What specific section(s) or information seemed
particularly relevant to your current professional development?
NBCDI has partnered with Reading is Fundamental (RIF) to offer an early literacy training program to early childhood educators to build their capacity and resources to develop and enhance early literacy skills of African American children.
RIF, the nation’s oldest and largest non-profit literacy organization, along with support from the U.S. Department of Education, Macy’s, Univision, Radio One, and Koahnic Broadcast Corporation have launched a nationwide campaign to help improve children’s literacy in the African-American, Hispanic, and native American communities. The campaign stresses the importance of developing the language skills of young children to help better prepare them for success in school and life.
This is the section that is relevant to my current professional development. It is the start of a new program year at my job and I’m trying to get my families to understand how important it is to read with their children daily.
Which ideas/statements/resources, either on
the website or in an e-newsletter, did you find controversial or made you think
about an issue in new ways?
PreK-3 strategies are dedicated
to improving systems for children through age 8; easing transitions and
ensuring continuity for children and families through child care, PreK and
K-12; and seamlessly connecting high-quality early childhood and PreK programs
with high-quality elementary schools.
This statement made me think
that this would be a good program to do around the nation. I feel that all
children and families would benefit from continuity through the education
system. I have yet to receive a newsletter from them and there is none archived
on the site.
What information does the website or the
e-newsletter contain that adds to your understanding of how economists,
neuroscientists, or politicians support the early childhood field? What other
new insights about issues and trends in the early childhood field did you gain
from exploring the website or e-newsletter?
New insights that I gained from the web-site are
listed above. The reading program and the Prek-3rd program that they
offer. All of the programs that they offer are based in Washington, DC. I feel
that they should expand into other states.
Chenieka, I also think that other states would benefit from the reading program and Prek-3rd program. I wonder why it is only offered in Washington, DC.? Makes me want to probe further...
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Chenieka,
ReplyDeleteI wish others in our field shared the same passion for literacy as we both do. IIt is amaziong what literacy branches out to and how it can be incorporated in all areas of development. I love literacy in the classroom and I love to challenge my teachers to incorparate literature in thier classroom outside of introducing new books.
Chenieka, how do you engage your parents to read with their children? Parent involvement is so vital to early learning success, yet many low-income families are not literate and not able to enforce reading with their children.
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