Because meeting the diverse needs of todays young
children and their families can be best accomplished
through a team approach to service delivery, early
childhood educators have a specific need for
professional development in teamwork. In an effort
to understand how a collaborative, adult
learner-focused model of professional development
could be used to effectively provide team training,
the Building Effective and Successful Teams (BEST)
model of team training was developed, which allows
educators to form communities of learners in order to
collaboratively train together over time, within...