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Paying Attention to Relationships.

T Wubbels - Educational Leadership, 1997 - eric.ed.gov
... Related Items: Show Related Items. ... Abstract: Long-term research in three countries suggests
that a teacher's interpersonal skills are crucial to creating ... Describes the Questionnaire for Teacher
Interaction, a measurement to determine how well teachers communicate with their ...

Two-way and monolingual English immersion in preschool education: An experimental comparison

WS Barnett, DJ Yarosz, J Thomas, K Jung… - Early Childhood …, 2007 - Elsevier
... For comparison purposes, data were collected on teachers and on classroom quality for all ...
reasonably well with other measures of linguistic and cognitive development related to school ...
that cover a broad range of quality considerations from safety to teacherchild interaction to ...

Spanish-speaking children's social and language development in pre-kindergarten classrooms

F Chang, G Crawford, D Early… - Early Education and …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
... A comparison of the school mental health referral profiles of young ESL and ... teacherchild
relationship, and (d) investigate whether language interactions were related to changes ... The study
utilized a combination of data collection methodologies including teacher report, parent ...

The Sounds of Silence (Rainbow Teachers, Rainbow Students).

CK Brooks - English Journal, 1994 - eric.ed.gov
... Related Items: Show Related Items. ... Pages: N/A. Pub Types: Opinion Papers; Guides - Classroom -
Teacher; Journal Articles. Abstract: Describes how one English teacher discovered the complex
differences in nonverbal communications among her students. ...

Preschoolers learning Hmong and English: Lexical-semantic skills in L1 and L2

PF Kan… - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2005 - jslhr.highwire.org
... For this reason, each bilingual–bicultural preschool teacher was asked to independently select
items from the ... Hmong and English on our receptive and expressive tasks is a valid comparison,
given that the ... that the timing and nature of the L1–L2 shift are directly related to the ...

Predicting child outcomes at the end of kindergarten from the quality of pre-kindergarten teacherchild interactions and instruction

M Burchinal, C Howes, R Pianta… - Applied Development …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
... Nevertheless, classroom quality was related to gains during the preschool year on child ...
Comparison of the classrooms, indicated that higher consent rates occurred in classes with more ...
of social and academic skills, parent–teacher relationships, and teacherchild relationships ...

[BOOK] Eager to learn: Educating our preschoolers

BT Bowman, S Donovan… - 2001 - books.google.com
... OF EARLY CHILDHOOD PROFESSIONALS 261 Professional Development, 263 Teacher
Education, 270 ... XVI TABLES, BOXES, AND FIGURES 4-2 Curriculum Comparison Studies
Completed, 140 4 ... Indeed, re- search suggests that secure attachment improves social and intel ...

Promoting language and literacy in young dual language learners: Research, practice, and policy

DC Castro, MM Páez… - Child Development …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
... 3 To what extent do factors related to the school, family, and child ... Two-way and monolingual
English immersion in preschool education: An experimental comparison. ... prekindergarten teacher
for young Latino children: Implications for the teacherchild relationship on second ...

A COMPARISON OF THE ORAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT OF HEAD START PUPILS WITH NON-HEAD START PUPILS.

AA Daniel… - 1966 - eric.ed.gov
... Full-Text Availability Options: ERIC Full Text (2701K). Related Items: Show Related Items. Click
on any of the links below to perform a new search. Title: A COMPARISON OF THE ORAL
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT OF HEAD START PUPILS WITH NON-HEAD START PUPILS. ...

Teacher Preparation for the Culturally Different. Does the Profession Believe the Cause is Worth the Effort?.

HE Schmitt, RE Bender - Agricultural Education Magazine, 1971 - eric.ed.gov
... Related Items: Show Related Items. Click on any of the links below to perform
a new search. Title: Teacher Preparation for the Culturally Different. Does
the Profession Believe the Cause is Worth the Effort? ...

Taking Another Look at Teaching: How Lower-Class Children Influence Middle-Class Teachers.

MS Weiss… - 1975 - eric.ed.gov
... ERIC Full Text (188K). Related Items: Show Related Items. Click on any of the links below to
perform a new search. ... This study challenges some basic assumptions about the nature of
schooling and the effectiveness of education as an instrument of social change. (Authors). ...

New child–caregiver attachment relationships: Entering childcare when the caregiver is and is not an ethnic match

C Howes… - Social Development, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... Teacher perception. ... Warmth was positively related and conflict negatively related. ... Aiken and West
(1991) for tests of interaction between a continuous and a categorical variable, we tested the
regression slopes for conflict using each ethnic match group as a comparison group. ...

Retention of Hispanic/Latino students in first grade: Child, parent, teacher, school, and peer predictors

VL Willson… - Journal of School Psychology, 2006 - Elsevier
... involvement, mobility, relationship with teachers, and behavioral adjustment) permits a comparison
of results ... H/L. In previous research the scale has predicted health-related attitudes and ... consisting
of 23 items were adapted from the Parent–Teacher Involvement Questionnaire ...

Developmentally appropriate practice is for everyone

R Charlesworth - Childhood Education, 1998 - freepatentsonline.com
... A comparison of frequencies of stress behaviors observed in kindergarten children in classrooms
with ... RELATED ARTICLE: DAP Mathematics An African American researcher's observation of
mathematics instruction by a white kindergarten teacher whose students are all ...

… of Teacher-Rated Classroom Conduct, Social Skills, and TeacherChild Relationship Quality Between Preschool English Learners and Preschool English Speakers

M Luchtel, K Hughes, G Luze, KR Bruna… - NHSA Dialog, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
... A Comparison of Teacher-Rated Classroom Conduct, Social Skills, and TeacherChild ... The BPS
is designed to assess negative behaviors that are related to academic ... language groups on the
measures of classroom conduct, social skills, and teacherchild relationship quality. ...

The Culture Bearer: Can Higher Education Be Flexible?.

J Reese-Dukes - Journal of Educational Equity and Leadership, 1981 - eric.ed.gov
... Related Items: Show Related Items. Click on any of the links below to perform a new search.
Title: The Culture Bearer: Can Higher Education Be Flexible? Authors: Reese-Dukes, Judson. ...
Audiences: N/A. Languages: English. Education Level: Higher Education. Direct Link: N/A. ...

Putting Rhetoric Back into Developmental English.

PR Howell - English in Texas, 1995 - eric.ed.gov
... Related Items: Show Related Items. ... Source: English in Texas, v26 n3 p33-35 Spr 1995. ... Abstract:
Describes how a teacher became converted to thinking about her developmental composition
classes as genuine writing classes, classes about learning to express ideas on paper ...

What We Are Thinking About...

S Bratcher - Arizona English Bulletin, 1987 - eric.ed.gov
... Related Items: Show Related Items. ... Pub Types: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Collected Works -
Serials. ... 2) "On Being on Base" (M. Diogenes); (3) "Confessions of a White House Ghost" (G. Fisher);
(4) "Semi-Controlled Chaos: Getting "english" Out of the Classroom" (J. Forsyth ...

Meeting the Social Needs of Preschool English Learners

M Luchtel, K Hughes, G Luze, KR Bruna… - NHSA Dialog, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
... However, results of a comparison among ethnicities revealed that the more negative ratings of ...
View all references) were related to more positive ratings of teacherchild relationship ... the
classroom conduct skills of children, as well as the quality of the teacherchild relationship. ...

Observations of teacher-child interactions in classrooms serving Latinos and dual language learners: Applicability of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System in …

JT Downer, ML López, K Grimm… - Early Childhood …, 2011 - Elsevier
... this measurement equivalence process is more commonly discussed related to assessment of ...
approach focuses on establishing the predictive validity of classroom measures under a ... Under
the assumption that teacherchild interactions might operate differently in classrooms ...

[PDF] NAME: Carla A. Peterson CURRENT POSITION: Professor Department of Human Development and Family Studies and Associate Dean for Research and …

EC Endorsement - 2008 - nebraska.edu
... Needs and challenges related to disability. ... Luchtel, M., Hughes-Belding, K., Luze, GJ, Bruna,
KR & Peterson, CA, A comparison of teacher-rated classroom conduct, social skills, and
teacher-child relationship quality between preschool English learners and preschool ...

Parent–Teacher Agreement and Reliability on the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA) in English and Spanish for Ethnically Diverse Children Living in …

J Crane, MS Mincic… - Early Education and …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
... Children's behavioural/emotional problems: A comparison of parents' and teachers' reports for ...
Poor communication and a lack of understanding of issues related to learning two ... Several
components of social and emotional skills, such as teacherchild attachment relationships ...

Research Into Practice: Interventions for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers

RP Harlin - 2007 - Taylor & Francis
... regression” at the start of 1st grade than evidenced in the comparison group results ... Learning
Environments —Lower & Cassidy The quality of child care is related to several ... and safety; however,
few studies have examined the relationship between the teacher work environments ...

THE ROLE OF EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG LATINO DUAL LANGUAGE LEARNERS

TG Halle, DC Castro, X Franco… - Latina and Latino …, 2011 - books.google.com
... has shown that positive psychological outcomes for immigrants tend to be related to strong ...
explanatory power in analyses,(2) make use of more appropriate comparison groups, and (3 ... Tak-
ing a proactive role in creating positive teacher-child relationships becomes especially ...

Home environments and young Latino children's school readiness

JAM Farver, Y Xu, S Eppe… - Early Childhood Research …, 2006 - Elsevier
... irritable, critical, and punitive which in turn increases the frequency of conduct disorders in ... also
examined the mediating role of children's interest in literacy-related activities in ... Classroom teachers
rated the children's social behavior and the child assessments were administered ...

Speaking Out for Language Why Language Is Central to Reading Development

DK Dickinson, RM Golinkoff… - Educational …, 2010 - edr.sagepub.com
... The potential for negative effects on classroom practice is made evident by Early ... supportive of
language, in an era of accountability when code-related skills are most ... The relationship between
teacherchild conversations with low-income four-year-olds and grade four language ...

Effects of aggression on achievement: Does conflict with the teacher make it worse?

D Stipek… - Child development, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
... of female teachers, it is difficult to determine whether girls' advantage is related to the ... To assess
the goodness of fit of the models tested, a comparison of the ... Mediational models Finally, we tested
directly whether mean teacherchild conflict or student engagement mediated the ...

Describing oral language opportunities and environments in Head Start and other preschool classrooms

MW Smith… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1994 - Elsevier
... A longitudinal followup comparison of disadvantaged children attending Head Start, no preschool,
and other ... refer to social studies APPENDIX C Coding of Child and Teacher Audiotapes: Content
of ... General Activity Talk is comprised of: Ongoing Activity: Interaction related to the ...

[BOOK] Lessons From Research: What Is the Length of Time it Takes Limited English Proficient Students to Acquire English and Succeed in an All-English Classroom

GN Garcia, PA DiCerbo… - 2000 - ncela.gwu.edu
... skills in classrooms where this goal underlies the instructional approach used by the teacher. ...
moni- tored with consistency to ensure that they are succeeding in comparison to or ... The Impact
Statement and related research and practice reports produced by Center officials are ...

[PDF] Con Cariño: Teacher Caring, Math Self-Efficacy and Math Achievement among Hispanic English Learners

JL Lewis, RK Ream, KM Bocian… - Teachers College …, 2011 - education.ucr.edu
... 7. similar across Latino subgroups matters, because valid group comparisons and related
inferences rely on the ... Based on this comparison and the small likelihood (10%) that the null
hypothesis for ... In short, teacher caring boosts math self-efficacy which, in turn, sparks Hispanic ...

Implementation fidelity of MyTeachingPartner literacy and language activities: Association with preschoolers' language and literacy growth

BK Hamre, LM Justice, RC Pianta, C Kilday… - Early Childhood …, 2010 - Elsevier
... Social–interactionist theories of language acquisition (eg, [Baumwell et al., 1997] , [Chapman,
2000 ... Given that the MTP-LL activities largely center about explicit, teacher-managed instruction ...
however, work on child-level moderators of the effects of classroom interactions suggest ...

[PDF] Hispanic kindergarten students: The relationship between educational, social, and cultural factors and reading readiness in English

E Gouleta… - NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2004 - njrp.tamu.edu
... PALS-K was designed to be administered by teachers in a classroom setting. ... Groups N Mean
Standard Deviation F Level of Significance Significant Pairwise Comparison ... While many factors
may be related to reading readiness in English in Hispanic kindergarten students, this ...

Supporting early oral language skills for English language learners in inner city preschool provision

JE Dockrell, M Stuart… - British Journal of Educational …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
... 1987), small group discussions about stories, key concepts, and related personal experiences ...
Time intervention would differentially improve children's language skills in comparison with the
two ... assistants), who had received various different types of initial 'teacher' education. ...

[PDF] Views of young second language learners on building relationships with peers in an English classroom setting

L El-Khater - 2010 - circle.ubc.ca
... the “osmosis effect” and argues that the process of learning a second language is complex and
is related to a number of factors. ... whom was a Spanish speaking bilingual teacher. As a result
of the cross-case comparison, they ... the teacher to build on this preexisting knowledge. ...

Educators' Perspectives on Instructional Conversations in Preschool Settings

SS Goh, LA Yamauchi… - Early Childhood Education Journal - Springer
... childhood education or a related field that included 12 credit hours in early childhood edu- cation
and other related courses ... Rheta, a teacher of the 4-years-olds, suggested that a consistent
language describing IC could provide a tool for teachers to ... See Table 1 for a comparison ...

A longitudinal study of the social and academic competence of economically disadvantaged bilingual preschool children.

GV Oades-Sese, GB Esquivel, PK Kaliski… - 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
... children de-emphasize autonomy as important to child rearing in comparison to respectfulness ...
The teacher-rated Penn Interactive Peer Play Scale (PIPPS; McWayne, Sekino, Hampton, & ... ie,
play interaction, play disconnection, play disruption) were significantly related to each ...

Teacherchild relationship quality and academic achievement of Chinese American children in immigrant families

J Ly, Q Zhou, K Chu… - Journal of School Psychology, 2012 - Elsevier
... Although researchers have examined how family factors are related to the academic competence ...
n = 18, 8.7%), teacher data were collected from children's classroom teachers from ... SD = standard
deviation, TCRQ = teacherchild relationship quality, T = teacher report, C = child ...

Teacher praise: A functional analysis

J Brophy - Review of educational research, 1981 - rer.sagepub.com
... Unless the students singled out for such "praise" are very immature and teacher dependent, they ...
Praise as Positive Guidance or Avoidance of Criticism A related form of pseudopraise is used ...
this is part of a larger attempt to create a friendly, cooperative classroom atmosphere. ...

Early intervention practices for children with and at risk for delays

L Kaczmarek… - Evidence-based practices and …, 2007 - books.google.com
... Through assessments, the teacher is better able to understand the child's individual talents and
challenges, plan ... 3. Engage English speakers to help integrate the bilingual child into classroom
activities by ... An example of a program that deals with all the issues related to English ...

Predictors and outcomes of early versus later English language proficiency among English language learners

T Halle, E Hair, L Wandner, M McNamara… - Early Childhood …, 2011 - Elsevier
... low parental education, and, among those who are children of immigrants, issues related to their ...
this previous work by looking at developmental trajectories of ELL children in comparison to their ...
self-control, and approaches to learning, and were derived from teacher-reports to ...

At the heart of child care: Predictors of teacher sensitivity in center-based child care

EB Gerber, M Whitebook… - Early Childhood Research …, 2007 - Elsevier
... Related research on neighborhood characteristics and child development has shown the important
role that ... The comparison group (N = 41) not seeking accreditation was selected from a list of ...
Harshness was computed with 9 items measuring the level of teacher punitive and ...

[PDF] Extended Discourse in ASL Between a Deaf Child and Her Teachers in ASL/English Preschool Classrooms: Implications for Literacy Development

RM Ricasa - 2010 - gallaudet.edu
... 229 Implications for Teacher Preparation in Deaf Education ..... 230 ... 186 Table 32 Comparison
of Ann and Her Teachers' Extended Discourse ... The review also includes research that has been
undertaken with deaf children related to ASL, language, and literacy. Page 26. ...

[PDF] Learning to read in a non-native language: The relationship between English oral-language and early literacy skills of kindergarten children in Singapore

LQ Dixon - 2004 - abtassoc.org
... i In loving memory of “Gran”, Florence Miller Coveyou, teacher and world traveler, who continues
to be an inspiration to me Page 4. ii ... me, as a point of comparison. I also would like to thank the
Singapore Minister of Education Mr. Tharman ... Dravidian language related to Tamil. ...

[BOOK] A matter of trust: Connecting teachers and learners in the early childhood classroom

C Howes… - 2002 - books.google.com
... In Part I we describe different kinds of child- teacher relationships, explore how child-teacher
relationships develop and change with attention to conflict and emotions, and describe how
child- teacher relationships are related to classroom learning. ...

[CITATION] Individual Differences and Second Language Acquisition among Low-Income Preschoolers

E Richard - 2007

[PDF] Assessment considerations for young English language learners across different levels of accountability

L Espinosa… - Unpublished paper prepared for The National …, 2006 - first5la.org
... context allows for the comparison of the performance of a given group of children to the ... systems
related to the No Child Left Behind Act (US Department of Education, 2002), ... neighborhood, would
the teacher understand the girl's social strengths and rate her accurately? ...

Children's school readiness in the ECLS-K: Predictions to academic, health, and social outcomes in first grade

E Hair, T Halle, E Terry-Humen, B Lavelle… - Early Childhood …, 2006 - Elsevier
... entry using a person-centered approach; (2) took into account a host of family background and
kindergarten classroom characteristics in order to ... For example, teacher ratings of children's interest,
participation, and attention span in the first grade are related to reading ...

21 Prevention, Early Childhood Intervention, and Implementation Science

M Hanson, J Lieber, K Diamond… - Handbook of youth …, 2009 - books.google.com
... To assess adaptation, one must have a clear standard of comparison that is provided by
implementation measures. ... as particularly descriptive and robust in explaining teachers' level
of implementation, comprising two related to the “Teacher”, three related to “Curriculum ...

Mexican American students and classroom interaction: An overview and critique

KM Losey - Review of Educational Research, 1995 - rer.sagepub.com
... A related interactional difference was in the frequency with which Mexican American and Anglo ...
However, classroom climate and lack of teacher attention bolstered Anglo American children's
self-esteem. ... and at play as opposed to their interaction in the classroom and found that ...

Opportunities Preschool Teachers Use to Offer High Quality Instruction: Investigating Experiences of Professional Development

HB Mudrick - 2012 - digitalcommons.uconn.edu
... Interview procedure. Arrangements were made with each teacher on the date, time, and place ...
their schools during hours in which they were not required to be in the classroom. Page 26. 18 ...
related to the initial question or language and literacy instruction in particular. In ...

Early language and literacy skills in low-income African American and Hispanic children

L Vernon-Feagans, CS Hammer… - Handbook of early …, 2001 - books.google.com
... children in the same class- rooms as the Abecedarian children were positively related to school ...
with the main- stream middle-class same-sex peers chosen as a classroom comparison child
for the ... This kind of poorer interaction between child and teacher may have been at least ...

Examining the effects of schools and neighbourhoods on the outcomes of Kindergarten children in Canada

D Kohen, L Oliver… - International Journal of Speech …, 2009 - informahealthcare.com
... For the current study, we focused on inattention to task, since it related to the child's behaviours ...
r = .41 for Emotional Disorder-Anxiety and Hyperactivity-Inattention; and Pearson r = .45 for
Conduct Disorder-Physical ... The EDI is designed to be completed by the child's teacher. ...

Building consensus: Future directions for research on English language learners at risk for learning difficulties

N Lesaux - The Teachers College Record, 2006 - tcrecord.org
... I am a second grade teacher in a small city in the northeast US I have a Latino ... Although the
findings may be interpreted with respect to a comparison sample of L1 speakers in the ... that up
to 80% of ELLs are Spanish speakers, this has implications for questions related to ELLs ...

Variables involved in personal, social and school adjustment in a sample of preschool-aged children from different cultural backgrounds

MD Calero, A Fernández-Parra, S López-Rubio… - European Journal of … - Springer
... The study also showed that, in comparison to the CBCL, the SDQ was a better ... this study, we found
that parenting practices were related to parent- and teacher-reported behavior. ... parents' disciplinary
practices to correct their child's behavior and all variables related to childhood ...

Diverse perspectives on helping young children build important foundational language and print skills

IW Gaskins… - Reading Research Quarterly, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
... from the author's discussion is relevant qualitative research that suggests that a teacher's goals,
purposes, and ... in Part IV provide a broad per- spective on critical issues related to cultural ... Work
by Xu (1999) ex- plains specific, classroom instructional activities that address English ...

International Reading Association–National Institute for Child Health and Human Development Conference on Early Childhood Literacy Research A Summary of …

CMD Connor… - DE: International Reading Association, 2005 - reading.org
... Comparison of the preceding studies: ... but the research must then be quickly presented in a form
that is relevant and practical for the teacher to use in ... must be satisfied: First, emergent literacy
skills must precede conventional literacy skills; second, the skills must be related to or ...

Teacher preparation for equitable access through the integration of TESOL standards, multiple intelligences and technology

IM Chisholm… - Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
... Poverty is related to access to learning resources, access to technology and school dropout rates ...
primacy of educational goals and the crucial role of the teacher in effective classroom use of ... In
short, the teacher, the goals and the curriculum must determine the use of technology ...

[PDF] The Interface between Self-Efficacy, Life Satisfaction, and Emotional and Informational Support for Korean Learners Acquiring English as a Second Language

CCY Choe - IPP Collection, 2006 - digitalcollections.sit.edu
... it. Modeling is described in terms of social comparison (Bandura, 1986). In other ... the classroom
may be important predictors of school-related functioning. For instance, ... More importantly, this
avoidance is ameliorated in certain classsrooms in which the teacher ...

[PDF] Two-way bilingual immersion: A portrait of quality schooling

BVK Senesac - Bilingual Research Journal, 2002 - gmcec.com
... Heterogeneously grouped students were involved in research projects related to these topics ...
49) who had attended Inter-American for a minimum of five years were disaggregated for
comparison. ... and one of the parents became a teacher for this preschool and the other became ...

[BOOK] National evaluation of Early Reading First final report

RH Jackson - 2007 - books.google.com
... Impact estimates were obtained by comparing child outcomes and teacher practices in funded
sites ... attending preschool in 28 of 30 ERF grantee sites, whereas the comparison group consisted ...
Trained observers measured classroom practice in a subsample of study classrooms ...

[PDF] The relationship between school readiness and school performance in Grade 1 and Grade 4

E van Zyl - South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2011 - general.ujhb.ac.za
... A comparison of school readiness outcomes for children randomly assigned to a head ... intuitive
personal theories which is a product of pre- service teacher's personal experiences ... furthermore
provides a theoretical framework for classroom decision making related to sequencing ...

Teacher Consultation and Coaching Within Mental Health Practice: Classroom and Child Effects in Urban Elementary Schools.

E Cappella, BK Hamre, HY Kim, DB Henry… - 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
... problems.3 On average, target students scored significantly higher than comparison stu- dents ...
(T1) and .87 (T2) (Emotional Support) and .86 (T1 and T2; Classroom Organization ... were measured
on the child subsample (n 154) with the Student-Teacher Relationship Scale (Pianta ...

Exploring the literacy practices of preschool bilingual Spanish-English speaking children

LA Soltero Gonzalez - 2007 - arizona.openrepository.com
... of foreigners rather than on issues related to educational equity and cultural pluralism”
(p.46). Literacy ... the significance and functions of literacy are from the teacher's and the
children's perspectives ... a particular classroom community. This ...

[HTML] Head Start Graduate Student Research Grantees

LM Kallemeyn… - critique - acf.hhs.gov
... A longitudinal follow-up comparison of disadvantaged children attending Head Start, no preschool ...
examined the process through which experiences of immigration are related to children's ... Within
each program, a teacher survey was conducted to measure teachers' feelings of ...

Fostering high-quality teaching with an enriched curriculum and professional development support: The Head Start REDI program

CE Domitrovich, SD Gest, S Gill… - American …, 2009 - aer.sagepub.com
... Third, it is not clear whether educational background or role within the classroom affects a ... Within
each stratified group, centers were randomly assigned to intervention or comparison conditions. ...
Table 1). In both intervention and control classrooms, all but one teacher was female ...

Assessing school readiness: Validity and bias in preschool and kindergarten teachers' ratings

AJ Mashburn… - Educational Measurement: Issues …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
... Meisels, Bickel, Nicholson, Xue, & Atkins-Burnett, 200l), which includes numerous teacher ratings
of ... were addressed: 1. Which directly observed academic and language skills are related to
preschool ... Within each classroom, five chil- dren who were eligible to participate in the ...

THE EFFECT OF CLASSROOM AGE COMPOSITION ON HEAD START PRESCHOOLERS'SCHOOL READINESS

ER Bell - 2010 - etd.library.miami.edu
... skills. Each sub-skill includes a set of items for which the teacher indicates if the skill is ... Approaches
to Learning scale which includes learning-related behaviors such as ... Descriptive Statistics
Descriptive statistics for child- and classroom-level variables can be found in ...

Emergent Spanish writing of a second grader in a whole language classroom

AD de Silva - Sociocultural contexts of language and literacy, 1998 - books.google.com
... The teacher reported that she respected all children and viewed teaching as a privilege because
she ... Further, we can say that dialect is related to gender and age ... Code-switching of bilingual
students in the classroom has been viewed as enhancing learning and communication ...

[PDF] English for Preschool Teachers

M Bilić-Štefan - ufzg.unizg.hr
... d) How do some researchers define language aptitude? e) Where do researchers disagree related
to language aptitude? ... 2. He's interested in the ways the classroom discipline influences learning. ...
4. Adam was told off / reprimanded by his class teacher for being late for school. ...

State of Public Education and the Needs of English Language Learners in the Era of No Child Left Behind, The

WN Myhill - J. Gender Race & Just., 2004 - HeinOnline
... society largely have been expected to learn English and conduct themselves according ... HENRY
A. RHODES, YALE-NEW HAVEN TEACHER'S INSTITUTE, NATIVIST AND RACIST MOVEMENTS
IN ... must systematically and explicitly link equity knowledge to classroom practices ...

[BOOK] The relationship between parental involvement and reading comprehension performance of English language learners

Y Brasel - 2008 - books.google.com
... their own unique experiences in life, whether it is at home, in the classroom or the ... in the ongoing
mental development of their children is as crucial as that of the teacher. ... functions and activities,
and communication with their children concerning school and school-related issues. ...

[CITATION] Classroom research on interlanguage pragmatics

G Kasper - Pragmatics in language teaching, 2001

Associations between center-based care accreditation status and the early educational outcomes of children in the child welfare system

LH Dinehart, L Manfra, LF Katz… - Children and Youth …, 2012 - Elsevier
... Cognitive Counting (CC) subtest asks children to perform tasks generally related to counting ...
Language dominance was determined primarily by the child's teacher and confirmed by the
assessor ... in an accredited center had significantly higher scores than comparison children in ...

[BOOK] The relationship of teacher qualications, quality of care and student achievement outcomes in the Arkansas Better Chance Program

D Honeycutt - 2008 - books.google.com
... 24 ECERS-R Comparison Reported by Study . . ... & Burns, 2000; Howes & Brown, 2000), the trend
in early childhood education is to raise teacher qualifications, with ... 2003a) child development
or related fields Most of these studies have come to the conclusion that a bacheIor's ...

Context and Cognition in Early Childhood Education

E Jacob… - Effective early education: cross-cultural …, 1999 - books.google.com
... valued by the Anglo teacher, who expected “topic-centered” or theme-related narratives typical ...
of student- teacher social interactions as context in a cross-cultural comparison of a ... Analyze input
received from parent-child-teacher conferences, parent-teacher conferences, and ...

Latina Mothers' School Preparation Activities and Their Relation to Children's Literacy Skills

TM Durand - Journal of Latinos and Education, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
... The teacher-child relationship and children's early school adjustment.. ... among study variables
were examined (see Table 1). Mothers' social practices were associated with both classroom
engagement and ... Children's engagement and literacy skills were significantly related. ...

Classroom Emotional Climate, Student Engagement, and Academic Achievement.

MR Reyes, MA Brackett, SE Rivers, M White… - 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
... burnout offer students less information and praise, are less accepting of stu- dents' ideas, and
interact less frequently with students (Travers & Cooper, 1986), all of which may be related to
CEC. Finally, teacher efficacy has been linked to positive classroom climate and ...

[PDF] Teaching reading to middle school English-language learners with learning disabilities in reading: teacher beliefs, experiences, and practices

J Schaller… - 2006 - repositories1.lib.utexas.edu
... in order since it helps to illuminate the challenges inherent in the teacher's task of selecting the
most appropriate reading approach for his/her students with reading-related disabilities. ... and in
their community are incorporated into classroom activities (Franklin, James, & Page 28. ...

Balance in the making: Learning to read in an ethnically diverse first-grade classroom.

J Fitzgerald… - Journal of Educational Psychology, 2000 - psycnet.apa.org
... Data were analyzed using the constant-comparison method. ... A third principle of
balance linked to the teacher's epistemologi- cal outlook was related to the kinds
of reading materials that would be used in the classroom. ...

Three young Korean children's English language learning in two American preschool classrooms

S Yi - 2010 - drum.lib.umd.edu
... approach allows us to ensure comparison and contrast between what people say ... Communicative
competences: The knowledge of linguistic and related communicative conventions that speakers ...
parent and teacher involvement and individual differences, such as the child's ...

[PDF] Efficacy of a Supplemental Kindergarten Reading Vocabulary Intervention for Spanish-Speaking English Learners

JR Nelson, PF Vadasy… - assets.soprislearning.com
... In both studies the low-income children in the book reading groups improved significantly more
than children in the comparison ... The survey asks parents to report their own literacy related
behaviors as well as those of their ... One teacher who participated in the first cohort only did ...

Nipping early risk factors in the bud: Preventing substance abuse, delinquency, and violence in adolescence through interventions targeted at young children (0–8 …

C Webster-Stratton… - Prevention science, 2001 - Springer
... vention interventions that target the child's peer relationships at school and teacher classroom
man- agement ... evidence that they are likely to reduce risk factors related to later substance abuse ...
tal and postnatal period had, in contrast to those in the comparison group (prenatal ...

“Sounding American”: The consequences of new reforms on English language learners

KD Gutiérrez, J Asato, M Pacheco… - Reading Research …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
... The con- clusions very clearly indicate that these policies and related practices have spawned
new ... I went to one center to observe the teacher and the students, the teacher just looked ... as Texas
has, discrediting the cul- tural and linguistic assets students bring to the classroom. ...

Roles of definitional and assessment models in the identification of new or second language learners of English for special education

M Barrera - Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2006 - ldx.sagepub.com
... being assessed, using tasks and content that the stu- dent has encountered in the classroom. ...
This model is based on the teacher (or assessment specialist) gath- ering data on baseline ...
obtained from CBM would not add significantly to explaining the disability-related basis for ...

[BOOK] Learning from teachers serving preschool English language learners: Perspectives on integrating home language and culture

JM Bezdicek - 2008 - books.google.com
... specialized) for every 10 ELLs had received pre-or in-service training related to teaching ... 1. How
are the early childhood teachers integrating home language and culture in their classroom? ...
English as a second language, socially constructed learning, and the role of the teacher. ...

Using digital technologies to redress inequities for English language learners in the English speaking mathematics classroom

B Freeman - Computers & Education, 2011 - Elsevier
... of the key variables in the study; namely, math ability and the related language and ... The SIOP
model, however, is a classroom-based, teacher-implemented model (Freeman & Crawford ... will
vary class to class and teacher to teacher, depending on teacher quality and resources. ...

[PDF] Proposed Guidelines for Implementing the Early Years Bilingual English-Arabic Program

…, DH Teacher - 2009 - eslteachersboard.com
... What does this mean for the teacher? ... A related myth concerns the best time to start language
instruction. ... The investigators in this study, the largest single study of children learning a second
language in a formal classroom setting, concluded that older children are better second ...

Teaching English Language Learners: A Comparison of Dual Immersion and English as a Second Language Programs

E Harless - 2011 - dukespace.lib.duke.edu
... a. Context and Program Logistics b. School Data c. Interviews i. Teacher Background and ... To
assess various outcomes of a Dual Immersion program, including classroom environment and ...
through Dual Immersion, their scores increased over the comparison students in the TBE ...

Developing Early Literacy Skills Things We Know We Know and Things We Know We Don't Know

CJ Lonigan… - Educational Researcher, 2010 - edr.sagepub.com
... analyses, and when there were sufficient subgroup data to allow comparison we found ... is less
evidence concerning effective instructional strategies for other meaning-related skills such as ...
words, and engaging in meaningful and extended language interactions with the teacher. ...

English-Language Learners Key Issues

RR Verdugo… - Education and Urban Society, 2007 - eus.sagepub.com
... Rather, effective schools conduct empirical research about the community and use that information
as resources in ... Thus, the same race student-to-teacher ratio in California for African Americans
is 2 ... The research reality casts its eyes on issues related to average time to exit or ...

[PDF] Meeting the Needs of English Learners with Disabilities

J Butterfield… - 2010 - sbcselpa.org
... Districts that do not adhere to federal regulations related to English learners may be at risk of
losing their Title III funds. ... Question: May a special education teacher provide English Language
Development (ELD) services to EL students in their classroom or on their caseload ...

[BOOK] English language learners in your classroom: Strategies that work

E Kottler, JA Kottler… - 2007 - books.google.com
... There has been, and continues to be, much dis- cussion in the field related to selection of ... as a
way to describe those students whose English is limited in comparison to what ... The Value of
Relationship Skills Relationship skills are not often taught in teacher preparation programs ...

… Education to Special Education Resource Rooms Identification, Assessment, and Eligibility Determinations for English Language Learners With Reading-Related

YJ Liu, AA Ortiz, CY Wilkinson… - Assessment for …, 2008 - aei.sagepub.com
... at 3, 4, or 5 years old; and (c) were receiving reading instruction in a BSE classroom at the ... ELLs
With Reading-Related Disabilities 183 ... Using equivalent instruments and procedures across
languages allows comparison of the student's performance in one language versus the ...

Early Years Education: Perspecitves from a Review of the International Literature

C Stephen - 2006 - dspace.stir.ac.uk
... However, she points out that it is more difficult to carry out well-designed studies of the
long-term effects of large-scale programmes and conduct randomised trials on the ... care routines,
opportunities for learning and teacher responsiveness) is related to pre ...

[PDF] Meeting the Needs of English Learners with Disabilities Resource Book

J Butterfield - smcoe.k12.ca.us
... 3 • IDEA & State Legal Requirements Related to Identification of ... understands the phrase "get
your crayon." By slightly altering the phrase to "get my crayons," the teacher can provide ... Examples
are a conversation on the playground or simple yes/no questions in the classroom. ...

[PDF] Language Environments in Toddler Classrooms: The Contribution of Setting, Teacher, and Child Variables

MC Hickey - 2010 - conservancy.umn.edu
... teacher talk in the classroom has also been shown to be an indicator of the level of environmental
stimulation and is related to children's learning and development ... Teacher Belief. Teacher's
philosophies about how children learn and develop, ... classroom decisions. Summary ...

Felipe's Story in Response To The National Research Council Report

LL Grupp - … for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2004 - mv.ddel.metapress.com
... issues related to linguistic diversity and dispropor- tionate representation. ... I noted that Felipe's
oral lan- guage skills were extremely well developed in comparison to his ... used his strengths to
complete the water wheel assignment, an effective bilingual or ESL teacher would build ...

PRINT AWARENESS OF THE PRE-SCHOOL BILINGUAL SPANISH-ENGLISH SPEAKING CHILD.

GG Romero - 1983 - arizona.openrepository.com
... knowledge of 25 four- and five-year old Spanish-English bilingual child- ren and to see if
differences among the children are related to home ... a start and the teacher as well as the child
can be more relaxed. ... Forester (1977), from her own classroom observations, has conclu- ...

[PDF] The inequitable treatment of English learners in California's public schools

P Gandara… - 2002 - escholarship.org
... Moreover, when the teacher does not speak the language of the child, cannot communicate
with the child's family, and has little other ... (SDAIE), and English language development.
(ELD) Thus, these teachers have skills in a ... teacher preparation. ...

[PDF] Linking Home-Based Child Care And State-Funded Preschool: The Community Connections

P Banghart, JL Kreader, N Forry, R Anderson… - 2011 - nccp.org
... based care well into the program year, but not an opportunity for comparison with care at ... Each
of these teachers had a secondary degree (Associate's, Bachelor's, or Master's) related to early ...
Most parents indicated that they liked the center teacher and thought their child did as ...

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