Child Care Caregiver Sensitivity and Attachment

By C. Howes, E. Galinsky, S. Kontos. 2001

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Predicting Child Outcomes at the End of Kindergarten from the Quality of Pre-Kindergarten Teacher–Child Interactions and Instruction (2008, background): “For example, some evidence suggests that specialized training can improve child-care quality and child outcomes, especially if the training programs are focused and entail clear feedback such occurs when teaching is videotaped or the caregiver works directly with a consultant (Fantuzzo, McDermott, M”
Teacher education, motivation, compensation, workplace support, and links to quality of center-based child care and teachers’ intention to stay in the early childhood profession (2007, background): “Estimates of provider turnover rates range from 26 to 46% annually (Whitebook, Phillips, & Howes, 1993).”
Attachment in the Classroom (2009, background): “However, when adults change in their responsiveness to children, security of attachment can change (Grossmann and Grossmann 1991; Howes et al. 1998b; Lewis et al. 2000; Weinfield et al. 2000).”
A Course on Effective Teacher-Child Interactions (2012, background): “First, courses often focus either on social-emotional teaching practices (e.g., Howes et al., 1998) or instructional practices (e.g., Dickinson & Caswell, 2007).”