Saturday, January 9, 2016
Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources
For this weeks's assignment, I was asked to establish contact with two early childhood professionals outside the United States. I was unsuccessful with The Global Alliance of NAEYC my access was denied. I further my search with UNICEF because they have a lot of local representatives who are world wide to choose from.I chose Jamaica because I was suppose to take a cruise last summer,but I didn't go so I thought it would be interesting to find a professional educator who can share with me information to help me understand issues and trends in Jamacia. In addition to, I chose South Africa because I recently saw a video on you tube on how children in Africa attend school. I sent emails to the UNICEF contacts for Jamacia and South Africa introducing myself and explaining my assignment. I hope to hear back from both of them. I hope to get some great information to share with my classmates each week we post to the blog and to help me with any questions or concerns I may have. I dont think I will need to use the alternative assignment.
Lastly, I explored one early childhood organization that I am familiar with while working with young children The National Association for the Education of Young Children(NAEYC).I work with a Head Start program that has several Head Start centers and all of them are NAEYC accredited. JCCEO is one of the first ten centers of Excellence in nation.I was very excited to see this organization on the list of resources to use and eager to learn additonal information that is presented on the website. NAEYC has a list of position statements and standards on issues related to early childhood education. I intend to share these with classmates through out our weeks in this class.I am also expanding my resources and researching The National Association of Head Start as well since I am a member. I think by exploring these website more with help me in the classroom to have as resources to refer back to.
References
http://www.naeyc.org/http://www.naeyc.org/positionstatements
http://www.nhsa.org/
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html
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Hello Vonecia,
ReplyDeleteI read your Blog for this week, and I can also say that I have been unsuccessful with my International contact so far. I have cruised to Jamaica before and I enjoyed some of their culture. I am interested in hearing some of your information when your contact person responds to your request. I hope that we both enjoy the ride for the next seven weeks of this course. Have fun!
Linda Reid
Hello Vonecia,
ReplyDeleteI read your resources for this week and I like your choices. I agree with you that NAEYC is a very good association for early childhood professionals to be associated with and used as a great reference. Thanks for sharing!
Linda Reid