What Resonates With You About Early Childhood Public Policy and Advocacy?

What Resonates With You About Early Childhood Public Policy and Advocacy?

 

Part 1 Why I did choose this specialization?   After I finish my Master of Education Degree. I was looking for  program  doctorate degree I came across  for public policy in ECE.I decide to take that instead on going for my doctorate degree.  I feel that advocate children and families is what I do every day. I want to learn more about public policy so I can speak community leaders and government leader to talk about the important of early learning.

Part 2 Why are advocates essential in the early childhood field?

Advocates are essential in the early childhood field we are teaching future leader of tomorrow. Advocates are the people who advocate for the field of early learning.  People who advocates give the voice for children, families, teachers who are involved in the early children field. They also tell the politicians what we need in the field for example, for more funding for programs.

Part 3 What do you hope to learn about policy and advocacy?

 I hope to learn more about the how public policy work and how can use in my community. I want to take the knowledge that I learn from this class and work with different organization to advocate for more funding for early childhood education.  Also I want work with community leaders to advocate for more quality childcare programs.

Thank You

Thank You Everyone



Dear Classmate


I can believe that our journey as come to and end.  I am thankful for all the support that you show me in this course.  I enjoy reading everybody blog . I love our discuss board I learn some much from every. Finally  I wish all by classmate the best in future classes and I am looking forward to hearing from  all of y'all in the next class .
Thank you 
Raejean.

Goodbye

Goodbye

 

The team I had the hardest time leaving was Master of Education cohort. For two years on Tuesday night. I was allow to learned, sharing and build friendship.   We became a close group in those two years. In this two years the group had six children born and two marriage. We would discuss current issues that affect the education field. We worked together on ways to find funding for education. We would listen to each other about each other jobs. For example some of the group was not sure if they had a job the next school year because of budget cuts. We started to countdown the classes in September of the last year.

The last eight weeks of class I started to realize that my journey with this group of friends was coming to an end. No more Tuesday night sitting in class. No more papers and group project due.  I also realize that I would not see some of the people in my group anymore and that was sad. I remember on graduation day we took a group picture of all us. That day was the end of my journey with my cohort. This experience taught be that I could work together with a group of people from different backgrounds and different opinions can come together to build a knowledge with each other. Now we communication through Facebook

 

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Conflicts and Disagreements

Conflicts and disagreements

In the being of the school year new children transition in my classroom.  Now management have make a new decision to change the time when new children transition in classroom now time 9:00 before in was 8:30 am  when the another children came it.  The conflict that I am have is that management made this decision without talking to the teachers.  At 9:00 I am in transition mold. I am changing diapers, tooth brushing, and clean up from breakfast. I cannot talk to a new parents while doing all these things. I have tried the strategy of listening to my new parents but sometime I cannot respond to question.  So I have decide talk to management about this new decision by used the conflict tool I learn this week.  I also will write down my concern about the new time and how it affect my job. I would welcome any suggestion from my colleagues.

Who am I as a communicator?

Who am I as a communicator?


Before this class I never though about how  I communicate with other people . This week  I gave some insight about myself when It come with communicate with other people. After talk to friends, family and co-workers they all gave me different  view point of how I communicate with them. I found with my co-workers it more information communication. We attend to pass on information about the children and families that we come in contact with . My family and friends it more of updates  what going on in ours lives.  Now that is being of the school year I found myself more as listener to my parents as I am building new relationship with them.

communication style

The communication style that I admire was  Mrs. Caroline Jordan she was Direct at my first job in the field of early children  education.  She was nurturing  and calming voice. She would always give word of encouragement . I remember one time  on  the job we was unsatisfied   with our pay.  She told us to do a sick out and that will get the attend of management   After we did that our pay did change. She would always standup  for staff. I learn for her how to be calm when talk to people and how to listen to what person is said to you.  Years later the experience that I learn from allow me to communication with parents and co-worker in calm way.

Professional Hopes and Goals

                                                   Professional  Hopes and Goals






My hope for working with families that come from a diverse background is that we can build on the background knowledge of the families. Also with knowledge I gain from this class it allow me to reach more families that have a diverse background so we can work together to support the child in the classroom.

One goal is I  would like to more diversity add to the curriculum and  more training for teachers on diversity. So that we can support the families and children.

I would like to say thank you  to all my colleagues for their support during this class. Also would like to thank you for sharing your insight , knowledge, view point .