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Direct linkGomez, Rebecca E. – NHSA Dialog, 2012
This article details the findings from a qualitative study that explored the ways individuals who work with early childhood education (ECE) practitioners in professional development settings influenced those practitioners' understandings of early childhood policy and early childhood systems. Defined as individuals who work in the professional…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Specialists, Professional Development
Blamey, Katrin L.; Beauchat, Katherine A.; Sweetman, Heidi – NHSA Dialog, 2012
Preschool educators represent a unique population for which to design professional development; as a result, innovative professional development models are necessary. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of training preschool teachers to use a Shared Reading Innovation Configuration (IC) tool on their planning, implementation, and…
Descriptors: Story Reading, Vocabulary, Innovation, Preschool Teachers
Gallagher, Peggy A.; Abbott-Shim, Martha; VandeWiele, Laura – NHSA Dialog, 2011
This study describes the results of an evaluation of the Individualized Learning Intervention, a mentoring program for early childhood educators. This mentoring program includes 3 components: Mentor Teacher Seminar, Mentor teachers supporting professional development of Protege teachers throughout the school year, and Mentor coordinator meetings…
Descriptors: Mentors, Disadvantaged Youth, Young Children, Teacher Workshops
Cohen, Lynn E.; Kramer-Vida, Louisa; Frye, Nancy – NHSA Dialog, 2012
The purpose of this research-to-practice article is to describe dialogic reading (DR) as a professional development intervention that took place in a state-funded public universal prekindergarten program, partnering with a university. Our goals were to use a research-based literacy program to measure child outcomes related to vocabulary…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Literacy
Hatfield, Bridget E.; LoCasale-Crouch, Jennifer – NHSA Dialog, 2011
This study describes the development and implementation of a college course intended to promote effective teacher-child interactions within the early childhood education setting. One hundred forty-nine early childhood teachers participating in a randomized control trial with the National Center for Research in Early Childhood Education (NCRECE)…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Reading Readiness, Early Childhood Education, Curriculum Implementation
Mages, Wendy K. – NHSA Dialog, 2012
This study describes a Head Start teacher professional development program conducted by a well-respected theatre-in-education organization. The professional development program provided teachers with opportunities to observe and participate in classroom drama sessions, introduced them to drama strategies and techniques, and guided them through a…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Child Care
Peterson, Shira M. – NHSA Dialog, 2012
When it comes to changing one's behavior, what makes a person ready to change? In this study, mentors participated in interviews and focus groups about early childhood educators' readiness to change their practices with children. One third of the educators were rated by their mentors as "not ready to change" as measured by the Stage of Change…
Descriptors: Mentors, Focus Groups, Early Childhood Education, Professional Development
Cohen, Lynn E.; Kramer-Vida, Louisa; Frye, Nancy – NHSA Dialog, 2012
Professional development was conducted to assess the effects of dialogic reading (DR) on child outcomes related to vocabulary development in English and Spanish. Six teachers and 72 children enrolled in a state-funded public universal prekindergarten program, partnering with higher education, participated in the study. The content of the…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Higher Education, Preschool Education, Vocabulary Development
LoCasale-Crouch, Jennifer; Kraft-Sayre, Marcia; Pianta, Robert C.; Hamre, Bridget K.; Downer, Jason T.; Leach, Allison; Burchinal, Margaret; Howes, Carollee; La Paro, Karen; Scott-Little, Catherine – NHSA Dialog, 2011
In this article we describe the design and implementation of the National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education's (NCRECE's) college-level course and its delivery to teachers across 10 settings and 15 instructional sections. This professional development intervention, found effective in changing teachers' beliefs, knowledge, and actual…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Professional Development
Algozzine, Bob; Babb, Julie; Algozzine, Kate; Mraz, Maryann; Kissel, Brian; Spano, Sedra; Foxworth, Kimberly – NHSA Dialog, 2011
We evaluated an Early Childhood Educator Professional Development (ECEPD) project that provided high-quality, sustained, and intensive professional development designed to support developmentally appropriate instruction for preschool-age children based on the best available research on early childhood pedagogy, child development, and preschool…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Comparative Analysis, Professional Development, Child Development
Varol, Filiz; Farran, Dale C.; Bilbrey, Carol; Vorhaus, Elizabeth A.; Hofer, Kerry Guess – NHSA Dialog, 2012
The Technology Enhanced, Research Based Instruction, Assessment, and Professional Development (TRIAD) was developed by Clements and Sarama (2009) in order to support low-income children's mathematical development in the preschool years through professional development for preschool teachers in mathematics. TRIAD includes a classroom component…
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Preschool Teachers, Professional Development, Mathematics Instruction
Trivette, Carol M.; Raab, Melinda; Dunst, Carl J. – NHSA Dialog, 2012
This article discusses the implications of utilizing coaching-mentoring strategies with Head Start teachers identified from the results of a study which used an evidence-based approach to professional development. Early childhood and coaching practices that formed the basis of the study are explained. Implications from the study results regarding…
Descriptors: Evidence, Mentors, Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Varol, Filiz; Farran, Dale C.; Bilbrey, Carol; Vorhaus, Elizabeth A.; Hofer, Kerry Guess – NHSA Dialog, 2012
The purpose of this study is to critically investigate the association between preschool teachers' mathematics instruction and their participation in a preschool mathematics intervention program in terms of 2 perspectives. First, the study examined whether preschool teachers' participation in the preschool mathematics intervention program had…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mathematics Activities, Preschool Teachers, Professional Development
Downer, Jason T.; Pianta, Robert C.; Fan, Xitao; Hamre, Bridget K.; Mashburn, Andrew; Justice, Laura – NHSA Dialog, 2011
As early education grows in the United States, in-service professional development in key instructional and interaction skills is a core component of capacity building in early childhood education. In this article, we describe results from an evaluation of the effects of MyTeachingPartner, a web-based system of professional development, on…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Language Dominance, Teacher Effectiveness, Preschool Education
Burns, M. Susan; Kidd, Julie K.; Nasser, Ilham; Aier, Deepa J.; Stechuk, Robert – NHSA Dialog, 2012
High profile documents in early childhood education describe Intentional Teaching (IT), yet little research has been undertaken to give specificity to the definition so that application is possible, for example, to determine and prioritize information to include in professional development, assess fidelity of the implementation of that…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Group Activities, Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth
