Childcare ratios must be lowered
Childcare Ratios Must Be Lowered If we want developmentally appropriate practices to occur in early childhood education, we must lower the children to staff ratio. A child-adult ratio of 3:1 produces a significantly higher quality of teacher and child interaction than a ratio of 5:1, especially for younger children (Williams, Sheridan & Pramling Samuelsson, 2019).For …