Establishing Professional Contacts
I am excited as I attempt to contact my two people from other countries that work as educators, administrators, or even on the government level who are interested in Early Childhood Education. I have e-mailed to South Africa at cecd@iafrica.com and Armenia at ruzanna@sbsbf.am . In my e-mail I explained that I am a graduate student at Walden University and that I am studying Early Childhood Education. I explained that my assignment throughout the course I am taking which is Issues and Trends in Early Childhood Education requires me to stay in contact with two people in other countries in order to gain new perspectives of different issues as they relate to people around the world. I asked them to participate in this assignment with me so that I could compare our issues and trends in the United States with those of South Africa. I have not received any correspondence back but I am certainly hopeful that the professionals will respond back to me in a professional manner. If I do not receive responses within the next week I will chose the alternate and contact the World Forum.
Expanding Resources
In choosing my Early Childhood website I randomly typed in the e-mail addresses to see how appealing the sites would look. The most appealing site to me was the Harlem Children’s Zone. This is the website that I will follow throughout this course. I have signed up for the newsletter and I am awaiting confirmation of my registration. I have already looked at some of the positive ground-breaking efforts that have been made at the Harlem Children’s Zone. They have what has been named Baby College parenting workshops, the Harlem Gems which is their pre-school program, and I also read about an obesity program that they have to help children to stay healthy. The website address for the Harlem Children’s Zone is http://www.hcz.org/ .
I look forward to bringing you, my colleagues updates on how this organization supports their Early
Childhood community and what resources it has to offer.
Childhood community and what resources it has to offer.
Hi Sharon,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the website you provided. It is nice to see a community pull together to develop children and try to break the cycle of poverty. I read about the Baby College program liked you mentioned, and it sounds really promising. It is nice that the program is there for parents from the day the baby is born. I like that they have an extension of the program too, the Baby College GRADS. What a great and unique opportunity to give back to the same program that helped a person. Thank you for sharing and I look forward to hearing if your international contacts reply back.
Tanya
Hi Sharon, what an incredible experience it would be to make connections with early childhood professionals in both South Africa and Armenia. I truly hope that you will be successful in connecting with both as the learning opportunities that will be created will be fascinating. I will send you my wishes in hopes that they receive your request! :)
ReplyDeleteThis assignment is going to bring us such valuable information as we will have the opportunity to learn about varying websites that we may not have been aware of before. I am not familiar with the Harlem Children's Zone Website and I look forward to learning from you. The information that you provided so far shows what amazing things they do for their community.
Thank you for sharing and I hope you hear back soon from your contacts!
Take care,
Stephanie
Sharon I look forward to engaging and learning from your global exchange! Studying South Africa seems highly intriguing and I would love to understand the culture similarities and difference between America and South Africa. Harlem Children is an organization which I’m unfamiliar with but look forward to the resources it may provide in order to enhance the lives of young children and their families.
ReplyDeleteSharon,
ReplyDeleteI added Harlem's Children's Zone to my bookmarks. What a great site to follow with the intentions of helping children, no matter what the situation may be. It is important to see children as individuals and not as a test number. Once we begin to remember that each child is different we will see a bigger blossom in our young children. I had a young lady recently approach me in the store. She called my name and though she is much older she still had the same face. she Miss Robin I just returned from Deleware State and My sister (they are twins) is at Lock Haven University. I had her as a preschooler and it made me so excited that I was able to contribute to her and her sisters success. I hugged her tight and told her how proud I was of her and the path she has taken. We can never give up on children no matter what their situation may be in life. Thanks for the wonderful post.