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Downer, Jason T.; Kraft-Sayre, Marcia E.; Pianta, Robert C. – Early Education and Development, 2009
Research Findings: As the pre-kindergarten teacher workforce continues to grow in the United States, the promise of early childhood education depends in large part on in-service professional development. Given mounting evidence that the quality of teacher-child interactions is a fundamental ingredient for young children's learning in classrooms,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Interaction, Preschool Teachers
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Dickinson, David K. – Early Education and Development, 2006
Research conducted in preschool classrooms has long relied on measures of classroom quality that were developed in the 1980s based on theory and data available at that time. They examine classroom quality broadly, provide limited detail about supports for pre-academic instruction, and only weakly predict variation in children's acquisition of…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Preschool Children, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
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Howes, Carollee; Shivers, Eva M.; Ritchie, Sharon – Early Education and Development, 2004
We describe the process of relationship-based intervention and associated changes in children and teachers' relationships and behaviors within center-based child care and examine the circumstances under which changes were most likely to occur. The relationship-based intervention had three components: research partners in each participating…
Descriptors: Intervention, Classroom Environment, Participant Observation, Focus Groups