Policies and strategies to enhance the quality of early childhood educators (background paper prepared for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2015

The early childhood education workforce plays a pivotal role in expanding and improving early childhood care and education. However, there are many challenges associated with producing, attracting and retaining well-trained early childhood educators. This report begins by highlighting some of these challenges. Next, using examples from four regions, it illustrates how policies and / or initiatives related to early childhood teacher/carer education have addressed some of these challenges in the past decade. Effective government policies have to be context sensitive and these examples illustrate strategies that have enhanced both teacher quantity and quality in different parts of the world