Online Degrees Primed to Help Early Ed Teachers Meet New Credential Reqs
Preschool isn’t just babysitting. The quality of everyday interactions between a young child and a caring adult helps that child’s development in numerous areas: socioemotional learning, early literacy, early math, fine motor skills, cognition and approaches to learning. So it makes sense that education policymakers are pushing the early childhood field to professionalize its workforce and raise the credential requirements to four-year degrees for the people interacting with children in those settings.
