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Diane M. Horm-Wingerd David A. Caruso Sheryl Gomes-Atwood Julianna Golas 《Early childhood research quarterly》1997,12(4):407-424
Head Start Teaching Centers are a national demonstration project designed to provide participatory training in all Head Start component areas within the context of an exemplary Head Start program. Each Teaching Center employs an independent evaluation to study this alternative approach to Head Start staff development. This paper presents the results of the outcome evaluation for the first year of the New England Head Start Teaching Center. The New England Head Start Teaching Center was designed to provide intensive training during a 3 or 5 day period of residence at the Teaching Center. This paper briefly describes the national Head Start Teaching Center model, the implementation of this model in the New England region, the outcome evaluation plan, and the results from the first year of training. The analyses of year one data indicated that training provided by the New England Head Start Teaching Center produced significant gains. As compared to similar Head Start employees who did not participate in training, both trainees and their supervisors reported significant gains in trainees' knowledge, skills, and expertise after participating in the New England Head Start Teaching Center training. 相似文献
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Based on Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, this qualitative study examined the impact of home visits on a group
of six Head Start educators. Each participant conducted two home visits. For the first home visit, participants were not provided
any guidance. On the second visit, participants were provided a handout with questions intended to guide their visit. The
participants were asked to document, in a reflective journal, their feelings and attitudes toward the children’s families
on two visits. Additionally, participants commented on their teaching beliefs and practice as impacted by their home visit.
Results of the study indicated that home visits enabled participants to see the families and children that they work with
from a different and more positive perspective. The guided home visit questions allowed participants to better understand
children and their families from historical and cultural perspectives. Also, participants were better able to create a more
multicultural learning environment and lesson plans for their children. 相似文献
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The ENVISION professional development model uses active teacher involvement in inquiry and inquiry‐based teaching to enhance teachers' understandings about inquiry‐based study of local environmental problems and teaching science using inquiry. Teachers also design and implement professional development for their school‐based colleagues about teaching environmental science through inquiry. Therefore, professional development is conducted at two levels. ENVISION staff train teachers directly (called Level I participants) and these Level I participants in turn train their school colleagues (called Level II participants). The study reported here was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of this dual‐level professional development strategy. Results based on the first two years of the program revealed that: Level I participants enhanced their understanding of inquiry and inquiry teaching, with 25 out 30 (83%) changing their classroom practice; and that 21 out of 31 (68%) of Level II participants changed their classroom practice as a result of participating in Level I peer training. Peer training that involved modeling and practicing techniques and activities was particularly effective in producing change in practice for Level II teachers. 相似文献
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Baker CN Kupersmidt JB Voegler-Lee ME Arnold DH Willoughby MT 《Early childhood research quarterly》2010,25(3):270-283
Preschools provide a promising setting in which to conduct preventive interventions for childhood problems, but classroom programs can only be effective if teachers are willing and able to implement them. This study is one of the first to investigate predictors of the frequency of teacher participation in a classroom-based, randomized controlled trial of an integrated prevention program for preschoolers. The intervention was designed to promote school readiness with an integrated social and academic program, to be implemented by teachers with the support of classroom consultants. The current study is part of a larger project conducted with Head Start and community child care centers that serve primarily economically disadvantaged families; 49 teachers from 30 centers participated in this study. Overall, teachers conducted approximately 70% of the program activities. Participation decreased significantly over time from the first to the final week of the intervention, and also decreased within each week of the intervention, from the first to the final weekly activity. Teachers working at community child care centers implemented more intervention activities than did Head Start teachers. Teacher concerns about the intervention, assessed prior to training, predicted less participation. In addition, teachers' participation was positively related to their perception that their centers and directors were supportive, collegial, efficient, and fair, as well as their job satisfaction and commitment. Teacher experience, education, ethnicity, and self-efficacy were not significantly related to participation. In multi-level models that considered center as a level of analysis, substantial variance was accounted for by centers, pointing to the importance of considering center-level predictors in future research. 相似文献
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Profiles of change in motivation for teaching in higher education at an American research university
Adalet B. Gunersel Avi Kaplan Pamela Barnett Mary Etienne Annette R. Ponnock 《Teaching in Higher Education》2016,21(6):628-643
The current study employed an emergent theoretical model of teaching role identity and motivation to investigate the change in conception of and motivation for teaching in higher education of research graduate students who teach in the United States. Fifteen participants took a graduate-level seminar as part of a two-course teaching professional development (PD) program. Qualitative content analysis of the participants’ pre-seminar and post-seminar reflective essays focused on change in the theoretical model’s components – participants’ goals, self-perceptions, epistemological beliefs, and action possibilities – and their alignment. The findings suggested four kinds of change in each component, ranging from dramatic change to reversed change, as well as three general profiles of change labeled ‘Transformation,’ ‘Elaboration’, and ‘Stagnation’. The model proved useful in conceptualizing the change in participants’ teaching-related conceptions and motivation and could provide a guide for future research on teaching motivation and for designing and evaluating teaching PD in higher education. 相似文献
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a project designed to empower fathers to take a more active role
in their child’s academic literacy development. The fathers were parents of children enrolled in Early Head Start or Head
Start programs. Data sources included transcribed interviews with fathers, the facilitator’s journal, and field notes compiled
by the researchers. Findings in three areas emerged from the data: the fathers became increasingly committed to the literacy
development of their children; participants learned about and regularly engaged in a variety of emergent literacy activities
with their children; and participants developed confidence in their roles as agents for change in their children’s lives. 相似文献
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作为对美国幼儿教育影响最深,以帮助3～5岁贫困幼儿并消除与其他儿童入学前的差异而最终实现教育机会平等为目的开端计划,在师资配置上主要是吸收家长作为其主要的职员,加以各种类型的职前、职后培训,形成了支持开端计划强大的师资力量。以开端计划中幼儿师资力量的概况和开端计划师资队伍建设的特色,分析我国幼儿师资队伍建设存在的问题,并对目前幼儿师资队伍建设提出建议。 相似文献
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Jo Breda Mieke Clement Kim Waeytens 《International Journal for Academic Development》2013,18(1-2):91-104
The evaluation of a first step implementation of an interactive training program for beginning faculty is presented. The training program is based on the principles of full recognition of the subjective theory of the faculty and establishing an equal relationship between the faculty and the trainer.To evaluate the actual implementation of the model questionnaires on the implementation of the two principles, participants’ reactions to the training and fulfilment of expectations towards the training were used. The results of the training are assessed with questionnaires on the learning of the participants, their expected use of knowledge and skills, their expected development and a pre and post measurement of instructional beliefs. The results show that the interactive model of faculty training was implemented and seems appropriate for training beginning faculty. The goals of the training were attained, except for directional change in instructional beliefs of the faculty. It is hypothesised that global changes in instructional beliefs can only be measured after a longer period. 相似文献
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This paper considers the case of the Michigan Migrant Head Start program to describe and analyze the labor market conditions and teaching staff characteristics to identify the challenges faced by Migrant Head Start grantees in attracting, hiring, retaining, and training degreed teachers. The emphasis is on describing and analyzing the child care labor market characteristics that confront Migrant Head Start grantees in upstream locations and on describing the characteristics and opinions of Migrant Head Start teachers and interpreting their significance for developing educational programs that facilitate the ability of Migrant Head Start teachers to become degreed in early childhood education. The implications of the findings for making early childhood education work for Migrant Head Start teachers are discussed from the perspective of administrators of Migrant Head Start programs and teacher preparation programs at community colleges and universities. 相似文献
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This qualitative study of three Head Start Centers analyzed surveys, interviews, and focus group data to determine how education coordinators, teachers, and teacher assistants believed professional development activities could support teamwork at their centers. The researchers sorted data related to teamwork into four categories: knowledge and understanding of teachers’ trajectories, how teachers referred to one another, frequency and quality of communication, and evidence of shared philosophy. A climate of trust, respect, open communication and clear organization emerged as important for the risk taking necessary for teachers to learn together. This climate depended on leadership that was willing to take on challenges, innovate, and make room for teacher autonomy. Teamwork thrived in a program that purposely built relationships among staff through opportunities for communication, the development of a shared philosophy, and the possibility of being known and feeling known by colleagues and supervisors. When administrators solicited and used teachers’ feedback about professional development, the teachers felt themselves a valued part of the teaching community. 相似文献
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实践取向是当前教师培训的一个重要趋势。改变传统教师培训"三中心"的授受模式,让参训者走进中小学真实的教育现场、构建研修共同体、走近实践者、对话名师名校长,是情境学习理念和方法在教师培训模式改革与创新中的重要体现,凸显了现代教师培训所追求的实践性、针对性和实效性。 相似文献
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Smadar Ben-Asher 《Journal of Experimental Education》2013,81(4):680-695
Recent emphasis on research productivity in teacher-education institutions has intensified the inherent tension in faculty members’ roles as both educators and researchers. We adopt the framework of social representations theory to explore identity perceptions among teacher-educators whose organization required them to take on the identity of “researcher.” The study relies on qualitative content analysis of data from eight focus groups (n?=?100) comprising faculty members at an Israeli teachers’ training college that transitioned into an academic research institution. We observe that, in the wake of the organizational change, participants abandoned the traditional hegemonic representation of the centrality of pedagogy and accepted new representations combining teaching and research. Yet few participants identified with the new representation on a personal level, and pedagogy continued to constitute the essence of their work. 相似文献
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Ronald W. Henderson Rosemary A Swanson 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》1978,26(4):301-312
Head Start preschoolers on an isolated Papago reservation in southern Arizona were subjects of two studies of the effects
of televised instruction and directed participation on teaching enumeration and conservation skills. Television instruction
was most effective when used with active, directed participation and corrective feedback, but this, as well as amount and
skills learned, varied with age. The televised segments used linear sequencing rather than the fragmented approach of Sesame
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This research was supported in part by grant OCD-CB-479 from the Children’s Bureau, Office of Child Development, U.S. Office
of Education. The authors appreciate the cooperation and participation of the Papago Tribe and the staffs of Head Start centers
at San Xavier, Sells, and Pisinimo, Arizona. Special thanks are extended to Thora Schultz, who facilitated liaison on the
Papago Reservation, and Margie Francisco, Elizabeth Siqueros, Edith Manuel, Pat Mendez, Elaine Williams, and Irma Dean Edmund,
who contributed to instructional development and data collection. 相似文献
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李凤德 《江苏广播电视大学学报》2011,(6):12-14
电大参与社区教育具有系统办学、教学资源、网络技术、教学管理等方面的优势。市级电大在社区教育中要成为多个中心,必须转变思想观念,加强理论研究,强化平台与资源建设,拓宽培训领域,提升服务社区教育的能力与水平。 相似文献
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ABSTRACTThis study examines the relationship between one approach to training new online instructors and the ways in which the program influenced their beliefs about and attitudes about teaching online over time. The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) model serves as the theoretical framework for analyzing three primarily qualitative sources of data including (1) participants’ program application essays, (2) post-training program evaluation data; and (3) a follow-up survey of instructors after they delivered their redesigned course online. Findings reveal that, prior to and immediately following the training, instructors were highly optimistic about their course redesign and skill/knowledge development. After teaching the course online, participants were less optimistic and less satisfied with their training experience than they had been immediately prior to or following the training. Multiple instructors cited a need for additional or continued training and support. 相似文献
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Stephanie C. Smith 《The Urban Review》2012,44(5):571-588
There is a distinct class difference in the way that children are taught school behavior. Teachers in affluent schools use more implicit teaching techniques while teachers of low-income children are more explicit in their teaching of behavior. This stems largely from the alignment of the home culture of middle class children to school behavior and the difference between the home culture of low-income children to school codes. However, middle class children learn behavior at home implicitly. This study examines the possibility of low-income children learning school behavior implicitly while at school. The researcher observed two Chicago Head Start centers??one using implicit instruction and one teaching behavior explicitly??over a period of 5?months. Observational data showed that the children that learned school behavior through implicit teaching techniques better internalized school behavior and, by extension, middle class codes. 相似文献