Preparing Quality Teaching Force for Early Childhood Education

Abstract

.Preparing Quality Teaching Force for Early Childhood Education Teaching at Early Childhood Education (ECE) level is a theme of research and practice around the globe. There are plenty of standards based on different frameworks that focus on quality teaching at ECE level. In developing countries, especially the ones facing fast growing population and having a huge number of out of school children, what to speak of quality teaching, the minimum standards of teaching to pre-schoolers are not met. Pakistan, being one with such background, and where ECE is in nascent phase faces more critical challenges in ECE teaching like shortage of ECE trained teachers, lack of accreditation and certification in ECE, absence of quality standards for ECE teaching, absence of reliable monitoring and implementation, weak governance and policy-led guidelines, lack of properly supervised teaching practice, and lack of access to quality early childhood education.