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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2010
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ904113 |
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- Consultation for Teachers and Children's Language and Literacy Development during Pre-Kindergarten Mashburn, Andrew J. Downer, Jason T. Hamre, Bridget K. Justice, Laura M. Pianta, Robert C. Preschool Education Preschool Teachers Faculty Development Video Technology Preschool Children Emergent Literacy Language Skills Receptive Language Language Acquisition Program Evaluation Instructional Effectiveness School Readiness MyTeachingPartner (MTP) is a teacher professional development program designed to improve the quality of teacher-child interactions in pre-kindergarten classrooms and children's language and literacy development. The program includes language/literacy activities and two Web-based resources--video exemplars of effective interactions and individualized consultation--designed to support teachers' high quality implementation of these activities. This study examined the impacts of the MTP Web-based resources on the language and literacy development of 1,165 children during pre-kindergarten. Children whose teachers were randomly assigned to receive access to both the video exemplars and participated in consultation ("MTP Consultancy" n = 65) made greater gains in receptive language skills during pre-kindergarten compared to children whose teachers were randomly assigned to receive access to the video exemplars only ("MTP Video Library" n = 69). Further, among MTP Consultancy teachers, more hours of participating in the consultation process was positively associated with children's receptive language development, and more hours implementing the language/literacy activities was positively associated with children's language and literacy development. Implications for improving children's school readiness and promoting teachers' participation in professional development programs are discussed. (Contains 4 tables.)