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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If she ever wants to earn more than $10/hour as a preschool teacher, she’ll need options—teaching licensure, some type of certification (OT/SLP), nonprofit / public administration, or a master’s degree.

I’d suggest a broad major and minor (child and family studies? minor in nonprofit / public admin?) with a 5th year master’s / licensure in Early / Elementary Ed.

Look at NAEYC / your state’s guidelines for educational qualifications for teaching staff & directors. She wants to EXCEED those, because new regs & policies are coming down the pike. Check out NAEYC’s Power to the Profession and National Academies’ Transforming the Workforce—that will give you an overview of what she’s going to have to deal with.

If you’re in VA, there are some great scholarships (DSS / Project Pathfinders) that will pay for most of a degree in ECE if you do a 2+2 (say NVCC and then transfer to JMU).

Land Grant Us typically have the best early childhood programs because they’re very community focused (Virginia Tech, Eastern Kentucky, University of New Hampshire). If she’s at all inclined to do research, she needs to look at UVA (CASTL) and especially UNC (Frank Porter Graham) for grad. school. Bank Street or Columbia Teachers College are also excellent.

—early childhood policy nerd [/quote]

OP here. Thanks for the information - very helpful. We are in MD so are there any MD state schools that you would recommend for the child/family studies major?[/quote]

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