Getting to Know Your International Contacts

Getting to know Your International Contacts

The website that I researched was (http://www.unicef.org/). I received a plethora of information about how the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF partners with different groups to help children and families all around the world. It’s one thing to hear how war, natural disasters, and poverty effects children and another to see it.   From reviewing several articles in the UNICEF, I learned how the conflict in the Central African Republic has left children increasingly vulnerable to recruitment in armed groups and the work that has taken place to help over 500,000 Mongolian children get immunization for measles and rubella, along with the initiative aims to improve nutrition security and fight under nutrition in Asia.The UNICEF website educates viewers on what's going on around thw world and offers an opportunity to help. Knowledge defintly is power and learning about what's going around the world motivates me to do my part globally.  

 I would like to introduce Janine Di Giovanni, who, for the past 30 years, has been reporting about the human cost of conflict. An award-winning author and journalist, and currently Middle East editor for Newsweek magazine, Ms. Di Giovanni has been covering conflicts since the 1980s.

 

 The Podcast #88: 'Beyond School Books' talks about how a recent surge of violence in Jonglei State, South Sudan has caused displacement and interruptions in basic social services, including education. Listening to the podcast gave me a greater appreciation for being a woman in the United States and being able to have the opportunity to get a quality education. Around the world, girls are often denied their right to education – and therefore the opportunity to reach their full potential. The situation for girls’ education is especially dire in countries that are affected by conflict. Giovanni spoke about meeting girls that have the desire to learn because they understand that education will give them the power to escape their circumstances but realize because of their gender they aren’t given the opportunity. I learned that conflict only increases the effects of poverty, gender discrimination, and poor education. 

News Room - Media News Room - Congress to vote on new spending bill Wednesday, increases funding for early childhood education | Our Nations Leading Voice For Child Care

News Room - Media News Room - Congress to vote on new spending bill Wednesday, increases funding for early childhood education | Our Nations Leading Voice For Child Care

Sharing Web Resources

National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencieshttp://www.naccrra.org/(Newsletter: http://capwiz.com/naccrra/mlm/signup/ )

The National Association of Child Care's website is  known as Child Care Aware of America. The main  focus of this website is to ensure that all families have access to quality and affordable childcare. This objective is achieved by providing training, resources and best practices to Child care Resources and Referral agencies along with offering childcare and parenting information and resources to families.  The organization's influence in promoting national policies in the Early Childhood Education field  is what attracted me to the website. I'm amazed each week at the different bills, and legislative laws that are passed in reference to education in the early childhood field. Congress voted on a new spending bill on 1/14/14 for increased funding for early childhood eduction. This information is something I would not have known about if it wasn't for the  Child Care Aware website.     This weeks news letter spoke about setting the stage for the young children in 2014.  Setting the stage for the children in 2014 con sit of improving the quality of childcare, increasing early head start child care partnerships, making preschool available for all and  empowering parents. The information on empowering parents was great food for thought in reference to this weeks topic of  the changing demographics and diversity in families. A proposed plan of increased  maternal, infant and early childhood home visiting programs will help ensure that all children are healthy and prepared for school and life . I look forward to reviewing next week's information to build my knowledge on early childhood resources, and the politics in education.

Establishing Professionals Contacts and Expanding Resources

EDUC 6162-Issues and Trends in the Early Childhood Field

Part I: Establish Professional Contacts:

I made an effort to contact 5 international early childhood professionals.  My original plan was to establish professional contacts in officials in Canada and Mexico. I thought it would be interesting to learn about Canada’s early childhood field because I believe it may be similar to United States’ ECF. I was interested in Mexico because I thought the information would allow me to relate more to the Spanish immigrants and multicultural families. I emailed Yvonne Dionne, the Canadian contact Monday 1/6/14 and haven’t gotten a response. Xinnena Barrientos was contacted also on 1/6/14 and there hasn’t been a response. Dominique Hudicourt a Haiti early childhood professional was contacted on 1/7/14. Red De Educacion was emailed on 1/8/14 and Juan Sanchez was also contacted on 1/8/14. I will continue to check my email to see if they are any responses to my emails in the near future.

Part II: Expanding Resources:

The Early Childhood organization website that I chose to research on was National Association of Childcare Resource and Referral Agencies.  (http://www.naccrra.org/).   I chose it because I believe the information from this website will help me as a teacher and a parent. As a teacher I will be able to provide more resources for the families in my classroom. As a parent I can use the knowledge from this website to help my son be success as he progresses in school. I would like to know more about the politics and reforms associated with the Early Childhood Field. This information will help me provide useful information for members of the community of Richmond!