Qualifications for Effective Teachers II

09/21/2011

Qualifications for Effective Teachers II

You have multiple roles and goals, and you can do it all - just not all at once.
Denise Morrison, Business Executive

For a trend report on teacher education for the November/December issue of Exchange magazine, we asked ExchangeEveryDay readers to rate qualifications for an effective preschool teacher in last week's Exchange Insta Poll. The results are in and just under 1,400 voters came up with these as the top-rated qualifications (with other qualifications getting lesser votes):

59% Nurturing personality
50% Love of children
42% Bachelor's degree in early childhood education
42% Opportunity to work with excellent teacher
38% Creative abilities
32% Close supervision and mentoring
31% Associate's degree in early childhood education
22% Regular participation in local workshops
21% Multiple years of experience teaching preschool
12% Participation in rigorous in-house training program

We find these ratings intriguing, but more importantly we want to know your reactions. To help us add perspective to the trend report, please share your views on the above ratings. To share your views, scroll to the very bottom of this message and click on "Comment on this article."

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