1) When I first start to engage with my colleague over seas my understanding was unclear of the struggles in Egypt school system. The decline of many student attendance because of political problems have made the country standards academically decline. Many of the families who could afford to send their children to private American or French Pre-school happen to be 20% percentile that is considered wealthy. However my gaining of understanding is that we don't realize how lucky as teachers and parents we are to have are children attend school with out a correct regime in power.
2) Even-though Egypt school system have had it rough I was able to network with many colleagues. Mai have been my main resource with pictures and events. I was able to learned that teacher do not make huge salary and recently a union was form than it was broken than it was formed again and than broken. Many of the teacher in Egypt are true teacher because they may teach all day than turn around and tutor individual children after school. I learn from this experience is true dedication and loving to teach. I learned that high-quality teacher's are based on the amount of caring and time educating individual students in other countries.
3) Through-out my journey I was able to meet some many lovely colleagues. I am proud to say. Mai will visit me soon from Egypt. I am glad we are able to keep the communication open. I was able to learn a lot about Egypt early childhood field and their school system. I was able to network and receive resources that can help many of my diverse student and I was able to help them with resource from American schools. Networking help me with information that I was able to share with other colleague.
Therefore, my goal to international awareness and collegial relations is to be able to communicate and share resources when necessary. There should be a open door at all times. We are colleagues from different parts of the world but we share the same interest. Teaching Early Childhood Education. I really enjoyed these last past eight weeks. I hope to see everyone next class. I enjoyed reading everyone blog.
I enjoyed reading your post and I enjoyed learning about Egypt too every week reading your blog was great! That's so wonderful you will keep in contact with Mai and she can visit you. Learning about different countries and all their similarities and difference was a new experience. I wish you the best in your future classes. Best wishes.
ReplyDeleteReading about Egypt was such an asset because there is such turbulance that we seen on the tv. No one stopped and thought about what it was doing to the educational system. I agree that having communication with other professionalsnin the field from other countries is a great way to mentally ground yourself and be grateful for the circumstances in the US. I am glad I learned about the international community.
ReplyDeleteI have truly enjoyed your post. I have learned so much about Egypt and I admire the fact that you will soon be meeting up with one of your communicators in December.
ReplyDeleteDarrell,
ReplyDeleteAs we are able to see, we thought we had some issues here in the United Sates; over time and during the past eight weeks we learned a lot about other countries and their struggles and accomplishments. What a wonderful thing to be able to communicate with people especially those working with other children clear across the universe. Thank you for sharing. Brenda Palmer-Assian