Blog Assignment: Sharing Web Resources
What specific section(s) or information seemed particularly relevant to your current professional development?
How have I changed since enrolling in the early education program at Walden.
When I first started classes a few years ago, I knew then that I liked what I was learning about children. I am more egger to teach, but I still have a ways to go before I complete my degree(s) get some certifications, and most importantly, get into a classroom. Learning about the changing demographics in early childhood has made me more aware to what areas suffer and which of the early childhood field.-
Your child development & behavior resource - A guide to information & support for parents. http://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/childcare.htm
Which ideas/statements/resources, either on the website or in an e-newsletter, did you find controversial or made you think about an issue in new ways?
The fact that early childhood programs suffer. I would think that with so many parents working that childcare would be plentiful. And when children turned 3 or 4 that they would be starting school. I see many 3-4 year olds at home in front of the television. In my house everybody did something.
Normal Toddler Development. By Sharon L. Cohen, eHow Contributor| updated February 16, 2012 http://www.ehow.com/about_4797914_normal-toddler-development.html
What information does the website or the e-newsletter contain that adds to your understanding of how economists, neuroscientists, or politicians support the early childhood field?
What Does Economics Tell Us About Early Childhood Policy? http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9352/index1.html
Firing Their Neurons: How Neuroscience is Shaping Early Childhood Education Policy in the United States
Nancy NcDermott, for ‘Changing Parenting Culture’ seminar, February 2010, British Library What Does Economics Tell Us About Early Childhood Policy? http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9352/index1.html
Poverty in America- http://www.info.com/poverty%20in%20america?cb=27&cmp=4493&gclid=CMzWxKDE8a4CFYoDQAodqw5SLg
The planning and implementing. I learned the who, what, and of early childhood education and childcare process.
What other new insights about issues and trends in the early childhood field did you gain from exploring the website or e-newsletter?
There is so much information available I can’t begin to list all the information I would like to share. So here are a few that looked into while reading.
Being a single parent I took interest in)
SPAOA (Single Parents Alliance of America http://www.spaoa.org/splash/?type=b&keyword=homelessness&group=Bing_Single_Parents_Housing_Search
I took interest because not only do I have a young teenager at home, I’m 50+ and when I retire from my current workplace I will be needing insurance other that social security.
