There are three consequences of learning about the international early childhood field for my professional and personal development. They are as follows:
1. I will continue to build on my relationship with my international contact throughout this degree plan.
2. I will continue to utilize the resources, links, and and information provided to me by Jane, my international contact, and possibly utilize ideas and practices in my own program.
3. I appreciate that even in other countries, best practice is significant in caring for children in the early childhood field, and we share a common goal: To do what's best for children.
A goal that I would like for the field related to international awareness of issues and trends an the spirit of collegial relations is for international training sessions to be provided for early childhood professionals to exchange ideas and collaborate on how all children can be successful in the early care years in both the US and other countries. I would be ecstatic to sit in a training session with ECE professionals from all over the world! There's so much we could learn from each other!
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Getting To Know Your International Contacts-Part 3
Greetings Everyone,
I had the privilege of visiting with Jane about excellence and quality and some professional challenges that we have both been faced with. Jane was really excited to discuss her hopes and dreams, as well as long term professional goals with me also.
I also found out that my Mexico contact is no longer employed in the Early Childhood Field. He has opened his own aviation business and now travels quite often. He did take the time out to respond to my email, even though it was 7 weeks later! Thank you Victorino, and I wish you well!
As far as my conversation with Jane is concerned...Jane told me that the issue that are being discussed in her facility is revolving around professional development of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). The EYFS revised their framework and all of the nurseries in England have to be in compliance with the new revisions. Jane provided me with a couple of links for me to research the goals of EYFS, instead of trying to explain them to me. I have attached them to the end of this post. Jane did say that EYFS focuses on the stage of children's development from birth to the end of their first year in school. She said the revision took place last month and they are very excited about the revisions because now he role as an early care provider is more clear and they are more involved with the parents to work as a partnership to support what families also do at home to assist with their child's learning.
Jane said her professional goals are to continue to thrive in her nursery and incorporate an new ideas into her nursery and research, research, research. She told me that her company has so many available resources and she was going to use them up to helps the mums (exactly how she pronounces it! ) to be the best parents they can be. She did say that one of her worries and challenge would be reaching every parent to ensure that best practice is being utilized at home. She said she knows that worry is way bigger than her, but she can't help but feel concerned, but she will continue to do the best that she can do from within her control. I did ask Jane if she had any plans of furthering her education, and she said that she plans on retiring in a couple of years and hopefully relocating to the United States to live with her sister!
Here are a couple of the links that Jane shared with me! Enjoy!
http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/2011/11/early-education-and-childcare-consultation/
http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/parents/
I had the privilege of visiting with Jane about excellence and quality and some professional challenges that we have both been faced with. Jane was really excited to discuss her hopes and dreams, as well as long term professional goals with me also.
I also found out that my Mexico contact is no longer employed in the Early Childhood Field. He has opened his own aviation business and now travels quite often. He did take the time out to respond to my email, even though it was 7 weeks later! Thank you Victorino, and I wish you well!
As far as my conversation with Jane is concerned...Jane told me that the issue that are being discussed in her facility is revolving around professional development of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). The EYFS revised their framework and all of the nurseries in England have to be in compliance with the new revisions. Jane provided me with a couple of links for me to research the goals of EYFS, instead of trying to explain them to me. I have attached them to the end of this post. Jane did say that EYFS focuses on the stage of children's development from birth to the end of their first year in school. She said the revision took place last month and they are very excited about the revisions because now he role as an early care provider is more clear and they are more involved with the parents to work as a partnership to support what families also do at home to assist with their child's learning.
Jane said her professional goals are to continue to thrive in her nursery and incorporate an new ideas into her nursery and research, research, research. She told me that her company has so many available resources and she was going to use them up to helps the mums (exactly how she pronounces it! ) to be the best parents they can be. She did say that one of her worries and challenge would be reaching every parent to ensure that best practice is being utilized at home. She said she knows that worry is way bigger than her, but she can't help but feel concerned, but she will continue to do the best that she can do from within her control. I did ask Jane if she had any plans of furthering her education, and she said that she plans on retiring in a couple of years and hopefully relocating to the United States to live with her sister!
Here are a couple of the links that Jane shared with me! Enjoy!
http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/2011/11/early-education-and-childcare-consultation/
http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/parents/
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Sharing Web Resources: Part 3
There has not been an e-newsletter printed since August 2012 for the Child Development Network in Singapore. Since I haven't received a recent newsletter, I decided to explore the website and the links provided within the webpage. I found one particular link entitled https://app.cdn.gov.sg/MCYSChildCareSeminar/CallforProposals.aspx very interesting as it speaks to what we've been discussing in this course.
The title of the 2012 Call for Proposals is "Creating Collaborative Communities for Excellence". We have been discussing equity and excellence in early care and education and this link confirms that Singapore does have focus on excellence as well. There is a concentration on the child care sector's commitment to excellence to early childhood focusing on building leadership and enhancing child care's productivity and efficiency through innovative processes. It is also important to the child care network of Singapore to attract and retain manpower as well as raise benchmarks and achieve higher outputs with better outcomes, while maintaining quality and affordability. Fostering partnerships and creating collaborative network of communities will pave the way for excellence in early childhood and the Child Care Seminar 2012 mentioned in the above link will offer a platform for the child care community to learn, share, and exchange through networking, a variety of concurrent works, and presentations.
Listed below are the areas of focus:
The title of the 2012 Call for Proposals is "Creating Collaborative Communities for Excellence". We have been discussing equity and excellence in early care and education and this link confirms that Singapore does have focus on excellence as well. There is a concentration on the child care sector's commitment to excellence to early childhood focusing on building leadership and enhancing child care's productivity and efficiency through innovative processes. It is also important to the child care network of Singapore to attract and retain manpower as well as raise benchmarks and achieve higher outputs with better outcomes, while maintaining quality and affordability. Fostering partnerships and creating collaborative network of communities will pave the way for excellence in early childhood and the Child Care Seminar 2012 mentioned in the above link will offer a platform for the child care community to learn, share, and exchange through networking, a variety of concurrent works, and presentations.
Listed below are the areas of focus:
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Saturday, October 6, 2012
Getting To Know Your International Contacts: Part 2
I didn't get the opportunity to speak with Jane for a long period for this discussion... She lost her father a week and a half ago, so she has been busy with family and my condolences go out to her. Jane, as you may recall, is my international contact from London, England from the Regents Park Nursery.
I spoke with Jane briefly about equity and excellence in England in regards to the care of children in her early childhood program. Jane feels that the children enrolled in her facility are provided with exceptional care due to the fact that the focus is on personal/social/emotional skills, physical development, and communication and language skills initially. She also stated that after those areas of development are developed, then they focus on specific areas such as math and literacy, and expressive art. I told her that I am a firm believer that those prime areas of development are critical before children are able to move further in development.
Jane said they have enriched learning centers and the parents donate and volunteer their services on a regular basis. She said her nursery has even adopted two animals from the local zoo, a penguin and a tiger that the children in the facility will soon name. Jane ended our conversation because as I stated earlier, she is dealing with the loss of her father and she has plenty of things to do. She said we can finish this discussion for the next entry.
I still have not heard from my Mexico contact, but I did send out a second message to him. I understand that as early childhood professionals, our plates get full and we tend to possibly put off fires that aren't close to us at the time. I am going to wait another week to see what happens.
I spoke with Jane briefly about equity and excellence in England in regards to the care of children in her early childhood program. Jane feels that the children enrolled in her facility are provided with exceptional care due to the fact that the focus is on personal/social/emotional skills, physical development, and communication and language skills initially. She also stated that after those areas of development are developed, then they focus on specific areas such as math and literacy, and expressive art. I told her that I am a firm believer that those prime areas of development are critical before children are able to move further in development.
Jane said they have enriched learning centers and the parents donate and volunteer their services on a regular basis. She said her nursery has even adopted two animals from the local zoo, a penguin and a tiger that the children in the facility will soon name. Jane ended our conversation because as I stated earlier, she is dealing with the loss of her father and she has plenty of things to do. She said we can finish this discussion for the next entry.
I still have not heard from my Mexico contact, but I did send out a second message to him. I understand that as early childhood professionals, our plates get full and we tend to possibly put off fires that aren't close to us at the time. I am going to wait another week to see what happens.
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