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Preschool teachers’ transition practices and parents’ perceptions as predictors of involvement and children’s school readiness

Children and youth services review, 2020
Preschool teachers can help support families and children successfully transition to kindergarten by utilizing transition practices that support parental involvement and create smooth linkages between early care settings and formal schooling ...
Jaime Puccioni, J. Froiland, Mariola Moeyaert   +2 more
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Teacher professional development among preschool teachers in rural China

, 2020
Early childhood education (ECE) is not given as much attention as primary and secondary education in rural areas in China, and rural preschool teachers lack opportunities to receive high quality and appropriate pre-service and in-service professional ...
Yi Yang, N. Rao
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Estonian preschool teachers' views on learning in preschool

Early Child Development and Care, 2013
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 ...
Aino Ugaste, Maire Tuul, Katrin Niglas, Evelyn Neudorf   +3 more
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The interplay between preschool teachers' science self-efficacy beliefs, their teaching practices, and girls' and boys' early science motivation

Learning and Individual Differences, 2019
Children develop motivational beliefs about science in their preschool years and these beliefs are considered important precursors of children's future science motivation.
Elisa Oppermann, Martin Brunner, Y. Anders   +2 more
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Preschool teachers' perspectives on planning and documentation in preschool

Early Child Development and Care, 2014
This article is based on a research project focusing on Norwegian teachers' planning and documentation of children's learning in preschool. Norwegian preschools follow a national curriculum and teachers are obliged to document both professional practice and learning outcomes. The aim of the article is to investigate teachers' experiences of challenges,
Torgeir Alvestad, Sonja Sheridan
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Investigating U.S. Preschool Teachers’ Math Teaching Knowledge in Counting and Numbers

, 2020
Research Findings: The aim of this study was to investigate U.S. preschool teachers’ math teaching knowledge in a specific content domain: counting and numbers.
Xia Li
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AN ANALYSIS OF THE PRESCHOOL TEACHERS' VIEWS ON ALPHA GENERATION

, 2020
This research aims to identify the characteristics of alpha generation students from the lens of pre-school teachers. In this regard, the research questioned whether there was a difference between alpha generation and Z generation students in terms of ...
Çiğdem Apaydın, Feyza Kaya
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Emotional labor strategies and job burnout in preschool teachers: Psychological capital as a mediator and moderator

Work, 2019
BACKGROUND: Preschool teachers can easily become exhausted and worn out, otherwise known as job burnout. Studies have explored the effects of emotional labor strategies and psychological capital on job burnout; however, few have examined their trilateral
Jiaxi Peng, Ye He, Jing Deng, Lulu Zheng, Yi Chang, Xianqiang Liu   +5 more
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The Role of Preschools and Preschool Teachers: Icelandic preschool educators' discourses

Early Years, 2003
The purpose of the study was to investigate how preschool teachers in Iceland view early childhood education and the professional preschool teacher. Focus groups consisting of early childhood educators in Iceland were interviewed. Each of four focus groups comprised educators who held similar positions.
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Preschool teachers’ beliefs about and instruction for writing

Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2019
Early writing—a valuable early literacy skill—begins to develop prior to kindergarten. Young children participating in preschool benefit from writing opportunities facilitated by teachers.
Hope K. Gerde, Tanya S. Wright, Gary E. Bingham   +2 more
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