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This study examined the implementation of a standardized course combining content related to effective teacher–child interactions and language and literacy across three institutions of higher education.
The results included instructor perspectives about design and delivery as well as students’ perspectives of content and delivery and their associated changes in beliefs and knowledge.
The results indicated that the course was successfully implemented in three institutions, and the course content was viewed positively by instructors and students.
Published: 2011
Updated: May. 22, 2013
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This article advances an interdisciplinary perspective on the factors influencing teacher quality, specifically defined as teachers’ practices and their interactions with students that can be shown to relate to student achievement. The article offers a view of teacher quality focused on teacher-child interactions that serve as explanatory mechanisms in predicting children’s achievement. Additionally, the article discusses two bodies of research from psychological science that illustrate the ways in which psychological principles and an overarching view of teachers as developing people may contribute to current debates about teacher quality.
Published: 2010
Updated: Nov. 28, 2010
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The authors advance an argument that placing observation of actual teaching as a central feature of accountability frameworks, teacher preparation, and basic science could result in substantial improvements in instruction and related social processes and a science of the production of teaching and teachers.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jun. 02, 2009