What is the purpose of the IdahoSTARS Professional Development System (PDS)?
To promote early childhood as a profession. To treat early childhood teachers, especially those providing child care as professionals. To encourage early childhood teachers to consider themselves as professionals. To provide a goal-oriented system through which early childhood professionals can increase their knowledge and prestige in the field. • What is the Professional Development Registry? The IdahoSTARS Professional Development Registry is a voluntary, statewide process to recognize and document the professional achievements of people who work in the early childhood care and education field. The Registry is designed to track the status, wages, working conditions, employment and education of those working in the early childhood field in Idaho. • What is the IdahoSTARS Career Pathway? The Pathway is a recognition system which places those working in the early childhood field on a career pathway level based on his/her past experiences and education. The IdahoSTARS Career Pathway also
