Final

It has been a pleasure to travel an eight week journey with each of you.  Throughout this course I have been enlighted on so many issues and trends related to early childhood education and care.  I have truly enjoyed reading and sharing information from my peers.

Also, it was a wonderful experience to learn about issues at an international level.  I chose World Forum Foundation as my international resource.  I learned from them how they deal with poverty, Children's Rights, and curriculum around the world.

World Forum Foundation provides information to help support families in poverty.  World Forum Foundation assures that funds are available for low-income families for childcare,  World Forum Foundation has established a World Forum Fellowship fund.  The funds are used to facilitate the attendance for early childhood education.

World Forum Foundation inspires, encourages, and supports the initiation of a Working Group of Children's Rights.  Their goal is to research the work of existing groups surrounding Children's Rights, determining the mission and goals for this Working Group and plan strategies for accomplishing these goals.

World Forum Foundation informed and taught me that they are a group of early educators, and along with others who focus on issues related to quality curriculum for young children.  The World Forum Foundation has been very committed to addressing issues with early childhood curriculum around the world.  They are working to recruit and continue to recruit group members from around the world, to develop clearly stated principles that will support early childhood curriculum.
 

Getting to know your International Contacts - Part 3

This week I have learned that the World Forum Foundation is working to promote an on-going global exchange of ideas on the delivery of quality services for young children in diverse settings.  World Forum Foundation is accomplished through convening gatherings of early childhood professionals around the world and by promoting the continuing exchange of ideas among participants.  The mission of the World Forum Foundation is accomplished through two types of gatherings of early childhood professionals World Forum on Early Care and Education.  Every two years 600 – 800 early childhood professionals from more than 80 countries gather to share ideas on a wide range of issues impacting the delivery of quality services for children and families.

In the alternate years, Working Forums—regional meetings of early childhood professionals focusing on specific issues—take place.  Both types of gatherings serve as “meeting places” where all those interested in promoting the well-being of young children and families can share ideas, strategies, and perspectives.  At World Forum gatherings people often come together to launch global projects on specific issues and topics. Current projects focus on men in early childhood education, AIDS and young children, nature education, peace education, teacher education, and immigration and young children.

References
http://worldforumfoundation.org

Sharing Web Resources

This week I chose Global Leaders for Young Children as a outside link.  Global Leaders for young Children is to improve life chances for young children around the world by providing opportunities where developing early childhood leaders can become effective change agents and advocates for quality early childhood development services in their home countries.

The central goal of the Global Leaders for Young Children initiative is to encourage participants to become more effective change agents and advocates for quality early childhood development services in their home countries.

The Global Leaders for Young Children supports the achievements of equity in education.  Global Leaders for Young Children work is based on the perspectives on equity and a commitment to provide emotional and intellectual support to educators as they work for the transformation of educational settings.  They commit by participating in two mentoring sessions,

• learn leadership and advocacy skills.
• be inspired to make a difference in their countries.

The new insight I learned this week is Global Leaders for Young Children are encourage to put what they learned into practice by working with other people in their country to launch a leadership or advocacy project.

Getting To Know Your International Contacts

The new insight and new information that I gained while visiting the World Forum Foundation and Bonnie's blog is the Indigenous people have developed an Action Group.  At the 2009 World Forum Foundation, on Early Care and Education, fifteen persons gathered from seven countries to hold the first ever Indigenous People Action Group meeting.  The participant meet for two consecutive days, prior to the meeting with the World Forum Foundation, to explore themes, such as, the rebuilding of cultures, inclusion, young children and nature, and indigenous culture in urban settings.

The World Forum Foundation shows equity and excellence by improving life chances for young children around the world.  World Forum Foundation has developed a cadre of ear;y childhood leaders, who has learned to be effective change agents and advocates for quality early childhood development in their communities, nations, regions, and the world.