Teachers' interactions with middle- and lower SES preschool boys and girls.

Compared 9 preschool and 17 Head Start teachers' interactive behaviors with children of middle and lower socioeconomic status (SES). Observation data indicate that teachers of lower SES children had fewer verbal communications with them and more interactions with older adults. Data indicate that teachers of middle-SES children had higher rates of positive–neutral teacher initiation to children and higher rates of positive–neutral child initiation to teachers. Teachers of middle-SES children had a higher rate of negative initiation to boys than to girls. (8 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)