Early Childhood Teachers

2011 ◽  
pp. 126-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Thomas ◽  
Kathleen Spencer Cooter
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Field Experiences ◽  
Technology Training ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Virtual Manipulatives ◽  
Mathematics Classrooms ◽  
And Mathematics

This chapter reviews the state of technology training for early childhood educators in teacher preparation institutions across the country. Using NCATE and NAEYC standards as benchmarks of practice, the chapter outlines some current issues and research on technology training at the preservice level, such as course sequence, textbook choice, content infusion, field experiences, et cetera. The chapter also outlines three technologies, Web 2.0, Google Earth, and the virtual manipulatives that are accessible, free to users, require little teacher training, and have evidence to support their instructional benefits. These three well-developed technologies can easily be introduced to students and teachers as exemplars of constructivist pedagogical technology in early childhood science and mathematics classrooms. Activities using each are included.

scholarly journals Inquiry on early childhood teachers preparation and retention

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
Krystyna Nowak-Fabrykowski ◽  
Mary Lou Aylor
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
Early Childhood Teacher

The purpose of this study is to analyze early childhood teacher preparation and investigate the factors that motivated individuals to become early childhood teachers and that have kept them in the profession. This study reports the results of an online survey investigating motives of staying or leaving the early childhood profession. The results of this inquiry point to factors that influenced their choice, taking into consideration their professional preparation. Advice for new early childhood educators just entering the profession is also provided.

scholarly journals Literacidad crítica en la formación inicial: ¿cómo formar a docentes de Educación Infantil para educar a una ciudadanía crítica? TITLE: Critical literacy in teacher training: how to train early childhood teachers to educate a critical citizenship?

2019 ◽  
Vol 0 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Rosa García Ruiz ◽  
Arasy González Milea
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías

El artículo muestra los resultados iniciales de una intervención en formación del profesorado que nos ha ayudado a diseñar un proyecto de investigación. Se elabora a partir de la narración biográfica fruto de la práctica docente de futuras maestras, lo que nos ha permitido entender la relevancia que otorgan a la necesidad de abordar la literacidad crítica, desde los primeros niveles de escolarización. El diseño de la propuesta de formación docente se realizó a partir de experiencias previas en las que el uso de la cultura popular y las nuevas tecnologías facilitan una enseñanza comprensiva para la construcción de identidades en contextos multiculturales. La experiencia nos ha servido para entender cómo podemos ayudar a futuras maestras a diferenciar entre hechos y opiniones, argumentar sobre la veracidad y la fiabilidad de fuentes, distinguir la ideología de los recursos de aula e identificar silencios. Junto a ellas conocimos qué cuestiones sociales relevantes pueden abordarse en el aula de educación infantil; cómo enseñar a interpretar información sobre cuestiones sociales relevantes, cómo abordar la literacidad crítica con alumnado de educación infantil.En definitiva, la experiencia nos ha acercado a conocer cómo ayudar a futuras maestras a repensar el conocimiento social y superar conflictos internos en la interpretación y tratamiento de cuestiones sociales relevantes desde la literacidad crítica.ABSTRACTThe article shows the initial results of an intervention in teacher training that has helped us to design an investigation. It is elaborated from a biographical narrative resulting from the teaching practice of future teachers that has allowed us to understand the relevance that they give to the need to address critical literacy from the first levels of schooling.The design of the teacher training proposal was based on previous experiences in which the use of popular culture and new technologies, facilitate a comprehensive teaching for the construction of identities in multicultural contexts.The experience has allowed us to understand how to help future teachers to differentiate between facts and opinions, argue about the veracity and reliability of sources, distinguish ideology from classroom resources and identify silences. Together with them, we knew what relevant social issues can be addressed in the classroom of early childhood education, how to teach how to interpret information about relevant social issues, how to approach critical literacy with children's education students.In short, the experience aims to know how to help future teachers to rethink social knowledge and overcome internal conflicts in the interpretation and treatment of relevant social issues from critical literacy.  

Early childhood teachers’ beliefs about readiness for teaching science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mi-Hwa Park ◽  
Dimiter M Dimitrov ◽  
Lynn G Patterson ◽  
Do-Yong Park
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Teaching Science ◽  
Latent Classes ◽  
Early Childhood Science ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
And Mathematics

The purpose of this study was to examine beliefs of early childhood teachers about their readiness for teaching science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, with a focus on testing for heterogeneity of such beliefs and differential effects of teacher-related factors. The results from latent class analysis of survey data revealed two latent classes of teachers, not known a priori, with significant differences in levels of teachers’ beliefs about readiness to teach science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The teachers’ teaching experience and their awareness of the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and potential challenges in teaching science, technology, engineering, and mathematics played a differential role in the classification of teachers into latent classes. In addition, the analysis of two open-ended survey questions revealed several themes in the early childhood teachers’ opinions about early childhood science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Study findings support the necessity for professional development practices that will enhance teachers’ understanding of the importance of early childhood science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education, as well as their knowledge of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines and potential challenges of teaching science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

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