http://earlyed.newamerica.net/blogposts/2012/podcast_improving_the_quality_of_early_child_care-67930
This pod cast advocated for parents to understand how to choose a quality child care facility for their children. The pod cast suggests parents should ask questions about child care centers to ensure the programs quality. Parents should ask questions about the type of training teachers receive and questions about the teacher’s background. Parents should have choices on quality settings. The biggest problem for parents is the cost of high quality child care.
According to the pod cast some states don’t require early childhood teachers to have a high school diploma for teachers. Some states only require teachers to have a high school diploma.
The child care development block grant has not been renewed in 16 years. The current child care development block grant has no minimal training requirements for educators, it does not require background checks for educators, and it has no requirements for inspections. The child care development block grant needs to be revised to ensure the health and safety of children.
Policy makers need to be educated to change the laws so that early child care facilities can offer higher quality care for children.
Insights from http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/
Early childhood education is an issue of different government sectors which include education, social affairs, and health.
The biggest issue for most countries is to improve early childhood education but resources are scarce.
The 1990 Jomtien Declaration on Education for All (EFA), stated that countries should view early childhood as part of basic education.
Tiffany,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing information on the pod cast. The person I am connecting with in Zambia said something similar concerning teacher qualifications. I find it mind boggling when seeing the picture of early child care around the world.
Thank you for sharing!
Maria
Tiffany,
ReplyDeleteWow very interesting. I thought that a high school diploma or GED was at least mandatory.
Sherry
Tiffany, I enjoyed reading your post this week. The podcast was interesting and Child Care 101 has lots of great tips for parents. I also had not realized the amount of work that was going on the reauthorize the CCDBG by representatives from resource & referral agencies around the country. Thanks for sharing! -Susan
ReplyDeleteParents should make sure that their children are attending quality early programs and adequate information about schools should be available for them to do so, such as teacher's qualifications. Very informative post!
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