1. What do we mean when we talk about PD?
Using the NAEYC Early Childhood Education Professional Development Glossary
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NAEYC Early Childhood Workforce Systems Initiative
May 2015

2. NAEYC ECWSI Overview ECWSI Resources The PD Glossary Ideas for Application Suggestions and Feedback
Agenda
These slides will facilitate discussion on these topics
Next: ECWSI

3. The Early Childhood Workforce Systems Initiative (ECWSI)
The NAEYC ECWSI
The Early Childhood Workforce Systems Initiative (ECWSI)
Purpose: assist states in developing, enhancing, and implementing policies for an integrated early childhood professional development system for all early childhood education professionals working with and on behalf of young children.
The PD Glossary is a project of the NAEYC Early Childhood Workforce Systems Initiative (ECWSI)
Primary goal of ECWSI is to support ECPD system integration – a next step in defining early childhood education as a unified profession, composed of early educators working in early learning programs for children in the period of EC development, birth through age 8, and that share a core body of professional knowledge and practices.
Next: resources

4. The NAEYC ECWSI Publications ECWSI http://www.naeyc.org/policy/ecwsi
ECWSI work is based upon four NAEYC publications that support the early childhood profession and professional development systems
Advancing the Profession – NAEYC professional development standards and guidelines
Workforce Designs – NAEYC “blueprint” for state policies that support PD systems
Early Childhood PD Glossary – NAEYC, NACCRRA, NAECTE, and ACCESS seeking consensus on PD terms
Strategic Directions – NAEYC policy report with recommendations for developing technical assistance as part of state PD systems
Next: Advancing the Profession

5. Advancing the Early Childhood Profession
ECWSI
Advancing the Early Childhood Profession
Goal: A unifying framework for the 0-8 ECE profession
NAEYC Standards for Professional Preparation
NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct
NAEYC Supplement for Adult Educators
Workforce Designs Policy Blueprint for State EC PD Systems
Using the NAEYC Professional Preparation Standards
Advancing the Profession – purpose and contents
This 2012 edition of the “red book” compiles all of NAEYC’s standards and guidelines for professional development in one place.
It includes a new introduction that reviews historical progress in advancing the profession of early childhood education.
Next: Blueprint

6. PD Policy Blueprint Goal: An integrated system of
ECWSI
PD Policy Blueprint
Goal: An integrated system of
professional development for early education 0-8
Identifies six essential policy areas
Identifies four guiding principles to be applied across each area
IN DEVELOPMENT: PD SYSTEM INDICATORS to evaluate goals and progress on four principles in each policy area
Workforce Designs: A Policy Blueprint for State Early Childhood Professional Development Systems creates a structure for development and strategic planning in state early childhood professional development systems.
The Blueprint identifies:
Six policy areas: Professional standards, career pathways, articulation, advisory structures, data, financing
Four principles that can be applied to each policy area:
System integration
Quality assurances (for PD)
Workforce diversity, inclusion and access to PD
Compensation parity
NAEYC is currently developing indicators to benchmark progress on each principle in each policy area.
Next: Strategic Directions

7. Goal: Findings and recommendations for state development of TA systems
ECWSI
Strategic Directions
Goal: Findings and recommendations for state development of TA systems
Common terminology
Standards, specialized knowledge and competencies, qualifications and credentials
Pathways, ongoing support and compensation
Data, evaluation and quality assurance
Strategic Directions – purpose and contents
Next: PD Glossary

8. PD Glossary
PD Glossary
Goal: Develop consistent terminology for professional preparation and development
Related to
PD methods, roles, knowledge and competencies
For use by
PD providers, policy makers and researchers
Early educators, early childhood program administrators and advocates
The PD Glossary was developed in in order to build common language and terminology across states, sectors of the field, and stakeholders in state and national PD system work.
The glossary covers terms related to PD methods, roles, knowledge and competencies
The glossary is intended for use by PD providers, policy makers, researchers, and the profession itself.
Next: Partners

9. Development of the glossary
PD Glossary
Partners
Part 1: Training and TA
NAEYC and NACCRRA
Part 2: Adult Education
NAEYC, NAECTE and ACCESS
Development of the glossary
The Glossary was developed in two parts, with primary stakeholders for each part invited as partners and broad outreach to the field for the full document.
NAECTE = National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators
ACCESS = Associate Degree Early Childhood Teacher Educators
Next: Using the Glossary

10. What do we mean when we talk about professional development?
PD Glossary
What do we mean when we talk about professional development?
Using the glossary
Prep for first set of discussion questions. Across states, regulatory sectors and individuals – we use the same words, but do we mean the same thing?
Next: 1st questions

11. Initial questions
What do we mean when we say early childhood? What do we mean by professional development?
This slide can be used to facilitate discussion or to share the initial questions explored by NAEYC and its partners as they developed the glossary.
Ask participants to share their understanding of these terms. Could be whole group or table work followed by sharing.
Next: Early childhood

12. Initial definitions: Early childhood
PD Glossary
Initial definitions: Early childhood
NAEYC defines young children as children in the developmental period of early childhood, from birth through approximately age 8.
Early childhood education includes early learning programs serving young children and their families in centers, homes and schools.
The early childhood workforce includes early educators, home-family support roles and professional support roles.
Review
Advancing the Profession, p.12, 79
Next: Professional Development is

13. Initial definitions: Professional development
PD Glossary
Initial definitions: Professional development
Is a continuum of learning and support activities
that prepares individuals for new roles in the profession or enhances work in current roles and
leads to improvement in knowledge, skills, practices and dispositions
Review
Advancing the Profession, p. 79
Next: Professional Development includes

14. Professional development includes
PD Glossary
Professional development includes
Training
Technical Assistance
Education
Each of these can offer preparation for a new role or setting or continuing development in a current role and setting
PD includes three types of activity.
Each of these can be pre-service preparation for a particular role or setting or can be ongoing / continuing PD for a current role and setting.
NOTE: preparation does not necessarily mean preparation to enter the field. It can mean preparation for a specific role or setting in the field. A teacher who wants to become a principal needs to complete a principal preparation program and earn state licensure. A kindergarten teacher who wants to become a Montessori teacher needs to complete a Montessori teacher preparation program and earn a Montessori teaching credential.
Advancing the Profession p. 79
Next: 2nd questions

15. Initial questions
How are training, technical assistance and education alike? How are they different?
Ask participants to share their understanding of these terms
Next: Early childhood

16. PD Glossary
All forms of PD
Are learning experiences specific to an area of knowledge or inquiry and related skills and dispositions
Delivered by professionals with expertise in relevant subject matter and adult learning principles and
Can be delivered face-to-face or through distance, technology-based and hybrid methods
Training, TA and education are alike in these ways, share these features.
NOTE: Both early childhood education and adult education are most effective in the context of a positive, supportive relationship.
Advancing the Profession p. 81
Next: Technical Assistance

17. PD Glossary
Training
Can be a one-time event or organized into a training program with a planned sequence of sessions
Delivered by professionals who may need to meet the qualifications required by an employer, training agency, conference organizer or a state trainer approval system
These are typical of, unique to training.
Advancing the Profession p. 81
Next: Technical Assistance

18. PD Glossary
Technical Assistance
Provides targeted, customized supports, often job embedded
Focuses on processes, knowledge application or implementation of services
These are typical of, unique to TA.
Delivered by professionals who may need to meet the qualifications required by an employer or a state technical assistance system
Advancing the Profession p. 83
Next: Technical Assistance includes

19. Technical Assistance includes
PD Glossary
Technical Assistance includes
Mentoring
Coaching
Consulting
PD advising
Peer-to-peer professional networks and learning communities
All of these are types of TA
Advancing the Profession p
Next: Mentoring

20. TA: Mentoring Occurs between colleagues in similar professional roles
PD Glossary
TA: Mentoring
Occurs between colleagues in similar professional roles
Goal: To increase personal or professional capacity, resulting in greater professional effectiveness
Advancing the Profession p. 84
Next: Coaching

21. TA: Coaching Occurs between colleagues in similar professional roles
PD Glossary
TA: Coaching
Occurs between colleagues in similar professional roles
Goal: To build capacity for specific dispositions, skills and behaviors and focused on goal-setting and achievement for an individual or group
Advancing the Profession p. 85
Next: Consulting

22. PD Glossary
TA: Consulting
Occurs between an external consultant and individual(s) from a single program
Goal: To facilitate assessment and resolution of an issue-specific concern or to address a specific topic
Advancing the Profession p. 86
Next: PD Advising

23. TA: PD Advising Occurs between an advisor and an individual
PD Glossary
TA: PD Advising
Occurs between an advisor and an individual
Goal: To assist individuals to make informed decisions and gain access to increased professional growth and career options
Advancing the Profession p. 87
Next: PD Advising

24. Peer-to-Peer TA Occurs in communities of colleagues in similar roles
PD Glossary
Peer-to-Peer TA
Occurs in communities of colleagues in similar roles
Goal: To provide access to expert knowledge base in the field, learn from an exchange of professional challenges, rewards, problem solving experiences and practitioner repertoire of tools and strategies
Remember all PD is delivered by professionals with expertise in relevant subject matter and adult learning principles.
Advancing the Profession p. 88
Next: Education

25. Education Occurs between faculty, students and student peers
PD Glossary
Education
Occurs between faculty, students and student peers
Requires satisfactory performance on standards or outcomes-based assessments
Offered through a state-approved, professionally accredited school, college or university
Delivered by professionals who meet qualifications required by the state, accreditor and institution
Typical of or unique to education…
Remember all PD delivered by professionals with expertise in relevant subject matter and adult learning principles, but states and accreditors have additional and specific requirements for higher education faculty.
Advancing the Profession p. 89
Next: Teacher Ed Programs

26. PD Glossary
Education Program
A coherent and sequential program of study focused on a specialized content area or role, such as EC teacher education
With individual study, peer learning experiences, field experiences and performance assessments
Delivered by faculty with professional expertise in subject matter and adult learning principles and
Offered through a state approved and nationally accredited school, college or university
Education is delivered in a coherent sequence of courses that make up programs. Each course and the program as a whole have learning outcomes or student performance standards aligned with national professional knowledge and competencies for the major; state requirements for higher education degrees and professional licensure; and individual institution requirements for grading, course and program approval.
Advancing the Profession p
Next: Credits & CEUs

27. Initial questions
What is the difference between preservice and inservice training? Between credits and CEUs?
Ask participants to share their understanding of these terms
Next: Preservice/Inservice

28. Preservice / Inservice
PD Glossary
Preservice / Inservice
Preservice is initial PD offered or required prior to beginning work in a new position, role or setting
Inservice is ongoing PD offered or required to enhance skills and maintain current knowledge and practice while continuing to work in a current position, role or setting
Repeat from slide 14: NOTE: Preservice preparation does not necessarily mean preparation to enter the field. It can mean preparation for a specific role or setting in the field. A teacher who wants to become a principal needs to complete a principal preparation program and earn state licensure. A kindergarten teacher who wants to become a Montessori teacher needs to complete a Montessori teacher preparation program and earn a Montessori teaching credential. Preservice PD has to be completed before beginning work in a new role or setting. Preservice can be a higher education degree program, noncredit training program, onsite TA induction program, shadowing or mentoring program, etc.
Advancing the Profession p. 82
Next: Credits & CEUs

29. PD Glossary
Credits & CEUs
Credits are earned after completing the requirements of an academic course
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) may be earned after completing a course that does not meet credit requirements or is not part of a degree program
Direct Assessments award credit or CEUs based on passing an assessment that demonstrates mastery of course requirements
Education and training programs may offer either academic college credits or continuing education units (CEUs).
CEUs are not credits and do not earn college credits or count toward the completion of college degree requirements.
However, some training programs are designed to offer an option to earn college credits through satisfactory performance on course assignments or through direct assessment.
Advancing the Profession p
Next: Credentials

30. PD Glossary
Credentials
Credentials include certificates, diplomas, degrees and licenses awarded to individuals who complete a PD program
Degrees are awarded by educational institutions in accordance with state regulation
Professional certification is awarded by a national, non-governmental professional association
State certification or licensure is awarded by a state agency and may recognize or require degrees and/or professional certifications
Credential is an “umbrella” term for the multiple ways to document individual PD accomplishments and qualifications.
Digital badges are ways of documenting credentials online in apps such as Linked In, usually in stackable chunks.
To be meaningful, credentials should be required or valued by professional peers, employers, government, and the public.
Advancing the Profession p. 92
Next: Meaningful PD systems

31. Meaningful PD Systems
Question 1: To be meaningful, credentials should be required or valued by professional peers, employers, government and the public. What do you think makes state or national credentials meaningful?
Repeat from previous slide: To be meaningful, credentials should be required or valued by professional peers, employers, government, and the public.
Discussion

32. Meaningful credentials
Application
Meaningful credentials
Are stackable, building upon each other, increasing mastery of knowledge and skill and increasing opportunities to advance to positions of higher responsibility and compensation
Are portable, recognized across settings, sectors and states
Are valued by professional peers, employers, government and the public
Lutton (2013)
Next: meaningful QA

33. Meaningful PD Systems
Question 2: What do you think are examples of meaningful PD quality assurance mechanisms valued by professional peers, employers, government and the public?
Repeat from previous slide: To be meaningful, credentials should be required or valued by professional peers, employers, government, and the public.
Encourage whole group or table discussion of these questions.
Could break up by stakeholder – what quality assurances are valued by professional peers? By employers? By government? By the public?

34. Meaningful quality assurance
Application
Meaningful quality assurance
PD is delivered by professionals with relevant knowledge of the subject and of adult learning
PD content and assessments are aligned with the national standards of the profession and with any additional state knowledge and competencies
PD is regularly reviewed and updated using a reflective, self study process that includes data on performance of program completers and an external, unbiased review by members of the profession. Programmatic accreditation is the best known and most frequently used professional QA process.
State policy and state training approval systems generally include these quality assurances. Review bullets.
In most professions, national accreditation by the profession is expected for programs leading to professional licensure as part of state approval.
Regional accreditation is the nationally recognized process for reviewing and approving colleges and universities as a whole.
CAEP is the national accreditor for schools of teacher education as a whole.
CAEP recognizes NAEYC as the national Specialized Professional Association for Early Childhood Teacher Education 0-8.
NAEYC Commission on Early Childhood Associate Degree Accreditation (ECADA) is the national accreditor for associate degree programs in early childhood education.
NAEYC is currently exploring the feasibility of direct accreditation for BA and graduate programs, similar to ECADA.
Next: Meaningful ECPDS

35. Meaningful ECPD Systems
Application
Meaningful ECPD Systems
Use the national standards of the profession (NAEYC preparation standards) as a unifying 0-8 framework
Support national programmatic accreditation in higher ed
Offer meaningful professional credentials
Provide worksite induction, mentoring and coaching
Develop leadership in ECE programs
Support adequate working conditions including resources and compensation
Expect ongoing, career-long PD from all professionals
Encourage engagement in professional peer networks and associations
Early Childhood Professional Development systems are made up of interacting parts and should include each of these…
Review bullets
Ask for reaction, additional ideas?
Lutton (2013)
Next: close

36. We want to hear from you Do you find the Glossary helpful?
Do you have questions or suggestions for improvement?
Contact: Alison Lutton,
NAEYC Early Childhood Workforce Systems Initiative
May 2015

37. References
Early Childhood Education Professional Development Glossary (2012)
Lutton, A. (2013) Supporting Successful Degree Completion by Early Childhood Professionals. Young Children 68(4): 51-53
Lutton, A. (2012) Advancing the Early Childhood Profession: NAEYC Standards and Guidelines for Professional Development, Washington D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children.
© NAEYC national Association for the Education of Young Children.