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Montoya, María F.; Susperreguy, María Inés; Morrison, Frederick J. – Early Education and Development, 2023
Teachers' scaffolding behaviors support children's self-regulation skills in the classroom. However, little evidence is available regarding the presence of self-regulation scaffolding behaviors in preschool teachers, and how they vary throughout the year and in different learning experiences. Less is known about these behaviors in Latin American…
Descriptors: Self Management, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Teacher Behavior, Preschool Teachers
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Eggleston, Corinne; Wang, X. Christine; Choi, Youngae – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Reading e-books is becoming common even among toddlers, but we have limited understanding of how parents-toddlers reading e-books together compares to print books. To address the gap, we investigated interactions of 30 mother-toddler (12 months) dyads, in particular, mothers' language use, while reading both electronic and print…
Descriptors: Mother Attitudes, Toddlers, Parent Child Relationship, Printed Materials
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Schindler, Holly S.; Fisher, Phillip A.; Ola, Cindy; Campbell, Cory J. – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Finding: Traditional fathering programs have missed an opportunity to reflect the unique family patterns and service needs of Hispanic and Latino fathers. In addition, family engagement strategies in early childhood programs have typically focused on mothers. The aim of this study was to adapt, implement, and evaluate a 6-week video…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Coaching (Performance), Comparative Analysis, Fathers
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Cai, Liman; Wu, Dandan; Chen, Xi; Zhu, Jie; Li, Hui – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research findings This study aimed to explore whether the fusion of constructivism and instructivism could be observed in the teaching dialogs during the Engineer Block Building (EBB) activities in Chinese kindergartens. Altogether 20 block building activities about the theme of architecture were videotaped and coded with the "Engineer Design…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Teaching Methods, Discourse Analysis, Engineering Education
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Barnes, Erica M.; Dickinson, David K. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: Mental state verbs (MSV), a component of literate and academic language, may facilitate vocabulary growth, as they relate to metacognitive and metalinguistic awareness as well as decontextualized talk, all of which have been associated with vocabulary growth. In this study, we examined teacher MSV use in group content…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Metacognition, Language Usage, Verbs
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Whittaker, Jessica Vick; Kinzie, Mable B.; Williford, Amanda; DeCoster, Jamie – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: This study examined the impact of MyTeachingPartner-Math/Science, a system of math and science curricula and professional development, on the quality of teachers' interactions with children in their classrooms. Schools were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 intervention conditions (Basic: curricula providing within-activity, embedded…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
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Girard, Lisa-Christine; Girolametto, Luigi; Weitzman, Elaine; Greenberg, Janice – Early Education and Development, 2011
Research Findings: This study examined the effects of educators' participation in an in-service training program on the aggressive and prosocial behaviors of preschool-age children. Seventeen early childhood educators were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. A total of 68 preschool children, 4 from each educator's classroom, also…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Interaction, Preschool Teachers