Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 3

These past few weeks I have lost touch with my international contacts. It is unfortunate, but I am still thankful I am able to complete this assignment through UNESCO’s “Early Childhood Care and Education” webpage.

Three new ideas I found are:

1) This organization not only focuses on the quality of learning, but also regulates the health and nutrition of individuals to be sure meaningful learning can take place.

2) This organization also considers the holistic approach to child development, which is tending to children’s health, nutrition, security, and learning.

3) In addition to the two new insights, UNESCO has advocated in the past to make sure that all children are being developed to their fullest potential. With this being said, UNESCO works in partnership with Member States (Early Childhood | Education | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), to ensure that everything is being implemented to reach their goal.

Gaining new insight from this webpage will be further me as a teacher because it lets me know how other students in the world are affected by different educational, social, and household outcomes.

Reference

Early Childhood | Education | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. (n.d.). Early Childhood | Education | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Retrieved June 20, 2014, from http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/

Sharing Web Resources

The website I explored this week is www.savethechildren.org

The Save The Children Organization is dedicated to allowing children to live to their full potential, through health, education, and protection. The organization specifically helps the welfare of children in an emergency.

The Save the Children Organization reaches 120 countries, including the United States. In the United States, “nearly 1-4 American children lives in poverty—that’s 16 million kids who understand all too well what it means to go without” (USA). The organization helps children with education, health, and with emergency preparedness. The Save the Children has many programs from disaster relief, early steps to success, healthy choices, literacy, and policy.

The website I selected at the beginning of the course is, http://www.globalfundforchildren.org

This website adds to my understanding of equity and excellence in early childcare and education. This organization affects thousands of children and allows them to attend school instead of working.

References:

The Global Fund For Children. (n.d.).Global Fund for Children Home Comments. Retrieved May 30, 2014, from http://www.globalfundforchildren.org

 USA.(n.d.). Savethe Children. Retrieved June 13, 2014, fromhttp://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLI

Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 2

            Toxic stressors can cause detrimental affects to a child’s brain. The Center On The Developing Child is practicing ways in which to prevent toxic stress, in hopes of alleviating the behavioral problems and health issues that are related to toxic stress. The Westside Infant-Family Network (WIN) in Los Angeles helps 30,000 individuals. The WIN “provides integrated health, mental health, early education, and social services to a small subset of those families who are facing multiple challenges simultaneously. With a broad spectrum of care, says Henderson, WIN helps ensure that families of children ages birth to 3 receive focused attention that is not possible through traditional services operating in separate sectors” (Gerwin, 2013). In addition to these resources, the WIN also provides free in-home mental health care, a case manager, and a therapist to each family. I find it nice how the organization is aiming for the root cause of the problem, and tackling any possible stressors that might evolve, instead of just helping when a toxic stressor comes about.

This past week I was unable to hear back from my contacts to gain any additional insight about the issues of equity and excellence in their countries; my international contacts are from London, and Greece.

Resources:

Gerwin, C. (2013, December 4). Pushing Toward Breakthroughs: Using Innovative Practice to Address Toxic Stress. Pushing Toward Breakthroughs: Using Innovative Practice to Address Toxic Stress. Retrieved June 7, 2014, from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resource