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The newsletter that I subscribe was the National Head Start program. Even though I am

 a teacher in the Early Head Start program I wanted to know what is going on with the National

Head Start Programs around the world. Basically the programs are the same but they just

deal with different age groups. My concerns are the budget cuts that is happening

around the different states. In Durham, North Carolina which I am from we had a 120

slots available for children in the Early Head Start program. Ten percent of them children

they have to take is children with special needs. They took away 20 slots which was home based

programs. That was a disappointment to our teachers, parents, and the community.

            The newsletter caught my attention by how major the cuts are affected children, teachers

and families all around the world. The organization focus how can we prevent these budget cuts

and we can make it better for our families that are living in poverty. Congress believes that the

budget cuts are harmless and can be ignored. As teachers, educators, parents, legislative,

and the community we have to show congress how painful these cuts are in our own community.

Resources:

National Head Start Association http://www.nhsa.org/ (Newsletter: http://www.nhsa.org/news

   and_advocacy/legistive_eupdate)

My Supports

My support system is my daughter, brothers, father, godparents, and colleagues at

the job, church, friends  and the professor. My daughter is only thirteen years old and by me

being a single parent she see what I go through as getting my college education. I make sure that

her needs are meet and sometimes she wake up in the middle of the night and she be like “mom

you still up doing your homework and I be like yes” so sometimes she be like mom “I am so

proud of  you”. She is my motivation of keeping me doing the best that I can do. My brothers,

father, and godparents have been a big inspiration since my mother’s death. My plans was not

get a master’s degree but when I receive my Bachelor’s degree my brothers was like you know

what is next. I was like what’s next I am chilling no more degrees and they was like you need to

go for your master degree.  They gave me the motivation to get my master’s degree.

            My professors, colleagues at the job, friends and the motivates to continue to

get my education and do the best I can. I look up to the professor of Ilene Britt because she was

my advisor at Durham Technical Community college when I was getting my associate’s degree

in early childhood. She seen the determination that I had and I was eager student and love being

a teacher in the early childhood education. I still talk to her about advice and career moves that I

want to make and she be like you can do it. Since my mother’s death my friends has step in of

picking up my daughter when she has cheerleading practice while I am still at work or when she

has tutoring at school. My mother use to do these things for me so I will appreciate my friends

of helping me out when it comes to my daughter. If these people were not in my life I do not

know how I will make it. I appreciate how they are there for me in my darkest days of losing my

mother, the phone calls, a shoulder to cry on, but I also lean on GOD to give me the strength to

make it through. My colleagues on the job look up to me at work when they want to further they

education in early childhood of getting their associate and bachelors degree. They ask me

how did I start out with classes and how do I do it of taking care of my daughter and working

a full-time job and tell them if I can do you can do it to. I told them it takes determination and

self displine.

            The challenge for me is being a single parent, working a full time job, and going to

 college. It gets challenge for me when my daughter goes back to school, working full time,

my daughter doing extra curriculum activities such as cheerleading and dancing. Sometimes I do

not know if I am coming and going but that is when my support system gives me a helping hand

and helps me out. My support system keeps me positive and they are so encouraging and

supportive of anything I do. The most important thing is they tell me they love me a lot and that

 means more to me than anything. It is the littlest thing a person can do to be so supportive and

encouraging.

"My Connections To Play"

“Time is a game played beautifully by children”.

    Heraclitus, Fragments

     Retrieved from www.goodreads.quotes/tag/play

You can’t stop the future

You can’t rewind the past

The only way to learn the secret…

  is to press play.”

 Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

Retrieved from www.goodreads.quotes/tag/play

My parents and family experiment with play by letting me go outside do activities like kickball, jump rope hop scotch, and skating. Skating was my life and my mother brought me my first pair of skates. They were white skates with red wheels. I was so excited. This helps me with my physical and cognitive skills. My play was explored more outdoors with nature and play with my childhood or classmates at school.

I feel like that play is different from the time I use to play because technology has taken over. Children have computer, Ipads, video games, cell phones, so they don’t ha I do not see the children outside playing until the street light come on. When we play as kids we play hard that we did not have a choice but to take a bath because we were sweaty and you play hard all day.

My play as a child was a wonderful experience. I was able to experiment with nature of making playing with dirt making mud pies, and I would skate all day in the street down hills with no knee pads or helmet back than because we did not need them. I love to skate but I will skate after my homework was done and chores were finish and I would skate until the street light came on. Play has helped to understand a child’s development by using their cognitive, language, social/emotional development.

Relationship Reflection

A Special Thanks

 I just like to thank my colleagues and Dr. Kien  for their support and the comments in the discussion board and the blogs.body I really like how Dr, Kien gave some much feedback on everybody post and the resources and how she explain in detailed  of the materials of child development.I feel like that everyone gain a knowledge of learning from each other and I want to wish everyone much success.

Week 8: When I Think of Child Development

" We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."
   Stacia Tausher
Retrieved from Tauscher, S. Retrieved from 2012 http://lucinda-barnes.blogspot.com/2012/04
 quotes-aboutchild-development.htm


Education is the great engine of child development. It is through education that the daughter of a
 peasant become a doctor, that a son of a mine worker can become the head of the mine that a
  child of farm workers can become the president of a company.

Retrieved from www.searchquotes.com/search/Child_Development_/

Week 6 Testing for Intelligence

Assesments

            When children take a assessments it put a stress with the teachers, parents, and the

children. Assessment can be challenging for children. Assessment can be challenge for

young children that takes time to administer assessments probably. Assessments primarily should

be administered in a one-on-one setting to each child by his or her teacher. In addition, a child’s

attention span is often very short and the assessment should therefore be administered in short

segments over a period of a few days or even weeks. There are differing opinions about the value

of using standardized tests to assess the abilities and knowledge of young children. Research

with young children standardized tests for student grade placement of school retention can to

be harmful to children’s ultimate achievements.

            High quality assessment results can help shape school policy, lead to improvements in

teacher performance, and determine factors that may affect learning such as health care, child

care, and preschool services. To assure children receive needed services, direct measures are

needed to track children’s early learning.

            In South Korea children assessment is a system of diagnostic assessments called the

National Assessment of Educational Achievement. Each year, achievement tests in two

subjects are administered to all students in each of the grade six, nine, and ten. These

tests serve a purely informational purpose and are not reported by individual student. Students

are also regularly assessed by their teachers at all levels, and they receive “Student School

Records” or “Student Activity Records” which provide detailed information about their

academic performance. These records include information on academic achievement by subject,

attendance, extra-curricular and service involvement, special accomplishment, conduct and

moral development, physical development, details of awards and anecdotal performance

descriptions. These records are increasingly used as measures of student performance for

admission at both senior secondary and university level, in order to alleviate the examination-

based pressure felt by many South Korean students. These are the assessments that are done in

South Korean.