Establishing Contacts
According to this week’s task, I have tried to establish
contact with some early childhood professionals with the help of the websites.
I sent an email through NAEYC, in order to reach out to early childhood professionals
under their umbrella. Also, I was able to contact two professionals (Beatrice
and Caroline) through The British Association for Early Childhood Education, briefed
them about my current course requirements which is Issues and Trends in early
childhood field, and I hope to get a feedback from them. In my first year in my career
as an early childhood educator, I had a fantastic early childhood supervisor
(Hannah Jenkins) whom I worked under for about one year, though she had gone
back to England, but I believe I could build a great professional partnership
with her. I have also contacted her.
Expanding resources
Of course one cannot over-emphasize the need of exploring
resources in early childhood field. As an educator, there is every need to
refer to journals, newsletters, websites and other relevant resources to be
able to meet up and following the current trend in early childhood studies.
While going through the websites, one of the websites that came alive to me is
The British Association for Early Childhood Education (www.early-education.org.uk). They
were lots of activities like publications, training and consultancy, ethics and
principles as it relates to early childhood studies. As we continue in this
course, It is going be fun and as we explore and share the knowledge we gained
by establishing new contacts and expanding our resources.
