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This paper describes kindergarten teachers' professional training and their social status in Korea. It describes the historical development of Korea's kindergarten teacher training system and pedagogical methods. Furthermore, the paper discusses the unequal social status of kindergarten teachers.
Published: 2009
Updated: Oct. 28, 2009
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The study empirically assessed one community's efforts to close the literacy's gap between its advantaged and disadvantaged children. Over a 3-year period, a grassroots venture consisting of business, university and public school personnel provided teachers in 22 California state preschool classrooms with a literacy-rich curriculum. They also provided the teachers with weekly support from a literacy coach and professional development on early literacy acquisition and instruction.
Published: 2009
Updated: Apr. 06, 2009
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The article examines how teaching practices contribute to the variance in test scores on a broad scale or on whether the relation of instruction to test scores is moderated by social and economic inequalities among students. The result suggests that minimizing the social inequities that contribute to the adverse effects of poverty will play a greater role in closing the poverty score gaps in mathematics in elementary grades.
Published: 2009
Updated: Mar. 18, 2009
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The review focuses on intervention studies that tested whether parent-child reading activities would enhance children's acquisition of reading from kindergarten to Grade 3.The combined results for the 16 intervention studies, representing 1,340 families, showed that parent involvement has a positive effect on children's reading acquisition.
Published: 2008
Updated: Mar. 05, 2009
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This article presents findings from a recent qualitative study of two veteran kindergarten teachers' challenges on challenges facing kindergarten teachers as a result of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The Findings show how teachers are managing their relationships with the first-grade teachers at their school and with their students' parents.
Published: 2008
Updated: Sep. 04, 2008
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The study conducted in Israel, explores the beginner kindergarten teachers and their experiences and career issues. Based on semi-structures interviews, with 15 Israeli kindergarten teachers, the teachers' determinants factors were much similar to their counterparts in the school system, except for three parts: the assistant, the supervisor and the parents. Those where to have much influence, either positive or negative, on beginning kindergarten teachers’ task accomplishment, success and well-being.
Published: 2007
Updated: Jun. 17, 2008
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A two-year project was introduced to Hong Kong kindergarten teachers where they were asked to created collaborative videos about models of good practices, following effective teaching episodes with peer teachers. Findings suggest that the use of a collaborative project activated the teachers' creativity and sensitivity in giving the children's learning a first priority in their pedagogy.
Published: 2007
Updated: Jan. 24, 2008