It seems connecting with Early Childhood Professionals in another country is going to be harder than originally anticipated. I used The Global Alliance of NAEYC to connect with professionals in other countries. I attemped to contact Singapore, Czech Republic, Canda and Romania through the emails provided on The Global Alliance of NAEYC site. Those emails were returned as undeliverable. I still have emails awaiting reply from Haiti, The UK UNICEF and Italy UNICEF organizations. If I do not hear back from them I will have to use the alterative activity. I have logged onto the World Forum Foundantion and located the podcasts.
The website I plan to learn more about over the next 8 weeks is the DEC (The Division for Early Childhood) website. I chose this website because I am a member of the CEC (Council for Excpetional Children). I joined the CEC to learn more about providing services for children with special needs because I provide training through Special Quest and determined this organization would have information that I could use to expand my knowledge and assist me in providing higher quality trainings to the educators in my area. I receive the EC (Exceptional Children) publication as well as the Teaching Exceptional Children publication from my membership in CEC. I found that I have been so busy with work and school that finding the time to use the CEC or DEC websites has not been easy. This class will force me to navigate and learn the DEC and CEC websites so that I can use them as resources in the trainings I present and I can recommend them to and assist others in using the sites.
Amy
Resources
The Global Alliance of NAEYC http://www.naeyc.org/resources/partnership/globalalliance
UNICEF has local organizations and representatives worldwide. http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html
The Division for Early Childhood
http://www.dec-sped.org/
(Review also the position statements: http://www.dec-sped.org/About_DEC/Position_Statements_and_Concept_Papers )
Council for Exceptional Children http://www.cec.sped.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&Template=/templates/CECHomePage.cfm
World Forum Foundation. “A foundation whose mission is to promote an on-going global exchange of ideas on the delivery of quality services for young children in diverse settings.” http://www.worldforumfoundation.org/wf/about.php
Website: World Forum Foundation Radio. Includes links to podcasts of conversations with early childhood professionals.
http://www.worldforumfoundation.org/wf/radio.php
Amy I was worried that I was the only one having trouble with this. I am very excited about this blog assignment, becasue I want to learn how other countries handle their early childhood program and establish new resources. I haven't been able to contact anyone. If you are able to reach anybody please let me know.
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I was wondering, as I was disappointed at each attempt to contact Early Childhood Professionals, if we , as Professionals could contact each other and use each other as resources. I think a couple of our collegues live in different countries and their perspectives can be as or more useful than those people we can't contact. I hope this can be something Dr. Meyers will consider.
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ReplyDeleteAs Tonetta said, I am also excited about this assignment. I found it interesting that there are so many different ways to connect to other professionals in different countries. My attempt to contact other professionals has not yielded any results as of yet, but I like Stephanie's suggestion as well because I had not thought of using our other classmates as resources from other countries.
Hi Amy this Denice so far I haven't herd from my two resources I chose. I am really looking forward to communicating with them to learn about the issues and concerns in early childhood in their country
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