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ISSA's
Definition of Quality Pedagogy:
Quality
Resource Pack
ISSA's Definition
of Quality Pedagogy is reflected in a complex and multi-purpose
Quality Resource Pack (QRP),
developed by experts in ISSA network with support from international
experts in ECD. The resources address the needs of early childhood education
systems to set up a quality framework for early childhood practices
and tools for mentoring, assessing and improving them.
The quality of services
and learning environments for young children is a burning issue for
a growing number of countries. Access is no longer considered sufficient
if it is not accompanied by quality, supported by motivated and competent
individuals, as well as adequate systems and frameworks.
ISSA has created this
systemic and comprehensive Resource Pack on Quality Pedagogy
in order to:
- serve better the children
and their families by increasing the quality of the services,
- support practitioners -
preschool, and primary school educators - to improve their everyday
performance through the principles of learner-centered, interactive
pedagogy, development of life-long learning skills, self-reflection
and cooperation with colleagues/peers, families and communities
- prove and advocate for the
complexity of the early childhood profession,
- inform different stakeholders
about the need for quality and engage them in dialogue about quality
so that better systems are put in place.
The core of the QRP
is presented in Competent Educators of the 21st
Century: Principles of Quality Pedagogy, developed by early
childhood development and education professionals from ISSA member organizations
with input from experts from around the world.
Download the publication in English
, Russian
and French.
The accompanying
set of resources consists of
Each of the resources
from the QRP can be used individually and in combination with others.
They are designed to set a framework that can be used in different ways
to engage in dialogue about quality and to implement various initiatives/pathways
around quality improvement in the early years at the individual, institutional,
national and international levels, which will strengthen a shared understanding
of what quality means and how it can be improved.
Given its complex but
systemic approach on quality, the QRP provides the opportunity to address
a wide range of target audience such as: educators (individuals or professional
communities), pre-service and in-service training institutions, parents
(individuals or associations), communities, policy makers, education
authorities, pre-school/school administrators, evaluators, researchers,
mass media, as well as the general public. Specific ways of addressing
different audience as well as ways of introducing QRP or its individual
resources need to be carefully explored by those working with the resources.
The ISSA Principles
of Quality Pedagogy are disseminated widely through the work of members,
via the ISSA website and other means of dissemination. The accompanying
set of resources from the QRP are offered to members, as part of the
services/benefits provided by ISSA to its full members, in close connection
with ISSA's strategic goals. Members are encouraged and supported
to utilize the resources in their work at the country level.
ISSA and its member
organizations are open to exploring cooperation with others who are
interested in working with these resources to improve the quality of
practices in early childhood education services. Those who are interested
are encouraged to contact ISSA at issa@issa.hu.
The resources in ISSA's Quality
Resource Pack have been developed with generous support from the Open
Society Foundations.
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