What specific section(s) or information seemed particularly relevant to your current professional development?
The specific section important to my current professional development is "School Readiness" which allow students a smooth transition. Students should be academic prepared since kindergarten requires so much more than the past. (ZEROTOTHREE) World rounded articles to enhance the latest trends and issues to help all professionals be abreast on all topics.
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?
This statement has had a great profound effect on my teaching because it made me wonder was I reaching all of my children and knew how to reach each individual child needs.
"Quality early learning has a long lasting impact on children, their well-being and their ability to learn. The early years of a child's life-ages birth through five are the most important years in his or her development. Research shows that children who experience stable, high-quality child care perform better in grade school, high school, and beyond."
Ninety percent of brain growth occurs from birth to five years of years age.
A child develops the ability to reason by the age of five
By the age of three, many children know 1,100 words
It is extremely important as early start and preschool educators; we must be prepared as highly-qualified educators to know how early children learn best and the importance of early learning for later school success. Furthermore as high qualified educators how to help disadvantaged children to close the achievement gaps despite advantage achievement children. Since we as a society lives in a competitive global world, therefore our early childhood children should be able to compete global with confidence and they and their families depend on us to give them this edge.
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?
Why Business Should Support Early Childhood Education
ICW/Institute For A Competitive Workforce
http://icw.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/ICW_EarlyChildhoodReport_2010.pdf
RAND LABOR AND POPULATION
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/2008/RAND_RB9352.pdf
What other new insights about issues and trends in the early childhood field did you gain from exploring the website or e-newsletter?
Mobilizing Science to Revitalize Early Childhood Policy
Shonkoff, Jack P
. Issues in Science and Technology
26.1
(Fall 2009): 79-85.
Current early childhood programs should be viewed as a promising starting point for innovation, not a final destination that simply requires increased funding. Remarkable progress in neuroscience, molecular biology, and genomics has provided rock-solid knowledge that underscores the role of positive early experiences in strengthening brain architecture, along with compelling evidence that "toxic" stress can disrupt brain circuits, undermine achievement, and compromise physical and mental health. Evaluation science also is providing the means to differentiate effective early childhood programs that should be scaled up from underperforming efforts that need to be either strengthened or discontinued. It is time for policymakers to strengthen efforts to equalize opportunities for all young children by leveraging the science of child development and its underlying neurobiology to create the framework for a new era of innovation in early childhood policy and practice.
As a society as a whole we must become advocates for equal/fair early childhood for all families and their childen regardless income and ethic group. It starts with day care centers owners being highly educated and their staff members. Furthermore utilize staff development and updated training along with magazines and tapes as coed accessible.
Hi Diane,
ReplyDeleteI am reading the same website. I feel the same about what is known about birth to age five in learning and developing the brain. I think children must have the best learning experiences necessary to achieve academic success and success into adulthood. I think the information from this website also aligns with policymakers, economists, and science's view of investing in early childhood. Thanks for your post!
Diane,
ReplyDeleteI am glad that you addressed school readiness in your blog this week. It is an extremely important topic and the learning gaps that currently exist in our country must be closed in order to promote healthy learning development.
Thanks for keeping us informed!
Hi Diane school readiness is very important. I too think that we should start very early with our children in preparing them for the future. Zero to Three is a very interesting newsletter. I found some of the information to be very enlightening. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteDiane,
ReplyDeleteI love the ZEROTOTHREE website it is very informative and keeps you current with issues and trends in the early childhood field. I enjoy their information. School readiness is very important and instrumental in how a child will begin their journey into a school environment.