LECTURA UNO

Lin, Y.-C., & Magnuson, K. A. (2018). Classroom quality and children’s academic skills
in child care centers: Understanding the role of teacher qualifications. Early Childhood
Research Quarterly, 42, 215–227.

This reading focuses us on one of the great challenges of early education today, which is to
optimize the process of training and development of children, ensuring that educators are
effective mediators between the world and them.

The quality of Early Childhood Education programs which consider the role of the teacher
to be fundamental. Various studies indicate that the preparation of Early Childhood
Education teachers has an impact on the quality of programmes at this level of education.

Education is an essential element, as it is a lifelong process. Every day we discover

something new and feel the satisfaction of making learning a reality. For teachers,
instructors and professors it is not enough that university training has been completed, but it
is necessary to be updated and to participate in training programs that allow them to keep
up to date with educational, methodological and didactic approaches, scientific advances
and pedagogical technologies.

When a teacher is not prepared to face the work environment, that is, to be in front of a
group, it is very complicated to ensure that students have a good use of the knowledge that
they want to inculcate in the student. A teacher should try to be as prepared as possible to
help the student in any doubt that may arise. For a student, the teacher is the person who
knows everything and for this reason he is the one who will ask all his doubts, so we must
be prepared to answer them in the best way.

When a teacher is not well prepared and at the forefront can result in disorientation of the
student and some other problems such as the following:

 Confusion in some subjects.

 Boredom in class because it has become routine.
 Aggressiveness against the teacher and his classmates.
  Lack of attention in class.
 Non-attendance.
 Loss of credibility in the teacher.
 The student dropping out of school.
 Etc.

It is very important that teachers working in current educational institutions make a

judicious reflection on whether or not their abilities can respond to the expectations of the
demands of a heterogeneous and critical sector that requires answers to describe and
explain the complexity of this new society where the constant is change.