawing, and arts.
Sham'ah Md-Yunus, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
Computer Use in Early Education: Does it Support the Curriculum or Is It Just Something For the Children to Do?
Computer assisted technological instruction has become a permanent part of the educational process. Participants will come to understand how early childhood programs use computers in the classroom, laboratory, and how teachers use information gathered from these programs to support instruction.
Nur Tanyel, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC
Tom Reed, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC
Do Parents' Emotions Matter?
Examining Parent's Emotional Intelligence This study investigates whether parents EQ has an effect on children's emotion regulation ability.
Grace Onchwari, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
Jacqueline Onchwari, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN
Challenges of "Goose Families" and Satellite Parenting: Implications for Teaching and Learning
The presentation shares the stories of survival, adjustment, and acculturation of three newly immigrated Korean families with school age children, and provides suggestions for teacher education programs.
Eun Kyeong Cho, SUNY Potsdam, Hannawa Falls, NY
Sunghee Shin, Queens College, City University of New York, New York, NY
Beyond Standards to the Support of Emotion Regulation in Childhood: The Development of CALM, a Contemporary Assessment of Life/Events Measure
This qualitative descriptive research design explores the systematic methods, employed using archival data, to develop the CALM. Implications include ways to identify childhood stress and promote emotion regulation.
Wanda A.R. Boyer, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Tracy Durksen, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Young Children's Visual Literacy in the United States and China
This research study, conducted in two countries, provides new insights into young children's visual literacy. The classroom implication is based on the research results.
Fongyun Lee
University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
Teacher Education Online: Can Best Practices be Maintained?
Standard driven curricula and minefields of legislation - can online degree programs provide teachers of best practices who negotiate the churning waters of the present time?
Byra Ramsey, Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, AR
Schooling Experiences of Students at a Juvenile Day Treatment Center
Through the use of interviews, student perceptional data directs teacher education by revealing the past and present schooling experiences of students placed at a juvenile day treatment facility.
Carol P. McNulty, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC
Teaching Young Children Number Concepts Using a Combination of Hands-On Manipulatives and Computer Software
This presentation will provide early childhood educators and learning materials designers the new ideas of how to reinvent mathematical learning materials of a combination of hands-on manipulatives and computer software from the past, how to use the learning materials for the purpose of teaching "number concepts," and how to apply Vygotsky's Social Development Theory to the current preschool settings.
Yong Joon Park, SUNY Buffalo, Amherst, NY
How Recess Enhances Children's Use of Written Symbols and Comprehension Processes
This presentation serves to demonstrate how recess can serve both the standards of curriculum and the freedom of choice and play.
Barbie Norvell, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC
Edna G. Brabham, Auburn University, Auburn University, AL
Writing From the Heart: Teacher Candidates and Middle School Students Learn to Write, While Bridging Cultural Divides
This research study examines a project between teacher candidates and sixth grade students as they learn to write while bridging a cultural divide.
Jan Lacina, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
Conflicts of Hygienic Beliefs Between Taiwanese Teachers and Parents of Young Children: A Survey for Enterovirus Prevention
In early childhood education, contradictory hygienic beliefs between Taiwanese teachersÕ and parents' beliefs were found. Culture differences and government policies of 4 countries were compared.
Li-chun Chang, National University of Taiwan,Taiwan
Hwa-Chih Pai National University of Tainan Tainan City
Beyond Standards: Reaching Every Young Child's Potential Through Constructivist-Based and a CLASSIC ESL Dual Language Program
The project, Diverse Learners-Divers Teaching Methods (DLDM) is a collaboration of two universities situated in two geographically different areas of the United States to improve teaching and learning in early elementary settings for English Language Learning (ELL)/Limited English Proficient (LEP) students to impact kindergarten through fourth grade student's mathematics acquisition.
Lora Bailey, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
The Scales Are Still Unbalanced
Experiences of low socioeconomic parents' to assist attendants in learning how to modify programs, accept nontraditional forms of participation and create a welcoming environment.
Debra Walker Smith, Birmingham, AL
Jerry Aldridge, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL