Final international resources Professional Learning

For the past seven weeks I have learned so much from my colleague’s international findings as well as my own finding. It was amazingly surprised to find out that children are living in poverty as well as do not have proper education. My goal as a professional is to stay knowledgeable on the issues and trends that affected the early childhood education field, and have my colleagues helped me achieve that goal through their finding about issues and trends through their international resources. One of the website that I explored was Zero to Three, and they were one of the best sites that can help me stay informed about children behavior and their development.

One learning point that I get is that children from birth to three most likely to be maltreated. It was hard to learn that children are facing the hardship of maltreatment on a regular basis. Another, learning point from the past few weeks was that Chinese people still continue to live in poverty. In fact, to know that 4.2 million Chinese children are living in poverty and 8.7 million live in disadvantaged condition was heart breaking because these children should at less get the basics such food, clean water, clean clothes, and a decent place to live. The next thing I learn is that middle school age children are very sexually active because the Nigeria woman does not have any value. The men in that country treats woman with no respect therefore the young children are abused by the men in Nigeria. In this case many young girls are sexual active at a young age because they think it is normal to let the man do whatever they want with them.

As a professional in this field I set many goals for my journey in the early childhood education to educate individuals on the issues and trends that affect children and families. One of my goals is to work closely with other educators and policy-maker to help change family lives as well as children in critical needs. Overall I would like to thank all that took the time to read and comment to my blog post. I am grateful for your insight on the early childhood education as well as adding a great deal of knowledge on the issues and trends that children and families are dealing with on a regular basis. I have learned a lot from that past 8 weeks from all my classmates. Thank you all.    

 

Getting to know Your International Contacts-Part3

The United National Educational, Scientific, and cultural organization have great information about how other organizations are helping to prove educational training for those in need such as Ethiopia, Namibia, and Cote D’Ivoire. The first insight I gained from The United National Educational, Scientific, and cultural organization (UNESCO) is that they provide international leadership to create learning for societies so that there can be educational opportunities for all populations such as children, families, and other organization. The second insight I gained from the website is that Africa is their priority for UNESCO and education is key to the region’s development. UNESCO wants to make sure that children in Africa have a chance of having quality education. Education is the key for a successful life. The third insight I gained from the website is that the UNESCO and the Chinese has Chinese Funds-In-Trust (CFIT) programs, Enhancing Teacher Education for Bridging the Education Quality Gap in Africa. UNESCO collaborates with China to educate the educators with further training in the quality of education. It was great to learn that so many organizations are working together to help educate those fathers in Africa so that children can have quality education as well. My goal is to help make a difference to the early childhood education field as well on the issue and trends that matters the most. As a professional in the early childhood education field, it is great to know that we can get support from other countries, as well as other organizations to help make a difference in children life through education.

Sharing Web Resources

I had the opportunity to explore two website that have information for everyone that works in the early childhood field. As a prospective early childhood learning program founder I found it very helpful. The website that I chose to explore is Zero to Three and NAEYC. They are a great deal of help regarding the learning of how to better teach my students and how to improve my center. In the Zero to Three website I was able to find a section that provides information on this week’s topic of what’s new. They also had a section called Elsevier were we can read information about how the early childhood field is changing. It also has good reading for teachers teaching young children. The NAEYC website also had great information as well. It has information such as week of young children, social media guide for young children, and so forth.

After searching through both websites I found an area that caught my attention in Zero to Three webs that I have reading about overcoming barriers to provide early childhood metal health help. Social and emotional development is very important in children development skills. As an early childhood provider I need to understand the steps to take to better help the children overcome their challenge. They have information about state community that can help us understand what are they are planning to do to make the communities better for children and families. There are many greats reading materials for professionals working with children and families or in the administrative field as well.

The website added to my understanding as a professional in the early childhood field as a whole; however the information that I read from the web this week did not contain any extra information on barrier-awareness, accessibility, and responsive. Some of the information that were similar was the section of the public policy that have some reading regarding how to find help to better service the children and families throughout the community. One insight that I gained this week is that the issues and trends we are dealing with today are going to continue throughout a lifetime because we are going to have more immigrants coming into the country for a better opportunity for themselves and for a better education for the children. Overall both websites have great information and tools, to become a successful early childhood professional throughout our career in this field.

Getting to Know your International Contacts-Part 2

The Global fund for children website is a good resource for those professional that are interested in working with international children and families as well as other international organizations. As an early childhood professional and a graduate student it was helpful to learn about other countries that are having similar issues and trends in the early childhood education as well as children and families living in poverty. Their model is to get small amounts of money into the hands of innovative community leaders who are working with the world’s most vulnerable children and youth (The Global Fund for Children 2012). I was able to watch a documentary about Josephine Ndao, she is a Global Fund for Children’s program officer for West Africa. She was talking about her experience regarding her recent trip to Nigeria and Burkina Faso to visit current and prospective GFC grantee partners. One insight I gained from her podcast was that middle school age children are very sexual active. I know this is an issue that affects every country and every family with teenagers living in the household, but it is usually a factor with children that was exposed to sex at a young age. For example many children in Haiti are victims of sexual abuse from a member in their household or a close family friend. Another insight I gain is that women in Nigeria do not have any value. one of the girls in the video say that Nigeria men think that woman are good for sex only and for this reason most young girls start having sexual activity at a very early age. Watching the podcast makes me think about Haiti, the same thing is happing in Haiti where young girls are sexually activity with men that could be their father. Another insight I get from the website is that they want to make a difference in the children life. They want to help children get better education, they want children to move out of slavery, as well as they want children to have the opportunity to live in a better environment.

Center on the Developing Child Harvard university website is about learning the issues and trends matter in the early childhood education field. They have many articles that can enhance our knowledge as a professional in the early childhood education field such as working page articles, they are great to read and I had the opportunity read a few from my previous classes and I taught they were very good to read because it make you think out of the box. Most of the information from the Center on the Developing Child Harvard university website is about children and families from all over world. We get to learn about their life style as well as their culture, values, and many more.

It was nice to learn about fourth grades students from The Nueva School that want to make a difference by working together to help improve the issues and trends that are affecting children and families on a regular basis. Those are motivated to raise money to help GFC’s Catapult project. According to Global Fund for Children (2012), the group of children spends three days making handcrafted bookmark to sell and raise about $466 which help about 340 girls in India through education and life skills training. Overall I learn a lot by exploring both website and that a little bit of help does count.

Sharing Web Resources

For the past few weeks I have been exploring NAEYC website by reading different articles, information about program accreditation, and announcement about issues that early childhood professionals should be aware. For example this week I get to read about tips to help children cope with disasters and summer safety tips. As a professional that is working on opening a learning center for young children, I will need to know every bit of information on how to effectively teach the children and keep them safe. NAEYC website is going to help me stay knowledgeable in the early childhood field and help my learning center become one of the best early childhood development learning center in the country. My goal to help make a difference by helping young children learns as early as infancy age through kindergarten grade level.

  The website has many ideas and resources that can help goals to become a childcare provider. There are many resources that I use and learn from for example I was able to take a look under position statement on curriculum, assessment, and program evaluation. I was able to read the information. This information will be a great asset to my center because I can use this information to improve the way we teach the children. Another great resource the website has is the newsroom. I was able to read about the economy and how it is going to be for the field of early childhood. The president is putting the early childhood education first for funding. After reading the article I feel like there is hope for quality programs because most program that do not make the quality standard is because they do not have funding for materials, to hire a highly qualified teacher, or proved more resources for parents and children in critical needs.

NAEYC website is one of the effective website that provides professionals with solid information to better their career in the early childhood field as well as teach young children. The news insight I get this week is that early childhood is going to be more recognize by the government and they will work harder to provide the kind of resources the field need to continue servicing the children and their family. Overall I enjoy reading and learning about early childhood education field and how to better teach children and how to keep making a difference.