Early childhood care and education teacher competency framework for Pacific small Island developing States

Building on existing regional initiatives on early childhood care and education (ECCE) and teacher professional development, the ECCE teacher competency framework aims to enhance the professionalization and capacity development of ECCE teachers in the Pacific SIDS by:

• Providing comprehensive descriptions of knowledge, skills, and dispositions that ECCE teachers in the Pacific SIDS need to support holistic development of a child,
• Providing systematic and consistent structure and content to support the professional development of the Pacific SIDS’s early childhood workforce,
• Supplementing existing Pacific SIDS frameworks, or functioning as a catalyst from which other countries can develop their own frameworks that consider unique country conditions and ECCE landscapes,
• Strengthening collaboration among different ECCE stakeholders at the local, national, and regional levels.