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The Relation between Early Childhood Teachers' Conceptualization of "Play" and Their Practice: Implication for the Process of Learning to Teach
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Cheng, Doris Pui-Wah – Frontiers of Education in China, 2012
For centuries, educators and psychologists have advocated "play" as the ideal activity for the development of young children. Actually, play has been found currently to be the central pedagogy in the learning of young children in 21 countries in the world. However, the quality of play-based pedagogy is becoming a key concern across…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Play, Teacher Characteristics, Early Childhood Education
Relations among Preschool Teachers' Self-Efficacy, Classroom Quality, and Children's Language and Literacy Gains
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Guo, Ying; Piasta, Shayne B.; Justice, Laura M.; Kaderavek, Joan N. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
This study examined the relations among preschool teachers' self-efficacy (n = 67), classroom quality (instructional and emotional support), and children's (n = 328) gains in print awareness and vocabulary knowledge over an academic year in the US. Results indicated that teachers' self-efficacy and classroom quality served as significant and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Preschool Teachers, Vocabulary Development, Classroom Environment
Validity of Teacher Report for Assessing the Emergent Literacy Skills of At-Risk Preschoolers
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Cabell, Sonia Q.; Justice, Laura M.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Kilday, Carolyn R. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the predictive validity of teacher report for assessing the emergent literacy skills of preschool-age children. The aims were twofold: (a) to examine predictive relationships between teacher report and direct behavioral assessment, and (b) to examine the extent to which teacher report accurately…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Preschool Teachers, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children
Relationship between Preschool Teachers' Reports of Children's Behavior and their Behavior toward those Children
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Dobbs, Jennifer; Arnold, David H. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2009
The relationships between preschool children and their teachers are an important component of the quality of the preschool experience. This study used attribution theory as a framework to better understand these relationships, examining the connection between teachers' perceptions of children's behavior and teachers' behavior toward those…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Attribution Theory, Behavior Problems, Psychologists
Analyzing the Cognitive Teaching Styles of Preservice and Cooperating Preschool Teachers in Turkey
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Kabadayi, Abdulkadir – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
It is evident that all teachers have individual attributes relating to their teaching processes and they teach differently at different paces because of their biological and psychological differences. Naturally, mismatches often occur between the teaching styles of student-teachers in preschool and the teaching style of the cooperating teachers,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Styles, Cooperating Teachers
Early Childhood Teachers' Attitudes toward Gender Roles and toward Discipline
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Erden, Feyza – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2004
The main purpose of this study was to investigate early childhood teachers' attitudes toward gender roles and toward discipline. The findings demonstrated that early childhood teachers had a tendency to hold egalitarian attitudes toward gender roles and discipline. In other words, these attitudes were found to be highly correlated. (Contains 4…
Descriptors: Discipline, Sex Role, Young Children, Classroom Techniques