When I Reflect About My Collegial, Professional Learning Community

· Post at least three consequences of your experience being a part of a caring, collaborative learning community for your professional growth and development.

 

1.     Ability to build healthy networks

 

2.     Ability to glean from others around me.

 

 

3.     Constructive criticism that helps me to grow in the areas those are weak.

 

· Post one goal for using this collegial experience to enhance your advocacy, policy, and/or system development work on behalf of young children, families, and the early childhood community.

 

I feel that this degree will enable me to transfer knowledge in result building up the community around me. I am excited about me future in early childhood advocacy. I hope that all of my colleagues have received everything that they may feel was vital from me. I can say that our class was small but we packed a wealth of information that was transferred.

My Hypothetical Family Situation

Hello, my name is Nicole and I am a happy mother of four. I am married to a wonder man named Donavan. Our children’s names are Isaiah (8), Eden (5), Obadiah (3), and Zachariah (1). All my life I have waited to have children. Also a desire that I have had since a child was to adopt and foster children. I was adopted a 3 months and I feel that this is truly a gift that was brought in to my life and I wanted to continue to give the gift to others. I don’t have any specific amount of children that I want to have but I do want to help as many children as I can. Currently we are researching different adoptions agencies and have found three that we are looking at. One agency is very interested in us as a family but they are located across the globe. To complete this adoption we will have to go there. This location is in Nigeria. We are very excited and are in the process of getting this together for our children because we also want them to go along with us. This is a transition in both our families’ life that will cause us to never be the same again. We want to do more research about the place we are getting our new child from and we also want to get information of getting our current children adjusted to this new family structure.

Questions:

1. Are there any specific websites I should be reviewing with regard to learning about quality services and programs for my child and family in this hypothetical family situation?

2. Have I given a complete picture of my family, or are there details missing that I should include in order to complete the assignment successfully? If so, what are your suggestions?

The Political Will to Improve Early Childhood Systems

• Share one or more strategies you have discovered as you worked on the assignments in this course, and particularly this week, that are currently being used by advocates or organizations to influence the political will toward improving early childhood systems in order to foster the well-being of young children and their families.

This week I choose to research the early childhood and primary strand. In this research one area that I had to gain more information on was the professional development. As a Director of a daycare I see how important it is to promote EC professionals to go back to get more education and also more hands on experience through vital and physical travel seeing different early childhood environments. This week I was able to read a mission statement from the Center for the study of Child Care Employment. They have four priorities: access to education; rewarding environments; workforce information; and leadership development (Center for the study of Child Care Employment ,2011). In my facility I feel that it is equally as important to request each professional best when working with the  children, parents, and their colleagues. In the same respect I feel that as an employer I must have different resources available for each employee to have access to. Some ways I give them this opportunity is by having quarterly seminars and also access to webnairs form other organizations that connect them to early childhood across the globe. I fell that each professional should be given that opportunity to better advance themselves. I feel that the need to provide this type of service should provoke the state and local government to provide different funds that each state can contribute to educating each professional.

• What part of this work appeals to you most and why?

The thing that appeals to me the most is seeing teachers and also the children learning from each other because of the information that at their disposal. I feel that the children should also be connected with the world around them through the most updated technology. Most schools around me are learning with ebooks. This is an up-to-date way for children to get information. I am required as an EC professional to get my children equipped for the technology ahead of them.




Reference


Center for the Study of Child Care Employment. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/cscce/