I chose to do the alternative assignment since I never heard back from an international professional. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/ is the website of United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO). This organization leads a global drive for an integrated early childhood care and education system that takes into consideration both the well-being and holistic development children. Their mission is, “To support early childhood policy development with the aim to build a solid foundation for a child’s lifelong learning.”
It discusses the different ways countries create opportunities for children from low income families to be involved in early childhood quality programs that are accessible for everyone. Quality programs serve children holistically. Research has shown that children from disadvantaged backgrounds benefit most from thes high-quality programs because they “promote motivation, confidence, good cognitive and linguistic development and school readiness”. In these quality programs are experienced and professional staff members. These workers are in great numbers because they can be pre-school teachers, child care workers, or other early childcare workers.
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Hi Arica, it was great to learn quality early childhood programs are view as a global aspect. Other counties realize that targeting need families to providing quality can affect the child’s outcomes.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
Andrea Cureton
Arica,
ReplyDeleteNice post. Focusing on disadvantaged children is a plus in the early years, because they might otherwise miss out on some pertenante information. those critical periods of development. Also leading global drives is a good initiative.
Arica,
ReplyDeleteYou stated that many disadvantaged children need high qualities because "they promote motivation, confidence, good cognitive and linguistic development and school readiness". All too often it is easy to forget than many of these children are lacking these readiness skills at home and how important they are in the development of the child. Thank you for highlighting that!
Aricia,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post. I really enjoyed the part about the disadvantage children.