The quality of the relationships between teachers and young children affects children's
social and emotional development and their academic success. Little is known, however …

Early childhood teachers play a key role in promoting children's social, emotional, and
behavioral functioning. We investigated how preschool lead and assistant teachers' …

Background Early childhood teachers' child-centered beliefs, defined as teachers' attitudes
about how children learn, have been associated with teachers' developmentally appropriate …

International reports on early childhood education and care tend to attach increasing
importance to workforce profiles. Yet a study of 15 European countries reveals that large …

Teachers' capacity to cultivate children's social, emotional, and behavioral functioning in
early childhood settings could depend on how connected they feel to their workplace as well …

Background Early childhood teachers play a key role in creating positive teacher-child
relationships, which are shown to promote child outcomes. However, turnover rates of early …

Targeted or universal pre-K? Direct instruction or learning through play? These and other
debates are heating up as more young children across the country gain access to pre-K …

Children are not born harboring racial biases, but they are born learning. Young children,
even infants, learn from the “mere observation” of other people's behavior. Nonverbal …

This study examined whether race/ethnicity and family income level moderated associations
between children's affective social competence and teacher–child relationships among 132 …

Although there are reasons to believe that teachers' commitment to learn and enact an
evidence-based program (ie, their commitment to implement) predicts their implementation …