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de Groot Kim, Sonja – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2010
This study traces patterns of attendance, times of arrival and departure, and policies and practices surrounding enrollment and moving children from classroom to classroom in a child care center. It appears that children's efforts to acquire competence in developing friendships with their peers not only depends on their own capacities, but is also…
Descriptors: Play, Attendance Patterns, Young Children, Friendship
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Rudd, Loretta C.; Lambert, Matthew C.; Satterwhite, Macy; Smith, Cinda H. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2009
In an effort to determine the most efficacious manner to deliver professional development training to early childhood educators, this study investigated the effect of a 2-h workshop followed by side-by-side classroom coaching. Twelve early childhood educators with 4-year degrees teaching in a university child development center participated in the…
Descriptors: Child Development Centers, Professional Development, Child Development, Teaching Methods
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Ackerman, Debra J. – Early Education and Development, 2008
Practice or Policy: Continuity of care (COC) has many benefits for young children's development but is not the norm in infant/toddler classrooms. As a consequence, policymakers might not realize how such an approach might also benefit the professional development of infant and toddler teachers, particularly if they come to the field with little…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Child Development Centers, Professional Development
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Durden, Tonia; Dangel, Julie Rainer – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2008
This qualitative study examines the conversations of two preschool teachers with two- and three-year-old children during small-group activity settings in two high-quality child development centers. Using interviews, observations and videotaping of small-group activities, the conversations are characterized in terms of the kind and function of…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Group Activities, Toddlers, Preschool Children
Ricard, Richard J.; Brown, Angela; Sanders, Jana – 2002
This chapter is part of a book that recounts the year's work at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi. Rather than an "elitist" laboratory school for the children of university faculty, the dual-language ECDC is a collaboration between the Corpus Christi Independent School District and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Development, Child Development Centers, Classroom Research
Cassidy, Jack; Linton, Thomas – 2002
This chapter is part of a book that recounts the year's work at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi. Rather than an "elitist" laboratory school for the children of university faculty, the dual-language ECDC is a collaboration between the Corpus Christi Independent School District and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Development, Child Development Centers, Childrens Literature