Becoming a Professional Educator

If you have lots of enthusiasm on early childhood education, you could consider becoming professional educator as your future career. Well, it isn’t like the image of nasal-voiced Fran fine from The Educator TV series but it is a fact that there is an increasing demand of professional educator today.

The term of professional educator has lots more qualifications than educator profession years ago. Professional educator needed these days is professionals with knowledge in early childhood care and education or known today as child care professional. This profession offers prospective career opportunity as well as promising income. To become professional on early child care, off course you need to have particular qualifications. College degree in early childhood education will be needed if you are willing to become preschool teachers of home schooling tutors as well as day care facility directors. 

But if you are willing to become daycare professionals, college degree isn’t an absolute qualification. There are many child care training programs available with only months of duration. Even you can obtain it from online education without residency program. Don’t hesitate to learn more from National Association of Child Care Professionals (NACCP) for professional qualification on child care as well as accredited education and training programs for early childhood education and day care.

Early Childhood Educators

Sometimes I think that well-trained early childhood educators know too much. It may certainly be the case when we look at our own children and grandchildren. I have three grandchildren (and two adopted grandchildren) in school this year. I have had the opportunity to help or visit several of the classrooms. In some cases I have found very inappropriate classrooms. In other cases, I have found developmentally appropriate environments. My daughter and I had the discussion of how devastating it is to have your own child or grandchild in an inappropriate early childhood setting. Most parents and grandparents don't really know what to look for in school classrooms. I facetiously say that sometimes it is hard to know too much. However, it also allows us to lobby and work for change. The trick is to influence positive change without causing resentment. We'll see what happens...