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Preparing Preservice Teachers for Success in NCLB's Kindergartens: Learning from Experienced Teachers' Strategies for Managing Professional Relationships with Colleagues and Parents
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Goldstein, Lisa S. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2008
Kindergarten has undergone dramatic changes since the implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2002. The literature on the challenges facing kindergarten teachers as a result of NCLB focuses primarily on curricular and instructional issues; little attention has been paid to NCLB's impact on the relational aspects of kindergarten teaching,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Primary Education, Federal Legislation, Kindergarten
Influence of Student-Teacher and Parent-Teacher Relationships on Lower Achieving Readers' Engagement and Achievement in the Primary Grades
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Hughes, Jan; Kwok, Oi-man – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Participants were 443 (52.6% male, 47.4% female) ethnically diverse, 1st-grade, lower achieving readers attending 1 of 3 school districts in Texas. Using latent variable structural equation modeling, the authors tested a theoretical model positing that (a) the quality of teachers' relationships with students and their parents mediates the…
Descriptors: Organizations (Groups), African American Students, Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement
Ethnicity and Language Contributions to Dimensions of Parent Involvement
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Wong, Shuk Wa; Hughes, Jan N. – School Psychology Review, 2006
This study examined ethnic and language group differences on dimensions of parent-rated and teacher-rated parent involvement after adjusting for the influence of family socioeconomic factors. A total of 179 teachers and 481 parents provided information on parent school involvement for a sample of ethnically and linguistically diverse first-grade…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Parent Participation