Encouraging Quality In Early Childhood Education and Care Are The Proposed Analytical Questions Most Relevant To Answer The Overarching Policy Question.

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Encouraging Quality In Early Childhood Education and Care

Are The Proposed Analytical Questions Most Relevant To Answer The Overarching Policy Question Of The Project?

• The five questions are useful • A special focus on: - parental involvement - flexible integration of child care and early childhood education curriculum and services - defining competencies of the two ministries involved (education and labour and social solidarity), municipalities and directors of school clusters

FOCUS POLICIES

• Projects and instruments to improve the quality of Early Childhood Education and Care • Investment in the quality and expansion of care services • New competencies for municipalities and responsibility to support ECEC services • External evaluation of kindergartens and schools • Reorganization of higher education courses, according to

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• Continuous training of pre-school teachers is mandatory (25 hours per school year) and contributes to career progress.

• Articulation of National pre-school education guidelines / National curriculum of basic education • Strategies for improving teaching practice - support guides for implementing curriculum guidelines • Participation of parents and stakeholders

Policy Tool Box

•The four dimensions presented are useful • Importance of presenting how countries put in place policies that raise quality in ECEC • Examples of “best practices”

Country specific policy profile

• Identification and Selection of specific features • International comparisons • Definition of a policy agenda for implementation • Facilitating consensus and preview results

Policy forum(s)

Support the implementation of the policy agenda: • Informing the general public • Involving national experts • Facilitating the engagement of stakeholders • Sharing international experiences

Some Questions

• What are the strategies to ensure an integrate and flexible approach of child care and early childhood education curriculum and services?

• What strategies can be used to share responsibilities of central government, municipalities and directors of school clusters?

• Please describe means or strategies to ensure universal free access for ECEC.

• Please describe the national evaluation programme to measure child outcomes at the end of ECEC.

• Does your country have national curriculum guidelines for early childhood care? Is transition from 0-3 to 3-6 considered? Please map what is available in your country.

• Please share case studies as involvement in ECEC.

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