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Creating High-Quality Early Childhood Education in Rwanda: Teacher Dispositions, Child-Centred Play, and Culturally Relevant Materials
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Gerde, Hope K.; Apol, Laura; Skibbe, Lori E.; Bucyanna, Carol M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
Overcoming challenges to quality early education in developing nations, TEACH Rwanda, one high-performing education system, offers a model of childhood learning through sensitive teacher dispositions, child-centred play, and culturally relevant materials. This manuscript provides a unique window into the practices of a quality early childhood…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Developing Nations, Play
Implementation of Early Childhood Development Education Service Standard Guidelines on Physical Facilities in Public and Private Early Childhood Education Centres Kakamega County, Kenya
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Sitati, Emmily M.; Ndirangu, Mwangi; Kennedy, Bota; Rapongo, George S. – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
In 2006, the Kenyan Ministry of Education (MoE) developed an early childhood development education (ECDE) service standard guidelines to guide the ECDE stakeholders in provision of early childhood education (ECE) programmes. The study sought to investigate the implementation of the ECDE service standard guidelines on provision of physical…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Implementation, Foreign Countries, Child Care Centers
Family Concepts in Early Learning and Development Standards
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Walsh, Bridget A.; Sanchez, Claudia; Lee, Angela M.; Casillas, Nicole; Hansen, Caitlynn – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This exploratory study investigated the use of concepts related to families, parents, and the home in 51 state-level early learning and development standards documents. Guidelines from six national family involvement, engagement, and school-partnership models were used to create the Family Involvement Models Analysis Chart (FIMAC), which served as…
Descriptors: State Standards, State Programs, Fundamental Concepts, Family Involvement
Designing Intervention Programs for Infants at Risk: Considerations, Implementation, and Evaluation.
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Dickin, Katherine L.; And Others – Early Child Development and Care, 1983
Six representative intervention programs for high-risk infants are selected, and their essential features are summarized. A model for use in designing, implementing, and evaluating intervention programs for infants and/or their families is discussed. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Guidelines, High Risk Persons, Infants, Intervention
Teacher Beliefs and Practices Survey: Operationalising the 1997 NAEYC Guidelines
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Kim, Kyung-Ran; Buchanan, T. K. – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
This study examined the psychometric properties of a revised measurement, the "Teacher Beliefs and Practices Survey" (TBPS), devised for teachers of three- to five-year-old children. This measure was designed to reflect the concepts of developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) as presented in the revised 1997 National Association for…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Guidelines, Psychometrics
C-AIM: An Exercise in Developing Computer Management of Instruction.
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Bishop, Thomas D. – Early Child Development and Care, 1988
Shares insights concerning preparation needed for using Computer Management of Instruction (CMI), the general structure of a CMI system, and some system features a user might encounter. Describes the development of Arkansas' Computer-Assisted Instructional Management system for mathematics instruction. (RH)
Descriptors: Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Guidelines
Programming for Preschoolers with Special Needs: How Child Development Knowledge Can Help.
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Honig, Alice Sterling – Early Child Development and Care, 1983
Argues that understanding of five major dimensions of normal child development can be useful for those who work with special children: child development theories, norms, research models, intervention models, and communication techniques. (RH)
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Techniques, Disabilities, Guidelines