{"id":59,"date":"2014-04-01T02:59:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T02:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.110.60\/~teachmo\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2017-11-13T13:44:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T19:44:43","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/intagliodev.com\/teach-mo\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to T.E.A.C.H. MISSOURI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-264\" src=\"http:\/\/intagliodev.com\/teach-mo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fotolia_11709418_L.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>T.E.A.C.H. MISSOURI<\/strong> (Teacher Education And Compensation Helps) is an educational scholarship opportunity <b>for early childhood providers in licensed<\/b> child care center-based, group-based and family child care programs.\u00a0The scholarship is part of a nationwide effort to increase quality in child care and early learning programs by increasing the educational qualifications of the teachers in the field. Missouri is one of 25 states offering this very successful program.<\/p>\n<p>The four components of the T.E.A.C.H. MISSOURI program are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scholarship \u2013 T.E.A.C.H. MISSOURI pays a percentage of the cost of tuition and books<\/li>\n<li>Education \u2013 The T.E.A.C.H. MISSOURI contract year covers 9-15 credit hours over three consecutive semesters<\/li>\n<li>Compensation \u2013 Upon successful completion of coursework, scholarship recipients receive a $300 bonus from T.E.A.C.H. MISSOURI with a possible $300 bonus match or a 2% raise from the sponsoring employer depending on the scholarship level<\/li>\n<li>Commitment \u2013 Recipients pledge to complete 6 to 12 months of continued service to children at their sponsoring facility or in the field of early care after the educational year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Goals of the T.E.A.C.H. MISSOURI Scholarship:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To improve the <em>quality<\/em> of early childhood care and education BY<\/li>\n<li>Increasing the <em>education<\/em> level of early childhood educators AND<\/li>\n<li>Increasing the <em>compensation<\/em> for early childhood providers THEREBY<\/li>\n<li>Increasing the <em>retention<\/em> rate of early childhood teachers THUS<\/li>\n<li>Improving the <em>quality and continuity<\/em> of care provided for our children and their families AND<\/li>\n<li>Creating a model of <em>partnership<\/em> in Missouri early childhood programs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T.E.A.C.H. MISSOURI (Teacher Education And Compensation Helps) is an educational scholarship opportunity for early childhood providers in licensed child care center-based, group-based and family child care programs.\u00a0The scholarship is part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-59","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intagliodev.com\/teach-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intagliodev.com\/teach-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intagliodev.com\/teach-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intagliodev.com\/teach-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intagliodev.com\/teach-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/intagliodev.com\/teach-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/intagliodev.com\/teach-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intagliodev.com\/teach-mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}