Final Blog Assignment

First, I would like to start off by saying, I have enjoyed this semester reading your comments, post, and feeling the love and passion my fellow classmates have for Early Childhood. I have learned a great deal from each and everyone of you that I use every day in my new profession. I have recently just offered a head teacher position at Head Start. I am looking so forward to taking what I have learned and using it to help all children.

In the early childhood field all around the world the main focus seems to be:

• Intervention during the early years can assist in the healthy development of children cognitively, socially, emotionally and physically.
•  Participation in preschool programs promotes cognitive development in the short term and prepares children to succeed in school.
• Early childhood programs can reduce educational inequalities.
• Interventions can raise the status of mothers in the home and community. Interventions reduce gender inequalities.
• Early interventions generate economic returns and reduce social costs by reducing grade retention, special education placement, juvenile delinquency, and substance abuse.
• Early childhood development and care in the early years can do much to prevent malnutrition and increase children's chances of survival.

My goal as a Early Childhood profession is to become more involved in the community and help low income families and children  receive the best education possible by providing families with resources that will allow families access to high-quality early childhood programs.

Thank you and enjoy the rest of the summer.

Continue- Getting to Know Your International Contacts-Part 3

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teacher training courses for integration of ICT to teaching and learning processes with the aim of improving quality of learning process.

strengthening capacities of policy makers by introducing them Education Management Information Systems, by means of which policy makers would be able to retrieve accurate data from all levels of basic education.

intervention for the development and improvement of technical and vocational education and training in Uzbekistan, UNESCO Tashkent office is conducting country analysis study of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system.

training of trainers courses (ToT) on Education for Sustainable Development – UNESCO in cooperation with National University of Uzbekistan, has designed and conducting ToT courses to integrate Education for Sustainable Development concepts into the existing curricula, and increase awareness among educators and policy makers in Sustainable Development issues.

UNESCO supports comprehensive education sector responses to HIV and AIDS in five essential areas: quality education; content, curriculum and learning materials; educator training and support; policy, management and systems and the use of multiple approaches and entry points. UNESCO leads EDUCAIDS, the UNAIDS Global Initiative on Education and HIV & AIDS, the Organization supports Member States in achieving universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support of HIV/AIDS

UNESCO continues to assist countries in expanding access to early childhood education by, improving its quality, ensuring equity at this vital stage in early childhood care and building a solid foundation for a child’s lifelong learning all around the world. As an educator it is our job to keep up with growing changes in early childhood education and even in other countries we are all fighting for the same cause is to improve the quality of education in early childhood.

Resources:
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/

Getting to Know Your International Contacts-Part 3

Getting to Know Your International Contacts-Part 3

The three new inghts I learned fom (UNESCO) United Nations Educational Scientific Cultual Organization is a specialized oganization of the United States. Its pupose is to build peace in the minds of people though education, culture, science, and communication. UNESCO have 193 membes states and seven associate members in five geographical locations:

• Africa
• Arab States
• Asia
• Pacific
• Europe
• North America
• Latin America
• Europe
• Carribean

UNESCO since 1945 has woked worldwide to improve education on the pronciple that education is a universal human rights and that education is the key to social and economic development. In order to improve quality and access to education in Uzbekistan through technical advice, standard setting, innovative projects and networking. Their main focus is to enhance the national education sector by means of strengthening the capacity of teachers’ education institutions, improvement of teaching quality, training opportunities and learning materials. The following  UNESCO education sector is actively conducting following activities:

Sharing Web Resources

My website (NCEBC) National Council on Educating Black Children website I explored was their Helping Parents Help Children Make Good Choices newsletter. The newsletter is put out around the 10th of each month on upcoming events. For example, the last issue that was put out was May 10th newsletter that gave parents tips and survival guide on things to do for the summer with your children, expectations for the upcoming school year, and websites that can help children throughout the summer with their literacy. Other upcoming news NCEBC Continues Partnership with State Department of Education and Local School Districts will be opening free after school literacy programs in several schools in Indiana. The programs is 2 hours a day Monday-Thursday, free transportation and afternoon snack will be provided to students. Augustus F. Hawkins Literacy Center program goals are:

• Improve Academic Achievement
• Improve Social Skills & Behavior
• Improve School Attendance
• Increase Family Involvement

Getting To Know Your International Contact. Part 2

For this assignment I am exploring  "Global Children's Initiative"  website:(http://developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/global_initiative/).

The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child (NSCDC) is a science based framework of  multidisciplinary collaborations of leading scientists like neurocientists, developmental psychologists, pediatricians, and economics that share critical reviews about "What we know about development in the early childhood years. There mission statement is to bring sound and accurate science bear on  public-making affecting the lives of young children. Established in 2003, the Council is committed to an evidence-based approach to building broad-based public will that transcends political partisanship and recognizes the complementary responsibilities of family, community, workplace, and government to promote the well-being of all young children. NSCDC has created a series of publications to marry the science of early childhood and brain development with state-of-the-art communications research designed to effectively translate that knowledge for non-scientific audiences. There publications consists of reports, working papers, briefs, multimedia interactive features, and videos that you can log into and read about. Some of there major support have been provided by: the Birth to Five Policy Alliance, the Buffet Early Childhood Fund, Casey Family Programs, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Norlien Foundation, and the Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Fund, an advised fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Some goals and strategies of the council are:

1. Bringing credible and accurate knowledge to bear on public decision-making that affects children’s learning, behavior, and health.
2. Rethinking the challenge of knowledge translation in order to strengthen its impact on the lives of children.
3. Building broad-based and informed leadership to represent the interests of young children in the public and private sectors.
4. Promoting a new national dialogue focused on rethinking the meaning of both shared responsibility for children and strategic investment in their future.

Another interesting fact about the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child is the Center's  Global Children's Initives, which has begun to build a portfolio of activities in the three Domain's early childhood development; mental health; and children in crisis and conflict situations. Each of these domains is being guided by a faculty working group that will facilitate continuing cross-disciplinary collaboration; design and implement new projects; and engage additional faculty, students, and collaborators beyond the Harvard community. The initial set of activities currently being developed is outlined below.

1. Refraining the discourse around child health and development
2. Supporting innovative, multi-disciplinary research and demonstration projects
3. Building leadership capacity in child development research and policy—

Each of these domains is being guided by a designated faculty working group that will facilitate continuing cross-disciplinary collaboration; design and implement new projects; and engage additional faculty, students, and collaborators beyond the Harvard community. Last of all the center provides  a variety of formal and informal learning opportunities for students, including courses, graduate research fellowships, lectures, events, and research assistant opportunities. You can also receive the centers latest  email newsletters and other up coming announcements and follow the center Developing Child on Twitter for the ones who love to network.

Sharing Web Resources 2.

In The National Council of Educating Black Children (NCEBC) have several great components to its website. One of the resources that really caught my eye was "Touching The Spirit" teaching workshops. You remember the old African American proverb saying? "It takes a village to raise a child" it also takes a village of professionals to take responsibility in attaining the necessary tools to help effective teachers achieve goals by designing  a curriculum that will educate, and encourage excellence through culturally relevant teaching strategies. In these workshops teachers will successfully learn about their student's history, culture, language, background knowledge, and experience which will help professionals develop learning activities that will engage their students interest and involvement.  Touching the Spirit framework includes 14 components the components are:

• Ritual (Affirmation/performances)
• Rhythm (Music, speech and movement)
• Recitation (Memorization)
• Repetition
• Relationships
• Expectations of Excellence
• Continual Search for Patterns
• Insistence on Working Toward Mastery
• Teacher Modeling of Skills and Processes
• Intensive Direct Instruction and Practice
• Study of African Deep Thought
• Focus on Discourse, Inquiry, and Creative and Symbolic Thinking
• Using Knowledge for Social Criticism and Community Action
• In-Depth Study and Performance of African and African American Culture

The National Council on Educating Black Children from Garry Holland on Vimeo. on The Call for action talks about how all children can learn and as a society it is up to us to speak out on the quality of education and how African American children living low economic ereas are struggling because of their circumstances that they growing up in. One issue that really caught my attention in this video they interviewed a black girl and boy and they were asked, "which doll was nice and which doll was  mean?" Both children picked the white doll to be nicer and the black doll mean. I thought that was so said that these children living in low economic areas are subject to violence, drugs, crime, single parent homes, bad living conditions, sickness, a school system that have given up on them. African American children experience the highest drop out rate, kicked out of school, jail and one of the biggest issues African American male not finishing school or even going on to higher education.

The information on this website that gives me a better understanding of how economists, neuroscientists, or politicians support the early childhood field. In their research is the “Blueprint for Action” which  provides a framework for collaborative community partnerships with public school, community, parents, and other African American organizations  to solve problems and accelerate achievement for all children, especially African American  children in particular to making sure that the villiage takes responsibility for developing a plan to improve the educational achievement of  all  children.

One resource on the website in particular The Literacy Center which are being established in various cities to enhance the instruction provided by public and charter schools to those students who are classified as a high risk for academic failure.  So far the NCEBC's National Literacy Center program operates seven literacy centers in Indiana, including four in Indianapolis' disadvantaged neighborhoods. It plans to open 20 in designated areas across the state in an aggressive effort to support school initiatives that increase literacy skills. The  NCEBC will provide the curriculum, staff development, books and materials. and each child enrolled receives three books a year. This program will be a big addition to our society if incorporated in all states not just for African American but available for any child that is in need to increase their literacy skills.

Resources:
National Council of Educating Black Children (NCEBC)
ncebc.org