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Ivana Rochovská; Vladimír Klein; Viera Šilonová – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2024
Inclusive education presents a significant challenge for contemporary society. All children should have the opportunity to develop according to their educational needs within an inclusive environment. The effectiveness of the school support team plays a crucial role in achieving this goal. This research aimed to explore the perspectives of…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Teamwork, Role, Inclusion
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Nurit Kaplan Toren; Mila Schwartz – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of a professional development (PD) program on preschool teacher assistants' (TAs) attitudes toward multilingualism and self-efficacy in working with linguistically and culturally diverse children (LCDC) and their parents. The study was conducted in a northern peripheral city in Israel that reflects…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Faculty Development, Teacher Aides, Preschool Education
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Studni, Masada; Oplatka, Izhar – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2022
The kindergarten staff comprises one teacher and two permanent staff members: an aide and a fill-in teacher. The study tracks the tactics that teachers use to motivate staff members to do their jobs effectively, in view of their considerations in choosing these tactics and the way staff members perceive them. The study is based on a multiple case…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Motivation, Interpersonal Relationship
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Rochovská, Ivana; Švábová, Božena – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2023
Creative drama has great potential and its implementation in education from pre-school education requires research, as evidenced by the number of scientific studies that have been registered in international research databases over the last ten years. The aim of the research was to examine the use of creative drama methods within kindergartens in…
Descriptors: Drama, Creative Activities, Kindergarten, Teaching Methods
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Shi, Lijuan – Journal of Career Development, 2022
Paraeducators play a marginal yet essential role in fulfilling teaching-related tasks in many international classrooms in China. In order to meet high standards of education, schools often provide professional training to paraeducators. However, in the training process, schools primarily focus on their own needs and rarely consider the personal…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Bilingual Teacher Aides, Foreign Countries, Educational Needs
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Sherif, Victoria; Chapman, Kathryn; Rous, Beth – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2023
The success of preschool programs is largely dependent upon a high-quality teaching workforce. Preschool educators are critical in supporting a child's socio-emotional development, motivation, school readiness, achievement, and overall learning. While expected to be professionally prepared similarly to their colleagues from elementary and…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Teacher Persistence, Compensation (Remuneration), Public Schools
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Clayback, Kelsey A.; Williford, Amanda P. – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Better understanding the correlates of teacher stress is critical to develop effective, targeted prevention and intervention efforts to decrease early childhood educator stress and ultimately improve outcomes for educators and young children. Previous studies of early childhood educator stress have mostly focused on teacher…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Predictor Variables, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Conditions
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Mowrey, Sascha C.; Farran, Dale C. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2022
Teaching assistants are a common presence in pre-kindergarten programs, but their role and the dynamics between lead teachers and their assistants are understudied. The classroom behaviors of lead teachers and assistants from 80 public prekindergarten classrooms were examined for similarities and differences in their roles and to determine how…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Teacher Role, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
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Jacoby, Jennifer Wallace; Corwin-Renner, Allegra – Journal of Career Development, 2022
Early care and education programs like Head Start provide a critical foundation for later achievement for children from vulnerable communities. Notably, recruiting and retaining bilingual teachers is an ongoing struggle for many Head Start agencies. Assistant teachers are more likely to be bilingual than their lead teacher counterparts (Jacoby, in…
Descriptors: Teacher Aides, Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services
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Olayinka-Bello, Folashade Z.; Brackin, Donna M. – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2021
We determined that significant differences existed between assessment scores of at-risk children taught by assistant teachers with different levels of education using standardized assessments (Teaching Strategies GOLD [TSG] and Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening [PALS]). A 1-way MANOVA indicated that assistant teachers' level of education…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Educational Attainment
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Harmey, Sinead; Ang, Lynn; Grenier, Julian – London Review of Education, 2022
IOE (Institute of Education), UCL's Faculty of Education and Society (University College London, UK) has a long tradition of engagement with schools to support young children's learning and co-produce knowledge through research-practice partnerships. From the first demonstration schools in the early 1900s to engagement with contemporary research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschools, Young Children, Language Acquisition
Jacoby, Jennifer Wallace – Urban Institute, 2021
Assistant teachers play an important role in Head Start and other early care and education (ECE) programs. This study found that assistant teachers contribute to classroom quality in the program's day-to-day implementation. Thirty-eight assistant-lead teaching teams from Head Start preschool classrooms across 14 Head Start centers within the…
Descriptors: Teacher Aides, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Diversity (Faculty)
Weisenfeld, G. G.; Hodges, Kate; Copeman Petig, Abby – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2022
Assistant teachers are an integral component of the preschool classroom, planning and implementing educational activities and supporting individual children and small groups, and often bring linguistic, cultural, and racial/ethnic diversity to the teaching field. However, there is limited research on the impact of assistant teacher qualifications…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, State Programs, Teacher Aides, Training
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Fox, Betsy; Gaona, Irma Jean; Wilkinson, Larrisa – Learning Professional, 2021
States and local communities are increasing access to preschool, but there is a significant divide when it comes to the quality of these early learning programs. Education and training requirements for preschool educators vary based on setting and state regulations, and while districts and nonprofits may offer professional learning, effective…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Competencies, School Districts
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Sembiante, Sabrina F.; Yeomans-Maldonado, Gloria; Johanson, Megan; Justice, Laura – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: We examined the amount of preschool lead/assistant teachers' English/Spanish language use and relations between quality of teacher-child interactions, and Dual Language Learners' (DLLs) English/Spanish bilingual vocabulary in 31 English-medium Head Start classrooms. Measures in this study included (a) children's conceptual…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Bilingualism, Bilingual Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
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