Promoting School Readiness in Child Care Centers

促进儿童保育中心的入学准备

• 批准号: 9213388
• 负责人: Karen L Bierman
• 金额: $ 60.92万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-02-20 至 2020-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9213388
• 关键词: 4 year old; Accreditation; Age; Americas; Awareness; Businesses; Caring; Censuses; Child; Child Care; Child Language; Cognitive; Communities; Competence; Consult; Control Groups; County; Data; Development; Distance Learning; E-learning; Economically Deprived Population; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Effectiveness; Eligibility Determination; Emotional; Emotions; Evaluation; Evidence based intervention; Fostering; Foundations; Frequencies; Goals; Head Start Program; Informal Social Control; Intervention; Interview; Language; Learning; Linear Models; Low income; Measurement; Methods; Modeling; Monitor; National Research Council; Nursery Schools; Outcome; Participant; Pennsylvania; Program Sustainability; Randomized; Readiness; Reading; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Infrastructure; Resources; Schedule; Schools; Specialist; Stress; Supervision; System; Teacher Professional Development; Technology; Training; United States; Videotape; base; cost effective; design; efficacy testing; evidence base; follow up assessment; group intervention; improved; interest; kindergarten; learning community; literacy; model development; outreach; phonological awareness; post intervention; programs; public health relevance; satisfaction; skills; social; socioeconomic disadvantage; teacher

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The central goal of this study is to enhance the capacity of child-care centers serving socioeconomically disadvantaged communities to implement evidence-based curriculum components and teaching practices that promote school readiness. A related goal is to test the efficacy of a sustainable, technology-assisted platform fo professional development support, Better Kid Care (BKC), managed by Cooperative Extension. 72 child-care centers will be recruited from more than 372 eligible centers serving low income children in 7 economically stressed counties in Pennsylvania. These centers struggle to provide evidence-based educational programming, despite an interest in doing so, due to low levels of teacher education, high staff turnover, and inadequate access to curriculum materials and professional development support. Participants will include 72 child care center directors, approximately 200 classroom teachers, and approximately 600 4-year-old prekindergarten children. The curriculum components and teaching strategies of the REDI (Research-based, Developmentally Informed) program will be used, including the Preschool PATHS Curriculum to promote social-emotional learning, and three evidence-based components (i.e., dialogic reading, phonological awareness training, and alphabet center activities) to foster language-emergent literacy skills. The technology-assisted distance learning platform of BKC will be used to extend professional development support. Classroom teachers will be able to access brief tutorials with videos demonstrating how to deliver lessons and illustrating high-quality teaching practices. In addition, center directors will be trained to serve as local coaches, thereby providing a foundation for program sustainability in the face of high teacher turnover. The BKC platform will be used to support virtual learning communities of child-care center directors, who will be trained to monitor the fidelity of program implementation and coach teachers in the application of the curriculum components and teaching strategies. The evaluation will use a rigorous, randomized-controlled design, with multi- method measurement of child and teacher outcomes; it will assess short-term sustainability in the child care centers and follow children as they transition to kindergarten.

描述（由申请人提供）：这项研究的核心目标是增强为社会经济处境不利的社区提供服务以实施基于证据的课程组成部分和促进学校准备就绪的教学实践的儿童保育中心的能力。一个相关的目标是测试由合作扩展管理的可持续，技术辅助平台的功效，更好的儿童护理（BKC）。 72个育儿中心将从372多个合格中心招募，为宾夕法尼亚州7个经济压力县的低收入儿童提供服务。尽管有兴趣这样做，但这些中心仍在努力提供基于证据的教育计划，这是由于教师教育水平较低，员工流动人数较低，并且获得课程材料的访问不足和专业发展支持。参与者将包括72名托儿所的董事，大约200名教室老师和大约600个4岁的幼儿园前儿童。将使用REDI（基于研究的，开发知情）计划的课程组件和教学策略，包括促进社会情感学习的学前路径课程，以及三个基于证据的组成部分（即对话阅读，语音意识培训和字母意识培训和字母中心活动），以培养语言 - 情感语言素养技能。 BKC技术辅助的远程学习平台将用于扩展专业发展支持。课堂老师将能够通过视频访问简短的教程，展示如何提供课程和说明高质量的教学实践。此外，将对中心董事作为当地教练进行培训，从而为面对高教师流动率提供了计划可持续性的基础。 BKC平台将用于支持儿童护理中心董事的虚拟学习社区，他们将接受培训，以监视计划实施的忠诚度，并指导教师在应用课程组件和教学策略的应用方面。评估将使用严格的，随机控制的设计，并通过对儿童和教师成果进行多种方法测量；它将评估托儿中心的短期可持续性，并跟随儿童 他们过渡到幼儿园。