Field experience is one way through which early educators can gain key competencies, but few states include experience as a qualification for career advancement. This National ECE Workforce Center research-to-practice brief identifies two promising approaches for how ECE systems leaders can incorporate experience, in addition to professional development and education, into career pathways.
This is a product of the National ECE Workforce Center, a collaboration between Child Trends, Early Education Leaders at UMass Boston, the Delaware Institute of Excellence in Early Childhood at the University of Delaware, and ZERO TO THREE.
