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Professional Development of Turkish Preschool Teachers during Summer Holidays
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Tican Basaran, Semra; Dinçman, Basak – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2022
The purpose of this study is to examine the professional development of preschool teachers during summer holidays, and to develop recommendations for professional development between teaching semesters. The study is built on the basic interpretive design, with a study group of 24 preschool teachers. The data were collected through semi-structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Preschool Teachers, Summer Programs
Summer Learning in Early Childhood: Opportunities for Investing in Equity
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Sengal, Amena; McCormick, Meghan; Castleman-Smith, Jálynn – MDRC, 2021
As the availability of high-quality, center-based prekindergarten (pre-K) has increased, so too has the attention given to children's learning experiences in the summer between pre-K and kindergarten. Investment in summer learning programs may help sustain the effects of pre-K and also boost the outcomes of children who don't enroll in a formal…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Equal Education
Bi-Directional Communication Journals as a Method of Caregiver Support during Speech and Language Intervention: A Pilot Study
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Pelatti, Christina Yeager; Martino, Alison; Wilson, Kaitlyn P. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2020
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the inclusion of a bi-directional communication journal between caregivers and student clinicians during a five-week summer preschool programme impacted caregivers' perceptions and had a positive impact on their children's language development. This study included a mixed methods design. Child…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Preschool Education, Child Caregivers, Preschool Children
Exploring Borders in a Texas Prekindergarten: Storytelling from the In-Between
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Kinard, Timothy; Gainer, Jesse – New Educator, 2020
This article is a collective narration of our work in a prekindergarten and its curriculum, designed to employ student choice as a connection-making mechanism. We describe a series of "boundaries," social constructions, recognitions and physical barriers to illustrate the movement of the students within the curriculum, their negotiation…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Curriculum, Barriers, Preschool Children
Impacts of the Pandemic on Young Children and Their Parents: Initial Findings from NIEER's May-June 2021 Preschool Learning Activities Survey. Research Report
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Jung, Kwanghee; Barnett, W. Steven – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2021
To learn about the pandemic's impacts on young children's learning and development the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) developed a parent survey regarding children's home learning activities and preschool participation during the pandemic. This report presents key lessons from the spring 2021 preschool learning activities…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Parents, Preschool Children
Teacher & Principal School Report: Focus on Literacy
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Scholastic Inc., 2017
The Teacher & Principal School Report series showcases the results of a national survey of more than 4,700 public school Pre-K-12 educators on critical issues affecting schools and districts across the country. With two in-depth reports, Scholastic has explored equity in education as well as literacy, each with a special look at factors from…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Preschool Education, Public School Teachers, Equal Education