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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Hi Theresa, That is great that your website had a link to the topic that we have been discussing. It is nice to know that Singapore is putting into practice all of the things that we have been reading about excellence in early childhood. Thanks for sharing the link.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the link. I have some friends teaching at schools in Singapore. It is a highly motivated country and a wonderful place to live in. Hot and humid, but safe and easy. It is an impressive website that I have added to my list of resources.
ReplyDeleteHi Theresa. It was my pleasure to visit the link you provided. Singapore and America share similar values regarding early child care and education. Singapore educators are also required to attain minimum education and training requirements to ensure children receive a quality education.
ReplyDeleteTheresa, I enjoyed your post so much. It's a joy to find out people in other parts of the world have the same intrest in ECE that we do.
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