The Healthy Environment Project: Promoting sustainable change in early childhood education settings

2021 ◽  
pp. 001789692098875
Author(s):  
Charlotte V Farewell ◽  
Emily Maiurro ◽  
Jamie Powers ◽  
Jini Puma
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Environment Change ◽  
Policy System ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Professional Development Training ◽  
Health Promoting

Objective: The Healthy Environment Project (HEP) was designed to improve familiarity with attitudes, confidence and knowledge related to health-promoting best practices, as well as the implementation of health-promoting policy, system and environment best practice change in diverse early childhood education settings. Design: Pre–post study design to assess the outcomes of the HEP intervention. Setting: Early childhood education providers representing 14 centres ( n = 117) and 30 homes ( n = 30) in Colorado, USA. Method: The Policy, System and Environment Change Process, which is an evidence-based strategic planning process based on intervention mapping, was facilitated in a professional development training format in 44 early childhood education settings. Results: Pre–post survey data ( n = 125) suggest that early childhood education providers’ familiarity with, knowledge of, and confidence related to the implementation of health-promoting policy, system and environment change significantly increased after the professional development training ( p < .05). No significant differences in these individual-level constructs were found between centre-based and home-based providers. The HEP also resulted in significant changes in environmental-level constructs; 154 total health-promoting changes (averaging 3.5 changes/setting) were implemented in 44 early childhood education settings. Conclusion: Facilitation of a strategic planning process in a professional development training format resulted in improvements in individual- and environmental-level constructs related to healthy eating and physical activity behaviours and provides a novel way to foster sustainable health-promoting environments in early childhood education centres and homes.

Providing Early Childhood Education Teacher Candidates Diverse Clinical Understandings through Professional Development School Experiences

2016 ◽  
pp. 143-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Ann Christenson ◽  
Janese Daniels ◽  
Judith Cruzado-Guerrero ◽  
Stephen T. Schroth ◽  
Marisa Dudiak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Developmentally Appropriate ◽  
Early Childhood Teacher ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
Childhood Education

Teacher education programs serving early childhood education teacher candidates have unique challenges and need to work to ensure that each future educator be exposed to a variety of settings and practices throughout their preparation in order to best prepare them to serve the needs of their future young students. A solid background in human development, a well-rounded complement of methods courses grounded in developmentally appropriate practice and experience in a diverse variety of Professional Development Schools (PDS) will go far in meeting this goal. In Pre-K through 3rd grade classrooms early childhood teacher educators can significantly shape these competencies through their choice of, support for, and use of PDSs.

scholarly journals Plano de carreira da educação de Belo Horizonte: embates, avanços e recuos da valorização profissional/ Career plan of Belo Horizonte Education: struggles, advances and retreats of professional development

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (26) ◽  
pp. 69-94
Author(s):  
Maria da Consolação Rocha ◽  
Carmen Sylvia Vidigal Moraes
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Teaching Career ◽  
Career Plan ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
Teaching Function

Neste artigo, analisamos o Plano de Carreira dos Servidores da Educação de 1996 e as alterações posteriores, em especial a de 2003, que criou o cargo de educador infantil, e a de 2012, que o transformou em cargo de professor para a educação infantil. Ambas as alterações rompem com a carreira docente unificada. O atual Plano de Carreira dos Servidores da Educação é resultado de um processo de debates e embates ocorridos entre a administração pública e os(as) trabalhadores(as) em educação em suas lutas pela valorização profissional ao longo da história de constituição da Rede Municipal de Educação de Belo Horizonte (RMEBH), criada em 1948. Para melhor compreensão dos embates, avanços e recuos na regulação da carreira docente em Belo Horizonte, organizamos o artigo em quatro momentos. Nos dois primeiros, destacamos os debates realizados e as regulações ocorridas nas décadas de 1980, 1990. No terceiro, apresentamos o plano de carreira vigente e as modificações ocorridas ao longo dos anos 2000, bem como as alterações no quadro de pessoal a partir do processo de terceirização da função docente na educação infantil, que configura uma nova ruptura com a carreira docente e um processo de desprofissionalização do trabalho educacional na capital mineira. ABSTRACTIn this article, we analyze the Career Plan of Education Servers, 1996 and subsequent amendments, in particular the 2003 created the post of child educator, and 2012, which transformed it into a professorship for early childhood education . Both changes break with the unified teaching career. The current Plan Career of Education Server is the result of a process of debate and clashes occurred between the public administration and / (the) employees / (as) education in their struggles for professional development along the network of the constitution of history Municipal Education of Belo Horizonte (RMEBH), created in 1948. to better understand the struggles, advances and retreats in the regulation of the teaching profession in Belo Horizonte, organized the article in four stages. In the first two, we highlight the discussions and adjustments that occurred in the 1980s, 1990. In the third, we present the current career path and the changes that have occurred over the 2000s, as well as changes in personnel from the process outsourcing of the teaching function in early childhood education, which sets a new break with the teaching career and deprofessionalization process of educational work in the mining capital

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