This week I chose to share to you about the early childhood organization called PACE. This stands for Professional Association for Childhood Education. The website for this organization is http://www.pacenet.org/.
The main focus of this orgnanization is to provide resources and services to early childhood care and educating professionals. This is a non profit organization that has been around since 1955 in California. Members of this organization focus to enhance education for professionals, families and their children.
This quote was in the newsletter of the March issue on the PACE organization.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I believe that this is and always has been and always will be an issue in the early childhood field and the PACE organization. Teachers need to have the best knowledge and invest time and money to become a high quality teacher. This will not only serve the best interest of the child, but will help the family. The PACE organization focuses on this issues to promote the best possible way for teachers, families and children to get the education that is expected.
The thing that I mostly learned about looking at this organization, along with others this week is there are always resources and websites and other professionals there to enhance our knowledge on not only education, but everyday situations in the classroom. These organizations do primary focus on education and how to make it better, but throughout these websites there is so much information to get our brains going on early childhood.I believe if more states had programs such as PACE, this will help everyone to provide a high quality education from the start.
I like your quote. Many people over the years have questioned my choice to work with Early Childhood due to the low pay. Some have said it is a "waste" I prefer as your quote said to think of it as an investment. The best investment.
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ReplyDeleteI agree that as educators, we must continue to strive to improve our craft. By investing in gaining new knowledge and insights, we can better serve young children and families.
Thank you for sharing!
Best,
Parker
I couldn't agree more. Teachers definitely need invest the money and knowledge into their education in order to successfully educate others! I have heard of PACE before, but never went into researching it. Thank you for sharing! :)
ReplyDeleteGreat website. I agree that there is an abundance of early childhood information for anyone who wants to enhance their knowledge. The issue is the desire. Cultivating a teacher's motivation can be challenging. Teachers offer children a priceless gift of education but are paid low wages while performing a great duty. Sometimes they feel their job is thankless. That isn't true. The reward is that child completing college, obtaining a job, and becoming an adult and being able to care for themselves.
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