ERIC Number: ED614311
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 11
Abstractor: ERIC
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Teaching the Teachers of Our Youngest Children: The State of Early Childhood Higher Education in Tennessee. Highlights
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 need 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 document highlights 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. The full narrative report, "Teaching the Teachers of Our Youngest Children: The State of Early Childhood Higher Education in Tennessee," and the accompanying technical report present the full findings. [For the narrative report, see ED614309. For the technical report, see ED614310.]
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Academic Degrees, Program Descriptions, Course Content, Field Experience Programs, Teacher Characteristics, Expertise, Articulation (Education), Alignment (Education), Family Involvement, Elementary School Mathematics, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Education
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
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary 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: Tennessee
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