Here is a question for you to think about...
What does it take to have excellence and quality in the classroom?
Since I have yet to receive a response I went to the UNESCO's Early Childhood Care and Education webpage and I found many ideas and insights about issues related to internationals early childhood education to my professional goals. Through out my journey as a teacher and profesisonal in the field, I will come acrossed many hopes and challenges along the way. My professionals goals is to make a difference to every single children I teach. As a teacher we are here for the growth of these young children. Another goal I have is to have professionalism and work closely with all my colleagues and families. I believe this will allow myself, the program, children and families get the best education possible. My last goal is to provide the best education possible to ensure every child is getting taught up to the correct standards. I believe if I have the opportunity to accomplish all these goals that I will have many of my professional dreams comes true.
Looking through the website I can see the goals and missions of the organization is the same as to my professional goals. The website includes that their goal is to have every child have access, equality, quality, coordination and integration in the classroom. Their mission is to support childhood policy development with the aim to buld a solid foundation for a child's life long learning. (UNESCO,2012) This organization focuses on ideas the same to my professional goals. They revieve and devlop national policies that are affecting children from the age of 0 to 8. The UNESCO also describes one of their main goals is to actively involve parents and communities as tp show the imporantce and the revelence to the needs of all children and their education.
I believe along the same lines that whether we are in the United States or in another country our goals are fairly the same. The ultimate goal of every professional, program, and/or organization should be to ensure that every child is getting the education and experience needed to ensure healthy growth and development.
If you would like to see more on the UNESCO. Check out their website at http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/)
Brittany, I too never received any feedback from an international professional. I too plan on checking into this website out. I am glad you've given me a heads up about how this website shares some of the same goals that organizations, professional, educators, and programs have for young children. I can see that equality is a priority. All children deserve to be treated fair and provided with the same services as any other child. Access is another priority. Often families are not aware of services that are available and it is great to know that this website puts forth the effort to make sure that access is made available for children and their families. I just love the idea of supporting parent involvement in programs. At my worksite, we have our parents participate as mush as they'd like. Actually our parents are required to participate in the classroom 2 3 hour days per month. We value parent participation. Thanks for sharing Brittany!
ReplyDeleteThank-you for sharing. I went to the web site and reading about the World Conference on ECCE. It is interesting that around the globe although vastly different in culture we are all dealing with similar issues. Everywhere there is a need for greater emphasis and investment in the early years!
ReplyDeleteBrittany,
ReplyDeleteIt seems like UNESCO is working to tackle many of the issues we have been studying such as accessibility, equity, quality levels of programming, as well as working to improve family partnerships. This will be a helpful resource moving forward. Thanks for sharing!
Best,
Parker