What Do Preschool Teachers and Parents Think about the Influence of Screen-Time Exposure on Children’s Development? Challenges and Opportunities

Children’s exposure to screens has been increasing in recent years and so has the concern about its impact on children’s development. This study aims to analyze preschool teachers’ and parents’ views on the influence of screen-time exposure on children’s development. Semi-structured interviews with preschool teachers (n = 9), as well as data from a previous quantitative study, based on an online questionnaire applied to parents of children in preschool (n = 266) were used for data collection. For this study, eminently of qualitative nature, the following dimensions were analyzed: children’s habits of exposure to screens at home, changes in children’s play habits at school, strategies/methodologies used by preschool teachers, use of technologies at school and children’s language development. The results from the study with parents show that screen-time exposure of children is between 1 h to 2 h of television per day, mostly to watch cartoons. Parents also report that most of the children use vocabulary in other languages at home. Most preschool teachers agreed that children are changing their play habits and mainly their behaviors and attitudes, influenced by screen-time exposure. They believe that language development is also changing, mentioning more language problems in children. Changes in pedagogic strategies and specialized training on educational technology are needed to get closer to children’s interests.

Dampak Pemberian Reward and Punishment Untuk Meningkatkan Kedisiplinan Anak Usia Dini

Discipline is a concept that must be instilled from an early age. How to teach discipline to children at the age of 3-6 years is usually taught in simple things such as tidying up toys, accepting consequences for doing wrong or right, obeying the guidance of parents around, and others. Education aims to train children so that children can be responsible and can realize if there are mistakes they have made. Reward and punishment is an effective way to teach discipline to children. This article aims to describe or conceptually describe the application of reward and punishment to early childhood to train discipline. The method used is a literature study or literature study which contains the opinions of various experts regarding a particular problem which is then examined, compared with the research and researchers who draw conclusions. In this article, the author only analyzes two of them. Several findings from previous studies illustrate that offering these rewards and punishments can improve discipline in children in various ways, such as giving stars, giving praise, giving hand flour, and others. The conclusion of this article is that with reward and punishment, children can better control their emotions and obey the rules that have been given by teachers and parents.

Original Teaching Materials and School Activities for Students With an Intellectual Disability

Most of the present authors, the teachers at the School for the Mentally Challenged at Otsuka, University of Tsukuba, have been creating original teaching aids and materials using low-tech and high-tech methods. Original teaching aids created with woodworking and metalworking are usually used for students with an intellectual disability. The original teaching materials with Grid Onput dot code, which could link multimedia, such as audio, movies, web pages, html files, and PowerPoint files were created in collaboration with one of the present authors, Professor Shigeru Ikuta, who organized a large research project, and Gridmark Inc. that developed Grid Onput dot code. The present authors have recently developed a new software program, SmileNote, to help students create presentation slides in expressing their feelings, will, and desires to classmates, teachers, and parents. Basic information on these materials and their use in schools is presented in this chapter.

The Roles of Parents Teachers Association in School-Age Children’s Psychosocial Development According to Erik Erikson

People these days tend to avoid their attention from child’s psychosocial development while it holds serious role for the psyhcological and social development of children to find their true identity in the future. According to Erik Erikson, there are 8 stages of phsychosocial development of human starts when a human being is born to the final stage which is at 65 years old above. In this theory, Erikson emphasizes that every stage holds its importance and that they relate each other. Which means the first stage affects the next stage and so forth. This research is aimed to analyze Erikson’s 8 stages development of psychosocial on school-age children and how parents and teachers should respond and provide suitable treatment for these children.The methodology in this research is literature research where author collects the information about 8 stages psychosocial development from journal, books, reviews, or previous research. From this research, author finds that parents must give proper and suitable parenting style for their child especially during their school periods where child needs support, motivation and stimulus either from parents or teachers or their surroundings through intensive communication. For addition, through this research too, author finds that the ability for teachers to understand these 8 stages will give them the sight to provide more chances for the children to grow well and find their true identity. From this research, we can conclude that either teachers and parents need to cooperatively work together to provides proper and suitable treatment for children’s psychosocial development according to Erikson’s 8 stages development.

Problems That Accompany School Education for Combating Socio-Pathological Behaviors

Going to school today means living a creative life worthy of a young man. The school is a living community of students, teachers, and parents. Problems arising from the school environment are very common today and are present at all levels of education. The pursuit of a quality, free, and democratic school has become a reality in many parts of the world, but due to the complexity of certain curricula, and rigorous assessment techniques, schools are sometimes still a place of coercion to learn. It is especially important to know the prerequisites for proper school education, the problems faced by students, and the measures that can be taken to prevent, reduce, or eliminate them. In order for school education to be realized in accordance with positive educational outcomes, it is necessary to organize, realize, and monitor its outcomes and results in an appropriate manner.

Bridging Family-Teacher Relationships in a Predominately Latinx Title I School With a Spanish-English Dual Immersion Strand Program

Spanish-English dual immersion (DI) programs can help bridge the academic achievement gap between Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs) and native English speakers. However, for DI programs to help ELLs, both teachers and parents/guardians need to be aware of their existence and long-term benefits. This case study examined under-enrollment in a Spanish-English DI strand program at a predominately Latinx neighborhood school with a sizable Spanish-speaking ELL population. The case study school faced challenges of transience, limited human and financial resources, and misinformation. Both parents and teachers reported a lack of information to make educational choices and recommendations. School employees built bridges between the school and parents by standardizing the introduction of DI at kindergarten parent-teacher conferences, improving the DI open house, and engaging the efforts of the school's bilingual secretary. Recommendations are provided for increasing parents' and teachers' access to accurate information regarding DI in accessible formats.

Reimagining Education

There is general recognition that ‘Education has the power to transform the world' and equip young people to build a sustainable and peaceful world. As a step towards understanding the current state of education and collectively reimagining the future of education, a series of focus group discussions were conducted with students, teachers, and parents from all over the world. Eight prominent themes emerged from the participant discussion as follows: (1) education as a means to an end, (2) external influences on education system, (3) test centric system of education, (4) constrained curriculum and teaching practices, (5) education as a social and emotional activity, (6) school climate and power dynamics in the classroom, (7) educational infrastructure, and (8) technology and remote learning. Based on participant insights, the major issues in education, emerging innovative solutions, and recommendations for the future are discussed.

Character, meaning in life, and well-being of students from teachers' perspective

Previous studies have revealed the benefits of character and meaning in life for individual well-being. However, little research has been conducted on elementary and junior high school teachers who teach students between the ages of 10-15 years (late childhood and early adolescence) in Indonesia. This study aims to explore teachers’ perceptions about character, meaning in life, and well-being. Interviews were conducted among 20 teachers. Our findings revealed that according to the teachers, the lessons and assessments in character education are well designed. However, coordination within the school community and with parents as well as specific roles between teachers and parents in building students’ character, meaning, and well-being needs to be improved. What teachers understood about meaning in life corresponds with the results of previous studies. Teachers’ understanding of well-being concept is still limited. They acknowledged family background, socioeconomic status, popularity, and academic achievement as important factors in students’ well-being. Keywords: character; meaning in life; well-being; teachers; children; adolescents

Unavoidable Mathematics

Historically, most students really have been struggling with mathematics, which for the most part specifically makes them wonder if they will ever generally apply the knowledge in general sort of real world life, contrary to popular belief. Teachers and parents mostly particularly admit when they kind of really have been kind of kind of asked that students for all intents and purposes actually have very definitely for all intents and purposes few knowledge about the relevance of mathematics in real life, or so they thought. That essentially is why this paper really mostly is based on application of maths in particularly generally real life, or so they definitely thought, or so they really thought. In this paper the most common and pretty essential applications of mathematics in real life literally generally are discussed such as finance and banking, weather prediction, computers and its games, search engines (goggle), music and Transportation and logistics in a subtle way in a very major way. Apart from these some mostly advanced applications are also discussed actually such as satellite navigation, military and Defence and crime prediction in a particularly big way. Keywords: Mathematics, Real life, Finance and Banking, Satellite Navigation, Military and Defence