Final Blog Assignment

This is my last week in Issues and Trend class I have learn so much about issues and trend in many countries. I have gain knowledge on issues that are in my town and in many other cities and states such as poverty, poor quality education, language barriers, healthy development and lack of resources. Was not aware of issues that happens in early childhood field this has help me to be aware of these issues in my career of child development.

My second consequence is who are the professional that help to contribute to the field to make it appropriate for the early childhood field? Are there real professional who care about the children and not just getting paid. I have talk to one professional that is very concern about her students in her classroom she work from her heart to make sure that her students have the education that is needed for the appropriate age group that are in her class.

My third consequence is I have gain is where does the professionals stand in the field of early childhood develop, what are the requirements, what is require of the professionals, what are the gaps in childhood field. I have gain knowledge of the policies and school readiness or in other countries and how the cultural affects children in other countries and their families.

One goal for the field is to have workshop, professional development as much as possible, newsletters, mentors to share information between each others around the countries and different programs around the states that will help promote healthy development for children worldwide and help to improve the high quality program for all children.

Getting to Know Your International Contacts

In my Issue and Trend class I was not able to get in contact with any professional in other states so I was not able to find out what quality issues are in their work or where he or she stays. When I research on the quality issues where I live I found alot of issues that I was not aware of all of them. In South Central Los Angeles there are schools that do not get adequate funding, and as a result, most of the students there can only dream of attending USC. The drop-out rates of students who attend public schools in South Central are unacceptable. A recent study conducted by Harvard University found that nearly half of the students at South Central's Manual Arts High School and Jefferson High School drop out of school. That requires a fairer distribution of resources to inner-city schools and a greater commitment to quality education for all. The youth of South Central deserve more qualified and caring teachers and more dedicated principals. We cannot set low expectations for our students or accept mediocre performance. Parent involvement is also critical to the success of student academic performance.

Where I work the issues is the language barriers of the Spanish children and parents who comes into the school and fill uncomfortable not knowing the English language. Once he or she know that there is someone there at the school that can speak the language and understand he or she situation begins to work out for parents and their children. Another issues is when there is not a teacher in the classroom that do not know the language of the children it becomes very hard for the teacher to teach the children because they do not understand. This is when the teacher have to come up with a strategies that will help the children to understand what he or she are saying.

Teachers are necessarily at the center of reform, for they must carry out the demands of high standards in the classroom (Cuban, 1990). Thus, the success of ambitious education reform initiatives hinges, in large part, on the qualifications and effectiveness of teachers. As a result, teacher professional development is a major focus of systemic reform initiatives (Corcoran, 1995; Corcoran, Shields, & Zucker, 1998). Teachers should always learn more on quality to have effective class professional development is necessary to have to share what you have experience and learn in this field of early childhood. This development would help a lot of professional in your community and out of your community the knowledge that you have  that are coming into the field that do not know as much as he or she does.

Some of my professional goals is to get all the education I can get to be the best that I can be in my career of child development. I want to work work with families as well as their children to help in any way that I can to make sure the parents in children or happy with the school. Another goal is to be able to work with my coworkers in issues that can be resolve through communication and strategies to make sure there is not animosity among ourselves.

My hopes and dreams is to own my own school for all ages K-12 that is why I am taken early childhood courses now so I will be able to pursue this dream to make it come alive. This is something that I have always wanted to do because I love children no matter what race or cultural they are from. I have a heart for children and families I like helping people no matter where he or she come from. This is challenging for me because of many issues in my life right now with a sick mother that I never thought would have the disease of Alzheimer's this is my second around to finish college I finish the first time in college with a Bachelors now I am going for my Master. I am determine to finish my goals in life.

Sharing Resources

The outside link that I research this week talk about the quality program for early childhood program from ages 3 and 4 years old. In Southern California schools are working to come up with strategies that will help the families to be able to afford the quality program so their children would be able to attend school. The schools are coming up with funded ideals that will allow parent participation to help provided the education for their children. There were many states that I have read about did not allow children that were 3 or 4 to go to school at all which I thought was very sad. It is hard for parents to find good quality programs and when the parents find one they are turn down. I believe if a child is ready to attend school he or she should be able to attend. From my reading children who start early would graduate early and proceed with their education and be successful in life.  

In my first week assignment the website that I read about Foundations of Lifelong Health are Built in Early Childhood the information that was provided has some of the same information that I gain in this week research about how low income families provides basic necessities and positive learning environment for their children on the wages of what he or she make on their jobs. Middle income parents struggles to make sure their children are in school without the help of welfare or any other assistance.

What I have gain about issues on this week about equity care, availability, affordable, accessibility, that there were many states and might be still some that did not allow families to have accessibility to their programs because of funding. Parents that was living in poverty could not afford the programs so their children had to stay at home until he or she had reach appropriate age to go to school. I also learn that some schools had the quality care but the teacher was not getting paid enough to enhance the program for the children to get the education that were needed at that time. I have gain all of these issues to be aware in my field of early childhood and know how to come up with strategies that would help me in my field of development.