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Qualifications for Head Start Teachers
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Head Start Social Services: Experiences, Perceptions, And Benefits From the Perspective of Head Start Mothers
Project Head Start, a federal child development program for low-income families,serves both the mother and her children. Previous studies have emphasized Head Start's influence on the child in terms of cognitive gains, social development, and social-emotional development. A continuing problem to …
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Exploration into the head start fade phenomenon
<p>The Head Start fade effect, documented since the 1970s, finds that students who make gains in I.Q. and social skills in the Head Start program later see those positive effects diminish in the early years of schooling and disappear altogether by the end of third grade. The hypothesis proposed in …
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The Effects of Head Start on Cognitive Development
<p>The purpose of this study was to compare Head Start students with non-Head Start students in first grade to see if there were significant differences in cognitive achievement. A posttest only design was used, and a factorial analysis of variance was used as the statistical analysis at the .05 …
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Mindfulness and Work-Related Functioning Among Head Start Staff
… these programs are in achieving their goals. Head Start, the nation’s largest publicly-funded early childhood education program, is based on a service model that provides educational, social, and health services through center-based classrooms and/or home visits to low-income children, from …
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An Assessment of School Adjustment in Head Start Children
… model of school adjustment in a sample of Head Start children (N = 36). Past research examining school adjustment in low-income children has failed to address all of the components of school adjustment while often employing the same reporter (the teacher) for both predictor and outcome …
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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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Inclusion in Context: Teachers Perspectives in Head Start Program
… and interaction patterns of both the DSC and Head Start teachers are keys to understanding inclusive practices.
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Assessing the Parent Involvement Component of a Head Start Program
Head Start, a federally funded preschool program that provides a diverse array of services to children ages three to five years, strongly emphasizes the importance of parent involvement in its program. The purpose of the present study was to examine Head Start parents' perceptions of the parent …
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Methods and Techniques of Training Social Competency in Head Start
<p>This study was conducted to determine Kentucky Head Start teachers' perceptions about fostering social competency in preschool children. In addition, current techniques that teachers use to enhance social competency in students were examined. Information was gathered through a survey mailed to …
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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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The Relationship Between Giftedness And Resiliency Among Head Start Children
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Parent involvement in Migrant Head Start : parental beliefs and teacher practices
… Mexican origin with children enrolled in Migrant Head Start. Under investigation were parent and teacher beliefs and practices pertaining to involvement in the child's early schooling context. An ethnography approach and modified grounded theory approach was chosen which involved in-depth …
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