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Lundin, Janet, Ed. – 2000
Recognizing the importance of providing high-quality preschool education for helping to ensure children's future educational success, this document presents guidelines for what constitutes high-quality programming across a broad spectrum of curriculum and practice for California preschools, taking into account the state's move toward higher…
Descriptors: Child Development, Competence, Cultural Differences, Educational Improvement
Albrecht, Kay – Texas Child Care, 1996
Applies key components of the Reggio Emilia approach to Hearts Home, a Houston school: (1) parent-teacher-child interdependence, including home visits, communication, training sessions, and field trips; (2) children's competence; (3) utilizing functional and beautiful learning environments; and (4) teachers as partners in co-construction of…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Competence, Cooperation, Curriculum
Bradbard, Marilyn R.; Endsley, Richard C. – Dimensions, 1991
Presents six myths about early childhood education and care. Myths concern day care quality, the impact of day care on families and communities, academically oriented curricula, the importance of caregiver training, and parent involvement. Emphasizes that professionals need to dispel these myths, recognize the complexity of good child care, and be…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Child Care Effects, Child Caregivers, Community Role

Honig, Alice Sterling – Young Children, 2000
Discusses preschoolers' interest in and wonder about sexual anatomical differences, and adults' responses to their questions. Presents Freudian stages of psychosexual development, the relationship between sexual identity and gender role, children's preference for single-sex play groups, sex stereotyped toy preferences, and the role of television…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Concept Formation

Marcus, Susanne D.; Ames, Margery E. – TESOL Journal, 1998
Describes how cross-over training and a whole-school approach help preschool educators assist disabled students who have not yet acquired their native language, examining New York's English-as-a Second-Language/Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Training Program for Pre-K Special Education Personnel, which trains preschool personnel to meet…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cultural Differences, Developmental Delays

Maxwell, Kelly L.; McWilliam, R. A.; Hemmeter, Mary Louise; Ault, Melinda Jones; Schuster, John W. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2001
Tested psychometric properties of a new measure of developmentally appropriate practices in kindergarten through third grade and the predictive value of classroom and teacher characteristics. Found that grade, class size, number of children with disabilities, teacher educational level, teacher experience, and teacher beliefs accounted for 42…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Environment, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Elementary School Teachers

Rao, Nirmala; Koong, Maggie; Kwong, Margaret; Wong, Margaret – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2003
This study examined predictors of process quality among Hong Kong preschools. Findings indicated significant intercorrelations among structural, management-related, and process measures of quality. Process quality (teacher-child interaction, curriculum goals) was higher in preschools exceeding government requirements for staff qualifications,…
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Child Care, Child Caregivers, Developmentally Appropriate Practices

Wesley, Patricia W.; Buysse, Virginia – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2003
Explored perceptions of school readiness among preschool and kindergarten teachers, principals, and parents. Found participants experienced tensions related to their readiness views: conflict between personal teaching/learning philosophies and state expectations; pressure placed upon children, teachers, and families for children to perform; and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Age Grade Placement, Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy

Neuharth-Pritchett, Stacey – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2005
This issue highlights five distinct studies. The first study looks at achievement and its association to Montessori programs, magnet programs, and traditional schooling programs. The second provides evidence on the efficacy of the Even Start program in comparison to Title I programs. The third examines the effects of full-day and half-day…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Montessori Schools, Magnet Schools, Academic Achievement
Olmsted, Patricia P.; Lockhard, Shannon – 1995
A study compared how parents and teachers in the United States, Hong Kong, Nigeria, and Poland ranked in order of importance a list of 8 skills categories for 4-year-olds to learn in preschool. The categories were language skills, motor/physical skills, pre-academic skills, self-assessment skills, self-expression skills, social skills with adults,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Educational Attitudes
Colker, Laura J. – 1995
Noting that observation forms the basis of all developmentally appropriate programming, this videotape helps new and experienced early childhood educators learn about children so they can individualize their program; evaluate programs so adjustments can be made to the environment, the curriculum, or both; and measure children's progress and their…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Child Behavior, Child Caregivers, Childhood Interests
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. Home Economics Curriculum Center. – 1992
This curriculum guide provides information and materials for teachers who train child caregivers. Each of the guide's 27 chapters discusses essential elements and objectives related to one particular topic, and then presents teaching strategies for classroom use. Chapter 1 reviews the child care profession as a whole, and chapter 2 discusses the…
Descriptors: Administration, Career Exploration, Check Lists, Child Care Occupations
Sleeter, Christine E. – 1992
This book reports an ethnographic study, conducted over 2 years, of 30 teachers from 18 schools (preschool through high school), who participated in a staff development program in multicultural education. Observations and interviews indicate how multicultural education was actually presented to the teachers, and how their perceptions and teaching…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Conservatism, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Harriman, Marilyn Williams – 1993
The Tech Prep Early Childhood Professions Program is designed to provide high school and community college students in Texas with the necessary training and skills to find employment in the child care and education professions as teachers, directors, or special needs paraprofessionals. This Advanced Speciality Curriculum Guide is designed for…
Descriptors: Administration, Child Care Occupations, Curriculum Guides, Day Care
Dickinson, David K.; And Others – 1991
A study investigated low-income children's book reading experiences with their mothers and in group reading in preschool when the children were 3 and 4 years old. At the age of 3 years, the primary focus of book readings in both settings was immediate information. Mothers were significantly more likely than teachers to use extending comments, and…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Family Environment, Family School Relationship