Johnson, Robyn_MED_2018

Title Johnson, Robyn_MED_2018
Alternative Title Practice-Based Coaching in Early Childhood
Creator Johnson, Robyn
Collection Name Master of Education
Description This action research study explored how the implementation of a Practice-Based Coaching model across an early childhood (EC) education university program influenced preservice EC educator beliefs and practices. To more fully understand the effectiveness of the Practice-Based Coaching approach, a pre/post design was used to compare changes in preservice EC educator developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) beliefs and implementation skills before and after the implementation of a Practice-Based Coaching model to the university curriculum. Participants were 140 preservice EC educators enrolled in EC education upper-division advanced planning and guidance courses with lab school field experience. The assessment used for EC educator DAP beliefs was the Teacher Beliefs Q-sort. Implementation skills were assessed with the Classroom Assessment Scoring System for preschool. Results indicated a shift towards more DAP beliefs in the area of teaching practices, an increase in DAP implementation skills in Emotional Support, Classroom Organization, and Instructional Support, and a more consistent pattern of correlations between DAP beliefs and implementation skills for the posttest group, as compared to baseline. Results suggest that implementation of the Practice-Based Coaching model may be beneficial in reducing inconsistencies between EC preservice educator beliefs and implementation skills by supporting belief shifts toward more DAP while improving DAP implementation skills.
Subject Early childhood educators; Student teachers; Education, Early childhood
Keywords early childhood; preservice; practice-based coaching; developmentally appropriate practices (DAP); Classroom Assessment Scoring System for preschool (CLASS); Teacher Beliefs Survey (TBS); Teacher Belief Q-sort (TBQ)
Digital Publisher Stewart Library, Weber State University
Date 2018
Language eng
Rights The author has granted Weber State University Archives a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce their theses, in whole or in part, in electronic or paper form and to make it available to the general public at no charge. The author retains all other rights.
Source University Archives Electronic Records; Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction. Stewart Library, Weber State University
OCR Text Show
Format application/pdf
ARK ark:/87278/s65rkatw
Setname wsu_smt
ID 96726
Reference URL https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s65rkatw
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