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Early Childhood Professional Identity: MORE than a Lattice Level!

This discussion explores engaging with professional identity documents, ways to support inclusive workforce, and implications of modifying documents in the Registry to enhance Arizona's early childhood workforce. Feedback will inform improvements to the system.

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Early Childhood Professional Identity: MORE than a Lattice Level!

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  1. Early Childhood Professional Identity:MORE than a Lattice Level!

  2. Discuss how individuals, programs, and systems engage with current professional identity documents in the Registry. • Discuss ways to elevate and support an inclusive early childhood workforce. • Explore the implications of modifying current professional identity documents in the Registry. • Gather feedback to inform the modifications Goals for Roadshows

  3. Intended Outcomes • Make the tools within the Registry more useful and comprehensive; • Support and encourage ongoing professional growth; • Frame a more inclusive picture of the current early childhood workforce; • Collect and use accurate data to describe the Arizona early childhood workforce; and • Make improvements to the Arizona early childhood professional development system.

  4. Current Professional Identity Documents in the Registry Professional Development & Education Report Participant Professional Goals (Plan) Career Lattice Level Documents a member’s: current employer and hire date, role in the field, lattice level, as well as Registry recognized professional development. It also contains completed early childhood coursework and degrees. The Arizona Career Lattice is a tool within the Registry that provides the pathway of education, professional development, and work experience for early childhood professionals to use for individualized assessment, setting professional development goals, and documentation of progress in career development. A chart in a Registry member’s tab called “My Goals,” designed for recording goals and with the ability to mark a goal as completed.

  5. Currently…

  6. What if…

  7. Modified PD & Education Report Years of Experience Participation in workshops, learning communities, trainings, etc. Hire Dates Competencies Early Childhood Coursework Completed Degrees, Certificates, Credentials WHAT ELSE?

  8. Modified Professional Goals (Plan) Measurable steps towards career goals Measureable steps towards professional development goals Measurable steps towards educational goals WHAT ELSE?

  9. Modified Early Childhood Career Lattice Lattice Levels based only on educational attainment Relevant programs of study in Early Childhood Credentials Certificates Degrees Advanced certifications WHAT ELSE?

  10. In the Proposed Vision All aspects of an educator’s professional identity are equally weighted, work together to support the educator, and are visible in the Registry account.

  11. Please share your thoughts here: azearlychildhood.org/identity

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