ERIC Number: ED614300
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 128
Abstractor: ERIC
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Teaching the Teachers of Our Youngest Children: The State of Early Childhood Higher Education in Washington. Technical Report
Copeman Petig, Abby; Montoya, Elena; Austin, Lea J. E.; Edwards, Bethany
Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
The state of Washington is home to more than 566,000 children under the age of six (U.S. Census Bureau, 2017). About 306,000 of these children have all available parents in the workforce and, thus, potentially need child care (Child Care Aware of America, 2017). Like many states in recent years, Washington has committed public and private resources toward multiple efforts to improve early care and education services, including early education degree and certification programs, in order to improve the preparation of their graduates to meet the complex needs of young children (Hyson, Horm, & Winton, 2012; Ray, Bowman, & Robbins, 2006; Swartz & Johnson, 2010). Critical to these efforts is the establishment of a well-coordinated, comprehensive professional preparation and development system that can prepare and support an incoming generation of educators, while also strengthening the skills of the existing early education workforce. Institutions of higher education are crucial to meeting the evolving and increasing demands identified as improving developmental and learning outcomes for the state's young child population. This Technical Report presents detailed findings from the "Washington Early Childhood Higher Education Inventory" and the extent to which early care and education (ECE) higher education programs offer course content and learning experiences that are associated with effective teacher preparation. [For the narrative report, see ED614291. For the highlights, see ED614307.]
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Program Descriptions, Course Content, Academic Degrees, Enrollment, Student Personnel Services, Required Courses, State Standards, Family Involvement, Field Experience Programs, Articulation (Education), Alignment (Education), Teacher Characteristics, Educational Attainment, Teaching Experience, Faculty Development, Expertise, Educational Resources
Center for the Study of Child Care Employment. Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California at Berkeley, 2521 Channing Way #5555, Berkeley, CA 94720. Tel: 510-643-7091; Web site: https://cscce.berkeley.edu/
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Numerical/Quantitative Data
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Authoring Institution: University of California, Berkeley. Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
Identifiers - Location: Washington
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