At least three local or state organizations or communities of
practice that appealed to you, and explain why you chose them
Voices for Virginia’s
Children is a statewide, privately funded, non-partisan awareness and advocacy
organization that builds support for practical public policies to improve the
lives of children. This state organization appealed to me because it gave
direct figure for how much investing in Early Childcare can help a community.
Every dollar that is invested in early childhood and education can produce a
$7-10 return on investment. This information makes it easier to increase
investment opportunities for stakeholders and other organization. I found the
organizations campaign for Metal heath Awareness in children to be interesting
along with their KID Data Center to be helpful in comparing the Early Childhood
Programs in Virginia nationwide.
The Villa’s mission is to
provide children with special needs and their families the opportunity to
succeed through innovative and effective services. We say that “we never stop
believing in children and their families,” and we mean it. Every child,
regardless of his or her physical or emotional condition, deserves a safe and
nurturing place to learn, to heal and to grow. I found this local
organization to be appealing because it was one of the few organizations that
was listed for the city of Richmond that had a comprehensive plan on how to
help families that have children with disabilities.
The Parent Educational
Advocacy Training Center assists the families of children with disabilities
through education, information and training. PEATC builds parent-professional
partnerships to promote success in school and community life. I found this
website to be interesting because it provides tools to empower parents on
bullying prevention, their rights and provides insights to news and
publications that directly affects their children and school. I am
personally glad to have found the website and will be using it to gain
information for myself and my son.
Job opportunities (currently
available or not) that interest you
Skills and experience that you
would need to competently fulfill each of these roles
Extension Agent, 4-H,
Charles City/New Kent for Virginia Tech University
The 4-H Youth Development
Agent is a professional educator who provides leadership to the local 4-H
program and manages its day-to-day operation. 4-H is a community of young
people learning leadership, citizenship, and life skills. The mission of 4-H is
to develop youth, and adults working with those youth, to realize their full
potential and become effective, contributing citizens. In order to fulfill my obligation
as an extension agent I would have to prepare
lectures through the development and delivery process of
research-based, non-formal, hands-on educational experiences.
Lead Family Service
Advocate for Richmond Public Schools
Provides direction and
leadership for the areas of Family Services, Family Engagement and implements
the program's family involvement component. Monitors and analyses
the status of Family and Community Partnerships. The skills that I would
need in order to do this job is the ability to develops plans to improve
identified areas of weakness in the Family and Community Partnership services
and provides guidance and supervision of Family Service Workers
Adjunct Professor for
Teaching Early Childhood Education At John Tyler and other Junior Colleges and
Universities
The skills that I would need to be an adjunct professor
effectively is, use professional terminology for effective communication,
instruct small groups and individual students in a classroom while supervised
by a certified teacher, help students with developmental skills in the
classroom, implement planned lessons, use good human relations skills, apply
appropriate computer skills, analyze and resolve problems, apply basic
child/classroom observation skills, locate, compile and analyze
appropriate resources, activities and materials.
In
order to fulfill each of these occupation effectively a person has to have a
warm and engaging
personality, their teaching style should contain clear objectives for lessons,
and they should have effective discipline skills, good classroom management
skills, good communication with the all people that work around them, knowledge
of curriculum and standards, knowledge of subject matter, passion for
children and teaching and strong rapport with students weather they
are adults or children. Each of these skills and dispositions are needed in
order for an early childhood education professional to fulfill their obligation
and make an impact in the community (Wenger, 2006).
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