Establishing Professional Contacts and Resources in the Early Childhood Field
This week our assignment was to make contact with two people in other countries that work or are interested in early childhood education. Over the course of our class we are to discuss trends and issues that are affecting early childhood education with our two new contacts in order to gain a new perspective of issues as they relate to people around the world. I am excited to establish my contacts.
To begin making contact with persons from around the world I went to the Global Alliance of NAEYC website provided in our weekly resources list. I actually chose five email addresses and sent out a brief message explaining our assignment and my desire to establish contact with professionals in other parts of the world. I have not received a message back from anyone yet, but I am hopeful that I will receive a response soon.
The website that I have chosen to follow for this course is the Harlem Children's Zone. When I saw this listed as one of the choices I was curious to follow the link. Last year I saw a documentary on 60 minutes about a school that was started in Harlem where students were accepted through a lottery because so many people wanted their children to enroll in the school. Parents of newborn were already registering their babies. This is the type of program that I am interested in starting. I want to develop a high quality program that will make a huge positive impact in our community that everyone will want our children to be accepted. I am excited to be able to learn more about the Harlem Children's Zone and to share it with my classmates as we proceed through the next 8 weeks.
Harlem Children’s Zonehttp://www.hcz.org/
The Global Alliance of NAEYC has e-mail addresses for early childhood professionals worldwide:http://www.naeyc.org/resources/partnership/globalalliance
To begin making contact with persons from around the world I went to the Global Alliance of NAEYC website provided in our weekly resources list. I actually chose five email addresses and sent out a brief message explaining our assignment and my desire to establish contact with professionals in other parts of the world. I have not received a message back from anyone yet, but I am hopeful that I will receive a response soon.
The website that I have chosen to follow for this course is the Harlem Children's Zone. When I saw this listed as one of the choices I was curious to follow the link. Last year I saw a documentary on 60 minutes about a school that was started in Harlem where students were accepted through a lottery because so many people wanted their children to enroll in the school. Parents of newborn were already registering their babies. This is the type of program that I am interested in starting. I want to develop a high quality program that will make a huge positive impact in our community that everyone will want our children to be accepted. I am excited to be able to learn more about the Harlem Children's Zone and to share it with my classmates as we proceed through the next 8 weeks.
Harlem Children’s Zonehttp://www.hcz.org/
The Global Alliance of NAEYC has e-mail addresses for early childhood professionals worldwide:http://www.naeyc.org/resources/partnership/globalalliance
Hi Jenny,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your post and I think all of us like the idea of the assignment regarding establishing international ECE contacts not only for class but for our own growth as well! Like you, connecting with contacts has been a challenge, but I am looking forward to understanding issues and trends on a global perspective!
The Harlem Children's Zone looks really exciting, and it is admirable that beginning a program like it is in your future goals. Looking forward to learning more! :)
~Vanessa Fair