An exploration of changes in the preservice early childhood teachers’ observational capacity through teaching improvement efforts in the “Children Observation and Behavior Research” course

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 100-127
Author(s):  
Geongsuk Kim ◽  
Eunyoung Kang
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Teaching Improvement ◽  
And Behavior

Cultural Experiences of Early Childhood Teachers and the Relationship to Self-Reported Multicultural Teaching Competencies

2019 ◽  
pp. 63-76
Author(s):  
Grace Onchwari
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Teaching Competencies ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Education Conference

Various studies around multicultural education have looked at ways to identify the multicultural teaching competencies teachers need to teach diverse learners. Many of these studies have closely focused on teacher's perceptions, sensitiveness and behavior. However, there are limited studies regarding how teacher's cultural experiences are associated with multicultural teaching competencies. This chapter looked at the cultural experiences of early childhood teachers and how those relate to the teacher's multicultural teaching competencies. Fifty-seven early childhood teachers were investigated that were recruited from a state early childhood education conference by completing The Wayson's multicultural teaching scale. Positive correlations were identified suggesting a possible link between teacher's cultural experiences and their multicultural teaching competencies.

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