Table 50. | Percentage distribution of kindergarten teachers' time spent on certain instructional approaches, by program and school type: Fall 1998 |
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | Public school kindergarten teachers\1\ | Private school kindergarten teachers\1\ Length of school day and |____________________________________________________|____________________________________________________ instructional approach | No |Half hour|About one|About two|Three hours| No |Half hour|About one|About two|Three hours | time |or less | hour | hours | or more | time |or less | hour | hours | or more _____________________________|__________|_________|_________|_________|___________|__________|_________|_________|_________|___________ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 _____________________________|__________|_________|_________|_________|___________|__________|_________|_________|_________|___________ | | | | | | | | | | Full-day programs | | | | | | | | | | Teacher-directed: | | | | | | | | | | Whole class activities ..|(\2\)(0.1)| 4 (0.7)| 28 (1.8)| 43 (1.4)| 25 (1.6)|(\2\)(\2\)| 15 (3.9)| 23 (3.8)| 25 (3.3)| 37 (4.0) Small group activities ..| 1 (0.2)| 18 (1.4)| 46 (2.5)| 28 (2.3)| 8 (1.2)| 6 (2.9)| 33 (4.1)| 42 (3.8)| 16 (2.9)| 3 (1.2) Individual activities ...| 2 (0.5)| 53 (1.7)| 35 (1.3)| 9 (1.0)| 1 (0.4)| 5 (1.4)| 55 (3.9)| 29 (3.2)| 6 (1.8)| 6 (1.5) Child selected activities .| 2 (0.3)| 31 (1.8)| 52 (2.0)| 13 (1.0)| 2 (0.5)| 3 (1.6)| 35 (3.6)| 45 (4.2)| 11 (2.5)| 6 (2.0) | | | | | | | | | | Part-day programs | | | | | | | | | | Teacher-directed: | | | | | | | | | | Whole class activities ..|(\2\)(0.3)| 15 (1.3)| 52 (1.9)| 27 (2.0)| 5 (0.8)|(\2\)(\2\)| 27 (6.8)| 40 (6.9)| 30 (5.2)| 3 (2.1) Small group activities ..| 2 (0.5)| 36 (2.5)| 46 (2.3)| 15 (1.6)| 1 (0.4)| 3 (2.2)| 62 (5.7)| 26 (5.5)| 7 (2.4)| 1 (1.2) Individual activities ...| 9 (1.2)| 73 (2.0)| 15 (1.6)| 2 (0.5)| 1 (0.3)| 9 (3.9)| 72 (6.6)| 13 (4.1)| 5 (2.7)| 2 (1.6) Child selected activities .| 3 (0.6)| 63 (1.9)| 29 (1.7)| 4 (1.0)|(\2\) (0.2)| 3 (2.0)| 41 (5.6)| 41 (4.9)| 12 (5.8)| 3 (1.8) _____________________________|__________|_________|_________|_________|___________|__________|_________|_________|_________|___________ |
\1\Estimates are based on the responses of a nationally representative sample of kindergarten teachers.
NOTE: Standard errors appear in parentheses. Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99, Public-Use Base-Year File. (This table was prepared September 2001.) |