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Value Added in Early Childhood Education
November 29, 2006
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
-B.B. King
-B.B. King
The Child Care Human Resources Sector Council recently released their findings from surveys of graduates of Early Childhood Educators and from focus groups of individuals in the child care sector. The results offer several interesting insights for those offering training in ECE:
- The most frequently cited gap in respondents’ academic training was supporting children with special needs in child care settings.
- Ongoing professional development was perceived as important in the child care sector.
- Early years professionals identified a consistent feeling of achievement as a reward for work within the sector.
- Many Early Childhood Educators indicated that their work was making a contribution to future generations.
Academic programs may well consider the preceding findings when recruiting students to their programs, when reviewing curricula, and when planning convocation addresses.
Bulletin of the Child Care Human Resources Sector Council (Fall, 2006)
Contributed by Laurie McNelles �" Mothercraft Institute for Early Development
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I am a graduate student in ECE and completely agree with the statement. I have read studies from across the country that support your findings. however the other topic that students don't learn is how to work with parents in a team approach.
thank you.
Berkeley, CA, United States
As a an RN and child care health consultant I have always valued the window to ECE issues found in the Exchange publications.
UT-Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN, United States
I think it's great that we have some child care providers who are feeling good about the job they are doing and the contributions to the lives of children that they are making; however, as a former center evaluator and currently a professor in child and family, I am continuoursly appalled at how child care providers are devalued by the general public. The wage that is paid is almost always among the lowest and many providers are merely "babysitters". I know we all are working on this, but I don't think we can say that the true value of providers is realized by many people yet--including many providers themselves.
FPG child development institute
Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Could you provide the citation for this study so I can read more about the methodology and participants. Thanks very much
Pam
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