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!