Unconvention careers in degree in early childhood education?

Question

I will soon graduate with a degree in early childhood education (BA) and would like to know of some unconventional careers/jobs in ece.

I currently run a licensed daycare in my home and if possible like to open a daycare center in the future next 3-5 years but if not i would like some new avenues to research and discover

Thanks in advance

Joi

Answer 1

When my children were preschoolers I opened a creative art school in y home. I did not want to be tied down to a day care day and found that parents would pay to have their children do entirely developmentally appropriate art work, no dittoes, no models in my home. The children enrolled in a weekly 1 1/2 hour session. At first they paid in advanced for ten sessions, but I found parents were bringing me sick children. I then had them pay as they attended. It worked out better for me because my children were getting sick form the sick children in class. I had some mixed groups 2-3, 3-4, 4-5 and had no more than 10 children at a time.With 2-3 year olds I had only five children. I did it for four years and it simply grew too big for my home. At that point I went back into a traditonal school setting

Answer 2

You could do in-school field trips. Do you have any topics that are of special interest to you or skills you could teach to preschoolers? I am doing science workshops for preschoolers. I find that preschool teachers are really in need of this kind of thing as it spares them the cost and difficulty of transporting children on field trips.

I've developed kits on feeding birds, migration/nesting, dinosaurs, and animal adaptations. (I also do kindergarten and have developed the workshops to meet their curriculum requirements.)

It's great as I can set my own hours/days I'm available and only work during school hours while my dd is in school.