Relationships/partnerships are important to me because it helps strengthen my physical, emotional, and mental health. There is strong evidence that supports that healthy relationships or partnerships are related to people's health. Those who are alone and/or isolated from people tend to have a higher risk of obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, and other diseases and illnesses.
I have positive relationships with my 3 year old son, Gabriel. I have relationships with my extended family. I am now developing a relationship with my birth mother. I have good relationships with my college friends as well as my childhood friends from my hometown. I talk to my college friends almost everyday, and I try to talk to my childhood friends at least once a week. I keep in touch with the people in my life through phone calls, texts, social media such as Twitter and Facebook.
I believe to keep any type of relationship or partnership together, there has to be some type of communication. You may not always agree with the people that you have relationships with, but with communication compromises can be helpful for any situation.
I believe that communication is essential when working in early childhood education because as an educator, much interaction will be done between teacher-child, teacher-parent, and parent-child. With good communication, as a future educator I can help those families and children who need the resources to achieve their long and short term goals.
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Monday, June 10, 2013
Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 1
I haven't heard anything back from my international partners so I decided to complete the alternative assignment which was to gain 3 insights or ideas on childhood poverty. I went to the website http://www.childhoodpoverty.org to gain information on childhood poverty. I learned some very interesting facts that I had no clue about.
The first insight I learned which was appalling to me
1) Over 600 million children world-wide live in absolute poverty - an estimated 1 in 4. In many countries, rates are much higher with over 60 percent of children living in households with incomes below international poverty lines. Over 10 million children under five still die every year from preventable diseases - the vast majority of them in developing countries. As one of the most powerless groups in society, children often bear the physical and emotional costs of poverty in the US.
The second insight I learned:
2) Today's poor children are all too often tomorrow's poor parents. Poverty can be passed on from generation to generation affecting the long-term health, wellbeing and productivity of families and of society as a whole. Tackling childhood poverty is therefore critical for eradicating poverty and injustice world-wide. Poverty denies opportunities to people of all ages. Lost opportunities in childhood cannot always be regained later - childhood is a one-off window of opportunity and development. Poverty experienced by children, even over short periods, can affect the rest of their lives. Malnutrition in early childhood, for example, can lead to life-long learning difficulties and poor health.
The third insight I learned was about the purpose of the organization:
The Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre is a collaborative research and policy programme which involves Save the Children, the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) and partners in China, India, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. Running from 2001 to 2005, it aims to contribute to global poverty reduction efforts by:
• Deepening understanding of the main causes of childhood poverty and poverty cycles, and increasing knowledge of effective strategies to tackle them in different contexts
• Examining economic and social factors at different levels - international, national and local - which contribute to poverty in childhood
• Informing effective policy to end childhood poverty, communicating research findings to policy makers, practitioners and advocates
• Raising the profile of childhood poverty issues and increasing commitment to tackling them through anti-poverty policy and action.
I thought it was such a shame that this website only ran from 2001 to 2005. This research and policy program should be a continuous effort to battle poverty in the US and across the globe.
The first insight I learned which was appalling to me
1) Over 600 million children world-wide live in absolute poverty - an estimated 1 in 4. In many countries, rates are much higher with over 60 percent of children living in households with incomes below international poverty lines. Over 10 million children under five still die every year from preventable diseases - the vast majority of them in developing countries. As one of the most powerless groups in society, children often bear the physical and emotional costs of poverty in the US.
The second insight I learned:
2) Today's poor children are all too often tomorrow's poor parents. Poverty can be passed on from generation to generation affecting the long-term health, wellbeing and productivity of families and of society as a whole. Tackling childhood poverty is therefore critical for eradicating poverty and injustice world-wide. Poverty denies opportunities to people of all ages. Lost opportunities in childhood cannot always be regained later - childhood is a one-off window of opportunity and development. Poverty experienced by children, even over short periods, can affect the rest of their lives. Malnutrition in early childhood, for example, can lead to life-long learning difficulties and poor health.
The third insight I learned was about the purpose of the organization:
The Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre is a collaborative research and policy programme which involves Save the Children, the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) and partners in China, India, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. Running from 2001 to 2005, it aims to contribute to global poverty reduction efforts by:
• Deepening understanding of the main causes of childhood poverty and poverty cycles, and increasing knowledge of effective strategies to tackle them in different contexts
• Examining economic and social factors at different levels - international, national and local - which contribute to poverty in childhood
• Informing effective policy to end childhood poverty, communicating research findings to policy makers, practitioners and advocates
• Raising the profile of childhood poverty issues and increasing commitment to tackling them through anti-poverty policy and action.
I thought it was such a shame that this website only ran from 2001 to 2005. This research and policy program should be a continuous effort to battle poverty in the US and across the globe.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Sharing Web Resources
Here is the link that I received from one of the ECE world representatives from Nigeria. Her name is Margaret Akinware. She works closely with other world representatives through the World Forum Organization and Early Education for Every Child Foundation (EEECF).
https://docs.google.com/file/d/1frlRbeH0yKVn7M8RCuT8KHDxTVtc_xkZ9BC68lIWbISxQFMn05IyOrEuq8pr/edit?usp=sharing.
The World Forum Organization and Early Education for Every Child Foundation goals are to encourage initiatives through volunteers and ECE professionals to foster a global collaboration among the nonprofit, government, and private sectors to reach out and assist those children and families with the tools to building literacy for the children and adults and to help improve families lives. Their main focus is to reach out to families who need help the most.
Check out
www.worldforumorganization.org and www.eeecf.org for additional information.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/1frlRbeH0yKVn7M8RCuT8KHDxTVtc_xkZ9BC68lIWbISxQFMn05IyOrEuq8pr/edit?usp=sharing.
The World Forum Organization and Early Education for Every Child Foundation goals are to encourage initiatives through volunteers and ECE professionals to foster a global collaboration among the nonprofit, government, and private sectors to reach out and assist those children and families with the tools to building literacy for the children and adults and to help improve families lives. Their main focus is to reach out to families who need help the most.
Check out
www.worldforumorganization.org and www.eeecf.org for additional information.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Getting Ready-Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources
Part I: Establishing Professional Contacts
I didn't realize that it would be so difficult and time consuming to contact someone out side the United States who works in the Early Childhood Field. I attempted to contact Mrs Eva-Hammes-Di Bernardo from the German National Committee for Early Childhood Education and Blesilda Rios from the Philippines National Committee-Center for Early Childhood Care and Development. I hope to hear back from them soon. If I am not able to get in contact with them, then I may result to completing the alternative section instead.
Part II: Expanding Resources
The website I chose to research and require information from regarding the EC Field is http://www.zerotothree.org/. This website shares some valuable information ranging from behavior and development to care and education and public policy. Each section is broken down with subtitles such as Play, School Readiness, Child Care, and Federal Policy. Each subtitle provides a summary of what the title is and how affects early childhood. I believe this website is great for those who want to acquire basic information.
I didn't realize that it would be so difficult and time consuming to contact someone out side the United States who works in the Early Childhood Field. I attempted to contact Mrs Eva-Hammes-Di Bernardo from the German National Committee for Early Childhood Education and Blesilda Rios from the Philippines National Committee-Center for Early Childhood Care and Development. I hope to hear back from them soon. If I am not able to get in contact with them, then I may result to completing the alternative section instead.
Part II: Expanding Resources
The website I chose to research and require information from regarding the EC Field is http://www.zerotothree.org/. This website shares some valuable information ranging from behavior and development to care and education and public policy. Each section is broken down with subtitles such as Play, School Readiness, Child Care, and Federal Policy. Each subtitle provides a summary of what the title is and how affects early childhood. I believe this website is great for those who want to acquire basic information.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Relationship Reflection
Relationships/partnerships are important to me because it helps strengthen my physical, emotional, and mental health. There is strong evidence that supports that healthy relationships or partnerships are related to people's health. Those who are alone and/or isolated from people tend to have a higher risk of obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, and other diseases and illnesses.
I have positive relationships with my 3 year old son, Gabriel. I have relationships with my extended family. I am now developing a relationship with my birth mother. I have good relationships with my college friends as well as my childhood friends from my hometown. I talk to my college friends almost everyday, and I try to talk to my childhood friends at least once a week. I keep in touch with the people in my life through phone calls, texts, social media such as Twitter and Facebook.
I believe to keep any type of relationship or partnership together, there has to be some type of communication. You may not always agree with the people that you have relationships with, but with communication compromises can be helpful for any situation.
I believe that communication is essential when working in early childhood education because as an educator, much interaction will be done between teacher-child, teacher-parent, and parent-child. With good communication, as a future educator I can help those families and children who need the resources to achieve their long and short term goals.
I have positive relationships with my 3 year old son, Gabriel. I have relationships with my extended family. I am now developing a relationship with my birth mother. I have good relationships with my college friends as well as my childhood friends from my hometown. I talk to my college friends almost everyday, and I try to talk to my childhood friends at least once a week. I keep in touch with the people in my life through phone calls, texts, social media such as Twitter and Facebook.
I believe to keep any type of relationship or partnership together, there has to be some type of communication. You may not always agree with the people that you have relationships with, but with communication compromises can be helpful for any situation.
I believe that communication is essential when working in early childhood education because as an educator, much interaction will be done between teacher-child, teacher-parent, and parent-child. With good communication, as a future educator I can help those families and children who need the resources to achieve their long and short term goals.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Children's Quotes
"Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate." - Anonymous
This quote is so right on. For instance, my 3 year old is imitating every single word, sound, motion, and movement someone say or does. His brain is a sponge literally. I have to remind my friends and including myself to make sure that we do not say anything inappropriate because my son will say exactly what you say now. As adults, we have to be mindful of what we say and do because children watch us constantly. If our children are watching us, don't we want them to pick up the good qualities of us? When we show our children the correct way to talk and behave, then we can truly say that we are good role models. I think this generation that is coming up are lacking good role models in the home, school, and the rest of the community. I strive everyday to be a great role model for my son to imitate so that he can make mommy and himself proud. Ask yourself if you are parent, relative, or educator, are you being a good role model for the children to imitate.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Testing for Intelligence?
I personally believe that children today are being overly assessed due to the demands of a changing world; however, all this assessing has been misdiagnosed many children. Placing labels on children allows others to judge and isolate them which aids in a child thinking he is different or not as smart as the next child. In early childhood, I think the physical and mental development of a child should be assessed because it provides the parents and teachers the information they need to help that particular child later on. If the physical and mental development is assessed early enough, the child may have a chance to get tested and treated which can assist the child in his or her learning capabilities to be successful in school.
In Jamaica, many researchers conduct literacy tests on the elementary and high schools students and study the students during the course of their school years. To date, the students are assessed to understand why one group of privileged children are reading at the country level and the underprivileged are not reading at the country level. Most of the researchers believed that the socioeconomic status affects the learning capabilities of the Jamaican children. In this particular case, I understanding assessing those children because if one group is not doing well, it is important to find out the reasons (Lewis, 2010).
Reference
Lewis, Yewande Eleene. (2010). Literacy in elementary school in Jamaica: the case
of the grade four literacy test. Retrieved from http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1883&context=etd.
In Jamaica, many researchers conduct literacy tests on the elementary and high schools students and study the students during the course of their school years. To date, the students are assessed to understand why one group of privileged children are reading at the country level and the underprivileged are not reading at the country level. Most of the researchers believed that the socioeconomic status affects the learning capabilities of the Jamaican children. In this particular case, I understanding assessing those children because if one group is not doing well, it is important to find out the reasons (Lewis, 2010).
Reference
Lewis, Yewande Eleene. (2010). Literacy in elementary school in Jamaica: the case
of the grade four literacy test. Retrieved from http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1883&context=etd.
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