Also I am concerned about the weak coverage of news available to us in general, which is why I rely on columnists such as yourself to provide me with accurate information, gleaned from reliable sources! Thank you for your contributions!
SAPPHI I found your column today extremely interesting. Thank you for telling me about the Wright foundation and thank you for your interest in early childhood education.This this is important to me because I have 10 great grandchildren and the quality of education they are receiving is extremely important from the very first day! Now
More and more parents are relying on skills taught by ECE teachers, especially as stay-at-home parenting decreases in those early years, and so I think the increasing training teachers get is well-supported by parents and public who see the value in providing universal quality education to all. So it’s alarming that this government want to remove those training requirements in order to undermine wage parity progress that ECE has (barely) been making. It’s people like yourself who recognise and speak about the importance of kids starting off well who’ve made that happen, and I hope we will continue to improve our quality of preschool-level learning.
I suspect that will be hard to do under the current funding model though. Profit and education is a poor mix.
🙋Read this when it came out but no time to comment - so to say that we who find items like this & other independent media/content providers (written or visual) can do our own bit by sharing & /or discussing what we've learned 👍 I just read an article that had embedded a video clip I would NEVER have otherwise seen - now I have subscribed to that YouTube channel to check out what seems to be great alternative news/informative content. 🤷
Also I am concerned about the weak coverage of news available to us in general, which is why I rely on columnists such as yourself to provide me with accurate information, gleaned from reliable sources! Thank you for your contributions!
Thanks Judith, I was motivated to start doing this by seeing how thin-spread our journalism is, so that means a lot!
SAPPHI I found your column today extremely interesting. Thank you for telling me about the Wright foundation and thank you for your interest in early childhood education.This this is important to me because I have 10 great grandchildren and the quality of education they are receiving is extremely important from the very first day! Now
More and more parents are relying on skills taught by ECE teachers, especially as stay-at-home parenting decreases in those early years, and so I think the increasing training teachers get is well-supported by parents and public who see the value in providing universal quality education to all. So it’s alarming that this government want to remove those training requirements in order to undermine wage parity progress that ECE has (barely) been making. It’s people like yourself who recognise and speak about the importance of kids starting off well who’ve made that happen, and I hope we will continue to improve our quality of preschool-level learning.
I suspect that will be hard to do under the current funding model though. Profit and education is a poor mix.
🙋Read this when it came out but no time to comment - so to say that we who find items like this & other independent media/content providers (written or visual) can do our own bit by sharing & /or discussing what we've learned 👍 I just read an article that had embedded a video clip I would NEVER have otherwise seen - now I have subscribed to that YouTube channel to check out what seems to be great alternative news/informative content. 🤷
Good point!