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Re: Can I vent?
Posted by Kristi on 9/23/08
I completely understand where you are coming from. I teach
kindergarten (and also am the assistant director) of a child
development center in Pa that also holds a private school
license for pre-k and kinder. For both of those rooms, the
head teacher has to be a degreed and certified teacher. I
also get the response of oh, you work in a daycare at times
from people so I tend to just stick with saying that I teach
private kindergarten and leave it at that. I know my program
is just as rigorous, if not more, than that of the local
public school plus all the other stuff I have to follow like
ECERS and STARS that public school does not.
Also, I read your post on the EC chatboard and saw the person
who commented about teachers having just high school degrees.
But what people who don't work in a daycare or child
development center don't understand is that there are varying
degrees of a "teacher" in these center. There are aides,
AGS-assistant teachers and GS-lead teachers, assistant
director and directors. And for every step of the way, you
have to attain more education or choose to stay at the
position you are in. An aide certainly does not do the same
job as a lead teacher and those are usually the people with
just a high school degree unless they have at least two years
experience to go with it.
On 9/22/08, MsS wrote:
> I teach Pre-K in a daycare center. I am currently working
> on my Master's (will be finished in May!)and in one of my
> classes and someone asked me where I
> worked and I told them and they were like, oh, you teach
> daycare, dismissively.
>
> I ignored them, because they have never set foot into a
> classroom and they have no idea what they are talking
> about.
>
> But does anyone else get this? It irks me too no end! In GA
> to teach GA Public Pre-K,what I TEACH, I HAVE to be
> certified. Duh. The person who was making the dumb comment
> has never taught and is NOT certified like I AM!
>
> People make me sick sometimes.
>
> Thanks for listening.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Can I vent?, 9/22/08, by MsS.
- Re: Can I vent?, 9/23/08, by Kristi.
- Re: Can I vent?, 9/25/08, by Schari.
- Re: Can I vent?, 9/26/08, by Ms.S.
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