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Examining the Role of Preschool Classrooms' Behavioral Composition as a Predictor of the Quality of Teacher-Child Interactions
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Partee, Ann M.; Hamre, Bridget K.; Williford, Amanda P. – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings: This study examined the relation between classroom behavioral composition and teacher-child interactions in preschool classrooms and the potential for teachers' experience, education level, and area of study to buffer against the challenges of teaching in classrooms with high levels of disruptive behaviors. Classroom behavioral…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Classroom Environment
Patterns of Association between Early Childhood Teachers' Emotion Socialization Styles, Emotion Beliefs and Mind-Mindedness
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Ornaghi, Veronica; Agliati, Alessia; Pepe, Alessandro; Gabola, Piera – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research findings: This study advances our understanding of early childhood teachers' emotion socialization styles by innovatively exploring how these relate to teachers' beliefs about emotions and levels of mind-mindedness, while controlling for age, level of education, teaching experience, and training in emotion education. Sixty female teachers…
Descriptors: Socialization, Teacher Attitudes, Emotional Response, Females
Teacher Language in the Preschool Classroom: Initial Validation of a Classroom Environment Observation Tool
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Phillips, Beth M.; Zhao, Yuting; Weekley, M. Jane – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: This study reports initial descriptive and validity results of a new early childhood classroom observation measure, the Classroom Language Environment Observation Scales (CLEOS), designed to capture teachers' use of both implicit language supports (e.g., incidental scaffolding and shared reading) and more explicit language…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Correlation, Linguistic Input, Language Usage
Teachers' Language in Interactions: An Exploratory Examination of Mental State Talk in Early Childhood Education Classrooms
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King, Elizabeth; La Paro, Karen – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: This study examined 34 Head Start teachers' use of four categories of mental state talk (verbalizations of mental processes using emotion terms, cognition terms, desire terms, and perception terms) during naturally occurring classroom interactions. Transcriptions from classroom videos were coded for mental state talk…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Disadvantaged Youth, Video Technology, Emotional Response
Quality in Inclusive Preschool Classrooms
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Hestenes, Linda L.; Cassidy, Deborah J.; Shim, Jonghee; Hegde, Archana V. – Early Education and Development, 2008
Research Findings: Quality of care for preschool children in inclusive and noninclusive classrooms was examined in two studies. In Study 1, comparisons across a large sample of classrooms (N = 1, 313) showed that inclusive classrooms were higher than noninclusive classrooms in global quality as well as on two dimensions of quality…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Preschool Children, Teacher Student Relationship, Inclusive Schools
Quality of Prekindergarten: What Families Are Looking for in Public Sponsored Programs
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Barbarin, Oscar A.; McCandies, Terry; Early, Diane; Clifford, Richard M.; Bryant, Donna; Burchinal, Margaret; Howes, Carollee; Pianta, Robert – Early Education and Development, 2006
This study describes the meaning of program quality for a representative group of parents of children enrolled in public prekindergarten programs. Educators often conceptualized quality in terms of structural or process indicators; parents most often cited teacher experience and relationship to children. Families, like educators, emphasized…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Public Education, Educational Quality, Preschool Education