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practices, which in turn impact child outcomes. Furthermore, the presence of skilled leaders and managers of ECCE centres is important, as they can support teachers in better organising the pedagogical curriculum to sustain a shared understanding of children’s learning experience and care among the personnel, and to provide feedback on their work. Together with pedagogical staff, they can also encourage parent and community engagement in ECCE, and facilitate reaching out to professionals who can provide specialised support in assisting children with
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Despite the important role of ECCE personnel, many are inadequately prepared, are relatively poorly paid, and lack recognition. Almost one-quarter of 80 low-and-middle-income countries reported that less than half of their pre-primary teachers met national training requirements in 2009. There is a
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Qualified and trained ECCE staff have a positive impact on children’s developmental outcomes. They engage in caring, stimulating and responsive interactions with young children, and give adequate and timely attention to their health and well-being needs. When children are cared by ECCE staff with
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is considered out of scope for this survey. However, personnel working with children with special needs in regular ECCE centres are in scope. The survey format is paper-based with two main questionnaires: one for ECCE staff and one for ECCE centre heads. A combined questionnaire has also been
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for the heads of pre-primary education centres, and (3) a combined questionnaire, used in small pre-primary education centres, and responded to by pre-primary personnel having a combined head-staff role comprising administrative, managerial and pedagogical responsibilities.
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The target centres for STEPP are institutional (officially registered) settings providing early childhood care and education programmes such as formal education and care for young children from age 3 up to the entry into primary education, also defined as
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The participating countries of STEPP have gathered survey administration experience thorough this project, particularly on running large-scale surveys and national quality monitoring. The countries built considerable capacity with support from the
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teachers, particularly in low-and-middle-income countries. When available, the data is more often system-level/structural information (e.g. number of teachers, teacher-child ratio, teacher qualification) than personnel-level,
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fundamental condition for guaranteeing quality education, increasing the supply of qualified teachers at all levels has been designated as one of ten global education targets (SDG target 4.c).
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regions. This is highly problematic, as children living in such regions are the ones in most need of quality ECCE, which can compensate for the disadvantages they are facing.
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