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• Post at least three consequences of learning about the international early childhood field for your professional and personal development (any format, any length)
Learning about international early childhood field makes my heart yearn to travel to Guinea to assist in teaching parents and grandparents the importance of nutrition and their child’s education. I am not sure how that can happen but my heart sure wants to as I know the problems and the poverty in that country and I hear from friends that things are not as good as it was when I was there.
I have so many questions about the things I have learned, how can they really be resolved with so much ignorance and lack of concern about the importance of Early Childhood Education, or even the importance of our children. With so many children living in poverty level or even below in our own country, where is the money and resources coming from to support organizations such as SAVE THE CHILDREN in other countries.
I once, was offered a position for a short term working with SAVE and was not allowed to take it at the advice of the mission I was working with. Now at this time in my life, where do I find a way for me to contribute and be a supporter of this kind of work. Does my teaching a little boy from India count and is that all the further it will go?
• Post one goal for the field related to international awareness of issues and trends and the spirit of collegial relations
I have looked at the goals that I set down in the Foundations class and look at where I am now. I feel like I am spinning my wheels and going nowhere. When I was thinking things were going so well for me, now with loosing my job, taking one with less pay, and having to live with my son and his family: I feel like I am in a financial prison.
I do want to thank my classmates for being so encouraging and questioning me, and supporting my posts. I especially want to thank Christina Parker, Darcey Richardson, Leigh Todd and Amy Smith for hanging in there as encouragers from the first class. Thanks so much girls. Thank you to Dr. Dartt.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
WEEK SEVEN
This week I received a newsletter from NIEER,National Institute for Early Education Research. The highlight this week was on the school lunch programs.
I have not received any information from my other contacts this week. Save The Children publish once a month therefore no new since I last wrote about them. Their concern now is that Congress will take action to protect the children around the world. This would come through their U. S. Foreign assistance funding program.
I have not received any information from my other contacts this week. Save The Children publish once a month therefore no new since I last wrote about them. Their concern now is that Congress will take action to protect the children around the world. This would come through their U. S. Foreign assistance funding program.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
week 6 assignment
SAVE THE CHILDREN is a website of interest to me. The drought in East Africa is one of their great concerns at the present time. The countries most affected are Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. The drought has put an estimated 12 million people in need, especially children who are hungry, thirsty and desperate. In Ethiopia’s Somali region hundreds of people are dying every day in the southern region and at least half of them are children.
The hunger crisis is caused by a lack of rain, failed harvests, loss of livestock herds and food prices escalating. The expected rains will not come until October and then planting season will begin.
SAVE THE CHILDREN is reaching out to children and adults in Kenya, treating malnourished children in each nation. In Kenya supplementary feeding for children under the age of 3 has begun and will be extended to children under 5. Good water is a severe problem affected by the drought and improving water supply and sanitation in health clinics and school. Veterinary care and feeding of the cattle through the Pastoralist Livelihoods Initiative Project continues to be provided helping children and family members in Ethiopia. SAVE supports the Kenyan Ministry of Health with immunizations in an effort to control the outbreaks of measles. SAVE partners with other groups to care for displaced children and provide primary schools
This website paints a grim picture of children living in poverty all over the world. SAVE is an organization that works to alleviate the pain of hunger and safety for as many of these children as possible. They also partner with other organizations in establishing programs that define poverty and reach out to these children and their families.
SAVE THE CHILDREN works to bring education to those children in poverty ridden parts of the world furnishing school rooms, books, food, water, clinical needs and safety in housing. I know that SAVE is an organization that does not consider their own needs when going into a country but what is best and what they can do for the people, especially the children. There is the desire for excellence of provisions and education.
I have subscribed to their e-letter but it is not published monthly. I think that it is published tri-monthly therefore I have not received new information except for what I have followed on their website. It is obvious that much of my interest is in Africa, which is dear to my heart. I also know that people in West Africa are suffering from drought, lack of food and sanitary water. I receive a newsletter from missionary friends that tell of the situation in Guinea, West Africa. With the political situation there being so fragile, necessary living conditions are also fragile.
http://www.savethechildren.org
I cannot publish the names or newsletters of my friends for reasons of safety their names have to remain unspoken.
The hunger crisis is caused by a lack of rain, failed harvests, loss of livestock herds and food prices escalating. The expected rains will not come until October and then planting season will begin.
SAVE THE CHILDREN is reaching out to children and adults in Kenya, treating malnourished children in each nation. In Kenya supplementary feeding for children under the age of 3 has begun and will be extended to children under 5. Good water is a severe problem affected by the drought and improving water supply and sanitation in health clinics and school. Veterinary care and feeding of the cattle through the Pastoralist Livelihoods Initiative Project continues to be provided helping children and family members in Ethiopia. SAVE supports the Kenyan Ministry of Health with immunizations in an effort to control the outbreaks of measles. SAVE partners with other groups to care for displaced children and provide primary schools
This website paints a grim picture of children living in poverty all over the world. SAVE is an organization that works to alleviate the pain of hunger and safety for as many of these children as possible. They also partner with other organizations in establishing programs that define poverty and reach out to these children and their families.
SAVE THE CHILDREN works to bring education to those children in poverty ridden parts of the world furnishing school rooms, books, food, water, clinical needs and safety in housing. I know that SAVE is an organization that does not consider their own needs when going into a country but what is best and what they can do for the people, especially the children. There is the desire for excellence of provisions and education.
I have subscribed to their e-letter but it is not published monthly. I think that it is published tri-monthly therefore I have not received new information except for what I have followed on their website. It is obvious that much of my interest is in Africa, which is dear to my heart. I also know that people in West Africa are suffering from drought, lack of food and sanitary water. I receive a newsletter from missionary friends that tell of the situation in Guinea, West Africa. With the political situation there being so fragile, necessary living conditions are also fragile.
http://www.savethechildren.org
I cannot publish the names or newsletters of my friends for reasons of safety their names have to remain unspoken.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
THE CENTER ON THE DEVELOPING CHILD
The global program will focus on three strategic areas:
reframing the discourse around child health and development in the global policy arena by educating high-level decision-makers about the underlying science of learning, behavior, and health, beginning in the earliest years of life;
supporting innovative, multi-disciplinary research and demonstration projects to expand global understanding of how healthy development happens, how it can be derailed, and how to get it back on track; and building leadership capacity in child development research and policy—focused on both individuals and institutions—in low- and middle-income countries to increase the number and influence of diverse voices and perspectives that are contributing to the growing global movement on behalf of young children.
CENTER ON THE DEVELOPING CHILD retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu
The global purpose of this organization is to focus on all children with no regard to their economic status, their health outcome, or their political position. Their focus is on three domains: "childhood development, child mental health, and children in crisis and conflict situations."
Not being able to get to my e-mail I cannot give an assessment of the contact in Australia. I just hope that all that information can be retreived.
The global program will focus on three strategic areas:
reframing the discourse around child health and development in the global policy arena by educating high-level decision-makers about the underlying science of learning, behavior, and health, beginning in the earliest years of life;
supporting innovative, multi-disciplinary research and demonstration projects to expand global understanding of how healthy development happens, how it can be derailed, and how to get it back on track; and building leadership capacity in child development research and policy—focused on both individuals and institutions—in low- and middle-income countries to increase the number and influence of diverse voices and perspectives that are contributing to the growing global movement on behalf of young children.
CENTER ON THE DEVELOPING CHILD retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu
The global purpose of this organization is to focus on all children with no regard to their economic status, their health outcome, or their political position. Their focus is on three domains: "childhood development, child mental health, and children in crisis and conflict situations."
Not being able to get to my e-mail I cannot give an assessment of the contact in Australia. I just hope that all that information can be retreived.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Blog Assignment for October 1, 2011
What specific section(s) or information seemed particularly relevant to your current professional development? SAVE THE CHILDREN has been involved in the USA setting up 84 sites in 11 states. The emphasis on the connection between parents reading to their child and those who do not have a positive impact on helping their child learn. There is a wealth of information concerning early childhood education and its importance. For me, their emphasis on training teachers to teach effectively reading programs and developing materials for families to use is a highlight. I want to teach young teachers effective methods of teaching little ones to read and to have a desire to learn.
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? I was aware of the literacy programs in Africa but was not informed of the literacy programs in the USA. Their website tells of 16,000 children in the USA participating in their literacy program in the year of 2010.
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? The list of members of their board can be found on their Board of Members link on the website. Every board member is either an education or a business man. This shows me that SAVE THE CHILDREN is supported by many sectors outside of Early Childhood Education.
What other new insights about issues and trends in the early childhood field did you gain from exploring the website or e-newsletter? I did not realize the extent of operation and service that SAVE THE CHILDREN serves throughout the world. Assisting families in crisis is a first step in touching those families to educate them to the importance of education for their children and in developing literacy and early childhood programs.
SAVE THE CHILDREN retrieved from http://www.savethechildren.org
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? I was aware of the literacy programs in Africa but was not informed of the literacy programs in the USA. Their website tells of 16,000 children in the USA participating in their literacy program in the year of 2010.
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? The list of members of their board can be found on their Board of Members link on the website. Every board member is either an education or a business man. This shows me that SAVE THE CHILDREN is supported by many sectors outside of Early Childhood Education.
What other new insights about issues and trends in the early childhood field did you gain from exploring the website or e-newsletter? I did not realize the extent of operation and service that SAVE THE CHILDREN serves throughout the world. Assisting families in crisis is a first step in touching those families to educate them to the importance of education for their children and in developing literacy and early childhood programs.
SAVE THE CHILDREN retrieved from http://www.savethechildren.org
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