Getting to Know Your International Contacts-Part 3

February 22, 2014

What issues regarding quality and early childhood professionals are being discussed where you live and work? In the State of Mississippi the hot topics that are being discussed are Common Core Standards, Reading Achievement, School Readiness, and Teachers meeting quality education for Head Start.

 What opportunities and/or requirements for professional development exist?

According to the National Registry Alliance, a comprehensive professional development system:  Is accessible and based upon a clearly articulated framework.

 Includes a continuum of training and ongoing supports. 

 Defines pathways that are tied to licensure, leading to qualifications and credentials. 

 Addresses the needs of individual, adult learners. 

The systems are generally composed of five interconnected components: 

 Core knowledge 

 Access and outreach 

 Qualifications, Credentials and Pathways 

 Funding 

 Quality Assurance

How Does a Registry Fit Into a Professional Development System?

Personnel and training register (Qualifications, Credentials and

Pathways) of a professional development system. A registry can:

 Collect, track, acknowledge and manage workforce data. These data can help identify trends in

training participation and achievement of credentials or movement along a career lattice, and

inform decision making regarding workforce policies and investments.

 Produce records that can validate qualifications or ongoing professional development for

accreditation, a quality rating system/quality rating and improvement system, wage incentives,

and credentials.

 Verify provider qualifications to meet state licensing requirements.

 Approve and track training offerings and compile the qualifications of approved trainers.

 Record and track training attendance.

 Maintain a calendar of training offerings for a state, region or local area. NAEYC recommends all early childhood professionals receive 24 hours ongoing a year of professional development.

Source: www.registryalliance.org

What are some of your professional goals?

Some of my professional goals are to become a higher learning instructor for Jackson State University, own,   pilot, and track the first learning center that render services to infants the first five years of their life with high-quality educated teachers, and meet the needs of disadvantage children.

What are some of your professional hopes, dreams, and challenges?

Some of my hopes are becoming a professional developer trainer, own my childcare center, and implement training sessions at my present job. Dreams I aspirate are become famous as an educator, the children I served become successful and let me know I had a part of their success, all my grandsons become a success and my children reach the top in their careers. The challenges I present faced are building confidence of writing, public speaking, and owing my business, and obtaining a doctoral.

This week has been very insightful and knowledgeable because I discovered a new career I always wanted to embark upon; therefore as searching the Internet I accidentally learned how to become a professional development or staff development trainer; which I am going to embrace this idea within the next few weeks. My main goal I desire this is to help day care or child care owners to better serve their disadvantage children and families. Through this the children do not have to vicious repeat the cycle of their ancestors. Unfortunately, I have not heard anything from the International contacts.

References

Conceptual Framework for Early Childhood Professional Development

www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/.../PSCONF98.PD

 

Professional Development Systems and the SECA States.pdf

 https://www.google.com/

Source: www.registryalliance.org