No Single Ingredient
Well-trained and educated early care and education teachers and providers are likely to establish warm and caring relationships with children, encourage their curiosity and love of learning, and foster their development and readiness for school. Yet, many teachers and providers lack access to the education they need, and work in environments that compensate them poorly and offer little encouragement and support for continuing to build their professional skills.
This talk will explore the limitations of current “silver bullet” policies intended to improve quality and support effective teaching, and identify the components of a multi-faceted research, policy and advocacy strategy necessary to attract well-trained practitioners, support their ongoing development, and provide incentives for them to continue to teach. The presentation will include information about two new research tools—a measure of the adult work environment and an inventory of early childhood higher education program content — and two forthcoming books –one focused on training mentors and coaches and the other on why understanding policy, politics and power is essential to early childhood leaders.
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I am really looking forward this lecture.I think is going to be very informative and give us ideas that in the future we would be able to benefit from.
In No Single Ingredient by Dr. Whitebook I was able to have a better view of advocating for the children”s rights through policies. Dr. Whitebook emphases that we need to pay more attention at who’s voicing us (teachers), and children. Most of the representative at the board are not involve or advocating for the education issues. She also pointed out how the issues that we face today in education are repletion of the issues from twenty years ago. There is not one simple silver bullet to solve all the education issues. Sometimes there are simple solutions for complex problems! The most important thing is to start to get involve it.
In Dr.Whitebook’s lecture, it was interesting to know how important it is for us as teachers and future teachers to advocate the rights for the children. Not all problems will be solved, especially since these issues have been a repetition for so many years but our voices need to be heard. Although it may take long to change these issues, what matters is that we don’t give up.
-It was a pleasure listening to her lecture
I really enjoyed listening to Dr. Whitebook lecture she touched basis on everything that teachers had concerns about thoroughout many years. Dr. Whitebook mentioned teachers salary, and she mentioned people creating policies that have nothing to do with the subject. I agree 100% with her, and I do honestly feel that more people should be involved with creating policies that reflect the job they are doing.
Thank you Dr,Whitebook for your lecture I hope more people listen to you and understand why teachers are one of “THE” most important people in a childs development, and how we are such a positive role model to some of the children we care for.
The lecture conducted by Dr. Whitebook was very informative and many of the points put forth during the lecture was very insightful. During the lecture we received a first hand account of the experiences that took place with Dr. Whiteboook in addition we also received a better understanding of the reasons for her research and the current research that she is working on currently.
In regards to policies, Dr. Whitebook said that we often have people speaking for the field of ECE who lack experience in ECE. These people go unchallenged when it comes to changes that are made. In ECE, policy is imposed on us.
She also mentioned that we often sidestep what we actually know about quality improvement in childcare. We know from the staffing study that in programs where there’s high turnover it’s hard to improve teaching practices. We are always losing money because we are always having to retrain new people.
These issues in ECE are very important and I feel like we need to get more people in the field to become policy makers. Maybe we can fix this.
What a great lecture! I loved when Marcy talked about teacher qualifications, it’s a topic that I am very interested in. I can tell that she is very passionate about early childhood education. It was a great experience to hear her speak.