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Henry, Adrienne J. L.; Hatfield, Bridget E.; Chandler, Kelly D. – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
Early care and education (ECE) settings are influential in shaping children's early experiences. Informed by the Job Demands-Resources model, this study had two aims. First, we examined how ECE teachers' physical (i.e. muscular skeletal strain and infectious disease experience) and psychological (i.e. depression and job dissatisfaction) job strain…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Burnout, Stress Variables
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Lerang, Maren Stahl; Ertesvåg, Sigrun K.; Virtanen, Tuomo – Educational Psychology, 2021
Classroom observations and teacher reports were used to investigate patterns of instructional support quality and the association with job satisfaction and collegial collaboration. Eighty-one Norwegian lower secondary schoolteachers participated in the study. Latent profile analysis (LPA) identified five profiles: confident (n = 21), low-quality…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Effectiveness
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Sze Wah Chan; Sanni Pöysä; Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen; Eija Pakarinen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This study investigated the relation between teachers' occupational well-being and the quality of teacher-student interactions in lower secondary schools in Finland. Teachers (N = 48) self-rated their occupational well-being in terms of engagement, stress, job demands, and emotional exhaustion. Teacher-student interactions in classrooms were…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Well Being, Correlation, Secondary School Teachers
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Penttinen, Viola; Pakarinen, Eija; von Suchodoletz, Antje; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings: The aim of this study was to examine associations between two aspects of teachers' occupational well-being, i.e., teaching-related stress and work engagement, and the quality of teacher-child interactions in Finnish kindergarten classrooms. Participants were 47 kindergarten teachers with their classrooms of 6-year-old children.…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Well Being, Teacher Student Relationship
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Penttinen, Viola; Pakarinen, Eija; von Suchodoletz, Antje; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The aim of the present study was to identify profiles of kindergarten teachers based on the observed quality of interactions with the children in their classrooms and to explore possible differences between the profiles in terms of teachers' occupational well-being and teacher and classroom characteristics. Participants were 54…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Teacher Student Relationship, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National Louis University, 2016
Research suggests the organizational climate of early childhood programs affects overall program quality. A recent study by Katherine Zinsser and Timothy Curby examined early childhood centers to determine if various center characteristics could predict teachers' emotional support of children in their classrooms. The researchers used the Head…
Descriptors: Organizational Climate, Early Childhood Education, Children, Preschool Education
Bernstein, Sara; Bush, Charles; Aikens, Nikki; Moiduddin, Emily; Harding, Jessica F.; Malone, Lizabeth; Tarullo, Louisa; Cannon, Judy; Filipczak, Kai; Lukashanets, Serge – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2019
Head Start is a national program that promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services to enrolled children and families. The Head Start program provides comprehensive child development services to economically disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Preschool Children, Economically Disadvantaged, Teacher Characteristics