Thanks To All My Colleagues

                        Thanks to everyone through this great journey. I enjoy everyones response during discussion. I have learned so much about empathy and resilience and how to really take a step back and analyze children emotional and cognitive development. Therefore with my new ways of thinking I am able to support children with new ways of social skills
                              
                                            

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/o/oliverwend135058.html#VSUZGHjCmrYY04JG.99

 

 Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children. ~ Walt Disney

 

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. ~ Margaret Mead

 

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. ~ Albert Einstein

                          http://www.sniblit.com/Quotes-About-Children.html
 

 

Testing for Intelligence

Studing children holistically should be based on unnderstand the young child from a holistic perspective with an emphasis upon the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains - as well as the child's environment. The reason why these assestment are important because we must understand each child as a individual. Their environment plays a very important part in their lifes. If we don't understand their environment than we will not understand the child. However their  cognitive and psychomotor domain influences their well-being. Therefore this will affect each child developement.

                                  Children Assessed in the Middle East
For many of years there has alway been turmoil about education in the middle eastern part of the world especially for women. Young people – especially young women – have been politically, economically and socially disenfranchised, growing up in largely opportunity-scarce settings. Moreover, the Middle East Region continues to have the highest rates of youth inactivity in the world, especially among young women who are neither studying nor employed.
The rollout of global Child Friendly School (CFS) training in 2010 has significantly boosted implementation of the CFS framework as the centrepiece of quality education interventions across Middle East Region. Therefore this give young women a opporunity to go to school and learn new technology. This give young women in these countries a far better opportunity to be education with the help of many organization. However many assessment have shown these children or young women econinomic and social enviroment have change in the past couple of years. Being able to be educated given them a opportunity to get a job and to be part of their society.
This great news make me not only happy but maybe one day I can return to my fathers' country and beable to teach at their schools.
Reference:
www.unicef.org/about/.../files/2010_MENA_RAR_for_the_Web.pdf

RACISM

I have always lived on the east coast of United States.My father is from the middle east countries and my mom half white and black and was  born United States. We are a minority family who lived in a white neighborhood. This was a tough time for me and my sibling. Racism is still here and very much alive in America. I though it was tough time when I was growing up but today I feel United States have been more divide during the election of President Obama.

I took a course in my undergraduate years called "Black Power" which made me understand about racism in United States and around the world. We are not born with racism we are taught how to be prejudice. Young children will mimic their parents or their caregivers.

However, I would love to travel to South Africa and visit Nelson Mandela and tell him thank you for all his struggles. Even to this today racism is still strong in South Africa just as it is in the United States. Even though there has been many attempts to control the deadly spread of racism  in South Africa but there is always one group people who would like to keep it alive.

When will the children feel safe will they every understand that racism do not exist with everyone.

Reference:

The Guesome reality of racist South Africa
pagemag.com/2013/.../the-gruesome-reality-of-racist-south-africa

Image Isn't Everything: Contemporary Systemic Racism and Antiracism in the Age of Obama
By: Ostertag, Stephen F.; Armaline, William T. Humanity & Society. Aug2011, Vol. 35 Issue 3, p261-289. 29p.

IMMUNIZATION //// PROTECT OUR CHILDREN

Immunization is a proven tool for controlling and eliminating life-threatening infectious diseases and is estimated to avert between 2 and 3 million deaths each year. In order to protect our children we must make sure immunization is part of the process. Many parts of the world children are not as lucky to have immunization as part of their proctecting tools.  Public Health being one of my majors in undergraduate school. I conducted a research on Polio and how it is still killing our children in different parts of the world.The United Nations Foundation has just launched a specials appeal to American parents called “Shot at Life.” The campaign’s intent is to help trigger advocacy and raise funds that would go toward providing greater access to vaccines against polio, measles, diarrhea and pneumonia in developing countries. This will help to stop the spread of many diseases and save the life of many of children. I feel that the younger generation of parents do not know how deadly these diseases can become for our children. In the early 1900's million of our children died because of the spread of Polio and chicken pox and many other diseases. If we can start a herd community it will stop the spread of Polio in other countries. Because my father is  from Morocco and my husband side of the family is from the Middle East. We visit our relative every other year and recently I was inform that Polio is on the rises in the Middle East. I support the WHO foundation every year to help many sick babies in the Middle East. Because immunization is very much needed for all children all over the world. I hope one day there will be no more Polio or smal pox or measles. Therefor, I always spread the word about how important it is to vaccinated your children in my community.

Reference:

D'Arcy, Janice: World Immunization Week: The Vaccine debate looks different abroadd 2012 1-2

 

CHILDBIRTH

I can remember when I had my children. I had four c-section. Each of my children weigh over 9lb's. My middle son weigh 10lb and 8oz. I really didn't get a chance to experience labor. I think if I did experience labor I would have stop at 2 children. I chose this example because I feel as though I miss the most miracle part of given birth.

Three ideals contained in the NAEYC and DEC codes of ethics.

I -2.3—To respect the dignity of each family and its culture, customs, and beliefs.

 

 

I -3C.2—To create a climate of trust and candor that will enable staff to speak and act in the best interests of children, families, and the field of early childhood education.

 

 

P-1.2—We shall not participate in practices that discriminate against children by denying benefits, giving special advantages, or excluding them from programs or activities on the basis of their race, religion, sex, national origin, or the status, behavior, or beliefs of their parents

The reason I pick these three is because they play important part with my own family. It is so important for me to see every child and their family have equal right no matter what their ethnicity or their beliefs maybe. Equal Opportunity should be for all students and their family...

reference:

NAEYC. (2005, April). Code of ethical conduct and statement of commitment. Retrieved May 26, 2010, fromhttp://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/PSETH05.pdf
 

Course Resources section

Additional Resources:

• "Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasis... should be place on appreciation--reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts."

Lilian G Katz

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• Current Topics in Early Childhood Education, Volume 6
• by:Lilian G. Katz

• Talks With Teachers of Young Children: A Collection Lilian G. Katz

Resources provided by The School

Part 1: Position Statements and Influential Practices

• NAEYC. (2009). Developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood programs serving children from birth through age 8. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/dap
  
• NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on child abuse prevention. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/ChildAbuseStand.pdf
  
• NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on school readiness. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/Readiness.pdf
  
• NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on responding to linguistic and cultural diversity. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/diversity.pdf
  
• NAEYC. (2003). Early childhood curriculum, assessment, and program evaluation: Building an effective, accountable system in programs for children birth through age 8. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/pscape.pdf
  
• NAEYC. (2009, April). Early childhood inclusion: A summary. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/DEC_NAEYC_ECSummary_A.pdf
  
• Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. (2010). Infant-toddler policy agenda. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://main.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_pub_infanttodller
  
• FPG Child Development Institute. (2006, September). Evidence-based practice empowers early childhood professionals and families. (FPG Snapshot, No. 33). Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~snapshots/snap33.pdf
   
• Turnbull, A., Zuna, N., Hong, J. Y., Hu, X., Kyzar, K., Obremski, S., et al. (2010). Knowledge-to-action guides. Teaching Exceptional Children, 42(3), 42-53.
  Use the Academic Search Complete database, and search using the article's title.

Part 2: Global Support for Children's Rights and Well-Being

• Article: UNICEF (n.d.). Fact sheet: A summary of the rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Rights_overview.pdf
  
• Websites:
  
• • World Forum Foundation
    http://worldforumfoundation.org/wf/wp/about-us
    This link connects you to the mission statement of this organization. Make sure to watch the media segment on this webpage
    
  • World Organization for Early Childhood Education
    http://www.omep-usnc.org/
    Read about OMEP's mission.
    
  • Association for Childhood Education International
    http://acei.org/
    Click on "Mission/Vision" and "Guiding Principles and Beliefs" and read these statements.

 

Part 3: Selected Early Childhood Organizations

• National Association for the Education of Young Children
  http://www.naeyc.org/
  
• The Division for Early Childhood
  http://www.dec-sped.org/
  
• Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families
  http://www.zerotothree.org/
  
• WESTED
  http://www.wested.org/cs/we/print/docs/we/home.htm
  
• Harvard Education Letter
  http://www.hepg.org/hel/topic/85
  
• FPG Child Development Institute
  http://www.fpg.unc.edu/
  
• Administration for Children and Families Headstart's National Research Conference
  http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hsrc/
  
• HighScope
  http://www.highscope.org/
  
• Children's Defense Fund
  http://www.childrensdefense.org/
  
• Center for Child Care Workforce
  http://www.ccw.org/
  
• Council for Exceptional Children
  http://www.cec.sped.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home
  
• Institute for Women's Policy Research
  http://www.iwpr.org/
  
• National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education
  http://www.ncrece.org/wordpress/
  
• National Child Care Association
  http://www.nccanet.org/
  
• National Institute for Early Education Research
  http://nieer.org/
  
• Pre[K]Now
  http://www.pewstates.org/projects/pre-k-now-328067
  
• Voices for America's Children
  http://www.voices.org/
  
• The Erikson Institute
  http://www.erikson.edu/
  

Part 4: Selected Professional Journals Available in the Walden Library

• YC Young Children
• Childhood
• Journal of Child & Family Studies
• Child Study Journal
• Multicultural Education
• Early Childhood Education Journal
• Journal of Early Childhood Research
• International Journal of Early Childhood
• Early Childhood Research Quarterly
• Developmental Psychology
• Social Studies
• Maternal & Child Health Journal
• International Journal of Early Years Education