Week
8 Final Blog Issues and Trends in the Early Childhood Field
I have fostered
and shared my professional growth by listening to podcasts and exploring websites
pertaining to Early Childhood Education.
I have even gained knowledge from reading my colleagues blog links
concerning Early Childhood Education in international countries. There are several consequences of learning
about the international Early Childhood field.
My personal and professional development has been enhanced by reading
articles from the websites of Save the Children. I have gained so much knowledge from the
issues in Africa such as poverty, stunting, malaria, and HIV. All of these issues have changed my personal
perspective of children in Africa. These
issues have shown me that our government and our nation are in a better
predicament than that of Africa. Even
though poverty exist in the United States we are far better off than in
Africa.
The
second consequence is that most of the international countries that my
colleagues have shared information on in their blogs share some of the exact
goals, and mission statements in the field of Early Childhood Education as that of the United States. Some of the countries are also a little
different because that put more emphasis on investing in their programs of
Early Childhood Education. They invest
because they expect great returns in the future. The
last consequence of learning about the international Early Childhood Education
field is that I can now bring or raise awareness to other Early Childhood
Education professionals about the importance of Early Childhood Education in
other countries and how we can advocate to our policy makers to bring our
standards of our own Early Childhood Education programs to meet the standards
of the international countries. In other
words we can advocate to receive better funding for our Early Childhood
Education programs so that we can compete with the international countries
around the globe.
The
one goal that I hope for is that we will all learn from each other and that we
will collaborate together to advocate for better standards and more high
quality programs that will improve our young children’s growth and development
so that they may reach their full potential and become productive citizens no
matter what part of the world they live in.
Kiara,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog each week. As we approach another class I truly hope that we can continue to learn from another as well as collaborate and ways to enhance the needs in the Early Childhood field. This class has truly been a learning experience and apart of me wishes it was not ending. I do agree that everyone should begin raising awareness about policies and standards within the early childhood field. It's time out for people minding their own business, being shy, and embarrass. I really feel that policy makers need to know what is happening on a day to day basis. Children are so important. All their needs should be met. Together we can create change and I truly believe that hunger, poverty, equity and excellence issues will be eliminated...Hope to see you in the next class....
Kiara, I really enjoyed your blog over the past eight weeks. You have shared some really great information about Africa and the state of early childhood there. Thank you for all the hard work you put into researching and writing. I really appreciate your dedication to early childhood.
ReplyDeleteAloha Kiara,
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed reading your blogs and I hope that we can collaborate in the future to create high quality programs for our young children and their families. Advocating for funding is definitely important for our children so we can work on better policies and standards that can help all our children.
- Bryce Tano