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Direct linkTuul, Maire; Mikser, Rain; Neudorf, Evelyn; Ugaste, Aino – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Establishing national framework curricula is a growing tendency in early childhood education internationally, and is considered to be part of the regulatory requirements framework for enhancing preschool teachers' professionalism. A topical issue in this context is whether and how teachers themselves see these practices as contributing to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Professional Autonomy, Preschool Curriculum
Kimer, Merilin; Tuul, Maire; Õun, Tiia – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2016
The aim of this study was to describe the activities of Estonian preschool teachers in the context of different teaching approaches and to compare the assessments of teachers of their own teaching with the assessments of observers of their teaching. For the data collection, the Early Childhood Classroom Observation Measure (ECCOM) and a structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Delivery Systems, Curriculum Implementation
Ugaste, Aino; Tuul, Maire; Niglas, Katrin; Neudorf, Evelyn – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
As in many Western countries, children's learning in the curriculum of Estonian Early Childhood Education is seen as a lifelong process, wherein the teacher is primarily a guide to children's active learning. Thus, a child-centred approach to learning is valued in the national curriculum, but our interest was whether this approach is fixed in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Children
Oun, Tiia; Ugaste, Aino; Tuul, Maire; Niglas, Katrin – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2010
The aim of this study was to examine how teachers in the Step by Step and traditional kindergartens assess their child-centred activities. 308 teachers participated in the study and a questionnaire was used. The results of the study showed that teachers in the Step by Step programme used a child-centred approach more in their work than teachers in…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Curriculum, Preschool Evaluation
