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Maude Roy-Vallières; Annie Charron; Nathalie Bigras; Lise Lemay – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
The quality of early childhood experiences is crucial to a child's development and educational success. Yet few early childhood education and care services in the world today offer a consistently high level of educational quality. In particular, educational quality depends on the context's characteristics. The aim of this study was therefore to…
Descriptors: Child Care, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Young Children
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Erica Danniels; Angela Pyle – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
Children identified with developmental disabilities or delays (DD) are increasingly being educated in inclusive mainstream classroom environments. At the kindergarten level, there have been pedagogical shifts towards the promotion of play-based learning, with few resources addressing how teachers can support inclusion in play. Forty-two Ontario…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developmental Delays, Developmental Disabilities, Inclusion
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Marie-France Morin; Loïc Pulido – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the verbal interventions produced by teachers to support pupils' development of orthographic knowledge through invented spelling in three research-based intervention conditions: conventional (C condition), proximal (P condition), and progressive complexification (PC condition). We recorded six…
Descriptors: Invented Spelling, Intervention, Teacher Student Relationship, Comparative Analysis
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Myriam Chrétien-Vincent; Marie Grandisson; Chantal Desmarais; Élise Milot – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2024
Strategies to support children's participation when their sensory needs are not met are misunderstood and not sufficiently supported by scientific evidence. However, early childhood educators who work with autistic children in an inclusive setting need support to understand these reactions and implement effective strategies to promote their…
Descriptors: Sensory Integration, Early Intervention, Capacity Building, Occupational Therapy
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Julie Poissant; Stephanie Langheit; France Capuano; Christa Japel; François Poulin – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
Preschool is a particularly opportune time to introduce measures that promote parental school-based involvement, as this is when the initial contact with the school is made. In Québec, a French-speaking province in Canada, voluntary school-based preschools for 4-year-olds have been offered to families in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. A component…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Parent Attitudes
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Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica; Kummen, Kathleen; Hodgins, B. Denise – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2023
Despite the burgeoning literature that describes the most effective ways of engaging early childhood educators in professional learning, very little empirical work in North America has examined the processes, dialogs, and engagements in which educators participate to address quality as a social construct. This article (1) describes a model of…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Faculty Development, Educational Quality
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Arielle Orsini; Jenna Rice; Helena P. Osana; Julie Houle; Anne Lafay – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
The Numeracy Kit for Kindergarten 5-Year-Olds (NyKK-5) is a tool to support kindergarten teachers' numeracy practices. Based on a pedagogy of enactment, the NyKK-5 was designed to simulate the types of in-class supports that have been identified as critical elements of effective mathematics professional development (PD). Two groups of teachers…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Numeracy, Faculty Development
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Tina Bonnett; Elizabeth Gould; Courtney Gratton; Sumera Malik; Jenna Zinck – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2024
Childhood psychological trauma is currently gleaning attention in many fields of study. Subsequently, Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP) is becoming integral to many organizations that service children and families. A gap, however, is noted in literature between this approach to practice and pre-service early years professionals who study to work in…
Descriptors: Trauma, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Danniels, Erica; Pyle, Angela – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2023
As school authorities strive toward inclusive models of education for children with neurodevelopmental delay and disability (NDD), many kindergarten curricula have mandated pedagogy centered on learning through play. Children with NDD tend to experience greater social isolation and lower rates of social play engagement compared to typically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Play, Teaching Methods
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Diana Miconi; Manon Aigoin; Geneviève Audet; Cécile Rousseau – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2024
COVID-19 has put additional stress on teachers, whose levels of psychological distress are concerning. However, studies that look at teachers' work experiences and their association with psychological distress during the pandemic are lacking. This study aims to draw a portrait of psychological distress (i.e., symptoms of depression and anxiety)…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Stress Variables, Teaching Experience, COVID-19
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Chen, Emma; Pushor, Debbie – Reading Teacher, 2023
In this article, the authors use narrative inquiry methodology to engage with one Prekindergarten teacher and three newcomer parents in a Western Canadian school. Interested in addressing the unique learning and social needs of these particular parents and family members, as a way of strengthening parents and families as well as enhancing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Parents, Immigrants
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Alexandra Rothstein; Mélina Rivard – Exceptionality Education International, 2023
There is growing evidence of the effectiveness of the pyramid model (PM) in promoting young children's social-emotional competence and reducing challenging behaviours. In the province of Quebec (Canada), as in many other regions, many children with special needs are integrated into early childhood settings where educators have not had specific…
Descriptors: Models, Instructional Effectiveness, Faculty Development, Social Emotional Learning
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Pyle, Angela; DeLuca, Christopher; Danniels, Erica; Wickstrom, Hanna – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
Kindergarten teachers face the challenge of integrating contemporary assessment practices with play-based pedagogy. The current study addresses this challenge by presenting a kindergarten assessment framework rooted in theory and current classroom practices, based on teacher interview and observational data collected in 20 kindergarten classrooms.…
Descriptors: Play, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Young Children
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Paméla McMahon-Morin; Bouchra Nasri; Ingrid Verduyckt; Stefano Rezzonico; Marie-Pier Gingras – Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This study examined the effects of an SLP-delivered whole-class interactive book reading intervention and a professional development program on children's self-initiated participation. Eleven kindergarten teachers and the children in their classes participated in this quasi-experimental study. They were filmed during book reading at pre- and…
Descriptors: Books, Reading Aloud to Others, Student Participation, Group Dynamics
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Bruijns, Brianne A.; Adamo, Kristi B.; Burke, Shauna M.; Carson, Valerie; Irwin, Jennifer D.; Naylor, Patti-Jean; Timmons, Brian W.; Vanderloo, Leigh M.; Tucker, Patricia – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2022
Educators strongly influence young children's behaviors, and their perspectives regarding physical activity (PA) and screen-viewing (SV) may influence their provision in childcare. This study gathered early childhood education (ECE) candidates' perspectives regarding: (1) the importance of their role(s) in promoting PA/reducing SV; (2) how their…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preschool Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teacher Responsibility
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