LA PLUME — Keystone College has received a state grant to collaborate with Shippensburg University to survey early childhood education teachers about the ways they most effectively learn the skills they need to perform their jobs.
The two institutions of higher learning, in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Higher Education Consortium, received a $250,000 grant from the administration of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf to administer and collect survey data on early childhood teachers’ perspectives about the skills they believe can be learned on the job compared to the skills that can be learned through college coursework. Results of the survey will help design more effective pre-apprenticeship programs to educate future childcare professionals.
The grant is part of a $1.5 million investment by the Wolf Administration to improve the quality of early childhood education with grants to 10 colleges and universities across the commonwealth. Keystone is the only college or university in Northeastern Pennsylvania to receive one of the early childhood education grants.
