Exemplary early childhood educators at work: A multi-level investigation

工作中的模范幼儿教育工作者：多层次调查。该项目旨在通过调查幼儿教育工作者工作的复杂性，为更好地吸引、准备、认可、支持和留住高素质劳动力的战略提供信息。似乎根深蒂固的劳动力短缺威胁着政府和家庭通过投资幼儿教育寻求的目标。与幼儿一起工作是简单和本能的，或教学只是以学校为基础的流行形象，误导了潜在的劳动力进入者，削弱了教育工作者的地位，导致自然减员。该项目对每一级法定资格的模范教育工作者的工作进行审计和描述，将为今后维持高质量幼儿工作队伍的战略提供信息。

Exemplary early childhood educators at work: A multi-level investigation. This project aims to inform strategies to better attract, prepare, recognise, support and retain a high quality workforce, by investigating the complexity of early childhood educators’ work. Seemingly entrenched workforce shortages threaten the objectives that governments and families seek through investment in early childhood education. Popular images of work with young children as easy and instinctual, or of teaching as only school based, mislead potential workforce entrants and erode the status of educators, leading to attrition. This project’s audit and description of exemplary educators’ work, across each level of mandated qualification, will inform strategies to sustain a high quality early childhood workforce into the future.