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Mandee Flores; Mi-Hwa Park – Childhood Education, 2024
Research has shown that male teachers in early childhood settings play a crucial role in providing male role models, offering diverse perspectives, and helping children develop positive gender-role stereotypes. Therefore, it is crucial for Early Head Start programs to increase the representation of male teachers to ensure that all children can…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Early Intervention, Social Services, Preschool Teachers
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Ford, Andrea L. B.; Hugh, Maria L.; Johnson, LeAnne D.; Young, Kelsey A. – Infants and Young Children, 2022
Current conceptualizations of process quality in early childhood education highlight a variety of global classroom indicators that directly link to improved child outcomes. This conceptualization may need to be extended, however, to facilitate more meaningful change in children's development and readiness for kindergarten. To enhance our current…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Child Development, School Readiness
Bayly, Benjamin L.; Escott, Rebecca; Nicewonger, Nancy; Campana, Caroline – ZERO TO THREE, 2022
Infant-toddler programs stand to benefit greatly from evidence-informed coaching and professional development opportunities. However, few coaching initiatives have been delivered within infant-toddler programs, and these programs often face challenges that affect their educators' ability to participate. In an effort to support infant-toddler…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Partnerships in Education, Coaching (Performance)
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Beaumont, Dervla; Blakey, Tanya; Stuart, Neil; Woodward, Julia – Australasian Journal of Special and Inclusive Education, 2021
Way to Play is an approach that supports adults to promote the engagement of young children with autism spectrum disorder through play. The Ministry of Education in New Zealand has collaborated with Autism New Zealand to ensure the sustainable delivery of Way to Play within Auckland's early learning services by training early intervention staff to…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Young Children, Training
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Hill, Patty Smith – Childhood Education, 2017
Patty Smith Hill (1868-1946) was a leader in the kindergarten movement and an advocate of the value of free play in the education of young children. She was a founding member of the International Kindergarten Union, which eventually became the Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI). She also served as ACEI President in 1909. She…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Program Content
S. Soliday Hong; R. C. Carr; R. Seifer; A. Nambiar; J. Walker – FPG Child Development Institute, 2023
This is the executive summary for the report "North Carolina Pre-K Pyramid Model Evaluation Study: Implementation and Outcomes Evaluation Study Final Results." The report is an assessment of a pilot implementation of the NC Preschool Pyramid Model (Pyramid Model), a social-emotional coaching program to support NC Pre-K teachers to engage…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
Bridget Healey; Jen Jackson; Sandra Ofei-Ferri; Bryn Lampe – Australian Education Research Organisation Limited, 2022
Australia has made tremendous progress in building a better early childhood education and care (ECEC) system to serve all Australian children and families. Substantial data already exists about ECEC services in Australia, including access, participation and quality. Large-scale data sets are held by governments (state and federal), research…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
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Yang, Weipeng; Peh, Jaslene; Ng, Siew Chin – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
Teacher research has been promoted as a context-relevant approach to improving children's learning experiences in early childhood settings. In this article, we focus on social-emotional learning (SEL), a crucial domain of the early childhood curriculum, to illustrate the role of teacher research in changing early childhood teachers' everyday…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Emotional Learning, Teacher Researchers, Preschool Education
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Edwards, Susan; Mantilla, Ana; Henderson, Michael; Nolan, Andrea; Skouteris, Helen; Plowman, Lydia – Educational Practice and Theory, 2018
Young children aged 4-5 years are online in rapidly increasing numbers. This is due to the accessibility of the internet afforded young children via touchscreen technologies. In Australian, the United Kingdom and United States of America, calls have been made for cyber-safety education to be provided for young children in their early childhood…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Young Children, Internet
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Dunn Davison, Megan; Qi, Cathy Huaqing; Kaiser, Ann P. – Young Exceptional Children, 2021
According to the recent estimate reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2018), 1 in 59 children has been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). One of the core characteristics of ASD is a social communication deficit (American Psychiatric Association, 2017). Young children with ASD may exhibit early difficulties in…
Descriptors: Milieu Therapy, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Program Effectiveness
O'Keefe, Bonnie – Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes, 2017
This brief reviews state plans submitted to the U.S. Department of Education as of October 1, 2017. It focuses on three key topics for early learning in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): setting clear goals and policy priorities for early learning, integrating early learning into school improvement, and supporting early childhood educator…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
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Hamre, Bridget K.; Partee, Ann; Mulcahy, Christina – AERA Open, 2017
Among all the factors that influence the success of preschool programs, none is more important than the quality of the teaching workforce. The design and delivery of effective approaches to professional development (PD) are central to the support of the early childhood education workforce. In this article, we provide a model outlining the PD…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Faculty Development, Educational Research
Pacchiano, Debra M.; Wagner, Maureen R.; Lewandowski, Holly – Ounce of Prevention Fund, 2019
Young children are gaining access to and enrolling in preschool programs across the country in increasing numbers. Unfortunately, the quality of these programs varies tremendously. The highest quality programs disproportionately serve children from the most advantaged homes. By contrast, lower quality and less effective programs disproportionately…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Educational Quality, Program Effectiveness, Disadvantaged
Baron, Kathryn; Stipek, Deborah; Meloy, Beth; Arambula, Anna; Harris, Vickie Ramos; Guernsey, Lisa – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2019
Access to affordable preschool programs is a crucial issue for improving kindergarten readiness for 3- to 5-year-olds, but research shows that the quality of teaching and learning in those programs is just as essential. Across the country, states are boosting preschool policy standards and strengthening educational requirements for preschool…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, School Readiness, Educational Quality, Educational Policy
Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families, 2021
Second Substitute Senate Bill 5903 (2019) directed the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) to contract with an organization providing coaching services to early achievers program participants, i.e., Child Care Aware of Washington (CCA WA), to provide statewide Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMH-C) to Early…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Early Intervention, Infants, Toddlers
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