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Appendix D: Historical Timeline: Preparation for the Care and Education Workforce in the United States
Appendix D: Historical Timeline: Preparation for the Care and Education Workforce in the United States
Pages 633-650
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Appendix D Historical Timeline: Preparation for the Care and Education Workforce in the United States 633
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The first private "normal In the United States, school," developed as a 2-year kindergarten teacher training institute for training elementary involved visiting Germany to school teachers, was opened in observe kindergartens and 1823 by Samuel R
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kindergarten training number of normal schools (2 programs included courses year programs) with an emphasis Day nurseries protected in child study, psychology, on training elementary school children from harm and child hygiene, sociology, teachers.
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These to promote appropriate programs supplemented normal classroom curricula and schools and offered free training kindergarten teacher opportunities to aspiring teachers preparation. who could not afford normal school.
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By 1897, 28 states accepted normal diplomas as licenses. In 1896 John Dewey founded the University of Chicago Laboratory School, the first school for experimenting and researching new methods in a university setting.
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preparation courses. As normal school kindergarten teacher training increased, the 2-year courses of study offered by freestanding kindergarten-training schools declined.
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However, in 11 states. The first American examination in teacher 30 states still had no prior nursery school teachers traveled training schools, leading the schooling requirement for initial to England to study and work way to obtaining trained certification.
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Most of background for nursery these teachers held certificates school teachers so that they from academies and normal could interact effectively schools based on their with specialists in the fields previous employment. of nutrition, psychology, psychiatry, and pediatrics.
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Women applied to nursery education programs with the backgrounds in kindergarten and primary teaching, liberal arts, and home economics, among other areas. Criteria for entry to nursery school education programs included "a definite interest in young children," good health, adequate fundamental preparation, superior scholarship, good native ability, and fine character.
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Programs also by the Kaiser Centers in encompassed a variety of California, provided full-day By 1953, 23 states required a fields concerned with human childcare programs during World 4-year degree for elementary development and social War II. Education requirements teachers; 40 states required a progress, individualized for center directors and teachers 4-year degree for high school instruction, child guidance, included a master's degree and teachers.
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of 3 and 5 years. At its to an elementary education Nursery school teacher training inception, Head Start was certificate.
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The Carnegie Task Force A Position Paper titled Guidelines on Teaching as a Profession for Early Childhood Education published A Nation Prepared: Programs in Associate Degree Teachers for the 21st Century. Granting Institutions was Holmes Groups published published by the NAEYC in Tomorrow's Teachers.
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In 1997, the NAEYC published new guidelines to establish standards for associate degrees in early All but one state established childhood education. detailed content standards in core subject areas.
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nonprofit online institution created by governors of In 2002, the NAEYC approved standards for early nine states in 1998, opens a childhood professional preparation advanced degree teachers college that grants programs, and also established the Commission on Early teaching degrees based on Childhood Associate Degree Accreditation. demonstrated competencies, rather than a final exam, In 2003, the NAEYC approved standards for early and received NCATE childhood professional preparation associate degree approval in 2006 (http:// programs.
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State licenes are required for all teachers in public schools, Federal regulations call for half of Head Start lead though reqruiements vary teachers nationwide to have bachelor's degrees by fall by state.
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1990. Historical foundations for early childhood teacher training: The evolu tion of kindergarten teacher preparation, edited by B
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In Handbook of research on teacher education: Enduring issues in changing contexts. 3rd ed., edited by M. Cochran-Smith, S
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1990. Non-baccalaureate teacher education in early childhood education.
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