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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Teacher-child relationships"”.
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Preschool teacher-child relationships: an exploratory study of attachment models over time
This exploratory study examined the nature of the relationships between two preschool teachers and four of the children in their care. Of particular interest was the influence of primary attachment models or mental representations of each individual, on the interactions between teachers and …
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The role of teacher-child relationships in characterizing early mother-child attachment influences on behavior problems in preschool
… to examine the mediating and moderating role of teacher-child relationships in characterizing early mother-child attachment influences on behavior problems in preschool. The study used the data from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's (NICHD) Early child Care Research …
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‘Where there is a caring teacher, there is a compassionate school’: poor children's experiences of wellbeing and teacher-child relationships in Mumbai, India
… explores socio-economically disadvantaged children's lived experiences of ‘wellbeing’ and 'care' in an Indian school, in order to offer fresh perspectives on child wellbeing in resource-constrained settings and children's own views on teacher support for vulnerable learners. On a small …
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An Exploration of Teachers’ Early Childhood Guidance Beliefs and Practice within Early Learning Classrooms
Child guidance approaches, models, and strategies impact the quality of the classroom environment through teacher-child interactions, positive and negative climates, and the development of self-regulation and autonomy. Teacher beliefs about guidance and their actual guidance practices impact …
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Contextual and Dispositional Influences on Low-Income Children's School Adjustment
Examination of child temperament and early adult-child relationships is of vital importance to children's socio-emotional development, school success, and the prevention of future problem behaviors. In response, the current project examined the interaction of parenting style, child temperament, and …
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Teacher-Child Interaction Therapy: Efficacy with a Clinical Preschool Population
Teacher-Child Interaction Therapy (TCIT), which is an adaptation of the empirically-based treatment of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), addresses the needs of children and teachers through increasing positive teacher-child interactions while educating teachers on effective discipline …
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Children's Relationships With Peers and Teachers: Assessment, Linkages Between Relationship Systems, and Associations With School Adjustment
A sample of 345 second- and third-grade children participated in the present study, designed to examine both measurement and conceptual issues relevant to children's teacher-child and peer relationships and how these relationships were associated with school adjustment. First, the psychometric …
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Understanding School Readiness: The Interacting Roles of Executive Function and Teacher-Child Relationship Quality
… of school readiness: executive function (EF) and teacher-child relationship quality. School readiness is an indicator of a child’s preparedness for school prior to kindergarten entry. School readiness includes young children’s early academic skills, such as counting and recognizing letters, as …
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Teaching social competence in young children: A study of one preschool teacher's beliefs and practice
… it, I focus on several issues, such as what the teacher Betty's beliefs about social competence are, where they are derived from, how they shape her teacher-child relationships, and how they guide her teaching of social competence and the teaching of children with special needs. During the …
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The Impact of Early Teacher Bias and Academic Risk on Children’s Current and Future Academic Achievement
… academic achievement gap continues to plague child academic outcomes in American public schools and teacher bias may be a contributing factor. Through the theoretical lens of critical race theory and the cultural synchrony hypothesis, this study contemplated how longstanding racism in the US …
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The Impact of The 101s: A Guide to Positive Discipline Teacher Training on Teacher Interaction Practices, Teacher-Child Relationship Quality, School Adjustment, and Academic Outcomes in Kindergarten Classrooms in Bangkok, Thailand
… the United States shows the impact of positive teacher interactions on teacher-child relationship quality and beneficial school outcomes for young children, it is not clear how Thai children would respond to the kind of interactional and social-emotional practices of American teachers. In this …
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Children's Relationships With Parents, Teachers, and Peers: Linkages With Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior
Examined children's relationships with parents, teachers, and peers and associations with emotional and behavioral adjustment in kindergarten. Parent-child relationships were differentially associated with withdrawn behavior, aggressive behavior, and loneliness. Relationships with teachers and …
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The nature of teacher-child interactions in emotion discourse
Emotions find their meanings within human relationships that permit emotions to be experienced, expressed, and explored. Social and emotional competence, marked by an understanding, expression, and control of emotion, is one of the hallmarks of emotional discourse—demonstrated in the very nature of …
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The role of relationship quality in vocabulary acquisition : evidence from Spanish-speaking preschoolers
… requires frequent social interactions in which children receive input, practice opportunities, and feedback (Duursma et al., 2007), which influence children's subsequent vocabulary skills. For dual language learners, skills in both languages are a reflection of the quantity and quality of …
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The Examination of Protective Factors between Corporal Punishment and Adolescent Aggression
Objectives The development of aggression from childhood to adulthood is well-researched, and extant work has identified a large number of developmental risk factors within the individual, family, and social domains. Among them, poor parenting, including harsh practices like corporal punishment, …
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Understanding Teachers' Experiences Working with Young Children from Diverse Cultural and Linguistic Backgrounds
… study was to illuminate the experiences of six teachers in southwestern Virginia who are working with toddlers and preschoolers from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. These young children were those whose first language is not English and their parents were from countries other than …
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Examining Relationships in Head Start: Relations among Risk, Relationships, Child Characteristics, and Social and Academic Outcomes
Quality teacher-child and teacher-parent relationships may function to protect young high-risk children from developing poor social and academic outcomes. The current study uses Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory to conceptualize the relationships between risk, teacher-child and teacher-parent …