TY - JOUR
T1 - Fostering high-quality teaching with an enriched curriculum and professional development support
T2 - The head start REDI program
AU - Domitrovich, Celene E.
AU - Gest, Scott D.
AU - Gill, Sukhdeep
AU - Bierman, Karen L.
AU - Welsh, Janet A.
AU - Jones, Damon
PY - 2009/6
Y1 - 2009/6
N2 - 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 socialemotional 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 behaviormanagement strategies. Results supported the conclusion that enriched curriculum components and professional development support can produce improvements in multiple domains of teaching quality.
AB - 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 socialemotional 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 behaviormanagement strategies. Results supported the conclusion that enriched curriculum components and professional development support can produce improvements in multiple domains of teaching quality.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=67949102261&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=67949102261&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3102/0002831208328089
DO - 10.3102/0002831208328089
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67949102261
VL - 46
SP - 567
EP - 597
JO - American Educational Research Journal
JF - American Educational Research Journal
SN - 0002-8312
IS - 2
ER -