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Teacher Work Environments Are Toddler Learning Environments: Teacher Professional Well-Being, Classroom Emotional Support, and Toddlers' Emotional Expressions and Behaviours
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Cassidy, Deborah J.; King, Elizabeth K.; Wang, Yudan C.; Lower, Joanna K.; Kintner-Duffy, Victoria L. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The current study examines the professional well-being of teachers, the classroom emotional support, and the emotional experiences of toddlers in their care. Professional well-being of teachers is conceptualized to include teacher feelings about their work, autonomy in decision-making, actual wages, and perceptions of fairness of wages within the…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, Well Being, Emotional Response, Toddlers
Education Level and Stability as It Relates to Early Childhood Classroom Quality: A Survey of Early Childhood Program Directors and Teachers
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Mims, Sharon U.; Scott-Little, Catherine; Lower, Joanna K.; Cassidy, Deborah J.; Hestenes, Linda L. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2008
The field of early care and education is continually seeking to determine factors that contribute to the overall quality of the education for young children. Individual characteristics of teachers, including education level, have been associated with classroom quality. Program demographics, including turnover rate for teachers, also have had…
Descriptors: Age, Young Children, Child Care Centers, Child Care
Quality in Inclusive Preschool Classrooms
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Hestenes, Linda L.; Cassidy, Deborah J.; Shim, Jonghee; Hegde, Archana V. – Early Education and Development, 2008
Research Findings: Quality of care for preschool children in inclusive and noninclusive classrooms was examined in two studies. In Study 1, comparisons across a large sample of classrooms (N = 1, 313) showed that inclusive classrooms were higher than noninclusive classrooms in global quality as well as on two dimensions of quality…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Preschool Children, Teacher Student Relationship, Inclusive Schools
Child Care Work Environments: The Relationship with Learning Environments
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Lower, Joanna K.; Cassidy, Deborah J. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2007
The study explores the relationship between child care program administration, organizational climate, and global quality. The recently developed Program Administration Scale (PAS; Talan & Bloom, 2004) was utilized in the study. Both program administration and organizational climate were found to be positively correlated with preschool…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Work Environment, Organizational Climate, Labor Force
The North Carolina Child Care Corps: The Role of National Service in Child Care.
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Cassidy, Deborah J.; Hicks, Susan A.; Hall, Alice Henderson; Farran, Dale C.; Gray, Jackie – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1998
Evaluated the impact of training and experience on the knowledge, beliefs, and practices of AmeriCorps child-care volunteers in North Carolina. Found that Corps members completed successful training, but, after nine months of service, showed a decline in the appropriateness of their interactions with children. (JS)
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Training, Child Caregivers, Day Care