A Note of Thanks and Support

To my professor and colleagues in this course, this was a very inspiring experience. I learned something from everyone in this class. I would like to say thank you for the blogs, your posts and your feedback to me. I know that there are others who share the same passion as me in this field. This was a great experience. Thank you for your support during during this class. Please remember that "all  children need someone who is crazy about them". Thank you and I hope we will learn together in another class.

Examining the Code of Ethics

The following code of ethics have meaning and significance to me as an teacher.

I  - 1 . 3 —To recognize and  respect the uniqueness and the potential  of  each child.

~As a teacher, we must  communicate a deep regard for students' lives, a regard infused with unblinking attention, and  respect. An engaged teacher begins with the belief that each student is unique.

I  - 1 . 5 —To create and maintain  safe and healthy settings that foster children's social, emotional, intellectual,and physical development  and that respect  their dignity and their contributions.

~As a educator and teacher, students must be provided an environment that is safe,be consistent in the way that you treat students so that they feel they can trust you. Promote a friendly atmosphere between students through group activities that foster respect for others. Students who are physically healthy are better learners. 

I  - 2 . 1 —To develop relationships of mutual trust with families we serve.

 -We must as Early childhood professionals we play a critical role in the attitudes parents develop about their child’s schooling. Teachers of the very young often establish the first connections parents have to school situations and thus influence parents’ attitudes toward involvement. These first connections may be respectful and supportive.

I believe all teachers and educators should have a copy of the Code of Ethics in their classrooms to remind them of their responsibilities as teachers to students, co-workers,  parents and your employers. 

Collection of Resources for Early Childhood

List of Early Childhood Organizations 

• National Association for the Education of Young Children
• http://www.naeyc.org/
  
• The Division for Early Childhood
  http://www.dec-sped.org/
  
• Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families
  http://www.zerotothree.org/
  
• WESTED
  http://www.wested.org/cs/we/print/docs/we/home.htm
  
• Harvard Education Letter
  http://www.hepg.org/hel/topic/85
  
• FPG Child Development Institute
  http://www.fpg.unc.edu/main/about.cfm
  
• Administration for Children and Families Headstart’s National Research Conference
  http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hsrc/
  
• HighScope
  http://www.highscope.org/
  
• Children’s Defense Fund
  http://www.childrensdefense.org/
  
• Center for Child Care Workforce
  http://www.ccw.org/
  
• Council for Exceptional Children
  http://www.cec.sped.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home
  
• Institute for Women’s Policy Research
  http://www.iwpr.org/index.cfm
  
• National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education
  http://www.ncrece.org/wordpress/
  
• National Child Care Association
  http://www.nccanet.org/
  
• National Institute for Early Education Research
  http://nieer.org/
  
• Pre[K]Now
  http://www.preknow.org/
  
• Voices for America’s Children
  http://www.voices.org/
  
• The Erikson Institute
  http://www.erikson.edu/
     

National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) - NACCRRA is the national network of more than 850 child care resource and referral centers (CCR&Rs) located in every state and most communities across the nation. CCR&R centers help families, child care providers, and communities find, provide, and plan for affordable, quality child care. http://www.naccrra.org (opens in a new window)
National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) - NBCDI is a national organization dedicated to improve and protect the quality of life of African American children and their families.http://www.nbcdi.org
National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC) - NAFCC is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting quality child care by strengthening the profession of family child care.http://www.nafcc.org
National Head Start Association (NHSA) - NHSA is the national organization dedicated exclusively to meeting the needs of Head Start children and their families. http://www.nhsa.org/
United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF) - ACF is the federal agency that funds head start programs and the NYS Head Start Collaboration Project. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/index.html/ 


Other Resources


http://www.effectiveteaching.com/ (Harry K. Wong)

Words of Inspiration and Motivation

The following quotes are inspirations to me and I share them to inspire someone else

"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity."~Lyndon B. Johnson

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.”

Lyndon B. Johnson quote

Developmentally appropriate practices are ways of teaching that vary for or adapt to the age and experience of the individual learner. So fundamentally the definition has not changed. Instead, it has been expanded to include the fact that not only do you have to consider children as individuals, but you also have to consider children as members of groups with their own cultural identities."~ Sue Bredekamp


"Effective teachers are intentional in everything they do-they are purposeful, they're, planful, they know why they're doing what they're doing and they can explain it to other people"-Sue Bredekamp


As a teacher I feel I have a moral obligation
to help the children in my classroom grow
toward becoming full human beings and to feel successful.
Teaching cognitive skills is not enough...
-Jean Medick


In an effective classroom
students should not only know what they are doing,
they should also know why and how.
-Harry Wong




Learning is a treasure
that will follow its owner everywhere.
-Chinese Proverb