Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

Establishing Professional Contacts

This week’s assignment was to contact two early childhood professionals outside the United States to better understand their perspectives on early childhood issues and trends.  I chose to contact The National Early Childhood Development Alliance in South Africa, Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association in Hong Kong, UNICEF in South Africa, UNICEF in the United Kingdom and the University of Witswaterand in Johannesburg (Education Department). So far, I’ve received one email reply from The National Early Childhood Development Alliance in South Africa.  The reply was they had already been contacted by a Walden student but would send my information to other organizations. Let’s see what next week brings.

 

Expanding Resources

Since starting my master’s degree with Walden, I have joined the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the Southern Early Childhood Association.  As a result of joining these organizations, I elected to subscribe to TYC (Teaching Young Children/Preschool and YC (Young Children) journals. In addition to receiving newsletters for both of these organizations, I receive information from the National Institute for Early Education Research.  These newsletters are valuable resources I sometimes use for references in application assignments.  I plan to use the NAEYC’s website for this class.  This website is full of information such as professional development opportunities and conferences.   The URL for NAEYC is http://www.naeyc.org