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Nurturing Preschool Children's Social Skills and Reducing Behavioral Difficulties through Teacher Practices: The Answer of the Incredible Years Classroom Management Programme
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Vera Maria Silvério do Vale; Maria Filomena da Fonseca Gaspar – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: The Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management (IY-TCM) program is an evidence-based intervention intended to promote the social and emotional skills of children and to reduce the frequency of inappropriate types of behavior. This paper reports on its initial implementation in Portugal. The primary aim of this study is to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Interpersonal Competence, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effectiveness and Mechanisms of Change in a School-Based Intervention Combining Universal and Indicated Prevention for Preschoolers' Behavior Problems
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Catrinel A. ?tefan; Delia Cristescu; Ingrid Danila – Early Education and Development, 2024
The Social-Emotional Prevention Program (SEP) is a multi-focused intervention combining universal and indicated intervention strategies delivered face-to-face and through the use of technology. The study's objectives were to assess comparatively SEP effectiveness as a function of preschoolers' baseline risk of externalizing problems and to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Prevention, Preschool Children
Effects of a Teacher Classroom Management Program on Preschool Teachers' Practices and Psychological Factors: A Randomized Trial with Teachers of Children from Economically Disadvantaged Families
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Gaspar, Maria Filomena; Patras, Joshua; Hutchings, Judy; Homem, Tatiana; Azevedo, Andreia Fernandes; Pimentel, Mariana; Baptista, Elsa; Major, Sofia; Vale, Vera; Seabra-Santos, Maria – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management (IY-TCM) program has shown efficacy in reducing behavioral problems and improving social skills among children experiencing poverty. However, quantitative studies that concentrate on its efficacy in relation to "proximal classroom outcomes" (e.g., classroom emotional…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Program Effectiveness, Psychological Patterns
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
Training Early Childhood Educators to Promote Peer Interactions: Effects on Children's Aggressive and Prosocial Behaviors
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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
The Effects of Classwide Self-Assessment on Preschool Children's Engagement in Transition, Free Play, and Small Group Instruction.
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Miller, Linda J.; And Others – Early Education and Development, 1993
Discusses the effectiveness of a group self-management procedure (involving opportunity to perform a behavior, performance self-assessment, matching with the teacher, and reinforcement contingent on a student-teacher match) for increasing the on-task behavior of four disruptive preschool boys. Presents results regarding child engagement behavior,…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Class Activities, Males, Play
The Impact of the Home Instructional Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) on School Performance in 3rd and 6th Grades.
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Bradley, Robert H.; Gilkey, Barbara – Early Education and Development, 2002
Used post hoc matching design to compare children who participated in the Home Instructional Program for Preschool Youngsters throughout Arkansas with children from same classrooms with either no preschool experiences or with other preschool experiences in Grades 3 and 6. Found that HIPPY showed a modest positive impact on school suspensions,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Comparative Analysis, Early Intervention
Implementation of the PATHS Curriculum in an Urban Elementary School
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Seifer, Ronald; Gouley, Kathleen; Miller, Alison L.; Zakriski, Audrey – Early Education and Development, 2004
We examined the effectiveness of the PATHS curriculum in a magnet elementary school serving a distressed urban area. Aspects of social-emotional competence were examined for second graders who had, and had not, received the PATHS intervention. The intervention groups differed, with the control group having lower social-emotional competence than…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Urban Schools, Elementary Schools, Magnet Schools