Bachelor's Degress Are Best: Higher Qualifications for Pre-Kindergarten Teachers Lead to Better Learning Environments for Children.

Autor/in	Whitebook, Marcy
Titel	Bachelor's Degress Are Best: Higher Qualifications for Pre-Kindergarten Teachers Lead to Better Learning Environments for Children.
Quelle	(2003), (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Bachelors Degrees; Educational Attainment; Educational Quality; Literature Reviews; Preschool Teachers; Teacher Qualifications; Teacher Student Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Bachelor''s degrees'; Bachelor-Studiengang; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Lehrqualifikation; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung
Abstract	Throughout the United States, kindergartens receive children with increasingly diverse levels of skills. In order to provide a learning atmosphere that is supportive of all children, prekindergarten teachers must be equipped to adapt to each child's needs. This paper reviews the research on pre-kindergarten teacher quality. The purpose of the review is to highlight teachers with bachelor's degrees and their direct link to quality in early education and care. The review is limited to studies that distinguished bachelor's degrees from other levels of education, and restricted to articles published in peer reviewed journals or reports issued by agencies that subject their reports to peer-advising. This resulted in eight studies that specifically explore the benefits of pre-K classrooms when teachers have bachelor's degrees and specialized training in early childhood education. Among the findings of the studies reviewed are the following: (1) teachers with four-year degrees in early childhood education rated higher in positive interaction with children than those without these credentials, and were less detached, less authoritarian and less punitive; (2) children who had teachers with a bachelor's or associate's in early childhood education demonstrated stronger receptive vocabularies that those with teachers holding only a high school diploma; and (3) retaining the greatest number of teachers with bachelor's degrees or more was the strongest predictor of whether a center maintained a high level of quality over time. Taken as a group, these studies strongly show the importance of not simply more education, but specifically how the requirement of a bachelor's degree with specialized early childhood training can be parlayed into securing high quality center-based pre-kindergarten programs. (Contains 32 references.) (HTH)
Anmerkungen	The Trust for Early Education, 1725 K Street, Suite 212, Washington, DC 20006. Tel: 202-293-1245; Fax: 202-293-1798; Web site: http://www.trustforearlyed.org. For full text: http://www.trustforearlyed.org/docs/WhitebookFinal.pdf.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01