Measuring the Quality of Teacher–Child Interactions in Toddler Child Care

Teacher work environments are toddler learning environments: teacher professional well-being, classroom emotional support, and toddlers’ emotional expressions and behaviours

“…Dimensions were averaged within their respective domains and then these domains were averaged across cycles to create a score for each domain. Reliability estimates in the current study sample for the domains were good (Emotional and Behavioral Support, α = .92; Engaged Support for Learning, α = .73), as were those for each dimension (α = .80-.88) and demonstrated consistency with prior samples (Thomason & La Paro, 2009). The current study includes CLASS Emotional Support scores as a dependent variable to assess the role of teachers' professional well-being on emotional aspects of classroom quality in toddler classrooms.…”

Preschool staff's view of emergent literacy approaches in Swedish preschools

“…Therefore, the expressions outside-in processes and inside-out processes have been changed to outside-in approaches and insideout approaches, to better suit the purposes of this study. Nevertheless, the emergent literacy dimensions are the same as in the model, except for two dimensions that have been added to the domain outside-in approaches (play and supportive communication) because of previous research indicating that preschool staff can use play activities to increase children's emergent literacy development (Nyland, 2009;Saracho, 2004) and that emotional strategies are important in preschool (Thomason & La Paro, 2009). The meaning units were analysed by the outside-in and inside-out domains (Figure 1).…”

“…This means that sensitivity to children's initiatives to communicate, contingent responding, smiling, enthusiasm, eye contact, and a warm and calm voice are all essential factors in the emergent literacy environment and support preschool children's language development (Pianta & Hamre, 2009). In particular, preschool teachers' emotional strategies seem to be of great importance (Thomason & La Paro, 2009). Studying the social context of learning, Pellegrini, Melhuish, Jones, Tojanowska, and Gilden (2002) investigated whether closeness and friendship would maximise children's emotional expressions.…”

¿Cómo se mide la calidad de los servicios de cuidado infantil?: Guía de herramientas

“…This scale was implemented in Colombia (Bernal et al, 2009). Reliability and Validity Thomason and La Paro (2009) analyze the construct validity of the CLASS Toddler on the basis of a study of 46 teachers in 30 different pre-school classrooms in the U.S. The construct validity of the CLASS Toddler is based on comprehensive reviews of existing measures, a review of the research on the unique aspects of early childhood development, and observations of preschool settings.…”