How the government is @#$%ING up the early childhood education here! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
Allowing the Nonmajors of Early Childhood Education Professionals to Work as Surrogate Instructors, Turning it to Norm, Currently, there are at LEAST 1,400 Uncertified Early Childhood Educators Working
The early childhood education advocates stated, that the Department of Education turned a blind eye to allowing for the unlicensed instructors to teach, for the nonrelated major graduates to work in the field, turning children into lab rats of early childhood education reform, that it'd not come up with a viable solution to date, and there are more and more unlicensed early childhood educators who are teaching, that the quality of education in the early childhood years is becoming, worrisome.
To resolve the shortage of teaching staff, the rules stated, that when the early childhood education providers are in shortage, the schools can find the surrogate instructors to fill up the teaching posts, the instructors with the certifications, but if they can't find these, then, they can find the assistant early childhood caretakers to teach the classes. And in 2019, there was another added, that the schools can find the nonrelated majors to work as the surrogate instructors.
But this way of "temporarily solving the problems" is now, applied everywhere. Based off of the estimates of the Department of Education, there were a total of 59,657 teaching staffs of the 2021 school year, and of them, 1,400 didn't graduate from related majors of early childhood education or childcare, about two-percent of the entire teaching staff.
The C.E.O. of the Chungwha Early Childhood Education Foundation, Su stated, that back then they'd agreed to let the workers who aren't certified as qualified early childhood educators as surrogates, that it was only for the sake of transitional purposes, but now, this had become the norm, and that there's, no end in sight. The Department of Education shouldn't just let this slide, and do nothing about it.
The committee member of Early Childhood Education in the National Teachers' Guild United, Yang told, that allowing for the untrained, unrelated major workers, lacking the teaching experiences into the preschools to teach, it's turning the preschools into an experimental ground. Besides, it's illegal for a person who's not certified as a nanny to take care of infants, but how come there's no tougher restrictions on the qualifications of certified early childhood educators? That the Department of Education's means of managing is ambiguous.
Toward this, the Department of Education stated, that they're now planning the multivariate means of helping the early childhood educators attain the needed qualifications including the post bachelor program courses of professional early childhood educators, offering those who are working in the field training as they are working, to increase the quality of early childhood education.
And yet, the chairperson of the National Early Childhood Educators Guild, Kuo stated it bluntly, there may be only a few who are taking the courses, because the work environment for the early childhood educators isn't that good, the pay isn't that high, but there's a lot of stress in the job, which caused the early childhood education industry to not have enough people to work in, and if the government doesn't resolve this, then, what's sacrificed would be the children's learning and the quality of care provided to them.
And this is another problem, due to the shortage of workers, not enough pay, too much responsibilities, as caring for a young child takes a whole lot out of us, and so, what's sacrificed is the younger children's rights to get socialized, to get an education, and the government is still NOT doing anything to resolve this.
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