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
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  1. AnonymousMay 16, 2016 at 7:55 AM

    I totally agree. Being educated and being a teacher does not go hand and hand. I going through the North Carolina system through the lateral entry program. I see teachers everyday who have the experience and education, but are not getting the salary they deserve.

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  2. Brenda OHalloranMay 22, 2016 at 4:52 PM

    Low pay for the important role that early childhood educators fill has been a chronic problem from its inception. The scientific research is available that documents the importance of the early childhood years in brain development. With this new research there also comes a report from the Institute of Medicine that lay out the needed qualifications for teachers and the needed professional development to maintain a quality workforce. If these recommendations were to be implemented the salaries would need to increase in order to retain teaching staff. This would the cost of the services would need to increase and parents are already paying too much. What's answer? We are one of the only developed countries that do not have paid parental leave and government subsidies for early care and education programs. This is critical to our nation's future and the time is now for our government to recognize this.

    Institute of Medicine and National Research Center, (2015), Transforming the Workforce for children birth to Age8: A unifying foundation, http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2015/Birth-To-Eight.aspx

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