3 Consequences:
1.) During this course I have had the opportunity to send out emails to international early childhood professionals and that is something that I would never had done on my own, so I have gained so confidence in my knowledge and reaching out to learn about the early childhood field. I was not able to make any connections with the international contacts, but I was able to research a variety of web sites that provided great information and insight into the early childhood field in other countries. It made me realize that children are suffering all over the world and so many people are working hard to make a change in these children's lives.
2.) I have gained so much from this course and realize that as a professional you have to continue learning, researching and have that drive to make changes for the better.
3.) By making professional contacts and researching international web sites/organizations we can improve on an existing goals, develop new ideas and work together to help bring change in families and children's lives.
Goal:
To establish contact with an international organization that works with children in summer camps or clubs that help children gain confidence and self esteem. I would to bring a organization such as that to my community. I would like to have a program available to all children that concentrates on their well-being. All children deserve the right to be happy, healthy, and seen as an individual, not just another child. The children should be proud of who they are and what they are capable of achieving in life. Children should be inspired and supported to reach for their hopes and dreams because they can come true.
By making contact I can gain some insight into their program and form some ideas and build on their suggestions.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Week 7 Getting to Know Your International Contacts- Part 3
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/
I have never heard back from any of the people that I had emailed and tried to get in contact with and I really wished I would have had that opportunity. However, I reviewed the UNESCO's website and it is very informative and provided a great amount of resources, additional links, videos, news publication, and events.
UNESCO leads the international policy drive for an integrated early childhood care and education system that encompasses both the well-being and holistic development of the child. Their mission is to support early childhood policy development with the aim to build a solid foundation for a child's lifelong learning.
In the quality section it talked about how early childhood programs should focus on the child's holistic development. How learning materials should be quantitatively, culturally, and developmentally adequate and focus on child-centered interaction. Active involvement from parents/communities and relevant play and learning materials ensure that early childhood services remain relevant to the needs of the children and all other stakeholders and increases sustainability.
Some countries aim to expand and improve comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the poor and disadvantage. Their approach is to expand access to high quality care, resources, and education without creating serious regional inequities.
This website provided such detailed information and highlighted very important factors to healthy child development and their goal to provide all children with the highest quality of care and education that they all need and deserve. They want to see the whole child and focus on helping them in all aspects for their overall well-being and that is so important. It is also important to have their family involved because it helps the child more in their learning and development. I also really liked where they are working strategies and programs to help the poor and disadvantaged children to receive the same opportunities as children that come from good home. This to me is so important because no child should be left behind due to the lack of resources. Every child deserves the chance to succeed in life.
I have never heard back from any of the people that I had emailed and tried to get in contact with and I really wished I would have had that opportunity. However, I reviewed the UNESCO's website and it is very informative and provided a great amount of resources, additional links, videos, news publication, and events.
UNESCO leads the international policy drive for an integrated early childhood care and education system that encompasses both the well-being and holistic development of the child. Their mission is to support early childhood policy development with the aim to build a solid foundation for a child's lifelong learning.
In the quality section it talked about how early childhood programs should focus on the child's holistic development. How learning materials should be quantitatively, culturally, and developmentally adequate and focus on child-centered interaction. Active involvement from parents/communities and relevant play and learning materials ensure that early childhood services remain relevant to the needs of the children and all other stakeholders and increases sustainability.
Some countries aim to expand and improve comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the poor and disadvantage. Their approach is to expand access to high quality care, resources, and education without creating serious regional inequities.
This website provided such detailed information and highlighted very important factors to healthy child development and their goal to provide all children with the highest quality of care and education that they all need and deserve. They want to see the whole child and focus on helping them in all aspects for their overall well-being and that is so important. It is also important to have their family involved because it helps the child more in their learning and development. I also really liked where they are working strategies and programs to help the poor and disadvantaged children to receive the same opportunities as children that come from good home. This to me is so important because no child should be left behind due to the lack of resources. Every child deserves the chance to succeed in life.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Sharing Resources Week 6
I have been following the Zero to Three website: http://www.zerotothree.org/
As I reviewed the the website this week I clicked on the Head Start Link and it took me to the Early Head Start National Resource Center. On this site it provided webinars on: Effective Child Care & Early Head Start Collaborations that promote high quality comprehensive care; web events for new EHS programs; Newsletter; EHS program staff Listerv to connect with other EHS located across the country; Training/Materials; News and media releases; Online lessons; Media Guide; and the website is provided in Spanish as well. There are also audio conferences and web casts.
On this site their were so information related to what we are reviewing at this time.
One article discussed bringing in home cultures and the best way to do this is through home visits to get to know the families and their culture. The teachers need to find different ways to be reflective and respectful of the families cultures; they can hang pictures; paintings, piece of fabric, stories and so forth.
However, what I really enjoyed reading about was the cultural responsiveness and dual language education project (CRADLE).
The CRADLE project goal is to assist EHS programs in deepening their relationship with parents and young children in the area of language acquisition in order to give the children the foundational support required for future success.
During the program training participating teams learned about current applicable theory in dual/second language acquisition and they participated in activities that helped the team apply their theory approach. They explored ways in which infants.toddlers learn and how dual language is acquired during infancy/toddler period. Last, they attended training that developed action plans to include parent involvement, staff development, and program/communication activities and through all of this the teams monitored their own program goals and progress. I thought this program was very interesting and is very beneficial to the EHS programs. I am interested in reading more about it and to see how well it is doing in certain programs.
I have learned that dual/second language is growing so fast and as professional we need to stay up to date on these changes and do our best to provide these children with the best education possible.
As I reviewed the the website this week I clicked on the Head Start Link and it took me to the Early Head Start National Resource Center. On this site it provided webinars on: Effective Child Care & Early Head Start Collaborations that promote high quality comprehensive care; web events for new EHS programs; Newsletter; EHS program staff Listerv to connect with other EHS located across the country; Training/Materials; News and media releases; Online lessons; Media Guide; and the website is provided in Spanish as well. There are also audio conferences and web casts.
On this site their were so information related to what we are reviewing at this time.
One article discussed bringing in home cultures and the best way to do this is through home visits to get to know the families and their culture. The teachers need to find different ways to be reflective and respectful of the families cultures; they can hang pictures; paintings, piece of fabric, stories and so forth.
However, what I really enjoyed reading about was the cultural responsiveness and dual language education project (CRADLE).
The CRADLE project goal is to assist EHS programs in deepening their relationship with parents and young children in the area of language acquisition in order to give the children the foundational support required for future success.
During the program training participating teams learned about current applicable theory in dual/second language acquisition and they participated in activities that helped the team apply their theory approach. They explored ways in which infants.toddlers learn and how dual language is acquired during infancy/toddler period. Last, they attended training that developed action plans to include parent involvement, staff development, and program/communication activities and through all of this the teams monitored their own program goals and progress. I thought this program was very interesting and is very beneficial to the EHS programs. I am interested in reading more about it and to see how well it is doing in certain programs.
I have learned that dual/second language is growing so fast and as professional we need to stay up to date on these changes and do our best to provide these children with the best education possible.
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