Edelson, R. J., & Johnson, G. (2003). Music makes math meaningful. Childhood Education, 80(2), 65-70.
Sustained Attention, the ability to maintain focus, is important for reading success because it can help students attend to classroom instruction.
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Providing extra classroom supports and resources for families that strengthen the HLE can help create an equal foundation for all students.
Courey, S., Balogh, E., Siker, R., & Paik, J. (2012). Academic music: Music instruction to engage third-grade students in learning basic fraction concepts. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 81(2), 251-278.
These methods help educators reflect on their own implicit bias, and build trusting relationships with their students, especially when students are from historically and systematically excluded groups and/or whose backgrounds are different from that of their teacher.
As relationships with peers become more important, their behavior in the classroom may be restricted by their concerns about what their peers think of them.
Williford, A. P., Vick Whittaker, J. E., Vitiello, V. E., & Downer, J. T. (2013). Children's engagement within the preschool classroom and their development of self-regulation. Early Education and Development, 24(2), 162-187.
Students with ADHD may exhibit difficulty in following classroom behavior expectations and routines even if they have increased Attention due to ongoing differences in the patterns of brain development in areas responsible for inhibitory control.