Blog Assignment: TIme Well Spent

The three reflect learning experience that I have learn from this program is to learn how

to develop a  community practice, learning of what goals that come with the community practice,

 and networking and learning from Dr. Dratt and my colleagues of  different resources and ideas

of my community practice.

            My long-term goal is to own and operate a high-quality childcare center that would

be in partnership with the Early Head Start program. I want to help serve children and families

that are living in poverty, middle, high class, and children with special needs. This will help

the effort of my community practice as parents, teachers, children and families coming together

as one.

         My farewell message to my instructor and colleagues is that is has been a good

experience of networking  global with everybody  around the world. You never know when we

will cross paths again so I am not going to say “goodbye” I am going to say “see you later”.

I enjoyed the learning experience from my instructor and my colleagues of learning about

different resources, comments, advice, and ideas that will help of my field and professional

development in early childhood education.

A wordle that illustrates the experience/ learning in the MS ECS program is

Passion- As a teachers and an educator I believe you have to passion to work with children

in early childhood education. You have provided that caring, nurturing, and love for the children.

I feel like it is a passion that a teacher makes a difference in a child’s life.

            My favorite quote is “ I focus on supporting high-quality early childhood health care

and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I’m making an

investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return”. J. B, Pritzer

            My contact information is of my e-mail address isshartarkac@hotmail.com and if you

happen to be in Durham, North Carolina I would love to show you around.  Best Wishes to

everybody.

Job/Roles ECE Community: Internationally

The three international organizations or communities of practice that appealed to me is

the United Nation’s Children Fund, Save the Children, and the Academy Educational

Development. The United Nation’s Children fund helps with children and families with

Child Survival and development, HIV/AIDS, and Children and Policy Advocacy and Partnership. The Save the Children is a program that you can sponsor a child around the

world of help a child to have early education, to help them to be healthy and to save children

lives. The Educational Development is to improve human lives and the community. They also respect diversity and cultural differences. At this present moment there is not a job

that has interest me. They have a lot of teacher position open but nothing higher than a teacher position open. I be on the computer looking everyday. I been a teacher in the Early Head Start program for four years and have the experience of sixteen years so I will keep looking.

Blog Assignments:Jobs/Roles In the ECE Community: National/Federal Level

The three national/ federal organizations that appealed to me are the Early and the Head Start

programs, and the NAEYC the Nation Association for the Education for Young Children

and the Zero to Three : National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families.  These organizations

appeal to me because of the these organization help families with children in early childhood

education. These organizations provide resources for teachers, parents, children, and families

for high quality childcare centers. At this time there are no job opportunities that are available

but the Early Head Start Family Service Coordinator  manger notify me that a job position would

 will come available if they pass this grant of next year for two Family Service Coordinator and

if I am interested that he would let me know and I should apply. The qualification for this job is

you  have at least one year experience working with Early Head Start and their families a year

and a Bachelor’s degree related to early childhood education. If they pass this grant than I will

apply for the job.

Blog Assignment: Exploring Roles in the ECE Community: Local and State Levels

The three local or state organizations or communities of practice that appealed to me is

the Durham Partnership for children www.dpfc.net, is a non-profit organization is to

make sure children and families have the resources they need. They focus on early

childhood education to make sure children are healthy, early intervention, and family

support.  The state and national resources they have are National Association for the

Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the NC Division of Child Development,

and the Zero to three. The second organization is the Child Care Service Association

www.childcareservices.org is a non-profit organization that ensure affordable in high

quality childcare. This resource provide child care subsidy resources and information

available to families, it advocate for increased child care subsidy for families locally,

statewide and nationally. The third organization is the Durham Early and Head Start

program www.chtop.org is to help low income families with home-based , health, mental,

and nutrition services for child and family and services for children with disabilities.

At this present time they are not any job opportunities but I was told from a Early Head

Start director that they suppose to get some more funding for the Early Head Start

program which means some more high quality childcare would be in partnership with

the program which mean more job opportunities of home base service, Family Service

Coordination. I have been looking and I will continue to strive for excellence in early

childhood education.

Week 8

This is so hard for me to say "goodbye"so I am not going to say the words "goodbye" I am going to say  I will see you later. From the past eight weeks I love how we connected together as a team in the early childhood education field.  I felt like we learn from each other and we show a lot of respect among each other as colleagues. I am from Durham, North Carolina and if you ever come to visit just let me know and I would like to meet my fellow colleagues. If you would like to stay in contact with me I can be reach at the e-mail of shartarkac@hotmail.com

Best Regards,

Shartarka

Blog Assignment Week 6

The group experience that I went through was when we a staff meeting of employees not having
enough vacation days for a year with the boss and the director. Some of the employees get only nine days per year and we was asking our director is any way of would take any consideration of giving us more days and the answer was flat"no" and to see my co-worker expression and pain in their face it kinda got to my heart. The point they was trying to make is if you have death in the family you don't get pay, if you get sick you have to use your vacation days and the Christmas holiday we close for a week and you have to use some of our vacation days which is your nine days to get pay for the holidays. That was the hardest group for me to leave cause it had me thinking. I wish the closing of the group could have been more they would consider to add two or more days, or they could had say they would think about it. I think it would be a positive experience when I would adjourn with my colleagues as we are working on our master's degree. This will help us to keep in contact and network with each other in the early childhood education. We are learning global form each other around the world. Adjourning is an essential stage of teamwork because there is no "I" in team we all suppose to help and learn from each other. It helps us to become better teachers and educators in the early childhood education.

Blog Assignment Week 5

The disagreements that I recently experience is when me and a colleague at work. The disagreement was over when a floater suppose to  be in a class room and not mines. The prior week the director made a schedule of the room for the floater to give teacher's release time in their classroom to do their lesson plans. Well another teacher that work at the center sent the teacher in my room and it was not her turn to be in my work. So when the floater came in my room I had show her the schedule and she was like "thank you" Ms. Shartarka for letting me know and replied "you welcome". So the teacher that sent the floater in my room came in my room and fuss at me for no reason. She did it in front of the parents and the other teachers. I kindly said to her this is the time or the place to talk about and I told her I will not have you to talk to me any kind of way. I said to her the floater suppose to be in your classroom not mines her is the schedule. The teacher said I do not want that floater in my classroom "I do not like her". She walk out and slam the door. I was so pissed that I had to just walk around the classroom and pray. So my director came in later on that morning she came to me like I had started the argument. I was really shock at my director because she has known me for fourteen years and I just don't start a argument just for anything. I try to be professional with my parents and children in the classroom. I told my director you need to get the whole story before you come to me with this situation. I was so mad my eyes water up. So when she got the whole story she pull me in the office and apologize. She ask me was I ok and I told her no I was not. In my mind I was still hurt. My director pull her in the office and had a talk with her and told her she was wrong. So the next day I did not say anything to her or speak so she told one of my friends that she felt bad of what she did and she wanted to talk to me. So she came to me and was like I just like to apologize for what I did and I do not know what came over me. I told her I will accept her apology. I think how I resolve this issues is not continue to argue with the other teacher and walk away from it.

Blog Assignment Week 4

As I evaluated myself as a communicator I communicate better in small groups than in large groups. When it comes to public speaking and large crowds I do not  make good  eye contact to crowds and my voice is not loud for the crowd not to hear me. The one thing that surprise me when it comes to small groups is a a good communicator when it comes to talking to people one by one. When I am talking to people one by one I am able to make eye contact and I am not shy when it comes to communicating.  The insights about communication that I have gained this week is I am a good communicator of expressing my thoughts and feelings of when it comes to staff meetings, parent-teacher conference, home visits, parent meetings, and policy council meetings. I am also a good communicator when it comes to giving a advice and also a good listener. I be truthful and tell it like it is. For example last week my brother call me wanted to leave his girlfriend and he was asking me what should I do because he was stress out. He was saying they arguing to much in front of his daughter, she was not working, and all this other stuff. I told him on the telephone I can't tell you what to do only you have to make that decision and my last words was to him was pray about it. I told him that the both of them do not argue in front of my niece and that is not good for her cause she listening to y'all arguing and it can effect her. This is how I evaluated myself as a communicator.

Blog Assignment Week 3

I do find myself of communicating different to people that are from different cultures. I also find myself of learning of talking about their language, their background, the food, and the family traditions they do with their families. I also communicate by them of using sign language and translate newsletter, daily sheets, and parent meeting in their culture. A good example in my classroom is that four of my children are Spanish students and the other four are African America. In the classroom that I have the menus posted with English and Spanish, North Carolina State Regulations, and the labels of toys in the classroom. The three strategies that would help me communicate more effectively the people or groups that I have identified is using the Platinum Rule when it comes communication and culture, how you talk to people, and the way and the tone of your voice when you are communicated. As being a mother, teacher, and educator I will be a positive influence of making eye contact and talking to people the way I would want them to talk to me. I would also be a good listener to other people and be honest and open as I can when it comes to communication.

Blog Assignment Week 2

The characters’ relationships are based on the ways of the communication is

they giving each other eye contact as they are communication. They also  would

communicate through body language. The feeling and expressing of the nonverbal

behavior that you are observing is happy, smiling, laughing. They also gave each other

a lot of hugs.

            The assumptions of the characters and plot based on which the interpreted

the communication  that I observe is that are well communicated family that the

parents love the children. They also was involve in their children lives. 

            My assumptions that I would have of watching a show is learning

how a family communicates with their children and the ways of doing it. 

The assumptions that I also had was the parents love their children and all

of the children was different and special in their own way.