Over the last 8 weeks I have learned much concerning different international policies and laws that are trying to become established or are being fine tuned to insure all children are receiving the chance to attend a quality early childhood program.
I have realized that chronic poverty is prevalent all over the world. Poverty affects children the same way no matter where they live. We as early childhood professional need to help with poverty at home.
I also understand that all parents no matter where they reside has the same dreams and aspirations for their children as parent in the united states have for our children.
One personal goal I have for myself is that I need to broaden my horizon and go beyond the four walls of my child care business and be an advocate for more families. I believe that the knowledge I have gained needs to be shared with more than just the people that are conveniently around you. I also believe the more you give out the more you receive.
I have realized that all the worlds early childhood field need to be improved. The early childhood field is broken in much of the world. One goal for the early childhood field is to become aware of the international issues so when and if the children and families come to America we will be better equipped to serve them.
I feel we as early childhood professional need to put aside any biases we have and work together for the good of the children.
I truly enjoyed working with each of you. I have learned much from each of you. Best of luck in all you set out to do.
Deborah
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Getting to Know Your Interational Contacts Part 3
Solutions on early childhood development in the Asia Pacific region.
Children under the age of three years is an age that is often neglected in this region of Asia - Pacific. This region tends to focus on preschool and primary school years. Over three hundred participants came together from different countries. UNESCO'S states even though the policy development in early childhood care and education in the Asia Pacific region has progressed much still needs to be done. The mortality rates for children under five needs to go down. Malnutrition needs to be reduced, increase access to services for children under three, and national framework needs to be established that are comprehensive and address the diverse needs of children from birth through early childhood.The conference aim is to equip policy makers, practitioner and parents with information on early childhood development for the under three period. Also they will have a number of hands on workshops on how to utilize resource materials.
Big Push Workshop to Accelerate Early Childhood Care and education in Africa
Among the 19African countries that have joined the Big Push initiative to accelerate education for all the four countries have chosen to focus on loosing early childhood care and education. The Big Push workshop want to familiarize the participating countries with existing training modules on indigenous early childhood care and education helping them to move forward. The modules form the IECCE model which provides tools skills and resources to people working with vulnerable children and families. One of the fundamentals of IECCE model is that local and indigenous children are to be educated within their cultural context.
The reason these two articles was interesting to me is because my focus in early childhood is being an advocate for vulnerable children, I also believe that we must take a holistic view of the child which includes their culture.
Lima Statement Prioritizes Equity, Inclusion and Quality Education
The Lima statement is a calling for a guarantee that all have the right to education. The statement also respond to the diversity in the region. The document highlights the need for quality, equity, and inclusion. This allows the teachers to have a key role in the education of the child. The Lima statement states that achieving equity and inclusion requires securing the right to education for all children, young people and adults. This will help them realize their potential and aspirations. This requires responding to the diversity of the needs among all learners by increasing their participation in learning and by reducing exclusion from and within education.
This article resonated with me because the article speaks of addressing the diversity in each child. Children do learn in different ways and when we learn to accept diversity in each child it will help with exclusion.
Children under the age of three years is an age that is often neglected in this region of Asia - Pacific. This region tends to focus on preschool and primary school years. Over three hundred participants came together from different countries. UNESCO'S states even though the policy development in early childhood care and education in the Asia Pacific region has progressed much still needs to be done. The mortality rates for children under five needs to go down. Malnutrition needs to be reduced, increase access to services for children under three, and national framework needs to be established that are comprehensive and address the diverse needs of children from birth through early childhood.The conference aim is to equip policy makers, practitioner and parents with information on early childhood development for the under three period. Also they will have a number of hands on workshops on how to utilize resource materials.
Big Push Workshop to Accelerate Early Childhood Care and education in Africa
Among the 19African countries that have joined the Big Push initiative to accelerate education for all the four countries have chosen to focus on loosing early childhood care and education. The Big Push workshop want to familiarize the participating countries with existing training modules on indigenous early childhood care and education helping them to move forward. The modules form the IECCE model which provides tools skills and resources to people working with vulnerable children and families. One of the fundamentals of IECCE model is that local and indigenous children are to be educated within their cultural context.
The reason these two articles was interesting to me is because my focus in early childhood is being an advocate for vulnerable children, I also believe that we must take a holistic view of the child which includes their culture.
Lima Statement Prioritizes Equity, Inclusion and Quality Education
The Lima statement is a calling for a guarantee that all have the right to education. The statement also respond to the diversity in the region. The document highlights the need for quality, equity, and inclusion. This allows the teachers to have a key role in the education of the child. The Lima statement states that achieving equity and inclusion requires securing the right to education for all children, young people and adults. This will help them realize their potential and aspirations. This requires responding to the diversity of the needs among all learners by increasing their participation in learning and by reducing exclusion from and within education.
This article resonated with me because the article speaks of addressing the diversity in each child. Children do learn in different ways and when we learn to accept diversity in each child it will help with exclusion.
Saturday, December 6, 2014
Sharing Resources Week 6
Upon opening up the website Harlem Children's zone I scrolled to the very bottom of the page.There I found a caption titled documents and publications. In the documents and and publications I found biennial reports, annual highlights of achievements, papers and reports, financial reports and poems written by the founder of Harlem Children's Zone Geoffrey Canada.
The area that I searched was the titles mentioned above. The biennial report comes out every two years. The title of the 2012-2013 was speaking concerning disrupting the cycle of poverty by helping children overcome a staggering array of issues. The article was stating that children in poor communities face many hurdles to their education. They have inadequate schools, violence at home and in the streets. Not sufficient health care, chaotic home lives, disengaged parents, homelessness, meager cultural and recreational opportunities.
Another issue we have been studying is school readiness for our children entering kindergarten. This article is titled Supporting the Entire Child - and an entire community of children. This article states that in 2012 all of the children that attended the Pre K Gems program tested school ready. They take a holistic view of each child they are servicing.
This program is fighting with all they have to have equity for their children. They do have many grants that they are waiting for responses from. This site did show me how they are having great success with the children that goes through their program. They have 92% of their high school graduates attend college.
The document Focusing on Results in Promise Neighborhood is a discussion paper trying to receive grants money from the federal initiative to help support what is taking place in the 97 neighborhoods of Harlem Children's Zone. The document was authored by the HARLEM Children's Zone, Policylink, and the Center for the Study of Social Policy, with contributions from Child Trends.
Once again this websites tell us how they take a holistic view of the child. They work with all children from babies to college students. They teach them to play chess. They watch the streets so the children can get home safely. They have many security people on the streets of the 97 blocks of Harlem to make sure children are safe until they get home.
The area that I searched was the titles mentioned above. The biennial report comes out every two years. The title of the 2012-2013 was speaking concerning disrupting the cycle of poverty by helping children overcome a staggering array of issues. The article was stating that children in poor communities face many hurdles to their education. They have inadequate schools, violence at home and in the streets. Not sufficient health care, chaotic home lives, disengaged parents, homelessness, meager cultural and recreational opportunities.
Another issue we have been studying is school readiness for our children entering kindergarten. This article is titled Supporting the Entire Child - and an entire community of children. This article states that in 2012 all of the children that attended the Pre K Gems program tested school ready. They take a holistic view of each child they are servicing.
This program is fighting with all they have to have equity for their children. They do have many grants that they are waiting for responses from. This site did show me how they are having great success with the children that goes through their program. They have 92% of their high school graduates attend college.
The document Focusing on Results in Promise Neighborhood is a discussion paper trying to receive grants money from the federal initiative to help support what is taking place in the 97 neighborhoods of Harlem Children's Zone. The document was authored by the HARLEM Children's Zone, Policylink, and the Center for the Study of Social Policy, with contributions from Child Trends.
Once again this websites tell us how they take a holistic view of the child. They work with all children from babies to college students. They teach them to play chess. They watch the streets so the children can get home safely. They have many security people on the streets of the 97 blocks of Harlem to make sure children are safe until they get home.
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