The Comeback Kid Strikes Again

My Goal - Work To Solve Children's Problems My first conversation partner is a early childhood professional from Wales, Australia, named Kurt Walker.Kurt has shared with me the national curriculum, and educator's guide they use in his school.He has explained to me how he uses the 'Emergent Curriculum' and the 'Project Approach (Reggio Emilia). My other conversation partner is Dr. Mihaela Ionescu Program Director for the International Step by Step Association ( ISSA) in Budapest.  They  are leading a professional membership association of 31 non-governmental organizations from Central Eastern Europe and Central Asia working in the field of early childhood in their own countries. Dr. Ionescu has connected me with Carmen Lica, Director, for Step by Step Centre for Educational and Professional Development in Romania. They both have shared with me the Romania Early Childhood Inclusion Overview Report published in 2011 where there is information about Romania, bu...

Should we care about people in other countries? December 7, 2012 Should we care just as much about people in other countries as we do about people in our own country? When I was an elementary school student, my science teacher asked us to write about what I would do in the future with the money I earned. I wrote that I wanted to help poor African children by donating a portion of my wealth. After the class ended, the teacher took me to her office and scolded me for that assignment. She said I must not help foreigners because there are also poor people in this country. I rebutted her with two points: we should care about people in other countries for moral and rational grounds. First, it is a moral thing to give aide to those who need it even if those are foreigners. All human beings have inalienable rights to enjoy their lives as long as their desires do not hurt others. Also, all human beings have an obligation to protect and support others’ inalienable rights s...

The name of the organization I selected is The PEW Charitable Trust State and Consumer Initiatives. The link for the organization is http://www.pewstates.org/ . The main focus of this organization is to first provide funding for worthwhile issues that should not be ignored in the world. Their reputation for helping those that is not able to help them speak for it. They try very hard to work closely with local, state, and federal governments that are connected with issues and trends in society. To me no one organization can do it all, however the PEW Charitable Trust Organization comes very close and a leader for other organizations to follow. The international website I selected is named International Step by Step Association (ISSA) and the link is http://www.issa.nl/. The International Step by Step Association (ISSA) is a membership organization that connects professionals and organizations working in the field of early childhood development and education. One particular trend ...

I decided  to explore the  Pre[K]Now: A Campaign of the Pew Center on the States. The PEW Center  supports the early childhood community, by taking part in a Task Force mainly designed to help states  to assess and improve early childhood learning and program quality. The Task Force defined a State  Early Childhood Accountability  and Improvement System as a  system of standards-based assessments  of (a) children’s  development and learning and (b) program quality, designed to  inform state policy  decisions, investments, and improvement efforts  for early education programs for three- and four-year-  old children,  linked to a continuum of kindergarten through third grade standards,  curriculum,  assessments, and program improvement efforts.  The Pew Charitable Trusts completed its 10-year campaign to advance high-quality, voluntary pre-kindergarten for all three- and four-year-olds in 2011. Thr...

Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources I looked in the article Early Childhood Trends Around the World by Rodger Neugebauer, and made connections with two of the countries in the article. My first attempt on the internet is with Ms.Liana Ghent, the Director at International Step by Step Association in Budapest, Hungary. It is a nonprofit organization management educator, at the University of Bucharest.The website is http://www.issa.nl/contact.html .I am expecting a reply in the next day or two from her personal e-mail. My second attempt is with Ms. Maggie Koong, the Chief Principal at the Victoria Kindergarten and Nursery in Hong Kong. I went on the internet, and found the website. I contacted her through e-mail. I am expecting a reply also, in the next one to two days. The website is http://www.web.victoria.edu.hk/links/index.html . At first I found the resources to get a direct quick response from the contacts, was expensive, because of the di...