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McCorkle, Laura S.; Jennings, Sheena; Cloninger, Elizabeth – PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, 2022
A description of a partnership between a university's child and family development program and a local program is provided. Through this partnership, pre-service educators participate in home visits to learn strategies to support effective communication, collaboration, and implementation of evidence-based practices to enhance the learning of young…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Young Children, Family School Relationship, Partnerships in Education
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Baumgartner, Jennifer; DiCarlo, Cynthia; Casbergue, Renée – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2020
Service learning (SL) is both a pedagogy and philosophy adopted by many early childhood teacher educators. Extant research suggests the incorporation of service-learning can be effective for facilitating preservice teacher learning of curriculum, pedagogy, approaches to diverse learners and families as well as establishing a professional identity.…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Early Childhood Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Teacher Education Programs
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Xie, Huichao; Chen, Ching-I; Chen, Chieh-Yu; Squires, Jane; Li, Wenge; Liu, Tian – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2017
China is expected to have a rapid growth in specialized early intervention (EI) services for young children ages birth to 6 and their families. A major barrier in the provision of EI services in China is the shortage of well-trained EI personnel. In 2013, a Home-Based Early Intervention Program (HBEIP) was started at South China Normal University…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Intervention, Young Children, Barriers
Dolzhenko, Inna N. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In response to the main federal K-12 law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and the teacher education program standards, teacher education programs have tried to address social and emotional learning (SEL) content in their curricula. Adding information on SEL alone may not be enough to overcome the shortenings of many existing early childhood…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
Berlin, Lisa; Blair, Clancy; Boyd, Misty L.; Constantino, John N.; Hallam, Rena A.; Han, Myae; Hustedt, Jason; Harden, Brenda Jones; Raver, C. Cybele; Sarche, Michelle; Vu, Jennifer A.; Watamura, Sarah Enos; Meyer, Aleta; Fortunato, Christine – ZERO TO THREE, 2013
The Buffering Toxic Stress Consortium was created by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation within the Administration for Children and Families to test preventive interventions for Early Head Start families facing toxic stress, as conceptualized by Shonkoff, Boyce, and McEwen in their influential 2009 article. Because relationships…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Stress Management, Early Intervention, Parent Child Relationship
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Robinson, Leah E.; Webster, E. Kipling; Logan, S. Wood; Lucas, W. Amarie; Barber, Laura T. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2012
Early childhood educators, especially those in preschool centers, are often expected to design and implement movement programs. However, these individuals may not have been taught these skills during their education. The purpose of this study was to determine if early childhood majors could successfully be taught to implement a mastery climate…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Program Effectiveness
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Britt, Judy; Ferguson, Christine; Vare, Jonatha – Educational Renaissance, 2013
The phrase "Are we there yet?" is used by travelers, often children who pose the question to gauge the distance and time remaining in a trip. How far have we traveled? How much longer will it be until we arrive at our destination? This article describes curriculum redesign for our early childhood and elementary education programs at…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Elementary School Teachers
Hundley, Sharon Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Purpose, scope, and method of study: Considered a significant strategy to foster school readiness and close the achievement gap, efforts to increase the education level of preschool teachers have garnered widespread support. Research pointing to the inadequate and outdated preparation of preschool teachers as well as a shortage of baccalaureate…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Educational Attainment, Young Children, School Readiness
Donham-Foutch, Shae – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2007
Children who do not develop a foundation of basic motor skills are less likely to participate in regular physical activity. An excellent way of teaching basic motor skills, as well as health-related fitness, is through gymnastics. Many young teachers, however, think that teaching gymnastics is too challenging and do not know how to incorporate it…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Fitness, Teaching Skills, Athletics