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-3^rd 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.

 

Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 1

After many attempts to make contact with international contacts I have decided to go with the alternative for the blog assignment. I listen to the podcast of Ms. Delfena Mitchell of the Liberty Foundation. Ms. Mitchell is the directory of Liberty House located in Belize. She tells the story of a young child that has suffered from physical abuse and now lives in the home. He is a non-verbal child until they go on a horseback ride. He opens up and talks to her but upon his return to the home he becomes non-verbal again. Yet over time he starts to talk in part because he was given the time to heal by being allowed to work on the grounds outside which he enjoyed. I learned that Belize has the highest rate of child abuse in the Caribbean nation. One on one time can give children the security that they need to feel safe enough to talk about what has happen to them.  I have emailed Ms. Mitchell and the CEO of the Liberty Foundation Ms. Marcelle Camping. I hope to make contact with them because I would like to learn more about child care in general in Belize.

The World Forum has drafted a report summarizing the commitment entitled “Raising Environmentally Passionate Future Generations.” The objective is to promote future generations of environmental stewards by recruiting, motivating, and training 236 professionally diverse Community Teams from 93 nations to lead local campaigns to reconnect over 2 million young children with nature.

http://ccie-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wfaw/wfia-206.pdf

What is the Convention on the Rights of the Child?

The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is an internationally recognized agreement between nations which establishes a comprehensive set of goals for individual nations to achieve on behalf of their children.

The United States is one of only two members of the United Nations that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child while the other 193 countries have been willing to make this commitment to their children. I believe that ratification of this important treaty is an important part of being a global citizen.

Some initiatives that they are working on include:

Children’s Rights

Curriculum

EC eTeaching

Global Leaders for Young Children

Including Children with Special Needs

Men in Early Childhood Education

Rights of Children in Children’s Homes

Sharing Web Resources

I receive a daily newsletter from Child Care Exchange called Exchange Every Day the link is: http://www.childcareexchange.com/eed/

It contains news stories, success stories, trend reports, from across the world. One issue that issue that caught my eye is the article, How to Motivate. I found this article of interest because right now with the agency that I work at motivation is something that a lot of us don’t have due to budget cuts, lack of support from our administration and lack of materials to do our jobs. The site also has a magazine that can be ordered, they have a resource for books, and a resource for workshops.

Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

Part 1

I used email addresses from The Global Alliance of NAEYC to email the contacts listed for  Honduras and Mexico. I chose these to countries because majority of families that I serve come from these countries. I sent the emails in English and I had my best friend translate them into Spanish for me. I will continue to send emails this upcoming week and if I receive no answer then I might have to take Alternative to Part 1.

Part 2

I selected the National Black Child Development Institute to study.
http://nbcdi.org/
(Newsletter: http://nbcdi.org/support/sign-up-for-nbcdi-newsletters/ )

I selected this site because I never heard of it before. I also would like to better understand how I can serve African American children.