CREDENTIALING FOR CHILDREN'S CENTER AND EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHERS
WHEREAS, the importance of educating young children has been well established (see Bloom, Hess, Piaget, et al); and
WHEREAS, it is likewise well known that a 4-year college education plus a fifth year of postgraduate work in early childhood education makes a person a better teacher than someone with less education and training than this (see Seefeldt, Prescott, et al):
RESOLVED, that the AFT oppose any attempts to reduce the minimum qualifications for a children's center and early childhood teacher to a Child Development Associate "credential or some similar on-the-job training;" and
RESOLVED, that AFT support and introduce legislation to require the same credentialing standards for children's center and early childhood teachers as for elementary and secondary teachers.
(1978)