In the state of Texas, our goal is for all children entering the school system have the foundational knowledge and skills to be confident and successful learners. With support from the families, schools, and communities providing aligned early learning opportunities, policies and programs that: Support a highly-skilled early learning workforce, providing resources that engage and support development of young children, provide access to high quality 3 and 4 year old prekindergarten. With NAYEC their standards are similar with making sure the curriculum that is used is challenging and developmentally appropriate. They make sure their programs are in place to help children transition to the school system.
With both standards, I think that the constant checking of how the program is running is a good thing. You want to make sure the things you put in place are working and that if at any time there is a issue you can replace what needs to be replaced. As the world moves towards the future trends, and changes come around and learning paths tend to shift and early childhood educators are finding out they need to do things to help accommodate these changes. With NBPTS teachers work with evolving dynamics when it comes to understanding how children develop and using that to make programs that will feed into the learning experience.
In the state of Texas there is room for more information to highlight their programs used to teach early childhood children. Even though their standards were similar to NAYEC, they didn’t go into more detail about the programs they use to help with children’s development. I just wished that they had more information about the importance of early childhood education.
Questions??
How often is programs reviewed?
How many assessments must be done to get a valid answer?
How will these assessments help with learning how children develop?
References
https://tea.texas.gov/academics/early-childhood-education
https://www.naeyc.org/sites/default/files/globally-shared/downloads/PDFs/resources/position-statements/CAPEexpand.pdf
