- Establishing Professional Contacts.
I am really excited about this course especially because of the rich opportunities of learning from each other and others from different parts of the world. I have gone through the possible contacts and have narrowed it down to Dr. Betty Chan Po-king from China representing the OMEP National Committee for Hong Kong Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association and Yvonne Dionne from Canada representing the Canadian Child Care Foundation.
I have sent them emails and at first I got emails telling me that a certain website had rejected the emails…I have sent them again off of a different email address and I am waiting for a response. I do have a plan B in case I do not get a response from my first 2 choices. I have saved the information from all of the participants that I met at a last conference I attended in Paris, PYP in the Early Years and I will send out an email to see who would be interested in a collaboration.
- Expanding Resources
This is also very exciting. I have just discovered the NAEYC a few years ago and I was amazed at all the wonderful stuff on there. Therefore choosing the NAEYC website was a natural choice for me. The fact that reading through articles and information off of the NAEYC website is part of my coursework is very exciting because now I know I will have time to read and learn a lotJ
Ana,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that the NAEYC is a fabulous resource. It is always current, progressive, and leaves little out that we need in our profession.
Good luck with contacting professionals internationally. I find that the pursuit of finding someone is already a great learning process, since you discover the various roles and responsibilities of early childhood professionals across the world.
Zeina
The professionals you have found sound very intriguing. I look forward to following your blog. Good luck in the class.
ReplyDeleteI also enjoy doing research on the NAEYC website because the information is very helpful in the early childhood education field. I hope the two professional you pick will respond to your emails.
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