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Kayla Murphy; Keri Giordano; Tanaysha Deloach – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a mandatory shift from in-person instruction to online learning for many young children. Teachers needed to adjust to virtual teaching, children were isolated from their peers, and parents played a bigger role in learning during the pandemic. In 2021, the shift back to in-person learning occurred. Research has…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Teachers
Montellese, Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to determine any differences between factors that may influence a teacher's self-efficacy regarding the implementation of technologies in kindergarten and first-grade classrooms. Specifically, this study analyzed the independent variables: age, number of years teaching, attitude toward technology, teachers'…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Teaching Experience, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Principles
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Adai, Jennifer Keys – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
Young children of immigrants are increasingly part of early childhood programs in the United States but teachers have mixed approaches and attitudes about the immigrant families that they work with. This article details an analysis of 50 preschool teachers in five US cities using data from the Children Crossing Borders video-cued ethnographic…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Ethnography
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Massetti, Greta M.; Bracken, Stacey Storch – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
The teaching beliefs and classroom practices of 54 kindergarten teachers were assessed using a Q-sort measure. Cluster analysis of the Q-sort responses revealed four instructional approaches that differed in their focus on literacy skills, social development and self-esteem. In addition, measures of emergent literacy skills, classroom behaviour…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Brotman, Laurie Miller; Kingston, Sharon; Bat-Chava, Yael; Caldwell, Melissa B.; Calzada, Esther J. – Early Education and Development, 2008
This study evaluates school personnel perceptions, knowledge, and behaviors before and after a 36-hr training program designed to prepare early childhood school personnel for implementation of an after-school family preventive intervention for conduct problems. Participants were 40 female school personnel (22 professionals and 18…
Descriptors: Intervention, School Personnel, Family Programs, Prevention
Pike, Nancy – 1996
Many public and private kindergartens in New York use standardized tests for admission into their programs. How parents and teachers feel about these tests was studied. Parents were asked whether their child had taken any standardized kindergarten admission test, whether they discussed the results with a professional, whether the results really…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Intelligence Tests, Kindergarten, Parent Attitudes