ERIC Number: ED611870
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 3
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Effective Online Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators: An Evaluation of the Early Math Training Model. Research Notes
McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National Louis University
Most professional development opportunities for early childhood teachers are offered as face-to-face sessions (in various formats, including workshops, coaching, and college courses), tailored for teachers in traditional school- or center-based child care, offered during a traditional academic year, or during summer, or on professional development days when children do not attend (Sheridan, Banzer, Pradzinski, & Wen, 2020). These professional development sessions often involve lecturing, reflective practice, peer collaboration, and coaching/mentoring for individual feedback. Notably, none of these models fully meet the needs of the current early childhood workforce. Early childhood educators indicate that time, location, and cost are factors limiting access to professional development opportunities. Online professional development has the potential to overcome some of these barriers through providing access, relevance, and content level specificity that early childhood educators seek. This review presents one of the nation's first online professional development models that targets early math teaching and learning, "Early Math Counts." Results of an Illinois-based evaluation study published in the journal of "Early Education and Development" to test the effectiveness of this early math professional development model are also shared.
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Online Courses, Early Childhood Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Program Effectiveness, Barriers, Access to Education, Teacher Competencies, Lesson Plans, Web Sites, Educational Resources
McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National Louis University. 6200 Capital Drive, Wheeling, IL 60090. Tel: 847-947-5063; Fax: 847-947-5063; e-mail: McCormickCenter@nl.edu; Web site: https://mccormickcenter.nl.edu/
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
Sponsor: Robert R. McCormick Foundation; Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS)
Authoring Institution: McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National Louis University
Identifiers - Location: Illinois
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