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ERIC Number: ED614310
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 138
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Teaching the Teachers of Our Youngest Children: The State of Early Childhood Higher Education in Tennessee. Technical Report
Edwards, Bethany; Copeman Petig, Abby; Austin, Lea J. E.; Montoya, Elena
Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
Tennessee is home to more than 463,000 children under the age of six. Sixty-three percent of these young children have all available parents in the workforce and, thus, potentially need child care. Stakeholders and advocates in Tennessee remain committed to advancing strategies that improve early care and education (ECE) services, including workforce preparation and development in order to ensure that early educators have what they require to meet the complex needs of young children. 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 findings from the "Tennessee Early Childhood Higher Education Inventory" and the extent to which ECE higher education programs offer course content and learning experiences that are associated with effective teacher preparation. [For the narrative report, see ED614309. For the Highlights, see ED614311.]
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
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Authoring Institution: University of California, Berkeley. Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A