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It takes the average reader 5 hours and 40 minutes to read The Relationship Between Early Childhood Teachers' Leadership Style and Their Approaches to Managing Children with Challenging Behaviors by Linda C. Wiener (Ed.D. candidate at the University of Hartford)

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The purpose of this exploratory correlational study was to understand the correlation between early childhood teachers’ reports of their leadership style and their approaches to managing young children with challenging behaviors. The conceptual framework of this exploratory research study was designed to examine the correlational relationship between the concepts of transformational leadership first established by James MacGregor Burns (1978) and expanded by Bernard Bass (1985) and types of approaches teachers used in response to challenging behaviors based on the models of Behavioral Challenges in Early Childhood Education adapted by Anderson (2007). The three main types of leadership used in this study were transformational, transactional and laissez-faire. The transformational leader offers individualized consideration, inspires others and acts as a role model for high ethics, instills pride, gains respect, and trust with followers. The transactional leader motivates others through rewards and the las. The laissez-faire leader has an absence of transactions with followers. The types of approaches included in this study were three broad categories defined as passive, reactive, and positive guidance. These were based on the responses defined into 12 broad strategies. Positive guidance included modeled appropriate behavior, sought training or professional support, provided praise for appropriate behavior, and developed a written behavior plan. A reactive response included redirection, clearly explained and responded with consequences to negative behavior, verbal instruction as to why behavior was not appropriate, and removal from the activity. The passive response included ignoring, presented to parent or caregiver, presented to program administration or teammate to manage or let the child make choices and learn from their own mistakes. The recruitment to participate in the online survey involved solicitation of early childhood teachers and specifically asked for teachers who taught in early childhood classrooms. The survey design was comprised of three sections which included an introduction to the survey, background information, a leadership section, and a challenging behavior section. The goal of this study was to provide information to the field of early childhood that could help reduce the significant and chronic concerns regarding young children with challenging behaviors in early childhood settings. Preschool children who demonstrated a pattern of negative or challenging behaviors were determined to be at risk for both teacher and peer relationship difficulties (McLaren & Nelson, 2009). A teacher with transformational leadership skills was identified as one who initiates change in the classroom environment, creates solutions for the child exhibiting challenging behaviors, finds resolutions, and motivates others for accomplishment and success. The use and application of transformational leadership were found to be effective in supporting high-quality services in education (Gonzalez, 2015). The data was analyzed to understand the correlations between leadership styles and approaches to challenging behaviors. This study found strong correlations between early childhood teachers identified with transformational leadership styles and their use of passive and sometimes reactive approaches to managing young children with physically aggressive and non-compliant challenging behaviors in early childhood settings. This study also found that teachers identified with transactional approaches, identified as having outcomes as motivations, such as making clear expectations, expressing satisfaction with goal achievement showed a statistically significant correlation with the reported use of passive approaches to managing children with aggressive challenging behaviors. Positive guidance was found to support and assist children with challenging behaviors. In this study, childhood teachers identified with the sub-category transactional leadership style of contingent reward showed a statistically significant correlation regarding the teachers’ use of positive guidance in response verbally aggressive challenging behaviors. This study provided valuable insights into opportunities to understand and implement further trainings and partnerships which will benefit staff, children, schools, families, and the greater early childhood community to further develop skills regarding successful management for children with challenging behaviors.

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The Relationship Between Early Childhood Teachers' Leadership Style and Their Approaches to Managing Children with Challenging Behaviors by Linda C. Wiener (Ed.D. candidate at the University of Hartford) is 340 pages long, and a total of 85,000 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.

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