Final Words on an International Perspective

3 consequences of learning about the international early childhood field  with regard to professional and personal development 

1.) I've  learned that I can contribute to the early childhood field on a global level by sharing my knowledge with others via the web.

2.) Provides me with global knowledge that will enhance the field of early childhood in my local community.

3.) A realization that educators regardless of region in which they reside, share a common passion for the well being of young children.

   One goal for the field related to international awareness of issues and trends and the spirit of collegial relations
 1.) More global collegial collaboration 

   

International Early Childhood & Teacher Training

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• I learned that professional development or enhancement is priority through out the world.UNESCO’s Teacher Training Initiative is a new 10-year project to dramatically improve teacher training capacities in 46 sub-Saharan countries. The programme is designed to assist countries to synchronize their policies, teacher education, and labour practices with national development priorities for Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through a series of four-year cycles. 
•  Teacher training for the achievement of Education for All
  
  The acute shortage of qualified teachers has been identified as one of the biggest challenges to EFA. If EFA is to be achieved by 2015, then between 15 and 30 million more teachers are needed worldwide. In sub-Saharan Africa, 4 million additional teachers will be needed by 2015 to meet the goal of Universal Primary Education alone. Additional teachers will be needed for non-formal education and literacy training, as well as in-service training of teachers.
  
  UNESCO recognizes that teacher education is integrally related to quality education and closely linked to curriculum renewal, improved learning outcomes, and a positive school environment. At the end of four years, each country participating in the Teacher Training Initiative is expected to integrate a comprehensive teacher education plan into the national education plan, improve the quality of training in teacher education, address the issues of severe teacher shortage and the status of teachers, and implement an internationally prescribed standard and national policy regarding HIV prevention education. 
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  UNESCO’s Teacher Training initiative is aimed at redirecting policies, improving institutional capacity, improving teacher quality, and stemming the teacher shortage in order to achieve Education for All by 2015.

Sharing Web Resources- Expanding My Inquiry

Sharing Web Resources- Expanding My Inquiry

National Institute for Early Education Research
http://nieer.org/
(Newsletter: http://nieer.org/resources/newsletter/index.php )

  

Follow some of the outside links that you have not yet explored. Where do they lead? 

I followed the quality and curriculum link. It lead to an article on Pre-K Effectiveness, access, and support for quality link. 

Thoroughly search one area of the site. What do you find? 

The article on Pre-K Effectiveness, access, and support for quality link led to the The National Education Writers Association (EWA) website. This association was having a seminar where 250 jjournalist, educators, researchers and advocates were convening together in important conversations about the current state and future of education in America.

If you receive an e-newsletter, follow a link related to one of the issues you have been studying. 

What new information is available?

There was an editorial titled: Early Education Programs have Broad Benefit. The editorial discussed the fact that some of the leading supporters of early childhood education are law enforcement.professionals. There is a national organization that is led by by police and sheriffs departments to support learning as as crime deterant they are calling it a long turn investment.

Does the website or the e-newsletter contain any information that adds to your understanding of equity and excellence in early care and education? 



The 2011 Yearbook examines the 2010-2011 school year as well as documenting a decade of progress since the first Yearbook collected data on the 2001-2002 school year. Twenty-eight percent of America’s 4-year-olds were enrolled in a state-funded preschool program in the 2010-2011 school year even as per child funding was cut, stressing the importance of ensuring quality in existing programs and expanding access to all children. 

 
What other new insights about issues and trends in the early childhood field did you gain this week from exploring the website and/or the e-newsletter?

The newest insight I gained was the new movement of the national police force to support early childhood education in order to deter crime in order to produce longterm benefits for children and society.

Insights I Have Gained About Early Childhood Systems Around The Globe.

Insights I Have Gained About Early Childhood Systems

 Around The Globe.

http://developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/global_initiative/

Over the past decade, the world’s policymakers have increased their attention to early childhood health and development, which opens new prospects for advancing a comprehensive early childhood agenda. In all Western European countries there is a growing awareness that they live in a society marked by diversity where many people and groups live together and have different standards and values, as well as ideas about raising their children. Diversity in families, standards and values within European society influences educational systems as well as early childhood education and services. Every day early childhood trainers and educators are confronted with new questions and challenge. How to deal with these different standards and values? How to communicate with the diversity of parents? What do we want for the children? Who decides how to raise the children in the early childhood education? A group of trainers and researchers, associated in the European network DECET(Diversity in Early Childhood Education and Training), have been working on these questions for two years, sharing their knowledge, resources and experiences. The guide is the result of their combined expertise and insights. In this guide, DECET makes the case that the current context of our society calls for in this guide, DECET makes the case that the current context of our society calls for inclusion and respect for diversity and equity for all children and families. As a result, children should experience a socialization process in which all identities are preserved and in which diversity is integrated. Such an educational approach in the early years will be a preventative measure to help combat social exclusion. Including diversity and equity issues requires changes in the role of the early childhood educator and as a consequence, changes in training approaches and courses.