Final blog for Issues and Trends

Three consequences that come to mind learning about the international early childhood field for my professional and personal development are as follows:

·         Having awareness of others in the international ECE field

·         Ways to help financially, physically, and mentally with international ECE professionals

·         Feeling of appreciation of what we have here in the US and how we still have leaps and bounds to ensure that our children have the ability to continue with the best education

A goal that I would want to set for my international awareness of issues and trends would be that we always remember each other.  Lend that helping hand and do not turn the cheek to each other.  Giving each other ideas and willing to listen to others when they are being challenged by the early childhood field. 

Getting to know other International Contacts?

Becoming an effective educator to colleagues, families, and to my children that I serve is a goal that I want to achieve daily.  Am I that person every day?  I try.  I have shared my thoughts, my goals, and even my dreams with my fellow peers and instructors and have trusted each one of them to be honest with me when they were in need of tweaking.  I have had no luck with any communication with a fellow peer in another country in the ECE field.  But have learned so much from the instructor’s thought out readings and my peers.

I have explored the many countries through their websites and I have learned so much through the readings.  As a professional in this field we have our challenges and our overcoming of them.  With that said we are all are in this together and we can achieve the many obstacles that come in front of us.  With the continuous of advocating for what is in the best interests of our children we WILL overcome whatever may be challenging us.

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NAEYC

I have worked side by side with the NAEYC organization for numerous years.  They have only improved the quality of life for the program that I look over and the lives of our children.  As we wrote a letter to the leaders in Washington, NAEYC has a link where they have already prepared a letter to our congressional leaders separated into three different parts.  Looking below is how they are listed in order in the letter:

a.       Provide grants to states to accelerate their work, expanding access and improving quality for prekindergarten programs.

b.      Create Early Head Start-child care partnerships to raise the quality of child care and expand access for infants and toddlers in programs meeting Early Head Start standards.

c.       Voluntary support for families that promotes positive parent-child interaction, healthy child development and family self-sufficiency.

NAEYC has taken a stand and we should join in with this project.  Advocating for the improvement of early childhood education programs is the ultimate goal for any persons involved in this field.  I am so thankful for all the hard work that NAEYC and all of their supporters do to advocate for all of us.  I have attached the link that you can go to and attach your name to the letter to our congressional leaders.

http://strongstart.naeyc.org/