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2007

Early childhood education

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Head Start Programs And Teaching Staff In 2005, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership Dec 2007

Head Start Programs And Teaching Staff In 2005, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership

McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership Publications

A summary of the 2004-05 Program Information Report data was the subject of a recent policy brief published by the Center for Law and Social Policy. Within the information presented in the CLASP brief was descriptive data about Head State programs and updated statistics about Head Start teachers' education and salaries.

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Breaking The Math Barrier, Bilqees Patel Sep 2007

Breaking The Math Barrier, Bilqees Patel

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

No abstract provided.

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The Express: September 28, 2007, Taylor University Fort Wayne Sep 2007

The Express: September 28, 2007, Taylor University Fort Wayne

2007-2008 (Volume 12)

Andy Booth Leads Innovative Renewal Week — Stick Figure Worship — The Pen is mightier than a Taser — Right to be Wrong: The Smoking Ban — Applied Learning: Summer Internships — It’s All About Music — Cheap And Fun in Fort Wayne: The Children’s Zoo — Sports Stats — Emily Ford: Bold Move for TTO — The Rockin’ Restaurant Review: Uno’s Chicago Grill

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Portrait Of Leadership In An Early Childhood Learning Organization, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership Sep 2007

Portrait Of Leadership In An Early Childhood Learning Organization, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership

McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership Publications

Findings from a study shed new light on leadership principles and practices that are effective in addressing the many adaptive challenges embedded in the current culture of change.

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Constructivism In Early Childhood Education, Joseph Mills Aug 2007

Constructivism In Early Childhood Education, Joseph Mills

Perspectives In Learning

At most universities and colleges, a form of constructivism based on child psychological theories dominates the stage as the “official knowledge pre-service early childhood teachers must know to be proclaimed competent” (Livingston, 2003, p. 3). Why, then, have the understandings of how children learn and the teaching practices suggested by this theory not taken root in many early childhood classrooms? In attempting to answer this question through a review of current literature in the field, three topics of discussion have been suggested: an explanation of the development and learning theories which support constructivism, identifying classroom practices which are considered to …

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States Efforts To Integrate Measures Of Leadership And Management In Quality Rating Systems, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership Jul 2007

States Efforts To Integrate Measures Of Leadership And Management In Quality Rating Systems, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership

McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership Publications

The McCormick Tribune Center for Early Childhood Leadership conducted a survey to determine how leadership and management practices are being measured in state quality rating systems.

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The Framework For Early Learning: A Background Paper:Children's Early Learning And Development Executive Summary, Geraldine French May 2007

The Framework For Early Learning: A Background Paper:Children's Early Learning And Development Executive Summary, Geraldine French

Reports

This is the Executive Summary of the background paper Children’s early learning and development, sets out the theory and research underpinning children’s early learning and development in the Framework for Early Learning. The paper essentially responds to the question - how should we envision and understand the child as a young learner? The paper begins by outlining the context for early childhood care and education in Ireland by referring to our economic and social climate, the increasingly multicultural nature of society and relevant legislation and policy. Drawing on centuries of research, the modern day view of the child is one …

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Program Characteristics Associated With Utilization Of Early Childhood Professional Development Funding, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership Mar 2007

Program Characteristics Associated With Utilization Of Early Childhood Professional Development Funding, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership

McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership Publications

The McCormick Tribune Center for Early Childhood Leadership conducted an evaluation study of the Illinois Great START and T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood professional development initiatives, examining characteristics associated with utilization of these two professional development initiatives.

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Paths To Quality: A Child Care Quality Rating System For Indiana. What Is It's Scientific Basis?, James Elicker Jan 2007

Paths To Quality: A Child Care Quality Rating System For Indiana. What Is It's Scientific Basis?, James Elicker

Center for Families Publications

Paths to QUALITY is Indiana’s new statewide child care quality rating system (QRS), first implemented in 2008. The main components of most state QRS programs are: 1) a set of quality standards that apply to home-based and center-based child care; 2) a process for objectively assessing child care quality and maintaining accountability; 3) a system of training and technical assistance to help child care providers improve quality; 4) incentives to encourage providers to reach higher levels of quality; and 5) public information to inform parents about what the QRS is and how to use it when they make child care …

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