I decided to explore Early Childhood Australia, A Voice
for Young Children, http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/.
Their mission statement: Early Childhood Australia will advocate to ensure
quality, social justice and equity in all issues relating to the education and
care of children from birth to eight years. This says to me that we are all striving for the good of the children.
The resource themes
explored on this site are Being Belonging and Becoming, School Readiness, Baby
and Toddler Sleeping and Childhood Obesity. These are all issues that we have
explored and experienced and should have further research.
I found the Research and
Practice Series very informative, the discussion of topics such as Partnerships,
Respecting diversity and The Code of Ethics are just a few of important issues
deserving further research.
This is a website that I
will go back to for more research to gain new ideas for everyday classroom
issues. This site contains an abundance of information for educators.
Hello Catherine,
ReplyDeleteIt was very interesting to see that all around the globe we are facing the same problems. Childhood obesity,getting children ready for school, and the challenges that schools face in keeping the arts in schools. There was a article about implementing primary art eduction and what their teachers had to say.
Catherine,
ReplyDeleteI explored the NAEYC version of the australian website and it was similar to the one in America. However after reading their early childhood news articles I found quite a few differences in the issues that remian in their country. I was amazed at the fact that they just now implemented a high quality ratio in Januay 2012 of 1:4 but then know to invest 20 billion in their early childhood programs so that every child has an oppurtunity to attend a high quality program. It was very interesting to say the least.
Hi!
ReplyDeleteI found this resource to be very informative and educational for early childhood educators. It was very interesting to look at the similarities as well as the differences comparing the United States to Australia. I am happy to know of another resource that I saved in “My Favorites” so I can go back to reference to when looking for specific information.