Week 4

The orgainzation I have been reading about is the NAEYC website. This website is provided with alot of of useful information to use in the Early Childhood field. They are many sections that can be helpful to you as a teacher. They have a variety of topicds you can pick out and read about a certain issue type you may have. There is a section that provides opportunities to get involved in the organization. It gives you a list of affiliated offices in different states that you can contact. NAEYC state policy efforts focus on researching and tracking national and state trends and informing NAEYC affiliates, policymakers, collaborting organizations, and other interested parties. NAEYC positions on state public polices and their impact on children brith through eight and families. This website is good for me to keep updated on any changes according to the NAEYC guidlines. It gives you standards that as a teacher you must meet and what you are suppose to be doing in the classroom to give the students you serve the best learning experience possible. It also gives you a great list of publications that you can use and order. Looking at the website I really didn't see anything that I really didn't agree on. It provided me with helpful information since I work in a center that is NAEYC accredicated.

Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre's Page

This website gave alot of useful imformation about childhood proverty. Childhood proverty is everywhere we look. It is affecting the unexpected and we need to be more prepared to be aware of what is happening around us. There are alot of children living in poverty, more than we ever expected. Children are dying from preventable disease because living in proverty their families have no means of getting them to the doctor or getting the help they need. This website had many publications that you could read about proverty. This website has a section where it can be used as a resource for policy makers, practitioners, and activist concerned about childhood proverty. It also gives some important elements of policy changes for children in proverty and ways this website outputs can be used. There is also a section that you can read about different case studies from different parts of the country. I read a few of these and they were quite interesting. It gives you a view of what things are like in other parts of the world. I would recommend this website to others to read because it provided useful information about childhood proverty. I hope and pray that one day the cycle of childhood proverty will be broken and there won't be such thing as this and families won't have to suffer from this. Today's poor children are all too often tomorrow's poor parents(www.childpoverty.org).

Organization

The orgainzation I choose was NAEYC. This organization was founded in 1926, The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is the world's largest organization working on behalf of young children with nearly 80,000 members, a national network of more than 300 state and local Affiliates, and a growing global alliance of like-minded organizations. NAEYC is the leading membership association for those working with and on behalf of children from birth through age 8. NAEYC convenes thought leaders, teachers and other practitioners, researchers, and other stakeholders and sets standards of excellence for programs and teachers in early childhood education. NAEYC members include teachers, paraeducators, center directors, trainers, college educators, families of young children, and the public at large.