Final Blog 6162

As I reflected on this class I was pleasantly surprised with the amount of new knowledge I gained. My favorite subject was equity. Equity is so important in all areas of early childhood development. I also learned of the depth of information that is out there both international and nationally. I did become very aggravated and overwhelmed as I viewed various information within our field.

One consequence of learning about ECE in other countries is that I have been made aware of how deep the need for research within our field. I had hoped that other countries would know more, although each country has different strengths it is not coming together as it should.

The second consequence to learning international is the unity we can feel . It is amazing to know that we are all on the same side and having a desire to learn more about early childhood.

Finally, a consequence is the knowledge that I have not even dented research of the early childhood . However, I think there will always be more to learn.

I am excited to continue this journey and I am in anticipation of all the new knowledge I will gain. My goal would be to continue to educate myself with various media both nationally and internationally. I really enjoyed BAM radio and have saved it to my favorites and will visit it often. Anyone who reads this...Please visit http://www.bamradionetwork.com/ and plug in a subject and see what you get you will be happy with the results.

Burnout

Through this weeks discussion Dr. Meyers asked me how I would keep passion for the field;therefore, I looked up Burnout on Bam Radio. I found the podcast entitled "Getting Beyond Burnout".

Burnout is caused by teachers not feeling empowered or supported in what they need to do. Powerlessness is what causes burnout both in teachers and students.

A good way to cure burnout can be combated with professional development or goal setting.
During  burnout exercise during the day, a new hobby, spiritual activities, and becoming healthy.

Keeping a Journal may be helpful and having a good support system. "Connecting outwardly".

REACH OUT for ASSISTANCE!


"Burnout among teachers is a growing problem driven by increased feelings of powerlessness in the classroom and profession. Our guests explore the roots of the problem and offer practical guidance on getting through and beyond burnout."

Digging Deeper

I linked to the partners of BAM radio and found  21 links to other early childhood sites. Head start is a program that was created to help in equity. BAM radio has a link to the National Head Start association. On this site is pod casts directed toward the Head Start program. Below is a list of  podcasts. Additionally you can subscribe via iTunes.

Finding a Dental Home for Head Start Children 
Nychelle Fleming


New Federal Crib Safety Regulations 
Nychelle Fleming

Window of Opportunity for Low-Income Children 
Mark K. Shriver

Positive Observation in the Classroom 
Guests:Rebecca Berlin, Ph.D.

Managing With The Stages of Child Development 
Guests:T. Berry Brazelton, Dr. Sparrow

Silencing the Whiners on Your Staff 
Guests: Holly Elissa Bruno

3 Ways to Run a Better, Smarter, More Efficient Head Start Agency 
Guests: Ann William and Michael Patterson

Vision Screening: Avoiding the Big Mistakes 
Guests: Dr. Bruce Moore, Dr. Jean Ramsey, and Susan Proctor

Are We making a Difference? New study says... 
Guests: Catriona Macdonald and Ronna Cook.

Tough New Standards From the Office of Head Start 
Guest: Maria Fuentez

The Importance of Movement on Learning 
Guest: Rae Pica

Preparing Head Start for H1N1 Flu 
Dr. Lisa Barrios and Tia Campbell

Getting Your Child Ready for the First Day of School
Guest Almeta Keys

New Era, New Leadership, New Possibilities
Guest Yasmina Vinci

Accessing Stimulus Dollars for Head Start Guest Ted Waters with host Scott Stapf 

http://www.nhsa.org/nhsa_radio

I was pleasantly surprised to find more radio pod-casts. I appreciate these because time is precious, so when I am commuting I can educate myself even more during drive time!

Two must Listen web cast.

These two web casts were very helpful in the issue of standards in the early years. The arguments is between very DAP teachers and teachers that love common core standards. If you take both and balance the kindergarten classroom with rich learning through play activities and vibrant didactic teaching SUCCESS OF DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE STANDARDS AND IMPLEMENTATION  FALLS ON A WELL PREPARED TEACHER THROUGH PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.  

National K-3 Standards Harm or Help Young Children?

Randi Weingarten, Edward Miller, Lisa Guernsey with Rae Pica

 this web cast, they discuss the concern of implementing Preschool and Kindergarten Standards. Research shows that children that learn to read at 5 and children that learn at 7 show know differences by age 11. 

The fear is that children that aren't learning these skills at age 5 will end up labeled as deficient. 

The point is equity in Literacy and Numeracy not Standards. The standards are to help ALL children be exposed to academics. 

Some believe that standards are promoting didactic teaching rather than a balance o didactic and play learning which is stunting social emotional growth. 

What matters is how to implementing standards both didactically, through play, and dramatic play. 

Can Kindergarten Standards Be Implemented in a Developmentally Appropriate Way?Randi Weingarten, Edward Miller, Lisa Guernsey with Rae Pica

Mrs. Weingarten- Feels like the standards help scaffold the learning for children and teachers. Third grade teachers shouldn't be held responsible. 

Ed Standards have become a "Sacred Cow"  there is no research that shows that standards helps K-3. 

We need to become strong advocates for our children and not allow tests to be misused and become the only way children are assessed. 

Implementation is what is important to have a positive experience and outcome from standards.

National K-3 Standards Harm or Help Young Children?Randi Weingarten, Edward Miller, Lisa Guernsey with Rae Pica

Are proposed national, common core standards developmentally appropriate at the kindergarten level? Class, wealth, social status, and implementation may all be factors. In this two-part series Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, defends the program to critics who argue that national standards are neither needed nor helpful.

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=554:jackstreet54&catid=35:jackstreet54&Itemid=89 

Can Kindergarten Standards Be Implemented in a Developmentally Appropriate Way?Randi Weingarten, Edward Miller, Lisa Guernsey with Rae Pica

Do common core standards for kindergarten mean standardized testing for very young children? If not, how will the standards be measured? There are many questions around how this program will ultimately be implemented.  In this segment our guests zoom in on the challenges, potential pitfalls and possible ways to employ kindergarten standards in a developmentally appropriate way.

http://www.jackstreet.com/jackstreet/WMBK.RTKindergartenregulation2.cfm



Global Initiative

The global initiative is working with Brazil to develop good leadership and policy in their Early Childhood Program. They have begun to translate videos to educate Brazilians. Se the below paragraph for more direct info.

As part of its Global Children’s Initiative, the Center launched Núcleo Ciência Pela Infância, its first major programmatic effort outside the United States. In collaboration with local experts, this project aims to use the science of child health and development to guide stronger policies and larger investments to benefit young children and their families in Brazil.

Núcleo Ciência Pela Infância is a collaboration between the Center, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of São Paulo, and Insper. This project represents a unique opportunity for the Center to work with Brazilian scholars, policymakers, and civil society leaders to adapt the Center’s programmatic model for the local context in order to catalyze more effective policies and programs that will, ultimately, foster a more prosperous, sustainable, and equitable society.

Together, these organizations engage in the following activities:

• Building a scientific agenda and community of scholars around early childhood development;
• Synthesizing and translating scientific knowledge for application to social policy. This will include working with the Center’s longtime partner organization, Frameworks Institute, to effectively communicate the science of child development in the Brazilian cultural context;
• Strengthening leadership around early childhood development through an executive leadership course for policymakers;
• Translating and adapting the Center’s existing print and multimedia resources for a Brazilian audience
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http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/activities/global_initiative/applying_the_science_of_early_childhood_in_brazi/

Sharing Web Resources

What specific section(s) or information seemed particularly relevant to your current professional development?

I have been looking at the NAECTE web site and the BAM Radio. I really have enjoyed and learned a lot from BAM Radio more than NAECTE.

BAM radio has a wealth of information on it. These are web casts to listen to. This site helps my professional development because I can search a subject and then listen to other teachers and professionals talk about it. This is a great site. The sections most relent to me are Educators Radio and Leadership Radio.

On NAECTE there is information that is relevant if I am a member. Most of the information on this site pertains to members.  I have learned about their yearly conferences that I can attend to get professional development hours. The winter 2014 Enewsletter talked mostly about nominations and board members and so on. It also communicated about scholarships that can be applied for. The section that would be most helpful to my professional development is the Journal Of Early childhood Education teachers. I did not become a member so I am unable to access most of the articles, unless I purchase them, But I know where to find articles if I need them.

 •Which ideas/statements/resources, either on the website or in an e-newsletter, did you find controversial or made you think about an issue in new ways?

Any podcast I listen to can be controversial and/or make you see things outside your knowledge base and explore other points of view. As I listen to these podcast/radio broadcasts, I keep an open mind and listen for statements that are backed by research. I then rethink were I stand in any specific issue, and form an educated decision and outlook.  

•What information does the website or the e-newsletter contain that adds to your understanding of how economists, neuroscientists, or politicians support the early childhood field?

Bam Radio has a tab called News and you can listen to press conferences and more about the race to the top. A program the Obama administration has put into play.

A podcast on  BAM Radio  below discuss the importance of the communities support of Education.

  

Why Schools Cannot  Do it Alone  Jamie Vollmer, Jay Mathews, Valerie Strauss, Debra Viadero, David Bloomfield    Jamie Vollmer is part of a class of education advocates who come from the business world. Though many professional educators dismiss what these increasingly influential advocates have to say, Jamie's message about how to get support for education reform has captured the interest of professional educators in high places. Listen to his key ideas followed by a reality check by our panel.

•What other new insights about issues and trends in the early childhood field did you gain from exploring the website or e-newsletter?

I discovered that there is so much going on through politics, society, and science that I did not have any idea how much discussion goes on about our field. Additionally, I have found a plethora of peers to listen to and comment on different strategies, policies, and more.

BAM radio also has a parent category that can be useful when providing information to parents. Three is many different stations that will take months to go through, but is so fun, enlightening, and great for professional development.

 

 

Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 1

Poverty is a hot topic. Many people think that people in poverty are lazy and do not work which is why they cannot make money. This couldn't be farther from the truth. Many times families just cannot make enough money ever working 2-4 jobs.


There are many challenges when teaching children in poverty. Older students are sometime pulled out of class or working 3rd shift in order to support their families. The stress level of these students can be debilitating.


Empathy is needed when dealing with children in poverty to avoid deeper problems. Teaching is based on relationships therefore, if you do not know your students, you cannot meet the needs of the whole child if the teacher wants to assist the academic development .Teachers need to be aware and keep abreast of resources that can assist these families.




The Challenges of Teaching Students in Poverty  Tom Whitby,  Nancy Blair,  Rafranz Davis

In this segment from the 9/10/13 #Edchat, we look at the impact of poverty on what goes on in the classroom. Follow:@blairteach, @tomwhitby @rafranzdavis @bamradionetwork Edhcat Archive: http://edchat.pbworks.com/

Romania




I couldn't access the site blackboard gave us; therefore, I used the UNICEF page


http://www.unicef.org/evaldatabase/files/2011_Romania_-_Evaluation_report_Helping_the_invisible_children.pdf


Romania has the most poverty in the world and the united states is a close 2nd.


In the paper, Helping the invisible children report written by  Manuela Sofia Staculesu Monica Marin. I gained three insights,




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BAM Radio

BAM Radio is a place to listen to other ECE professionals and specialists talk about new issues and trends in the education field.







BAM! is an acronym for "body and mind" and BAM! Radio was conceived in 2007 on the premise that the key to success in life for children and youth is nurturing a healthy mind in a healthy body. Developed by early childhood professionals, BAM! Radio started out as a single online radio program called Body Mind and Child. It was created to bring parents the latest insights and wisdom from the leading experts in the fields of early childhood education, physical education/motor development, play research, child development, and the neurosciences




The link is :
http://www.bamradionetwork.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=76 






I listened to the following:

Teaching Homeless Students

Sarah D. Sparks spent the last five years writing about federal and state education regulations. She writes a blog called "Inside School Research" for Education Week. Barbara Duffield is Policy Director for the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth ("NAEHCY"). John Spencer is currently a sixth grade ELL teacher in a low-income urban school in Phoenix, Arizona and blogs regularly at Education Rethink. Melanie Link Taylor teaches both general ed. and Special Ed.

This radio broadcast talked about working with students that are homeless students. Sparks stresses that they are the most vulnerable students that look to school for their support system. School is their constant in their lives. Students are in constant flux and their stress level is high because of the unknown things in their lives. Homeless students try to stay under the radar.


Signs of homeless students
-behavior changes
- Food hoarding
- same clothing
- falling asleep
-talking about staying with other people.


Academic performance seems to dwindle.


Demographics also includes homeless students.


BAM Radio is amazing!! You can also contact people that participated in the radio broadcast.








NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER EDUCATORS (NAECTE) is the organization I have chosen to explore and educate myself with during this class. I was attracted to the Journal tab this week. I searched for demographics and found numerous articles related to the subject. 


The Journal is Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education and there is a plethora of information on this link.


The web site state the following about the journal:


"The Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, publishes original manuscripts, reviews, and information about association activities. Its purpose is to provide a forum for consideration of issues and for exchange of information and ideas about research and practice in early childhood teacher education. JECTE welcomes research reports, position papers, essays on current issues, reflective reports on innovative teacher education practices, letters to the editor and book reviews."


I previewed articles through the abstract, Most have to be purchased; however if you join NACTE you have free access through the members only tab. I am waiting for payday, but have now decided to join this professional organization.


Through their winter 2014 e-newsletter I found out they will have a conference in my state ( Colorado). I am always anxious to get new trainings; therefore, I am going to keep abreast of more information.


This next week I am going to view their tool kit for teachers which includes position statements.








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