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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.; King, Elizabeth K. – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: The current study explored the patterns of collaboration among early childhood educators in order to understand the extent to which collaborations exist for practitioners, either formally or informally, within and across public preschool, Head Start, and child care sectors in a community and the extent to which work environment…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Public School Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Federal Programs
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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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Bloechliger, Olivia R.; Bauer, Georg F. – Early Education and Development, 2016
Center-based child care has been struggling with poor health and high turnover rates of child care staff and their adverse impact on care quality for decades. Yet little is known about personal and structural antecedents of job resources and job demands that are valid predictors of health and turnover in the child care workforce. Research…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Teaching Conditions, Teacher Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics
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Curby, Timothy W.; Boyer, Caroline; Edwards, Taylor; Chavez, Catharine – Early Education and Development, 2012
Research Findings: The purpose of the present study is to examine the degree to which assistant and lead teachers work together in Head Start classrooms in 3 domains: emotional support, classroom organization, and instructional support. Pairs of lead and assistant teachers from 14 Head Start classrooms were simultaneously observed for 1 morning to…
Descriptors: Teacher Aides, Comparative Analysis, Preschool Teachers, Federal Programs
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Myers, Sonya S.; Morris, Amanda Sheffield – Early Education and Development, 2009
Research Findings: The current project examined the unique and interactive relations of child effortful control and teacher-child relationships to low-income preschoolers' socioemotional adjustment. One hundred and forty Head Start children (77 boys and 63 girls), their parents, lead teachers, and teacher assistants participated in this study.…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Conflict, Emotional Development, Social Adjustment