Sunday, May 22, 2016

High Turnover Rate in ECE


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The topic I would like to research is the teachers’ high turnover in the early childhood field. I want to go further into depth why there is such a high teacher turnover rate. Why is it that after a year almost half of the staff hired a year ago has changed? In my center alone there has been about thirteen turnovers within the last year. In one month four people quit and two people terminated within two months! What is going on? As I consider some of the reasons such as lack of experience, burn out, family needs, and health, I wonder what can the industry do to combat these issues? How can we research this issue and come up with a reasonable solution? If these issues could be solved it will benefit children so greatly. Teachers form relationships with teachers and that bond should not be constantly broken several times throughout the year. Children will have closer bonds with teachers and develop trust and security. They need that for social and emotional skills, language skills, and cognitive skills. Also, teachers teach differently. One teacher could be boring and another teacher highly energetic. That can make the difference between whether a child is developmentally challenged because of the educational inconsistencies (Noriko Porter, Washington State University, Department of Human Development, Instructor, 2012).

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Noriko Porter, Washington State University, Department of Human Development, Instructor. (2012). High Turnover among Early Childhood Educators in the United States. Retrieved from http://www.childresearch.net/projects/ecec/2012_04.html

Sunday, May 15, 2016

ECE Still Need Improvements of Quality Teachers

          I have been in the ECE industry for about thirteen years and I have seen the improvements but I think there needs to be more improvements. I think it was wise to require the lead teachers to hold some type of credentials from a CDA to a college degree. However, if a teacher holds a degree in ECE for ages birth through five years old they will not make as much money as the public school teachers (Hourly Rate for Industry: Early Childhood Education, n.d.). I finally have by degree in Child Development but the only thing that is stopping me from going back to teaching under the age of five years old is money. We are not compensated enough in this field and there is only twos ways to fix it. One way is for all childcare centers be funded by the government or another idea I have had for years.
          Low compensation and burn out has lead to high turnover rates of teachers. At the center I work for we had a month where we turned over four teachers! We also lost a parent because the teachers kept changing. This center is the number one center in its franchise and we cannot keep teachers.
          Also, more effective training is needed. Management should be doing the training not other teachers. Management is going to show you the correct way. I have a plan to provide a solution to these three issues that need to be improved to upgrade the quality of our teachers even further. I just have to get there.

OMG! I never had to buy a book for college upfront! It was always a digital e-book or it was sent to via mail and it was part of tuition. So I cannot do my chart yet because I just bought the book.

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Hourly Rate for Industry: Early Childhood Education. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Industry=Early_Childhood_Education/Hourly_Rate#by_State