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Promoting a Person-Centered Approach to Strengthening Early Childhood Practices That Support Social-Emotional Development
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Angel Fettig; Kathleen Artman-Meeker; Lieny Jeon; Huan-Ching Chang – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: This paper presents findings from an exploratory study to define associations between social-emotional teaching practices and teacher characteristics through a person-centered approach. The sample consisted of 97 teachers working in center-based early childhood education settings with young children ages 2-5 in the U.S. Pacific…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Social Emotional Learning, Emotional Development
Burnout and Teacher-Child Interactions: The Moderating Influence of SEL Interventions in Head Start Classrooms
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Sandilos, Lia; Goble, Priscilla; Schwartz, Samantha – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings: The present study explored the extent to which teachers' participation in professional development focused on children's social-emotional learning moderated the relation between self-reported burnout and teacher-child interactions. The sample included 307 Head Start preschool teachers who participated in a large randomized…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Preschool Teachers, Early Intervention, Faculty Development
An Initial Investigation of the Circle Infant-Toddler Teacher Training for Toddler Teachers
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Crawford, April; Varghese, Cheryl; Oh, Yoonkyung; Guttentag, Cathy; Zucker, Tricia; Landry, Susan; Cummins, Reese-Anna – Early Education and Development, 2022
This pilot study conducted an initial evaluation of the Center for Improving the Readiness of Children for Learning and Education (CIRCLE) Infant-Toddler Teacher Training program. The program is unique in three ways: 1) use of an online platform with courses that explain social-emotional, language, and literacy development in young children…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Infants, Toddlers, Preschool Teachers
What Works in Early Childhood Education Programs?: A Meta-Analysis of Preschool Enhancement Programs
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Joo, Young Sun; Magnuson, Katherine; Duncan, Greg J.; Schindler, Holly S.; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Ziol-Guest, Kathleen M. – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings: This study uses data from a comprehensive meta-analytic database of early childhood education (ECE) program evaluations published between 1960 and 2007 in the United States to examine the incremental effects of adding enhancement program components to ECE programs on children's cognitive abilities, pre-academic skills,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Cognitive Ability, Academic Ability, Child Behavior
Everyday Heroes: The Personal and Economic Stressors of Early Care and Education Teachers Serving Low-Income Children
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Johnson, Anna D.; Phillips, Deborah A.; Partika, Anne; Castle, Sherri – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research findings: This study uses newly available data on low-income children and their teachers in a mixed-delivery, publicly funded early care and education (ECE) system to document the prevalence of personal and economic stressors that ECE teachers experience. We go on to explore whether these stressors are associated with child academic,…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Preschool Teachers, Low Income Groups, Teacher Attitudes
Does a Preschool Social and Emotional Learning Intervention Pay Off for Classroom Instruction and Children's Behavior and Academic Skills? Evidence from the Foundations of Learning Project
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Morris, Pamela; Millenky, Megan; Raver, C. Cybele; Jones, Stephanie M. – Early Education and Development, 2013
This article tests the hypothesis that children's learning environment will improve through a social and emotional learning (SEL) intervention that provides preschool teachers with new skills to manage children's disruptive behavior by reporting results from the Foundations of Learning (FOL) Demonstration, a place-randomized, experimental…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior