Saturday, November 1, 2014

Getting Ready-Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources


       To begin establishing professional contacts early childhood professionals I referred the blog resource pages.  My initial instinct was to contact my sister who is also an early childhood professional who is currently stationed in Korea.  I emailed her to see if she could help connect me to some professionals that work at the military child development center.  I also emailed several early childhood professionals listed on the research page.  I went onto The Global Alliance of NAEYC and e-mailed several professionals that were listed.  I e-mailed Jane Lim from Association for Early childhood Education, Blesilda Rios from the center for Early Childhood Care & Development, Juan Sanchez from World Association of Early childhood Educators, Yvonne Dionne from Canadian Child Care Federation, and Dominique Hudicourt from Step by Step Program/ Tipa Tipa.  I have not yet had a response from anyone that I e-mailed.  My plan is to call NAEYC directly to see if they can refer me to some professionals I can make contact with or use the alternate choice for the blog assignment.

           I decided to study and find out more information about PEW Charitable Trusts.  I subscribed to their newsletter to find out information.  I chose this organization because I have had the most experience working with preschool age children.  I also chose to find out more information about National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators because most of my early childhood jobs have followed standards set by NAEYC.  Lastly, I subscribed to Zero to Three because to find out more information because I work as a training specialist and support children and families in my program about children’s development.

4 comments:

  1. Daphine,
    I also chose Dominique Hudicourt form Haiti. I would love to connect with her to discuss their early childhood program.

    I chose zero the three, and their newsletter also. I trained under zero to three PACAN and will be doing their training next week: Cradling Literacy: infant to three

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  2. Daphine,
    That is very clever to call the agency yourself. It is nothing like talking to a person. I will do that with the agency I am trying to reach. I have not heard from anyone either.
    I decided to explore Harlem's Children's Zone. Before we moved to Rochester N.Y. I lived in that area. Best of luck.
    Deborah

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  3. Daphine,

    I think its great!!! how you took the extra steps in contacting a family member who is also a ECE professional stationed in Korea and might be able to share valuable information in ECE and issues that effect children in that region.

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  4. Daphine,
    I too tried to reach out to Yvonne Dionne, but always received emails back (I tried two different ones that I had found). I like your idea of calling the NAEYC directly for help. Please keep us updated if this helped!

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