The experiences of beginning and experienced teachers in parent teacher contact Beginning teachers struggle during their first years, which is shown in the number of beginning teachers that leave the profession. 25 percent leaves within five years. This is worrying, as there is a lack of teachers. Beginning …

The school has to deal with the problem of unmotivated learners and low results. The children are not motivated to learn, have unmotivated attitudes, and they show bad behavior during classes. They don’t do their homework, they don’t listen to the teacher and they are bullying each other during class. …

To examine what kinds of parent–child interactions are elicited by different literacy-related activities, an exploratory study was conducted with 19 mother–child dyads. Although prompting boards are widely incorporated in pre- and primary school curricula, and in various family literacy programmes, scientific …

The inclusive education in the townships of South Africa is very pour. The policies are there but the effectively implementation is still not installed. At the Dambuza primary school is this a problem as well. To get a broad and clear view how the Dambuza primary school works with the (special) educational …

Sports in elementary school: physical education specialists vs. group teachers.The aim of the project is stimulating sport participation among elementary school children in the province of Friesland. The ultimate aim is to provide three hours of physical education, provided by an physical education specialist, …

The aim of the current study was to examine the effectiveness of a school-centered multicomponent PA intervention, called ‘Active Living’, on children's daily PA levels. A quasi-experimental design was used including 9 intervention schools and 9 matched control schools located in the Netherlands. The …

This research identifies which risk and beneficial factors towards reading enjoyment in English and their native language are present for recent English as Additional Language (EAL) students in Key Stage 2. Initially, classroom teachers were interviewed and 113 children completed an anonymous questionnaire …

This research studied how one international primary school in a major Western European city supports its pupils going through a vertical transition. Data was collected over a ten week period through interviews of several staff members, surveys of parents and teachers, and through the study of school …

It is generally assumed that in the countryside of Northeast Netherlands children enter primary school with a language delay. Despite the apparent consensus, unequivocal evidence demonstrating that the number of young children with language delays and the magnitude of these delays is, however, lacking. …

The use of robots as educational tools provides a stimulating environment for students. Some robotics competitions focus on primary and secondary school aged children, and serve as motivation for students to get involved in educational robotics activities. Although very appealing, many students cannot …