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Strategies for Developing Head Start Teacher Effectiveness

Description:
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will develop and implement a comprehensive professional development (PD) program for Migrant Head Start teachers to improve school readiness in English language learners (ELL). The goal of this project is to answer research questions related to teacher's behaviors and ELL student outcomes. Specifically, they will target questions related to teacher training, mentor support, virtual learning environments, and teacher behavior changes as a result of PD and student outcomes for ELL children. This project will be a collaborative effort between the Texas Migrant Counsel Early Education Training Lab and Migrant Head Start programs. Teachers assigned to the treatment group will participate in all professional development activities and the teachers assigned to the control group will continue with their normal teaching practices. Year 1 will involve development and piloting a web-based PD module of best practices for teaching preschool ELL children. In Years 2 and 3 of this project, teachers will be randomly assigned to the treatment or control condition. Research findings are expected to show PD will improve teaching practices by increasing the number of response opportunities for per student/per session, improving and increasing the use of scaffolding techniques, increasing the amount of critical feedback, and appropriate classroom pacing. Furthermore, this program should result in a comprehensive package that is reasonable to implement in schools with high proportions of ELL children.
Resource Type:
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
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