learning resources on week 5, EDU 6005 Foundation in ECE

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://community.fpg.unc.edu/sites/community.fpg.unc.edu/files/imce/documents/FPG_Snapshot_N33_EvidenceBasedPractice_09-2006.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.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

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:

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o   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

o   World Organization for Early Childhood Education
http://www.omep-usnc.org/
Read about OMEP's mission.

o   Association for Childhood Education International
http://acei.org/
Click on "Mission/Vision" and "Guiding Principles and Beliefs" and read these statements.

Note: Explore the resources in Parts 3 and 4 in preparation for this week's Application assignment.

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/

·       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

Tip: Use the Journal option under Search & Find on the library website to find journals by title.

·       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

additional ones:

http://www.unicef.cn/cn/

http://www.ccc.org.cn

http://www.ccafc.org.cn

http://www.childrenshope.org.cn

www.earlylife.com.au
www.nifplay.org
http://www.edutopia.org/richard-davidson-sel-brain-video
http://www.allianceforchildhood.org/play_resources
 

words, quotes of several famous early chilhood filed contributors

 

"Finally, learning occurs within the context of social relationships with other members of the community who have similar, if not identical, issues and concerns from the realm of practice."                  -Virginia Buysse (http://jennalisa77.blogspot.com/p/quotes-to-remind-us-why-children-matter.html)

 
“Providing families with information and assistance in selecting high-quality child care services will increase public awareness of this issue, create a demand for more high-quality child care options, and strengthen the role of parents in informing public policy and improving practices”(Buysse, Grant & Skinner, 2001).
Buysse, V., Grant, S., & Skinner, D. (2001). Toward a Definition of Quality Inclusion: Perspectives of Parents and Practitioners. Journal of Early Intervention, 24(2), 146-153,155-161. Retrieved September 29, 2010, from ProQuest  

 

 

When we strengthen families, we ultimately strengthen the community. Our goal is that parents everywhere work with supportive providers, feel confident in their parenting role, and form strong, resilient attachments with their children. To help achieve this, providers must be responsive to parents, knowledgeable about child development, and eager to see every parent succeed.   -T. Berry Brazelton, MD （http://www.brazeltontouchpoints.org/about/vision/） 

 

Self-esteem does not refer to an inflated view of one’s self. Instead, it is the capacity to hold onto a basically hopeful view of one’s self while facing and integrating experiences that challenge this view. The development of healthy self-esteem in a child allows her to confront her mistakes without taking apart her positive feelings about herself, so that she can mobilize these positive feelings (confidence, faith in her potential, etc.) to find the courage to learn from and overcome her mistakes. The result is not a skewed view of one’s self, but a realistic one in which both strengths and weaknesses can be acknowledged and accepted. -T. Berry Brazelton（http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/dr-brazelton-on-self-esteem-discipline-and-learning-from-your-kids/?_r=0 ）

 

"We are decision makers. As adults caring for children, it is our responsibility to seek out and intentionally plan the best opportunities for children that support their over-all well being and healthy development. Developmentally appropriate practice, commonly known as DAP, is a comprehensive educational perspective that supports optimal healthy development for every child. Understanding DAP - its meaning and intentional practices - is essential in guiding the decisions we make for young children".                                            -Susan Bredekamp 

 

“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. -Maria Montessori

“Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.”

-Maria Montessori

 

 

 

Central. (Document ID: 1144126011).

Personal Childhood Web

When I think of my childhood, I have experienced both love and hurt in my heart. Honestly, I always don’t want to think of my childhood, the strong memories about childhood look like more hurts than love and caring. I appreciate at the beginning of the study, I have to chance to look at the deep of my heart, face it, feel it, and healing will start from look it and face it.

I was born in a small town with about 200 families and lived there until 10 years old, each family has more or less some kind of connection to another family. The town is really a complicated Mesosystem system for me (Keenan, T., & Evans, S. (2009)). Besides my parents and younger brothers, grandparents, the aunts, uncles, it’s difficult to say who else gives me more important support or effect when I was young.

I will talk about my mother, my father, my youngest brother (though he is not with us any more), my grandmother and my first kindergarten teacher.

First, the most important person in my life is my mother. She doesn’t finish her primary school study because her parents need her to take care of the 5 younger brothers and sisters. She always works very hard and seems she doesn’t need sleep. She is very generous to poor people, and she always likes to help others. She is very clever and deft, before I was 14, every year she would knit at least 3 or 4 beautiful sweaters for me, I seldom see the same patterns from other kids’ sweaters. She encourages me to get better achievements but not “sleep” on the achievements I have got. I still can remember a scene, one night when I was in grade 1, she taught me how to solve my math problem. I am affected by her attitudes when facing difficulties, and she showed me how to solve problems with intelligence and wisdom. And the most important thing is she is my mother, I know she loves me, whenever I come to her, I feel safe and calm with her.

Second one is my father. He is a tall, thin, silent and handsome guy. I described him in my grade 2 composition, “my father has a big nose, like a foreigner.” He laughed when I read this to him, and I felt he must feel proud of me because I can use metaphor in the sentence. Like other families in China in early 1980’s, my family was very poor. He took his responsibilities to raise up the kids and never complain anything. He just bared the difficulties by himself. He told me few years ago, for our better living, he went to the mountains to cut woods in midnights, and sometimes he was so frightened to hear the wolf shouting. The other families will let their kids stop their study in school when they finish their middle school or even primary school, but my father always told me: knowledge can change your fate, as long as you want to study in school, I will support you forever. In China, we always said: father’s love is like mountain, strong and firm, he supports my spirit to overcome all the challenges in my life.

My youngest brother was my sweetest heart in the world. He is so warm and tamed, always would like to being around with me. In his short life, I always would like to take care of him, he let me feel I am responsible for the family, feel I am an important part of the family. I developed my caring personality by taking care of him. It's very painful to memorizing him, so I will not say too long here. He takes a big impact in my life, he inspires me every day in my life to work hard, to live a meaning life. Then, one day, when we meet in heaven, I can tell him I didn’t waste my life.

My grandmother is a traditional Chinese grandmother. She always have bright smile in her face, I like to attach to her, and I feel she loves me 100%. She and my grandparents are the only 2 people I can feel they love me 100%, even my parents don’t give me this feeling. She always took me to her home, cook for me and let me be with her. Her love to me let me believe there is true love in the world and I am unique in this world because there is someone really truly love me. When I am hurt, I will remember her love.

The last one I want to mention is my first teacher, named Sanmei. She is warm-hearted, love children, with sweet voice. She taught me singing, dancing and other art work. She took me to a different level of the stage, and she always praised me, said I am a talented child. She encouraged me to solve problems in different ways and showed to me how it worked.

There are many other people also took very important role in my early childhood life, I will seriously think about their impact to me, and how my perspectives formed in early childhood affect my present life, even future.

Reference:

Keenan, T., & Evans, S. (2009). Theories of development. In An introduction to child development (pp. 35-43). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

三岁看大，七岁看老（San Sui Kan Da, Qi Sui Kan Lao）

As an old Chinese saying goes：One can be seen how his adulthood could 

be when he is still 3 years old, and his elderly life could be predicted 

when he is 7 years old.

It shows how important the early childhood experience is and the affects of 

it will last for a person's whole life.  

Stellaluna

Stellaluna was forced to separate from his mother before he learned to fly. He was lucky that he was saved by the bird mom and stayed with her 3 little birds. He had to eat worms for survival, and tried best to learn the living style a bird has. He found out it was depressed since he was so different, but still he could make friends with others.

This is the first graphic novel by Janell Cannon, and it takes her 9 months to finish it. 

I love this story because we can address young children that everyone is different from each other, they can find the ways to grow up that suits them best, and they can make friends with different people and animals though they are different from each other. And it also tells adults every kid is different, please treat every child differently and facilitate their growing in different ways.

School education nowadays is somehow still the products of industrial society. Especially in China, the test-driven education system ask teachers to pursue correct answer but not the individualized learning of each child. I really would like to make a change of this situation. Hope more and more people join me for this dream.