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Fostering high-quality teaching with an enriched curriculum and professional development support: the head start REDI program

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Domitrovich, Celene E., Gest, Scott D., Gill, Sukhdeep, Bierman, Karen L., Welsh, Janet A., Jones, Damon·2009·American Educational Research Journal

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This randomized controlled trial tested whether teaching quality in Head Start classrooms could be improved with the addition of evidence-based curriculum components targeting emergent language or literacy and social-emotional development and the provision of associated professional development support. Participants were lead and assistant teachers in 44 Head Start classrooms. Teachers received 4 days of workshop training along with weekly in-class support from a mentor teacher. End-of-year observations indicated that compared with the control group, intervention teachers talked with children more frequently and in more cognitively complex ways, established a more positive classroom climate, and used more preventive behavior-management strategies. Results supported the conclusion that enriched curriculum components and professional development support can produce improvements in multiple domains of teaching quality.

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Authors
Domitrovich, C. E., Gest, S. D., Gill, S., Bierman, K. L., Welsh, J. A., & Jones, D.
Affiliations
Pennsylvania State University (US)
Venue
American Educational Research Journal
Published
2009-06
Volume
46
Issue
2
Pages
567-597
ISSN
  • 0002-8312 (ISSN-L)
  • 1935-1011
OpenAlex
W2127246214
Cited by
234
References
67
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FWCI
39.09
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • American Educational Research Journal (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD046064)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Social Sciences › Education › Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Social Sciences › Education › Education Methods and Practices
Keywords
Head Start, teaching quality, teacher professional development, social-emotional development, cooperating teachers, classroom climate, behavior management, early childhood education, preschool teachers

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