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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Head Start classrooms"”.
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The Incorporation of Emergent Literacy into Head Start Classrooms
… federal legislation outlines requirements for Head Start programs with regard to specific activities that should be promoted to enhance children's emergent literacy skills. This study asked teachers from 318 Head Start programs in the Southeast United States to complete a survey that asked …
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Evaluating the Independent Group Contingency: “Mystery Student” on Improving Behaviors in Head Start Classrooms
… exhibit challenging behavior in the classroom. Head Start children are particularly at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders due to numerous risk factors. Unfortunately, some preschool teachers are ill equipped to manage the challenging behaviors that preschool children exhibit. The …
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Teachers' perceptions and experiences around creating a sense of belonging in head start classrooms
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Generalization of Teachers' Use of Effective Instruction Delivery Following In Situ Training
… of <em>in situ </em>training for increasing Head Start teachers’ use of effective instruction delivery in Head Start classrooms while evaluating concomitant increases in Head Start students’ compliance was examined in the current study. Of further interest was the extent to which Head Start …
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Social Sprouts: A Play-Based Packaged Intervention - Improving Peer Interactions in Early Childhood Classrooms with a Novel Group Contingency
… nonconcurrent multiple baseline design in three Head Start classrooms to evaluate the effect of this packaged intervention delivered just before and during play-based center activities. Lastly, social validity data were collected to better understand the teachers’ perceptions of feasibility, …
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Effectiveness of Story Enactments Versus Art Projects in Facilitating Preschool Children's Story Comprehension
… enactment instruction. Twenty children from two Head Start classrooms were told the stories as a class, and then participated in either an art project (AP) or story enactment (SE) in small groups. The children in each classroom each heard three stories followed by the AP condition, and three …
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The nature of teacher-child interactions in emotion discourse
… patterns within teacher-child interactions in Head Start classrooms during emotion discourse?; and (c) What are the Head Start staff’s (teachers and administrators) perspectives of the role emotion discourse plays in the classroom? The study demonstrated that bookreading elicited more emotion …
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Examination of Head Start students' and teachers' attitudes and behaviors toward trying new foods as part of a social marketing campaign
… before and after the intervention. Setting: Head Start classrooms throughout Virginia. Participants: 177 preschool Head Start teachers and 1534 children. Intervention(s): Food Friends, a twelve-week social marketing campaign, was conducted by Head Start teachers during the Spring 2007, …
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Adapting parent -child interaction therapy to train Head Start teachers in behavior management
… with difficult behavior in non-specialized classrooms. Unfortunately, teachers report that they have not been trained adequately to work with children who exhibit extreme behaviors. It is important, therefore, that effective methods of training teachers are empirically investigated. In …
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Risk, family functioning, and child competence in head start families
… were 25 preschoolers who were enrolled in Head Start programs in Southern New England and their families. Parents completed self-report questionnaires that provided information on 10 risk factors, including family functioning. Observer reports of family functioning were also obtained during …
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An Exploration of Teachers’ Early Childhood Guidance Beliefs and Practice within Early Learning Classrooms
… Scoring System, Pre-K (CLASS Pre-K) for 46 Head Start and 10 non-Head Start classrooms within a metropolitan area. Correlations and hierarchical multiple regressions were computed to assess the strength of the relationships between predictor and criterion variables. Research question 1 asked …
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A Quasi-Experiment Examining Expressive and Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge of Preschool Head Start Children Using Mobile Media Apps
… beginning to incorporate mobile media into their classrooms, they are struggling with the ability to use these devices in developmentally appropriate ways (Marklund, 2015; Nuttall, Edwards, Mantilla, Grieshaber, & Wood, 2015). The primary purpose of the present study was to examine the efficacy of …
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Promoting Preschool Teachers’ Maintenance and Generalization of Behavior-Specific Praise Through Multitiered Consultation
… used a multiple-baseline design across three Head Start teachers to test the effectiveness of the multitiered consultation model in increasing teachers’ BSP. The Head Start center provided a universal training in classroom management strategies, including BSP. Three teachers who were not …