We train for two years covering all areas of child development, including child psychology. We have an in-depth knowledge of the cognitive needs of young children from birth.
Teachers, on the other hand, select the age group they wish to teach, either children aged three to eight or seven to 11, and yet they are deemed as being better suited to teach nursery-age children, even when they don't always study the early years.
I have worked with teachers who have no knowledge of the early years and freely admit this fact. The nursery nurses are then left to run the classes and teach the children. Nursery nurses working in schools should be paid the same salary as newly qualified teachers.
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