Manipulatives are tools to which teachers may resort to help pupils overcome learning difficulties in elementary school Mathematics. Building on innovative information and communication technology, tangible interfaces aggregate new forms of interaction to the benefits of traditional manipulatives. Following a context-based methodology, we designed a tangible interface aimed at offering material...

OBJECTIVE School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) is a universal prevention strategy currently implemented in >16,000 schools across the United States. SWPBIS intends to reduce students' behavior problems by altering staff behaviors and developing systems and supports to meet children's behavioral needs. The current study reports intervention effects on child behavio...

Elementary schools constitute an impressive potential volunteer source of geographic information. Schoolsenses@Internet is a research project that aims at creating in the primary schools community, the motivation to create multisensory online maps of local and global contexts. The development of an identitary website to share experiences and projects, to establish relations and to mobilize the ...

The present study aimed to investigate how classroom-based self-management lessons to promote physical activity were perceived by students, teachers, and parents. The self-management lessons were implemented by an external physical education specialist in 20 class groups at eight elementary schools. Program perceptions were evaluated in 412 children (mean age 9.7 ± 0.7) using a short questionna...

Teachers can be instrumental in supporting children's recovery after trauma, but some work suggests that elementary school teachers are uncertain about their role and about what to do to assist children effectively after their students have been exposed to traumatic stressors. This study examined the extent to which teachers working with children from ages 8 to 12 years report similar concerns....

the main purpose of this research was to study the relationship between organizational structure and burnout among high school teachers. research method was descriptive correlational. to collect data, two questionnaires were used: organizational structure with reliability coefficient of 93 % and job burnout with reliability coefficient of 95 %. the population consisted of all high school teache...

Some of the more aggressive critics of evolution charge that it is being taught in America’s public schools in a way that undermines traditional religious values and promotes atheistic naturalism. We examine this claim in some detail by looking carefully at the public school curriculum in one city. Research involved investigation of language used in the textbooks and mandated curricular goals, ...

BACKGROUND Family and community involvement in schools is linked strongly to improvements in the academic achievement of students, better school attendance, and improved school programs and quality. METHODS The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducts the School Health Policies and Programs Study every 6 years. In 2006, computer-assisted telephone interviews or self-administered ma...