Can Teacher Training in Classroom Management Make a Difference for Children’s Experiences in Preschool?
http://www.mdrc.org/publications/527/full.pdf Improving young children’s healthy emotional and behavioral development is important in its own right, and also can be a pathway to improved academic achievement, according to a new report from MDRC. The report says teachers consistently emphasize their need for professional development and other supports to help them address children’s behavioral issues. September 2009 Prepared to Learn: The Nature and Quality of Early Care and Education for Preschool-Age Children in California http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR539/ More than half of California’s preschoolers attend center-based early care and education programs, but the children who have the most to gain from preschool frequently are those least likely to participate in the programs, according to a RAND Corporation study. Researchers found that children from lower-income families, children whose mothers have less education, and Latino children are significantly less likely than
