Pilot Test Of A Quality Rating And Improvement System In Early Education Programs In Magadan Oblast, Rf, And In Minnesota, Usa, 2022 Minnesota State University, Mankato
Pilot Test Of A Quality Rating And Improvement System In Early Education Programs In Magadan Oblast, Rf, And In Minnesota, Usa, Elizabeth J. Sandell
Elementary and Literacy Education Department Publications
Quality in early childhood education matters. Scholarly research has demonstrated the critical importance of the first three years of a child’s life. The experiences and interactions children have in these early years significantly affects brain development and helps to establish the foundation for future learning. The topic of this study was to pilot test a Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) in early education programs in Magadan, Russian Federation (RU) and in Mankato, Minnesota, United States of America (USA). The purpose of this study was to understand the use of a specific instrument to provide direction for the improvement of …
Fine And Gross Motor (Physical Domain), 2022 Buffalo State College
Fine And Gross Motor (Physical Domain), Kathy R. Doody Ph.D.
Sample module-themed coursework with Sesame Street examples
This module will provide an overview of the physical domain in early childhood, specifically, fine motor(small muscles such as those found in the hands and fingers) and gross motor (large muscles such as those found in arms, legs,and core) and its development. The module will also provide insight into how Sesame Street has stressed the importance of physical activity to young children, as well as how they have provided age appropriate activities,songs, and video segments to teach fine and gross motor skill development.
Incarceration, 2022 Buffalo State College
Incarceration, Pamela Schuetze Ph.D.
Sample module-themed coursework with Sesame Street examples
In this module, students will consider how having an incarcerated parent impacts children. Using clips from Sesame Street, students will consider how children cope with and understand having an incarcerated parent. Students will also how having an incarcerated parenting impacts socioemotional development.
International Conflict, 2022 Buffalo State College
International Conflict, Pamela Schuetze Ph.D.
Sample module-themed coursework with Sesame Street examples
In this module, students will consider how international conflict and associated traumas impact children.Using clips from versions of Sesame Street that air in countries experiencing violence and other children’s media, students will consider the impact of violence/trauma on neurological, cognitive and socioemotional functioning.
Social-Emotional Development, 2022 California State University, Stanislaus
Social-Emotional Development, Lisa Timmons Ph.D.
Sample module-themed coursework with Sesame Street examples
In this module, students will consider the importance of fostering social and emotional skills (e.g., emotion regulation, how to positively initiate and maintain interactions with others) in early childhood and beyond. Students will discuss strategies used to teach social and emotional skills which can be used by parents, teachers, or other child development professionals. Students will specifically reflect on the potential value and impact of focusing on social and emotional skills in child-targeted media, such as Sesame Street.
Executive Function, 2022 Occidental College
Executive Function, Susan Geffen Ph.D.
Sample module-themed coursework with Sesame Street examples
This module will explore the various aspects of executive function (inhibition, cognitive flexibility, working memory). Students will use topical readings and Sesame Street video clips to explore how executive function develops throughout childhood and adolescence, common methods for studying executive function (e.g., Stroop task, marshmallow task), and techniques that parents and teachers can use to help children develop executive function skills.
Language Development, 2022 Occidental College
Language Development, Susan Geffen Ph.D.
Sample module-themed coursework with Sesame Street examples
This module will explore the various aspects of language development (phonetics, syntax,semantics and pragmatics). Using topical readings and clips from Sesame Street, students will consider the steps involved in learning language (e.g., learning word-object pairings), cues available in daily language, and techniques that parents and teachers can use to help children acquire language.
Parenting, 2022 Buffalo State College
Parenting, Pamela Schuetze Ph.D.
Sample module-themed coursework with Sesame Street examples
In this module, students will consider various aspects of parenting impact children. Using clips from Sesame Street, students will consider how parenting decisions and communication may impact child development. Students will also explore parenting resources developed by Sesame Worksheet to support and educate the parents of young children.
School Readiness (Behavior), 2022 Buffalo State College
School Readiness (Behavior), Kathy R. Doody Ph.D.
Sample module-themed coursework with Sesame Street examples
This module will provide an overview of the social-emotional and adaptive skills required for kindergarten success. The module will also provide insight into how Sesame Street has prepared children for their first days of preschool or kindergarten and all that entails: following the rules, playing with others, taking turns, etc.
Sesame Street Seminar – Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2022 Buffalo State College
Sesame Street Seminar – Autism Spectrum Disorders, Kathy R. Doody Ph.D
Sample module-themed coursework with Sesame Street examples
This module will provide an overview of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The module will also provide insight into how Sesame Street has raised awareness and acceptance of ASD through a Muppet named Julia who is on the spectrum.
Death & Dying, 2022 Holy Family University
Death & Dying, Jill M. Swirsky Ph.D
Sample module-themed coursework with Sesame Street examples
In this module, students will consider how to discuss the difficult topic of death and dying with children. Using clips from Sesame Street and other children’s media, students will consider children’s cognitive capacity related to their ability to understand the concept of death. They will also learn about the role of parents in using children’s media as a teaching tool.
Sesame Street Seminar – Academic Readiness, 2022 Buffalo State College
Sesame Street Seminar – Academic Readiness, Kathy R. Doody Ph.D
Sample module-themed coursework with Sesame Street examples
This module will provide an overview of the social-emotional and adaptive skills required for kindergarten success. The module will also provide insight into how Sesame Street has prepared children for their first days of preschool or kindergarten and all that entails: following the rules, playing with others, taking turns, etc.
Cognition, 2022 Occidental College
Cognition, Susan Geffen Ph.D.
Sample module-themed coursework with Sesame Street examples
This module will explore various aspects of cognition, including such processes as memory, learning, attention, perception and problem-solving. Students will use topical readings and Sesame Street video clips to learn about the processes by which children acquire, integrate, and understand information about the world around them.
Social Emotional Learning: Narrative Growth, 2022 Saint John's University, Jamaica New York
Social Emotional Learning: Narrative Growth, Christine Alexandra Biskup
Theses and Dissertations
From an early age, we engage in building our narrative language through social interactions. These narrative language skills influence academic success. Many educational establishments focus solely on academic achievement. A focus on supporting emotional intelligence that can support narrative language development is imperative. In this ethnography study, students were taught feeling words lessons from RULER, a social-emotional learning curriculum. Using observations and interviews, I sought to understand how early childhood students apply emotional feeling words into their narrative language. By using inductive analysis and conducting interviews with the students, I coded data to narrate my research question to assist with …
Maternal Literacy Practices And Beliefs Impact Infant Development, 2022 Saint John's University, Jamaica New York
Maternal Literacy Practices And Beliefs Impact Infant Development, Deirdre Cruz
Theses and Dissertations
Infancy is a pivotal time in the development of a human’s cognitive ability. There is a lack of research in this area, specifically on mothers and their beliefs about literacy practices and the home learning environment. By utilizing Bronfenbrenner’s ecological framework, this study explores the beliefs of mothers and how they impact the infants’ preliteracy skills and knowledge, which are paramount to success in kindergarten and beyond. Using a phenomenological study, the researcher interviewed mothers on their views of literacy, their infant’s home learning environment, and how they perceive their culture and mothering style impact their infants.
Quality Analysis Of Early Childhood Education Programs In New York City, 2022 Saint John's University, Jamaica New York
Quality Analysis Of Early Childhood Education Programs In New York City, Earlene Warren-Fernandez
Theses and Dissertations
This study examined the quality of pre-K educational programs in New York City. I identified how program quality relates to student and teacher variables. The study used NYC Department of Education public ECERS-R data to measure program quality. I examined and analyzed to determine their influence on program quality. The independent variables are the percentage value of student’s racial composition, classroom interaction quality, program leadership quality, program type, teacher collaboration, and program community ties. The study addressed several research questions. Is program quality associated with the racial composition of students in the programs? Is there a difference in program quality …
Parent Experience In Preschool Special Education Classroom Setting Decisions, 2022 Bethel University
Parent Experience In Preschool Special Education Classroom Setting Decisions, Kaia Kathryn Nordtvedt
All Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Early childhood is a crucial time in a child's development and is often the entry point for a child experiencing developmental delays in the special education process. Parents play an essential role in the special education process as the child's primary caregivers. This study examined the decision-making process of economically disadvantaged Black and Hispanic/Latinx parents as they provide input on classroom setting decisions during preschool IEP creation. Through in-depth interviews, parents shared their lived experiences as they navigated the special education process and made decisions on classroom settings as part of the IEP team. Document analysis provided additional context in …
Values In Early Childhood Education (Ece): A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study Of Values For Ece Expressed In Policy Documents, 2022 Bethel University
Values In Early Childhood Education (Ece): A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study Of Values For Ece Expressed In Policy Documents, Jolene Pearson, Arve Gunnestad, Sissel Mørreaunet, Sobh Chahboun
Education Faculty Publications
Purpose
This comparative study identifies core values expressed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) official policy documents from a sample of thirteen countries.
Design/Approach/Methods
This study employs document analysis as well as content and thematic analysis. ECE values identified in the policy documents are categorized into three groups: political and society-related values, educational values, and individual and relational values.
Findings
Document analysis reveals the values that are common across countries and those that are more specific to just one or a few countries at most. This study discusses the characteristics of these values from the perspective of globalization. In doing so, …
Growing Up And Growing Older: Books For Young Readers: Counteracting Ageism And Promoting Positive Aging, 2022 Professor Emeritus, The University of Tennessee
Growing Up And Growing Older: Books For Young Readers: Counteracting Ageism And Promoting Positive Aging, Sandra L. Mcguire Dr.
Faculty Publications and Other Works -- Nursing
Ageist attitudes permeate society, are readily transmitted, and are perpetuated from generation to generation. These attitudes are a prejudice against our future selves. Research has consistently shown that children as young as preschool evidence ageist attitudes, these attitudes become more negative as the child grows older and tend to become self-fulfilling prophecies. It is important to counteract ageism and promote accurate concepts about aging with young children. Carefully selected children’s literature can help to prevent and counteract ageist attitudes. This annotated booklist is a compilation of early children’s literature (PS-3rd grade) that contains positive, meaningful portrayals of aging. Booklist …
Early Intervention Service Delivery Models' And Structures' Impact On Parents' Satisfaction With Services, 2022 University of Central Florida
Early Intervention Service Delivery Models' And Structures' Impact On Parents' Satisfaction With Services, Krisztina Weiszhaupt
Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-
Limited research has compared parents' perceptions of the benefits of the early intervention (EI) program across states. This study explored whether parents' perceptions of the EI program's benefits differed significantly based on two of the program's primary components: the lead agency's profile and the service delivery model. In addition, the researcher evaluated families' responses to individual items on the Family Outcome Survey-Revised (FOS-R) and provided insights into the findings. The researcher implemented a causal-comparative research design to compare parents' responses to Section B of the FOS-R. As a result of the purposive sampling technique, the researcher obtained data that had …