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Teacher/Child Interactions Matter
September 18, 2013
Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before.
-Loris Malaguzzi
-Loris Malaguzzi
"Researchers tried to replicate, as closely as possible, the scoring algorithms that states use in their QRIS rankings. All of the states measured preschools on staff qualifications, staff:child ratio and group size, family partnerships, and learning environments. The researchers also created an additional measure, teacher-child interactions, which was evaluated through the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, or CLASS....
"After linking outcomes to the evaluation measures, researchers found that teacher interactions had the highest connection to student learning, followed by learning environment. Teacher qualifications, class size, and family partnerships had a weaker and sometimes inconsistent connection. Thus, rating systems that combined all those measures also had a weaker and less consistent connection to child outcomes, the study showed."
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Comments (5)
Displaying All 5 CommentsOmaha, NE, United States
I would be curious to know what assessments were used to determine child outcomes.
NOah's Ark Learning Center
Huntingtown, MD, United States
I live in MD. and we are in the midst of putting a program called EXCELs into place and it soon will be required of all centers. It saddens me that ECE has changed so much and we are more interested in paperwork than actual teacher performance. I find that so much of my time is spent on said paperwork and I have less time to help my staff develop into the best teachers that they can be. Thanks for your refreshing article/study.
CSBC
Denver, United States
i suggest two more inductors that should be used in a quality review of an early childhood program: teachers' and caregivers' salaries and benefits (a positive correlation), and the ratio of caregiver and teacher salaries and benefits compared to that of the chief executive or director (the smaller the ration, the better!)
Kids' World Early Schools
Bellingham, Wa, United States
The QRIS programs across the country are about money and political power.
Follow the money
The majority of the money goes to government agencies, quasi government agencies (child care aware) and guild institutions ( collages, tech schools, universities) very little to programs themselves ( the children) that are actually serving the children.
Money to guarantee votes to keep them in power.
If it were about children the money would be going to the children s programs.
How many more generations will we loose? How long will we put up with failed public systems.
Rose Hall Montessori
United States
I think that some schools are so busy working on various accreditations such as NAEYC that the teachers lose focus on the small, everyday interactions with the children.
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