Teacher Cassy and I share a few of the same concerns
with regards to issues regarding quality and early childhood professionals here
in the US and in Thailand. We agree that
the issues have a lot to do with commitment and compensation. However, we do
not agree on how these particular issues may be resolved. Unfortunately, this may be a lot of the
problem in the early childhood field:
not enough professionals coming together with a formulated solution to
the mainstream issues of quality and professionalism globally. Cassy believes that the professionals, in Thai, feel that education comes with a price. The teachers do what they are paid to do; your compensation drives your efforts.
There are a lot of opportunities and/or requirements that need to be developed and put into place for professional development. It would be a good start to have a formal set of rules that requires that a child must be an active participant in school or else there will be some sort of consequence (for the child or the family members). She could also see where improvement could be made if there were more programs that would allow the parents to get more involved with the developmental aspects of the child's education curriculum. Also, some awareness programs of such topics as: bullying, individual acceptance, and skin tone.
Cassy's goal is to become a full-time student in a program that will allow her to share her career goals and opportunities with children that are being brought up in a more urbanized setting. She feels that her skills are needed more so in that type of environment and she feels that would be an opportunity for her to give back. One of her goals is to be able to embark upon the opportunity to continue her education at little to no cost to her. Her greatest challenges right now are caring for her father while trying to follow her dreams and learning how to interact with small children from other cultures and environments aside from her own cultural background.
Cassy's goal is to become a full-time student in a program that will allow her to share her career goals and opportunities with children that are being brought up in a more urbanized setting. She feels that her skills are needed more so in that type of environment and she feels that would be an opportunity for her to give back. One of her goals is to be able to embark upon the opportunity to continue her education at little to no cost to her. Her greatest challenges right now are caring for her father while trying to follow her dreams and learning how to interact with small children from other cultures and environments aside from her own cultural background.
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