Blog Assignment: Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 3

I have sent out multiple emails in regards in establishing international contact with educators.  However, I have been unsuccessful at establishing contact; I haven’t had anyone to respond to my emails. Therefore, I chose the alternate assignment.

This podcast provided a lot of insight and further understanding Early Childhood Care and Education, titled: Early childhood care and education: the earlier the better. 

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova opened the first World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education in Moscow with a reminder that education is the best insurance against poverty. There is no better way to set development on the right track than in the first years of a child’s life.  With this being said I think we, US Educators have similar views. The earlier a child is educated the more of an opportunity the child has for success.  Discussions are focused on development policies, costs and financing, and legal and institutional frameworks; regional experiences; quality and responsiveness; exclusion and marginalization; and monitoring and evaluation.  

Sharing Web Resources

I choose to explore the resource of zero to three website, www.zerotothree.org .  This website has an abundant amount of research based information that I found to be very useful and beneficial in many of my research projects. This week’s newsletter was titled, Healthy Minds: Nurturing Your Child’s Development from 24to36 Months. I followed some of the links that was included in the newsletter which consisted of www.aap.org , American Academy of Pediatrics and Gerber.com. I found this two links to be very informative and would be beneficial as future resources.

These three links shared similar beliefs in relations to the foundation for a healthy development which are as follows:

● Your child’s development depends on both the traits he or she was born with (nature), and what he or she experiences (nurture).

● All areas of development (social/emotional/intellectual/ language/motor) are linked. Each depends on, and influences, the others.

● What children experience, including how their parents respond to them, shapes their development as they adapt to the world.

These links also provide information in relations to the topics we have been discussing this week, equity and excellence in early care and education.

I found that all three links I researched feel that children need a healthy foundation for healthy development and if this foundation isn’t established it could have long lasting effects throughout the life of an individual.