Consequences and Goals

Over the past weeks, I have have gain and expanded my knowledge of early childhood education. The pod casts was very enlightening and reading my classmates discussions and blogs gave me even greater understanding and knowledge. I learn early childhood globally through others blogs. I learned three consequences of learning about the international early childhood field for your professional and personal development which includes:

• Poverty is a global issue and we all need to help with the problem.
• As an educator, I can learn from global contacts as well as they can learn from me. Knowledge is power.
• All children deserve a quality education, and I want to make sure that I provide quality learning to children by learning the standard, Developmentally appropriate practices, and how we close the achievement gaps.l
• My goal to is to continue to try to form international relationships and learn all I can encourage others to learn about the field. As educator we must not only learn the field the field we must share the passion for the field, the students and the parents. 

Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 3

I enjoyed reading the Episode 10, Susan Lyon was intrigued by a small child’s conception of the word “city”, and began pondering how children think, eventually visiting Reggio Emilia and then bringing the “100 Languages of Children” exhibit to the San Francisco Bay area on two occasions. She initiated the Innovative Teacher Project, and began working with the Presidio Child Care Center and the San Francisco public schools. Currently she is working with an Italian architect to rehab a San Francisco structure into the first Italian immersion preschool. 

UNESCO’s “Early Childhood Care and Education” webpage (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/), I learned that  the 2000 Dakar Framework for Action reaffirmed the importance of early childhood by including the development of early childhood care and education as the first of its six main goals. secondly, I learned that the not only in the United States that money and finance is issue that  the greatest difficulty faced by many countries in their efforts to expand and improve the quality of early childhood care and education is the mobilisation of resources. Thirdly, We have talked and discussed quality in early childhood and the article discussed the ECCE workforce is often made up of a diverse group of pre-school teachers, care workers, informal carers and other professionals. Adequate training and work conditions are essential so they can integrate the content and practice of early childhood care and education and address the transition to formal schooling. I have learned alot about quality, equity in early childhood that I can take back and use in my workplace.

Sharing Web Resources

The National Head Start Association is a private not-for-profit membership organization dedicated exclusively to meeting the needs of Head Start children and their families (National Head Start Association, 2006).

Parents and Head Start staff can go to www.education.com and they can download many articles that can help parents with their children from the first day of school to transition.  This website give parent an array of information that will help them be successful in kindergarten.

The website also offers a form to fill out for all head start alumni.  The website also offers the Disaster Relief Fund which is a permanent assistance program, which was to assist the head start community during the September 11 attack. The fund is now used to assist head start and early head start programs staff, and families who become victims of natural disasters. The website offers professional development and training that support the understanding and implementation of the Head Start Performance Standards and Head Start Core Values that is important in the field of early care and education.

 I really enjoy reading the website because each time I go to the site there is a ton of articles and information concerning upcoming training that allow you opportunity for growth in the field.

www.nhsa.org

Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 2

Unfortunately I have not received a response from my contact and I have emailed my contact several time. But the alternative assignment for this week afforded me the opportunity to learn about the global resources. 
The center main goal the Global Children Initiative Center’s commitment to global work represents both an acknowledgement of moral responsibility to meet the needs of all children and a critical  investment in the roots of economic productivity, positive health outcomes, and strong civil society in all nations, from the poorest to the most affluent. I learned that the Global Children’s Initiative has
begun to build a portfolio of activities in three domains: early childhood development; mental health; and children in crisis and conflict situations.
In the early childhood education area the center has the first priority in this area is to adapt the successful work the Center has conducted in the United States for a broader range of strategically selected audiences, in an effort to energize and reframe the global dialogue
around investments in the earliest years of life.

Mental Health the center's priority  is  
Assessing the state of child mental health services in
China;
 Developing and evaluating family-based strategies
to prevent mental health problems in children affected
by HIV/AIDS in Rwanda; and
 Addressing child maltreatment and mental health
outcomes in three Caribbean nations (Barbados, the
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, and Suriname).
In the area of children in crisis and conflict situations the center priority is to Two issues are the initial focus of activity in this domain:
 Exploring comparable approaches to surveying
child status in post-earthquake Haiti and Chile.
 Bringing the science of child development into
strategies for addressing acute malnutrition.
Building Broader, More Diverse Leadership Capacity


This website is a great resource that help you understand what other across the globe is doing in a effect to help young children develop and grow.