Final Blog

When I first started this class I was not sure what I was going to learn and how it was going to affect my professional development. Now that we have come to the end and I am reflecting on my journey I realized the significances of learning about the international early childhood field for my professional and personal development have changed my mindset on educational development, training and strategic planning.

1.     Educational Development

a.       In learning about international early childhood field I learn that the professional that research and create programs and plan for child who live in some of the poorest areas must understand their community’s needs, families and understand the issues of poverty. In the past I learned about my students needs through surveys and speaking with parents. I realized to understand my students I need to understand what our community needs and what problems that are affecting the growth of families.

2.     Training

a.       In this course we were to connect with an early educational professional from another country. However, I was not able to and I did much of my study of International early childhood field through UNICEF’s where I learned about the effect of poverty and how counties are addressing the issues. Training is important to help develop and grow educators understanding of the needs of child so they can be successful in the future. Through collaboration of research and sharing personal experiences through POD cast, educators can gain the knowledge to better understand problems.

3.     Strategic Planning

a.       The UNICEF shared many stories countries taking action to create food plans to fight poverty and develop educational opportunities. I have learned by understanding your community and selecting educators who can help develop successful educational plans, effective plans can be put into play. Successful plans are delivered through trial and error. These decided educators, policy makers and educators are decided to making change and sharing ideas with the world to make the change they want to see.

One of my goals to continue my own professional development is to get involve through volunteer work and networking with programs that are fighting against poverty in different countries. Through hands on experiences I hope to gain more of an understanding of poverty and develop programs and events that can educate the community regarding current and past issues. Through my college’s replies and post I have learned that each state is fighting to create equal education in the early childhood education level. Because I now understand the progression that needs to take place in early childhood education I feel I can share and be a part of the change in many ways.