The Current State of the Australian Early Childhood Profession

CURRENT STATE OF AUSTRALIAN
CHILDHOOD PROFESSION
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Early Childhood Professionals plays a vital role in improving and expanding the education
qualities for early childhood care. It has been associated with many challenges that produce,
retain and attract well-trained early childhood educators. A diverse range of complexities and
other trends and policies are presented with context to early childhood. The report begins by
highlighting the characteristics of the early childhood professionals. Illustration of policies and
emerging trends and challenges that are faced in the past decade has addressed to different
strategies taken by the Government. Effective government policies and strategies are adopted
in order to improve the working conditions of early childhood Professionals.
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Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY...................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................. 4
FINDINGS....................................................................................................................................... 8
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................................... 10
REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
In Australia more than 9, 00,000 children attend the early childhood services (Schachter, 2015).
It is necessary for a child to attend those services for nurturing their cognitive skills in a
regulated way. In Australia, Early Childhood Educator is considered as one of the important
ways to explore working measure by supporting in the development stage of the children. A
professional involved formulates collaborative work and different disciplinary backgrounds
through an integrated field such as Early Childhood Profession.
Early childhood profession defines itself as serving children right from their birth to age of eight
years. Early years are the most crucial stage of the person’s life. The environmental aspects and
experiences have shaped the child over past years (Mindes & Jung, 2014). The role importance
of the early childhood profession plays a most significant role in accessing the future of the
children. This profession includes- Social Workers, Teachers, Day-care workers, Parent
Coordinators, Early Childhood consultants, Regional Administrators, Coaches and Educational
assistants along school administrators.
The recent research on the children’s knowledge has raised issues on early childhood educators
with regards to extent of early childhood programs. Professionals have incorporated that the
knowledge of the psychological understanding of the children and domain key competencies
which has to contribute to subsequent conceptual learning has been affected while practising
them.
An early childhood professional such as teachers shares their perspective on the acquisition of
knowledge in order to influence the knowledge of the predominant development of the
children. It can be underpinned by play-based programs (Slentz, 2017). The influence of Piaget’s
cognitive development theory helps in promoting the view of the children through interactive
measures with the physical environment. As the research focus on the profession as the
childhood educator it is necessary to incorporate the activities that are practised by the
teachers while serving the children. It involves collaborative work, use of ICT in the classroom
and other professionalism designs.
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