Blog Assignment: Perspectives on Diversity and Culture

The one friend I pick that was different from my culture is a Hispanic woman that

is twenty-three years old with two children and she is divorced from her husband. The

religion she believe in is Catholic. The definition that she gave of culture is learning

about your background, respecting yourself and others, family traditions, and morals

and values. The definition of diversity is learning about people and children all around

the world.

            The aspects of culture and diversity that I have studied in this course is respecting

the cultural diversity of all children and families when it comes to practices and policies

in early childhood education. The aspects that have been omitted is not just focusing

on one culture. For example I am from the African American culture and that was the

only culture I ever knew. Until I work at the company at IBM and being a teacher in

in early childhood profession that is when I lean about culture and diversity. We have

to expose our self and learn from different cultures.

            Learning other people’s definitions of culture and diversity have influenced

me to respect and learn about their background, who they are, and learning their

morals, traditions, and values.

Week 8 Blog Assignment: When I Think of Research

The insights I have gained from learning about research is to analyze the different types of research and what do they mean. I did not realize that there was different types of research. My ideas about the nature of doing research has change is when you start off doing the research you have to have a topic and than from there you have to do the subtopic and  brainstorm the main points to form an outline. The
planning, designing and conducting the research in early childhood did I learn is respecting the justice and fairness in everyone regardless of their age, gender, and culture. I also learn to have a consent form in place of doing my research and keeping my personal bias to myself and do not let interfere with my research.  The challenges I have encountered was analyzing between the quantitative designs and the  qualitative designs. The ways did I meet them is doing the assignment and reading the different materials in the textbook to give me a better understanding of what they mean and examples of how to use them in a research. My perceptions has been modified as a result of this course is to analyze more better of my topic of doing my research, learning who is going to be in my research, learning about the independent and dependent variable. It made me think in deep thoughts and was very challenging.

I just want to say I really enjoyed everyone from these past eight weeks. To my colleagues and Dr. Todd I felt like I learned a lot from your comments and post on blackboard and the blogs from this course. I do not like to say good bye, I will say to all of you I will see you later, and I wish everyone much success and Happy Holidays to everyone!!!!

Blog Assignment: Research Around the World

The current international topic is supporting the best practice for the code of ethics in early childhood education Australia. The best practice they support are emotional foundations of learning, building trust and self esteem, communication,  the developing of the brain and everyday and learning play. The insight I gain of exploring with the international early childhood website is the Early Childhood Australia is the voice for young children since 1937 and they have been celebrating 75 years and they organization is the interests of young children, their families and those in early childhood field. The other information I found out about this website is that it supports research in practice series. The Research in Practice Series provides practical, easy-to-read resources for those involved in the early child field. They also have books to assists with those challenging issues which talks about the care and
education of young children, by offering effective new approaches.
The website is http://www.earlychilhoodaustralia.org.au/research_in_practice_series.html

Research that Benefits Children and Families -Uplifting Stories Week 3

The positive research that I did with children and families is the Early Head Starts program.
The Early Head Starts programs helps children and families from birth to three years old.
In the research it helps a child with their assessments with their cognitive, physical, social-emotional,
and language development. The parent assessments help parents to get involve with the child's development, parent meeting, and parent council meetings. It also helps the teachers with the observation and documentation of the child's development. The Early Head Start program focus on the School Readiness Goals. The school readiness goals focus on approaches of learning, cognitive, language and literacy, social/emotional, and physical. The research helps the children and families with their studies.
Being a teacher in the Early Head start program has help understand the children and families culture,
 traditions,and bond with the children and families. In my story one of parents had bug bites in her apartment and she had to move out her from her old apartment to her new one. She had to throw a lot of her belongings away. She was a single parent with two girls and she really do not have any family in North Carolina. So I told her if she need me on that Saturday I would help her move. She was like I don't have any money to give you, I was like I am not charging you anything I am doing this from my heart. Eventually I help her moved and this parent seen another side of me she had never seen. So I brought over some cleaning supplies help her clean her new apartment and she was good to go. A year later her daughter left the program and she would keep in contact with me to let me know how her child was doing at  school and everything. So one day she call me up and was like what are you doing this afternoon you and your daughter, and my response was like nothing we just chilling out. She was I want to take you out the eat and I was like you don't have to do that and she was like yes I do, remember the time you came and help me move and I was like yes. Well I want to take you out so I agree but she was like I still do not have transportation and I was like I will come to get you. I tell this story because as a teacher you never know what lives you touch when it comes to families.

Blog Assignment: Your Personal Research Journey

The topic I chose was Parent Involvement. I chose parent involvement because as a teacher it is
very essential to a child's development. Parent Involvement helps a child with their social/emotional,
cognitive, language, and physical skills. Parent involvement also helps to learn about different cultures in the classroom. For example I had  a parent from China and we dress up in the clothing of China and she brought food that she cook and we experiment of eating with chop sticks. We also sit down on the floor like Chinese and the children love it. We was listening to Chinese music and opening our fortune cookies.
The research chart gives me an insight of learning of different was of doing my research. It helps me to brainstorm the information and look ask questions like "how, when, where", is the topic is essential to my research, It also helps me to read more and look at different resources of my research.

Week 8 Final Blog Assignment

The three consequences of learning about the early childhood and my professional and professional development is global learning with other teachers around the world, networking, and learning for teachers of how they teach and educated teachers around the world. It gave me insights of learning from different countries of how they do things with their education and testing standards and how they do their curriculum . The one goal for the international awareness of issues and trends is being a teacher along with my colleagues and educators to advocate for children and families around the world. This is how you become active in your community and global around the world. This also helps teachers and educators with their professional development. I feel like I have learn a lot from my colleagues of how they made international contact with other people around the world and it just fascinating how we made connections with people about the early childhood. I just like to say I enjoyed all my colleagues and I have learn from each and I do not like to say goodbye I like to say see you later and wish everyone much success in the early childhood education.

Week 7 Blog Assignment: Getting to Know International Contacts 3

The three insights I have gained from the UNESCO's Early Childhood Care and Education is
this website helps to support early childhood policy development to build a solid foundation for a
child's lifelong learning. The second insights I have gained is learning of the high quality childcare.
In high quality childcare is for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, promotes motivation,
confidence, good cognitive and linguistic development and school readiness. School readiness promotes physical, cognitive, social/emotional,  literacy and language, and approaches of learning.
The third insights I have gained is the curriculum in early childhood care and education. The curriculum
helps the program standards for parents to understand child/staff ratios, educator qualification, and indoor and outdoor learning environments. Children learn best within positive relationships-with
their parents and families, with their peers and with well-trained early childhood educators. These are the insights I have gained from the UNESCO's Early Childhood Care and Education. The website is
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/