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Direct linkJeanette Overby Keyes – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The 2007 Head Start Reauthorization Act mandated that all Head Start teachers have at least an associate degree and 50% of teachers within each Head Start program should have a baccalaureate degree in early childhood education. The problem addressed in this study was that Head Start teachers from a Midwestern region encountered barriers as they…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services, Higher Education
Erin Thomson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Although teachers' use of quality teacher-student interactions is important for the academic and social development of their students, these types of interactions are not used consistently by teachers in early childhood classrooms. This study was used to explore the education of the classroom teacher as a potential reason for this inconsistency.…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Grade 1
Keith, Rebecca S. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The focus of this dissertation was to explore the importance of high quality early education in later secondary education development, quantifying quality in early childhood education programs, and examining how teacher education contributes to quality of early childhood education programs. For phase I, early childhood education positively…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Academic Achievement, Secondary Education
The Development of a Program of Study for a Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education in Belize
Mendez Valladares, Melissa Dilieth – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Presently, the highest degree a person interested in teaching at the early childhood level in Belize is the Associate's Degree in Early Childhood Education. The purpose of this project was to design a program of undergraduate coursework in the area of teacher preparation that will meet university qualifications for a Bachelor's Degree in Early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Bachelors Degrees, Program Development
Bechtold, Joy Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Early-care and education research, relative to positive outcomes for young children, birth through age five, enrolled in high quality early-care and education programs is compelling. This same research also names the classroom teacher as pivotal in establishing and maintaining high quality within their classrooms and practices. Currently, within…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Teaching Methods, Associate Degrees
Hundley, Sharon Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Purpose, scope, and method of study: Considered a significant strategy to foster school readiness and close the achievement gap, efforts to increase the education level of preschool teachers have garnered widespread support. Research pointing to the inadequate and outdated preparation of preschool teachers as well as a shortage of baccalaureate…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Educational Attainment, Young Children, School Readiness
