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Candidate pools and credentialing pathways for building the TK teaching workforce

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Description

The report identifies four pools of potential TK teacher candidates: current Multiple Subject credential holders who can teach while earning 24 ECE units; early childhood educators with a bachelor's degree, for whom "possible pathways this group might take to a credential include teacher residencies, postbaccalaureate credentialing programs, and internship programs"; early educators without a bachelor's degree, suited to apprenticeship and degree pathway programs; and new candidates for assistant positions, including recent high school graduates and career changers, buildable through dual enrollment pathways. Table 4 and Figure 6 map these pools to pathways.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Lead TK teachers must hold a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential plus, by August 2023, 24 units of ECE coursework, a Child Development Teacher Permit, or equivalent experience
  • Assistant TK teachers need a high school degree and a basic-skills/pedagogical-knowledge assessment

Constraints

  • New candidates without credentials would not fill lead TK teacher positions in the short term
  • The state does not currently have data on the number of TK teachers employed by districts

Target Learners

  • current early childhood educators
  • credential holders
  • career changers
  • high school students in dual enrollment

Learning Goals

  • early childhood teaching credentialing
  • ECE coursework completion
  • bachelor's degree attainment for early educators

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Melnick, H., García, E., & Leung-Gagné, M. (2022). Building a well-qualified transitional kindergarten workforce in California: Needs and opportunities. Learning Policy Institute. https://doi.org/10.54300/826.674
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title Candidate pools and credentialing pathways for building the TK teaching workforce
description The report identifies four pools of potential TK teacher candidates: current Multiple Subject credential holders who can teach while earning 24 ECE units; early childhood educators with a bachelor's degree, for whom "...
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