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ERIC ED586359: Circle Time Revisited: How Do Preschool Classrooms U... |
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Circle time is a near universally used preschool |
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activity; however, little research has explored its |
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nature, content, and quality. This study examined |
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activity types, teacher and child talk, child engagement, |
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and classroom quality in a sample of public preschool |
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classrooms in an urban, high-poverty school district. |
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Results demonstrated that teacher talk was twice as |
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prevalent as child talk, and there was a lack of back-and- |
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forth exchanges and open-ended questions. Quality of |
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instruction was low on all dimensions of the Classroom |
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Assessment Scoring System, and child engagement dropped |
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to low levels in about 40% of classrooms. Finally, |
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classroom quality predicted child-to-teacher talk ratio |
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and child engagement. Evidence calls into question the |
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richness and quality of circle time and suggests that |
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even modest improvements in quality and an increased |
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focus on child participation could ensure that educators |
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are not squandering valuable learning time and depleting |
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children's behavioral self-regulation during the first |
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activity of the day. [This paper was published in |
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"Elementary School Journal" v118 n4 Jun 2018 (ISSN-0013- |
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5984) (EJ1180331).] |
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Date Published: 2023-05-24 23:38:32 |
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Identifier: ERIC_ED586359 |
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Item Size: 14600417 |
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Language: english |
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Media Type: texts |
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