Consequences of learning about the international early childhood field

     The international early childhood field (Kenya) taught me that education for young children in need is important in Kenya.  It does not matter in what shape the child is there is always helped.  In Kenya there are programs that help young children with special needs. Children are providing with all the different resource they need to reach their potential.  Learning from Kenya has provided me with the resource that I can still make a difference in a child life.  No matter how much money there is for teaching material there are always things that I can use to plan a well balance curriculum.  Seeing children in poverty breaks my heart. Children should not suffer. One of my goal as an educator is to work with the less fortunate and help them succeed.

Professional Goals, Hopes and Dreams

I have several professional goals that I would like to start working on.  The first one is to learn how to integrate technology to my teaching. I want to provide my students with the new way of teaching. The second goal is to add some new teaching strategies. New teaching strategies would give me the opportunity to be able to reach each student with their learning needs.  The last goal that is so important to me is being able to improve how I differentiate my instructions. Some students are in the need of so much help that it is sometimes hard as a teacher to be able to find different ways to teach the same subject.

     My dreams and challenges are being able reach each student learning needs. I believe each student has the capacity to learn on their own way.  I feel a challenge as a teacher to look for ways on how to present the learning material to every student in my classroom. My dream is to see them finish school and succeed in whatever they choose to.

Sharing Web Resources

     The link took me to explore and learn about Ghana. Since 2000 ICRI has been working with Ghana to provide a healthier place for the children.  In 2003, Ghana opened a full time office in Accra to help the orphan and displace children in rural villages.  This program aims to restructuring workshop to help teachers provide an equality program to children in need.  Children that are less privileged in society will get the right education.  The program would empower and build children to become good citizens.  This program would also seek and promote children rights in our community.

     The International Child Resource Instated in Ghana provides and train teachers and administrators with effective methods in early childhood education.  The learning materials used were made of crafted from objects found.  To ensure the program works for all children, they conduct an ongoing evaluation to help teachers plan new interventions.  

Working Globally

     The new information that I gained from visiting this website is that there are 200 million children around the world that don’t reach their full potential by age 5. Another insight that I became aware is that in North America, the Center on the Developing Child is working globally to help breakthrough the outcomes of our children in poverty.

    

    This organization is helping coordinate different strategies to support our children health, education and economic development.  Also, they are in the need of protecting our children form adversity and are providing them with a high quality learning opportunities.  They also mention and we all should know this is that early childhood years are the critical years of a child lives.  We should all be providing our children with an accessible education that would help our children be school readiness. No matter if our children come from low-income homes, they also need to be included in our higher education programs. As educators we need to close the gap between our low-income students.

Sharing Web Resources

What made me think is that more than 14.5 million children in America were poor in 2015, and these children are from working parents.  I just don’t understand why so many law makers if we as a nation don’t see for all these poor children.  What bothers me most is that these 14.5 million poor children are Black or Latino. I don’t see an end to this children poverty. It is just a cycle of children in poverty. These children are often less healthy, their development are hinder because they don’t have the right resources and are left behind.  And what is sad is these poor children become poor parents. Like the website mentions every year we let children live in poverty.

There is hope for some help with the Child Care Access Resources for Early learning Act. This act would help children under age 4 and with income level below 200 percent of poverty and a need for child care would receive services.  Every three years the act would conduct a study to show the state the cost of child care and to set up payment rate that attracts and retain high –quality child care provider. This act would make sure that the children would be provide with a well develop educational program that meets the needs of all children.

    

     

Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 1

Child Poverty Insights - Overcoming Illness and Poverty:  Rio de Janeiro’s

The country that I choose to talk about is Brazil.  Rio de Janeiro’s has some urban areas where children in poverty exist.  It is the poorest and vulnerable parents in this urban area. Since 1991 this program call Associacao Saude Crianca has work with Rio de Janeiro to overcome the cycle of poverty. This program mainly helps parents with children that have experience severe health problems. They provide comprehensive support in five areas: health, education, income, housing and citizenship. The program is custom designed and consists of 24 months. Family members are provide with food and medical care as well as job training, legal advice, housing assistant and help gaining access to government programs. The goal of the program is for families to gain skills and to break the cycle of poverty.

 

Sharing Web Resources

                                  International Child Resource Institute  

                                                                  Kenya

                                      

                                                 http://www.icrichild.org/kenya

     Daraja early care and education program is what caught my attention. Daraja is the Swahili word for "bridge". The program works to build access to the poorest children in Africa. This program provides with a high quality and developmentally appropriate early childhood education to children in Africa. The program has a bus that is name Watoto Wonder Bus. Is a mobile teacher training program that provides with experts trainers and innovative materials to schools and child care centers in very low-income areas 

Expanding Resources childhood organization

                                                                                                    Kenya

The steps I took first are to choose part 1 of the assignment. I tried to connect to the two website provided but unfortunately the websites no longer exists. Here are the two places where I was unable to connect World Forum Foundation, World Forum Foundation Radio. I decided to research the other options. I decided to choose two websites outside the United States.  The Global Fund for Children, International Child Resource Institute Kenya is the two places that I would immerse myself to learn more about childhood institutes.  To stay connected and establish communication I send an email to request their newsletters. It would be eight weeks of exiting journey, learning about trends and issues in the childhood settings. 

My Supports

  

 We leave in an era where everything moves so fast. The pace of life is not the same as before. Now days the system demands everyone to become updated with technology. I have notice that if you don’t know how to use computers it’s sometimes hard to get the job. And I’m not saying just to know the basic of a computer; you need to know more than the basic.

  I am not good with technology. I see myself more as old school. But in my new job we all communicate online. I was very a blessed to learn that the person who offers me the job new that I was not that good using technology but she believed in me. Every morning has been a challenge going to work but I know that there is support for me. People have taken the time to train me in every aspect of my new job. Coaches have offered me their support anytime of the day.  It feels so nice to know that if I need help I would find support within my colleague. I just imagine how nerve-racking would it be if I had no support from anyone. Everyone needs a supportive hand it does not matter in what area of life. Let’s stretch our hand and bless someone.