Comments on: Beyond the BA: A Closer Look at Early Educator Training http://eyeonearlyeducation.com/2011/05/10/beyond-the-ba-a-closer-look-at-early-educator-training/ Tue, 14 May 2013 18:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Gwen Morgan http://eyeonearlyeducation.com/2011/05/10/beyond-the-ba-a-closer-look-at-early-educator-training/#comment-781 Tue, 10 May 2011 16:06:15 +0000 http://eyeonearlyeducation.org/?p=2584#comment-781 This is an important article because it addresses the disconnect between higher education and the realities in the early care and education field. In real life not all teachers begin their careers as freshmen in college at age 18. Some of them start with a job
as an aide or assistant, and then spend the next ten or twenty years getting additional coursework and training while moving into teaching roles. In the end higher education is not producing nearly enough certified early care and education teachers to meet the demand and the need for teachers of young children. In the
absence of certified teachers in early care and education, the places of employment will not leave a job unfilled. They will hire somebody, and if a degree is required, it may be a degree in some other field, or focused on some other age group.

It’s time to integrate reality with higher education systems.

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