Assistant Teachers in Prekindergarten Programs: What Roles Do Lead Teachers Feel Assistants Play in Classroom Management and Teaching?

Autor:	Laura Stout Sosinsky, Walter S. Gilliam
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Early childhood education Classroom management media_common.quotation_subject Multilevel model Research findings Bachelor Teacher education Education Head start Workforce ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Developmental and Educational Psychology Mathematics education Psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Early Education & Development. 22:676-706
ISSN:	1556-6935 1040-9289
Popis:	Assistant teachers are a ubiquitous yet virtually overlooked part of the early education workforce. Assistant teacher education level and its relationship to various classroom characteristics and the roles lead teachers feel assistants play in classroom management and teaching were examined in a nationally representative sample of 3,191 state-funded prekindergarten classes. Research Findings: Most classrooms had at least 1 paid assistant teacher, and classrooms with multiple assistants were more likely to be in Head Start. Lead teachers in public schools were more likely to have a bachelor's degree or higher, to be paired with an assistant with a high school degree, and to report fewer release hours for planning (alone or shared with assistants) than teachers in Head Start. Hierarchical multiple regression indicated that assistant teachers were rated as most useful to teaching duties when the classroom was in a Head Start setting, when the discrepancy between the lead and assistant teachers’ education was...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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