My Australian contact lost her father this week so she was
unable to correspond; thoughts and prayers are with her. I did reach Dr. Sahin
and posed the following questions to him with his responses below.
What issues regarding quality and early childhood
professionals are being discussed where you live and work?
We believe in improving quality through family and community
interactions. Children learn at home and at school, or should I say all the
time. Keeping families and communities involved helps carry over what they are
learning.
What opportunities and/or requirements for professional
development exist?
There are many opportunities such as workshops, observations
of other classrooms in other schools, mentoring, etc.
What are some of your professional goals?
To improve the quality of early childhood education, to
raise awareness about early childhood education in the society, and to conduct
national and international level studies to support family programs.
What are some of your professional hopes, dreams, and
challenges?
I hope to be able to create awareness about the importance
of preschool education nationwide, there are always going to be challenges in
anything we do, we just have to keep pushing to make things happen.
I have enjoyed getting answers from my correspondents. It
just shows how we can be worlds apart and still have the same goals and the
same issues. It was nice to discuss things and see how we handled them either
the same or different.
Catherine,
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed reading about your interactions with your international contact. It seems like we all have most of the same goals in mind about our vision and challenges for early childhood education. You are correct when you say, "we can be worlds apart and still have the same goals and the same issues".