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Coaching and Mentoring for Preschool Quality

Description:
The University of Northern Iowa will implement a project that will improve the academic, social, and emotional outcomes of Head Start children by addressing effective teacher strategies and behaviors. Participants in this project will be teachers, assistant teachers, and supervisors from local Head Start programs. The intervention will target Head Start teachers, assistant teachers, and supervisors through peer coaching and implementing a mentoring model that will provide focused training for teachers that will lead to changes in teacher beliefs and practices and focused training for supervisors which will improve mentoring and supervising of teachers. The goals of this project are: (a) to increase the effectiveness of teachers in promoting the language, academic, social, and emotional development of children in their classrooms; (b) to increase the effectiveness of supervisors in mentoring and supervising teachers; and (c) to improve the educational and social outcomes of children. In Year 1, the project will develop intervention and supporting materials and conduct a small-scale intervention focusing on local Head Start teachers and supervisors. In Year 2, a follow-up workshop will be available to cohort 1 teachers and an additional set of teachers (cohort 2) will be introduced to the intervention. Year 3 will continue with follow-up workshops for cohort 1 and 2 teachers as well as training additional supervisors as mentors. The expected results of this project are to increase program quality throughout the field of early childhood education in Iowa, including Head Start and the public school system, and to increase partnership between the University of Northern Iowa and Head Start, increase effective supervision of teachers by Head Start management, and increase quality programming by Head Start teachers.
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Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
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