week 8

I think that the three consequences about the international early childhood field would be the realization of how poor some countries are and how lucky we are that we even get a good education. Another consequence is that I learned a lot about the different countries and found a lot of information on the zerotothree.org website. The last one is I found it very hard to get in contact with people from an international country. I did enjoy the websites we were given instead of to look at.

I think one goal that should happen internationally is that countries should help support and fund the early childhood schools so that children can get the best education they can get.

UNESCO

I never got a reply back from the international people that I tried to talk with. I visited the site UNESCO and found it was very interesting. I really liked that I could pick any country I wanted to look at and see what is going on in their country. The first thing I liked was that when you pushed on education, it gave you a bunch of different options on educational things to look at. I really liked that on the side it gave you different options like "Literacy for all" "Teachers" and another interesting one was "Women and Girls Education". Another awesome thing I saw was that it showed how to help children with two languages and how the teacher can help the child be successful. I think this is very insightful because a lot of people are now coming over from their countries to USA and the teachers are struggling to help the kids who dont know our language. The next thing I found insightful was the "theme" part of the website. It gave a bunch of different options to show things happening in different countries, and gave news about whats happening in different countries. I think this is very insightful because teachers can go on this website and read about what the other countries are doing for certain holidays for tragic events. The last thing I found insightful was there is a "resource" section. This section allows you to watch videos of the other countries ways of teachings and it really gives you a sense of their culture. Understanding your students culture is very important, and allows you to understand where they are coming from when they are doing something in your class you dont understand.


http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/

learning more about zerotothree.org

I pushed on a button that says "Find it Fast" and all of these different subjects came up. I decided to push on "Reflective Practice and Program Development" because it kind of has to do with our topic this week. We need more state funded early childhood programs for the less fortunate. The article on the website said "Over the past decade the science related to developing and identifying evidence-based programs and practices for children and families has improved significantly. However, the science related to implementing these programs in early childhood settings has lagged far behind." (zerotothree.org) It is sad that we can think of the good things to do for these children but when it comes to action nothing really ever gets done.
It talks about helping the programs and what we need to start doing to get things moving for our programs and the less fortunate children. "Sustainability planning and activities need to be an active component from the initial stages of implementation. To sustain an initiative, both financial and programmatic sustainability are required. Financial sustainability involves ensuring that the funding streams for the new practice are established, reliable, and adequate." (Active Frameworks for Program Success 2012)

harvard article

The Harvard website had a lot of great stuff to look at. I liked that it had a bunch of different countries on it and we got to learn more about their culture and education. It talks about the three strategic areas and they are "reframing the discourse of health development, supporting innovative research, and building leadership in the early childhood field." I think all of these things are very important to have in the early childhood field because it helps our field grow stronger and get more support for our students.

The equity in this is that people are helping the early childhood field and supporting and creating the programs for these kids with low income housing or difficult cultures that dont have the money to have a good education. The funding and support from the government and other people is starting to help our programs and especially help the children with special needs.



http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/activities/global_initiative/