Establishing Professional Contacts
I
am excited as I attempt to contact my two people from other countries that work
as educators, administrators, or even on the government level who are
interested in Early Childhood Education.
I have e-mailed to South Africa at cecd@iafrica.com
and Armenia at ruzanna@sbsbf.am . In my e-mail I explained that I am a graduate
student at Walden University and that I am studying Early Childhood
Education. I explained that my
assignment throughout the course I am taking which is Issues and Trends in
Early Childhood Education requires me to stay in contact with two people in
other countries in order to gain new perspectives of different issues as they
relate to people around the world. I
asked them to participate in this assignment with me so that I could compare
our issues and trends in the United States with those of South Africa. I have not received any correspondence back
but I am certainly hopeful that the professionals will respond back to me in a
professional manner. If I do not receive
responses within the next week I will chose the alternate and contact the World
Forum.
Expanding
Resources
In
choosing my Early Childhood website I randomly typed in the e-mail addresses to
see how appealing the sites would look.
The most appealing site to me was the Harlem Children’s Zone. This is the website that I will follow
throughout this course. I have signed up
for the newsletter and I am awaiting confirmation of my registration. I have already looked at some of the positive
ground-breaking efforts that have been made at the Harlem Children’s Zone. They have what has been named Baby College
parenting workshops, the Harlem Gems which is their pre-school program, and I
also read about an obesity program that they have to help children to stay
healthy. The website address for the
Harlem Children’s Zone is http://www.hcz.org/
.
I look forward to
bringing you, my colleagues updates on how this organization supports their
Early Childhood community and what resources it has to offer.
Kiara,
ReplyDeleteThe Harlem Children's Zone looks interesting! - Especially the Baby College part....that will be exciting to learn about. I picked Canadian Early Childhood. I look forward to learning of this program you picked!- Selena Harris
Kiara,
ReplyDeleteThe Harlem Children's Zone sounds great already and I only know the information you shared. I particularly like the obesity program. I feel there should be a lot more programs about obesity because I see it a lot in children. It is important for children to be healthy and for parents to know how they can keep their children healthy. I'm excited to see what else you share. ~Lynette Taylor
Hi Kiara,
ReplyDeleteI think that many of our classmates are in a similar situation where we emailed and attempted to contact various people and organizations in search of an early childhood professional to communicate with, but haven't heard from yet. Don't lose hope! Also, the Harlem Children's Zone seems like a great resource and an interesting organization to learn about!
-Krissy
Kiara-
ReplyDeleteI look forward to seeing how your contacts feel about the issues we are dealing with here in the USA. It is so interesting to see how people around the world feel about different issues, and even to see what they feel is important, and what they don't. I am also interested in the Harlem website you are going to study. It seems like a great organization.