2011 Vermont Early Childhood and Afterschool Professional Development Survey
A study of the professional development needs of early childhood and after school professionals in Vermont, including their professional development information sources, access, awareness, and interests, based on survey responses from 986 early childhood and after school professionals
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2011 Vermont Early Childhood and Afterschool Professional Development Survey [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of the professional development needs of early childhood and after school professionals in Vermont, including their professional development information sources, access, awareness, and interests, based on survey responses from 986 early childhood and after school professionals
Executive Summary
Acceptability ratings of language interventions and reasoning as described by early childhood special education teachers
An examination of teachers' preferences between naturalistic and therapeutic approaches to language interventions and reasoning, based on data from 29 early childhood special education teachers from public
school districts in Southern California
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Accompaniment and quality in childcare services: The emergence of a culture of professionalization
A case study of a professional development initiative that takes into consideration freedom of movement for children birth through 3 years as a quality indicator in daily educational practice, based on data from a rural setting in the French Community of Belgium in Luxembourg Province from 2004 to 2009
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Accounting for movement between childcare classrooms: Does it change teacher effects interpretations?
A study of the prevalence of teacher and child movement between classrooms, of the link between head and assistant teachers' qualifications and quality of care, and of the relationship between head and assistant teacher qualifications and children's literacy, receptive language, and mathematics skills that includes an examination of the mediating influence of child and teacher movement on that relationship, based on data from community-based child care centers serving 790 primarily low-income children in Colorado
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Accuracy of teacher judgments of preschoolers' math skills
A study of the relationship between teachers' judgments of children's math skills using an indirect rating scale and children's performance on two direct assessments--number sense and geometry and measurement skills, that includes an examination of the alignment between the indirect assessment and the two direct assessments, based on data from 316 preschool children and their teachers, both enrolled in a field trial of a curriculum designed to enhance students' knowledge of math and science
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Adapting Western pedagogies for Chinese literacy instruction: Case studies of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Singapore preschools
A comparison of the amounts of both Eastern and Western cultural teaching practices in Chinese-language literacy instruction at 18 preschools in China, Hong Kong, and Singapore, all serving middle-class families
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Advancing the professional development system for California's early care and education workforce
A summary of an examination of the characteristics and funding of the professional development system for early care and education in California
Fact Sheets & Briefs
The advocacy of educators: Perspectives from early childhood
A phenomenological study of early childhood educators' perceptions of the relationship between advocacy and professional status among multiple stakeholders in diverse contexts, based on data from 12 educators working full time in child care settings across Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Analysis of breastfeeding policies and practices in childcare centres in Adelaide, South Australia
A study of director or director designee perceptions towards breastfeeding practice and support within child care centers and the relationship of those perceptions to policy, based on data from 15 child care centers in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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An analysis of teachers' and paraeducators' roles and responsibilities with implications for professional development
An examination of the duties of paraprofessional educators, their working relationships with teachers in their classrooms that serve 4- and 5-year-olds, and implications for the support of teacher/paraprofessional teams, based on the findings of a 2-year project that surveyed 167 paraprofessionals and their team teachers
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Are we adequately preparing teachers to partner with families?
An editorial, based on an overview of select research, on the importance of both early childhood teacher preparation programs and in-service trainers to ensure preservice students and practicing teachers are prepared to partner with families in order to best serve the needs of both the child and family
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Assistant teachers in Head Start classrooms: Comparing to and working with lead teachers
A comparison of lead and assistant teachers on their levels of emotional support, classroom organization, and instructional support, and an examination of the degree to which lead and assistant teachers worked in conjunction with each other across a typical morning, based on data from 14 pairs of Head Start classroom teachers in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area
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BEST in CLASS: A classroom-based model for ameliorating problem behavior in early childhood settings
A description of the Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Training: Competent Learners Achieving School Success (BEST in CLASS) classroom-based intervention designed to help early childhood teachers master instructional strategies for preventing and ameliorating problem behavior in at risk young children, and a pilot study to examine teachers' ability to implement the program as well as its influence on children's problem behaviors, social competence, and teacher-child relationships, based on data from 10 early childhood teachers and 19 3- to 5-year-old children
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Boys, girls, and "two cultures" of child care
A comparison of child care quality differences by gender, and an exploration of the contributions of gender composition of the child care setting, child behavior, and structural, global, and care giving quality to those overall differences, based on data from a subset of 66 toddlers, between the ages of 24 and 35 months, from the Temperament Over Time Study (TOTS)
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Building a system of safe medication administration in child care settings
A discussion of medication administration practices in child care programs in Connecticut, and a summary of recent efforts in Connecticut to train child care staff on appropriate medication administration
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Building the workforce our youngest children deserve
A discussion of themes from a workshop to examine the early childhood care and education workforce, including a definition and description of the current workforce, an exploration of workforce characteristics associated with child development outcomes, and a discussion of issues related to developing the workforce as a profession through education and training
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By default or by design?: Variations in higher education programs for early care and education teachers and their implications for research methodology, policy, and practice
An examination of conceptual and methodological issues in the study of early care and education higher education programs, based on a case study of two early childhood Bachelor of Arts degree completion cohort programs
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By default or by design?: Variations in higher education programs for early care and education teachers and their implications for research methodology, policy, and practice: Executive summary
A summary of an examination of conceptual and methodological issues in the study of early care and education higher education programs, based on a case study of two early childhood Bachelor of Arts degree completion cohort programs
Executive Summary
Caregivers' cortisol levels and perceived stress in home-based and center-based childcare
A comparison of professional caregivers' perceived and physiological stress at work and at home, a comparison of stress between home-based and center-based child care providers, a study of associations between stress and quality of provider care, and examination of the moderating influence of working hours on stress and caregiver behavior, based on data from 55 female caregivers from child care homes and 46 female caregivers from child care centers in the Netherlands
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Case studies: Appendix II to the final report of the study Early childhood education and care (ECEC) in promoting educational attainment including social development of children from disadvantaged backgrounds and in fostering social inclusion
An examination of early childhood education and care policy developments in England from 1997 through 2010, and an exploration of Step by Step, a program to support professional development and to promote social inclusion, child-centered practices, and family and community engagement
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"The changers and the changed": Preparing early childhood teachers to work with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families
A study of the learning process and reactions of participants in a class founded on the Making Room in the Circle curriculum, designed to prepare pre-service early childhood educators to offer welcoming learning environments for lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) children and families, based on data from 16 class participants and participant observations of 2 faculty and 2 doctoral students in a university sponsored course in the Southeast
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Changing educational practice in the early years through practitioner-led action research: An Adult-Child Interaction Project
An account of the first two years of a three-year project examining adult-child interactions with preschoolers and tracking the development of teachers' thinking and practice as they engage in practitioner-led research, based on data from 14 teachers working with children aged 6 months to 6 years
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Characterizing key features of the early childhood professional development literature
An identification and categorization of key components of early childhood professional development (PD), based on data from a systematic review 256 empirical studies that describe a type of PD, involved early childhood practitioners working with children birth through 5 years, and reported empirical evidence about PD outcomes for either early childhood practitioners or children
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Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey 2011
A summary of a study of child care and early education provider characteristics in England by provider type, including enrollment, profitability, and staff characteristics and qualifications, based on a survey of providers
Fact Sheets & Briefs
