Prime 5 Solutions to Boost Each of our Nursery Schools. from Hander cholpan's blog
Many nursery schools and early learning establishments already have top quality staff which can be attracted to the pre school sector not through any financial incentive but mainly through a love of children and a desire to greatly help them learn. These qualities are rightly sort after in nursery staff but the fact is the pre school industry still suffers from deficiencies in top quality candidates because of the remuneration packages available. Because of this the first 3 tips are based around funding for nursery schools and the money offered to the pre school sector.
The first tip should be to combine the love nursery staff have for teaching and working with children with better qualified nursery staff. Some of the very successful nursery schools on the planet come in Scandinavia and in those countries agenda digital infantil, nursery staff are of the same standing as teachers. Contrast this to nursery staff in the UK where significantly less than 8% of staff are educated to university level and you'll notice a major difference.
So with this shortfall in degree standard staff in the pre school sector what can be done to boost the calibre of nursery staff? One way would certainly be to pay for staff in the nursery sector more money. And whilst the best teachers aren't necessarily motivated by money, it would certainly help more degree educated think about the pre school path to a career rather than choosing industries such as for example banking, insurance or other financial services routes.
So if we want better staff and we should encourage them with higher wages how is this likely to be performed? Well the fact is any upsurge in funding will have ahead from the government and this might well mean either fund raising through increased taxes or redistribution of existing educational funds and budgets. In the UK more cash is used on secondary education rather than pre school and nursery education and yet if we invested more in children as much as age 5 years of age, many good traits and qualities could have been already established and therefore less money would have to be used on working with unruly children at secondary level.
Top tip number 4 for improving our pre school system is to actually get parents more involved with the development of their children. The sad truth is many parents simply do not need the time and energy to dedicate to their own children this means they rely totally on nursery staff due to their under 5 year olds development. Structured parental programmes which would give parents advice and the skills to produce their children in the home would have an enormous affect.
And this method to learning and working together brings us onto the fifth and final method by which nursery school education may be increased and that's for nurseries and schools to understand from what already works and roll this out over the board. Teaching done well works and so probably the most successful teaching methods need to be adopted by all nurseries.
Children learn best when they're engaged and taught to think. Combine this kind of learning with better nursery staff, higher wages, better parenting and all pre school learning establishments teaching in the best possible way and our nurseries will improve and so will our children's chances of success.
This informative article was compiled by Mark Burdett of NCi Nursery. Mark has over 17 years Marketing experience in the Financial Services industry and has done campaigns for companies including Norwich Union, Kia and Zurich.
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