Early Childhood Education Workforce: Practitioner Registry Systems


Comprehensive professional development systems for early care and education personnel ideally include a tracking system, commonly called a 'registry'. In this case, Registry Systems are made up of databases that track completed early childhood training and can be an integral part of established pathways that will lead to qualifications, degrees, and credentials. For Managers, Human Resources and Education staff, this information provides details about each of the 21 states that have implemented some type of early childhood practitioner or training registry.

Early Childhood Education Workforce: Practitioner Registry Systems Comprehensive professional development systems for early care and education personnel are accessible and based on a clearly articulated framework; include a continuum of training and ongoing supports; define pathways that are tied to licensure, leading to qualifications and credentials; and address the needs of individual, adult learners. Enhancing a spirit of life-long learning is one goal of any professional development system; similar to this goal, a professional development system itself is never a finished product and should continually evolve and be refined to best meet the needs of the population it serves. More>>

Early Childhood Education Workforce: Practitioner Registry Systems. National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC) HHS/ACF/ACYF/CCB. English. Web Site.