Week 8 The End is Nearing

Wow, it is hard to believe that week eight is here.  Thank you to everyone who posted comments.  It is very motivating to become part of a community that shares my passion for the early childhood field.  Good luck to each of you on the next leg of our journey.  I hope that we will be able to keep in touch.

Examining Code of Ethics

The ideals discussed in this week’s resources are all valuable principles that one should use as guidelines to follow as a professional in the early childcare field.  I find it difficult to pick just three, but I have chosen these because I want these three principles to be of focus for my future work as I make advocacy part of my professional development.   The three that I have chosen to highlight that are significant to me are:

1)      I-1.1 To be familiar with the knowledge base of early

childhood care and education and to stay informed

through continuing education and training.

2)      I-3C.4 To encourage and support continual development

of employees in becoming more skilled and

knowledgeable practitioners.

3)      I-4.6 To promote knowledge and understanding of

young children and their needs. To work toward

greater societal acknowledgment of children’s rights

and greater social acceptance of responsibility for the

well-being of all children.

The resources that I have reviewed over the past seven weeks have strengthened my passion for the work that I do on a daily basis.  The early childhood field has come such a long way but it still has so far to go.  As an advocate I feel that I should stay on top of the latest research and continue to educate myself so that as I promote to my community around me I am sharing current information.

NAEYC. (2005, April). Code of ethical conduct and statement of commitment. Retrieved October 23, 2010, from

http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/PSETH05.pdf

Resources that I would like to share:

1.                 ExchangeEveryDay  http://www.ccie.com/eed/

ExchangeEveryDay is the official newsletter for Exchange Press, Inc.   You can subscribe to this and daily newsletters will be emailed with such items as success stories, solutions, trend reports, and much more.  I think that as a professional is important to stay on top of the latest information.  I have received this magazine that comes monthly and have always been able to pull at least one valuable article from each issue.  I find this daily newsletter to be just as beneficial.

2.        Toy Box Leadership: Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a child by: Ron Hunter Jr.

Hunter Jr, R., & Waddell, M.E. (2008).  Toy box leadership: Leadership lessons from the toys you loved as a child. Thomas Nelson Inc.

I recently went to a training and a section of the training was on teambuilding.  This book was mentioned and examples were used there at the training.  As a director I am always looking for new ideas thatare easy and exciting to use that will build team moral and work on team building.    I am excited to be able to share this book as well. 

Great ideas to use when focusing on teambuilding with your staff.

3.        http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/parentsHome.jsp

A great website for parents, teachers, children, and administrators. I like when I find resources that can be used  both personally and professionally. It is also nice to find resources that I can confidently share with my families that I know will be user friendly for them.

I believe that part of this learning experience is to be able to share ideas that have been successful for each other and resources that have helped along the way.  Education is continual and every changing.  The change is one thing that makes this field so interesting to me and keeps me energized.

COURSE RESOURCES

Part 1: Position Statements and Influential Practices

NAEYC. (2009). Developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood programs serving children from birth through age 8. Retrieved October 9, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/dap

NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on child abuse prevention. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/ChildAbuseStand.pdf

NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on school readiness. Retrieved October 9, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/Readiness.pdf

NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on responding to linguistic and cultural diversity. Retrieved October 9, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/diversity.pdf

NAEYC. (2003). Early childhood curriculum, assessment, and program evaluation: Building an effective, accountable system in programs for children birth through age 8. Retrieved October 9, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/pscape.pdf

NAEYC. (2009, April). Early childhood inclusion: A summary. Retrieved October 9, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/DEC_NAEYC_ECSummary_A.pdf

Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. (2010). Infant-toddler policy agenda. Retrieved October 9, 2010, from http://www.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_pub_infanttodller

FPG Child Development Institute. (2006, September). Evidence-based practice empowers early childhood professionals and families. (FPG Snapshot, No. 33). Retrieved October 9, 2010, from http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~images/pdfs/snapshots/snap33.pdf

Turnbull, A., Zuna, N., Hong, J. Y., Hu, X., Kyzar, K., Obremski, S., et al.  (2010). Knowledge-to-action guides. Teaching Exceptional Children, 42(3), 42–53.

Part 2: Global Support for Children’s Rights and Well-Being

Article: UNICEF (n.d.). Fact sheet: A summary of the rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Retrieved October 9, 2010, from http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Rights_overview.pdf

Websites:

World Forum Foundation     http://www.worldforumfoundation.org/wf/about.php

World Organization for Early Childhood Education

http://www.omep.org.gu.se/English/about_OMEP/

Association for Childhood Education International

http://acei.org/about/

Part 3: Selected Early Childhood Organizations

National Association for the Education of Young Children

http://www.naeyc.org/

The Division for Early Childhood

http://www.dec-sped.org/

Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families

http://www.zerotothree.org/

WESTED

http://www.wested.org/cs/we/print/docs/we/home.htm

Harvard Education Letter   http://www.hepg.org/hel/topic/85

FPG Child Development Institute   http://www.fpg.unc.edu/main/about.cfm

Administration for Children and Families Headstart’s National Research Conference

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hsrc/

HighScope    http://www.highscope.org/

Children’s Defense Fund    http://www.childrensdefense.org/

Center for Child Care Workforce    http://www.ccw.org/

Council for Exceptional Children

http://www.cec.sped.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

Institute for Women’s Policy Research

http://www.iwpr.org/index.cfm

National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education

http://www.ncrece.org/wordpress/

National Child Care Association    http://www.nccanet.org/

National Institute for Early Education Research

http://nieer.org/

Pre[K]Now     http://www.preknow.org/

Voices for America’s Children  

http://www.voices.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=22807

The Erikson Institute

http://www.erikson.edu/

Part 4: Selected Professional Journals Available in the Walden Library

YC Young Children

Childhood

Journal of Child & Family Studies

Child Study Journal

Multicultural Education

Early Childhood Education Journal

Journal of Early Childhood Research

International Journal of Early Childhood

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Developmental Psychology

Social Studies

Maternal & Child Health Journal

International Journal of Early Years Education

Words of Inspiration and Motivation

“As your baby progresses from one milestone to the next, remember that he doesn’t really leave any of them behind.   In order to grow and develop to his full potential he must continually build on and strengthen all of the steps that have gone before.”

                          ~ Stanley Greenspan M.D.

“We as professionals in the early childhood field have an opportunity to shape a child’s life for the better.”

~ Sandy Escobido

"Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not just constant sunshiny happiness."

— Janet Gonzalez-Mena