The authors identify three components of early childhood professional development - education, training, and credentialing. Choose one of these terms provide a definition that includes specific examples, and discuss the relevance to your chosen component of professional development as a whole.
2. Using the NAEYC Standards for Professional Preparation, compare these standards to the twelve characteristics described in L.J. Colker's Twelve Characteristics of Early Childhood Teachers. Choose one of the standards that you feel you have the most confidence in terms of the knowledge, skills and dispositions required to meet that standard, and share your comparison of this standard with the twelve characteristics of early childhood teachers in your post. Which characteristics are critical for meeting that standard?