Sharing Web Resources

A website that I love is the Zero to Three site. Which is located here https://www.zerotothree.org/

Our mission is to ensure that all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life.
At ZERO TO THREE we envision a society that has the knowledge and will to support all infants and toddlers in reaching their full potential.

The website is extremely helpful with links and videos. It gives information about the early stages of a child's life, their developments, and information if you think your child isn't on track.


A current article on the site is Helping Children Learn Right From Wrong. As parents we want to make sure our children are learning the correct way to interact with others. The article gives helpful tips on how to teach your child right from wrong.

https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/1689-helping-children-learn-right-from-wrong





Its a easy to navigate website with a lot of helpful and useful information, this is a website you would want to bookmark.

Getting Ready—E stablishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

Part 1
Establishing Professional Contacts

For this part I choose to do some research on The Global Fund For Children, their vision is to provide a place for children to grow and become great citizens.

The Mission


We work to advance the dignity of children worldwide. We pursue this mission by making small grants to innovative community-based organizations working with many of the world’s most vulnerable children and youth.

The website gives great information on their cause, approach, and grants that they give. They also have blogs you can visit and videos you can view.

http://www.globalfundforchildren.org/



Part 2
Expanding Resources

The early childhood organization that I picked for this section is The Zero To Three organization. I have always bookmarked this website whenever I needed some information for work or for my home life.

Our mission is to ensure that all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life.

At ZERO TO THREE we envision a society that has the knowledge and will to support all infants and toddlers in reaching their full potential.

This website is great with giving information on child development and tools to help if their is any concerns.

https://www.zerotothree.org/

My Supports

Having a supportive team is very important in everyone's life. I have my wonderful husband, children, and my family who support any thing I put my mind to. If I didn't have such support I wouldn't do most of the things I have done. Right now my family is being very supportive on my next venture to lose weight.

I have been battling my weight for years and now its to a point where I need medical help. At first I was ashamed I couldn't lose the weight the natural way, it took me a few years to find out that it wouldn't work for me. As I came to the conclusion that I would need surgery to help me lose the weight, my family was very supportive. My husband has attended some meetings with me, my family have even done research on their own and told me what procedure they think would be best for me even though they aren't doctors.

I'm glad I have such support and I hope other people can say the same about their family and friends.

My Connections to Play

I have always been a firm believer that children learn through play, here are two of my favorite quotes:












The items I loved playing with when I was a kid are shown below! I loved playing with them when I was growing up.

 I loved Jem growing up, I was so happy that my parents fed into my obsession!

 Who didn't love this game? I could play it for hours!

While growing up my parents that it was necessary to play to develop social skills. I'm a Army brat so meeting new people every 3-4 years was stressful as a child. Play lets you be yourself and be free so that you don't even think about being the new person. I don't think play has changed much since I was a child, it stills provides the same social skills, and learning skills as before.

Play has helped me develop great social skills, I'm very friendly and love social gatherings with others. I believe if I didn't participate in play I would be less social and not really a party person.

Relationship Reflection

Relationships are important to me because they help build up a person's social and emotional developments. My husband is my best friend and we share so much with each other. My mom and dad are my mentors without them I don't know where I would be! It is very important to keep these relationships positive and strong because you never know when you will need that ear to vent too or that shoulder to cry on. My husband is my rock and I couldn't ask for anything else.

In childcare relationships are very important, everyone should be on the same page when working with children. Having a positive relationship with the caregiver of your child will benefit them.

When I Think of Child Development

This quote alone speaks volumes! we are our children learn from adults and mentors  its up to us to show them a good example.

Testing for Intelligence?

When considering a commitment to viewing young children holistically, the progress young children make in all developmental areas is a continuous and ongoing assessment.  On-going assessment is a responsible form of gathering real information on young children's progress.  One of the most comprehensive on-going assessment techniques is the student portfolio (Guddemi, 2003) which is a flexible and adaptable collection over time of various concrete work samples showing many dimensions of the child’s learning. The collection of these work samples along with the regularly recorded observations of children's interactions and comments serve to show children's progress over time and in a variety of situations. Information gained in this process can also be used in the planning of work that addresses the needs of the child as evidenced in the collection of work samples and teacher observations. And most importantly, it can be used as a tool in the sharing of progress with the child's family and with the child herself (Grace, 2001).


Assessments in China

For many teachers, the focus on performance--both instruction and assessment--is a new thought. Generations of language learners have completed course requirements that measured their ability to regurgitate information about aspects of the language at the expense of being able to use the languge. While traditional testing is still widely used and serves its prescribed purpose, classroom assessment should align with what students have learned and how they have learned. Because the goal of curriculum is for language use, it is important to require students to apply the newly gained communicative competence to similar but different contexts. This ability to transfer is similar to what happens in real life.
Among the assessment tools that teacher will use for classroom assessment include:

• Performance-based assessment tasks
• Self assessments
• Peer assessments
• Teacher observations
• Portfolios
• Quizzes and Tests

External Assessments A growing array of standardized, external assessments is available to measure student performance and program effectiveness.With the exception of Lingua Folio, which focuses on students' self-assessment and reflection, the testing instruments listed below allow the program to compare its results with those of other students and programs nationally and internationally. Most of these assessments are fee-based, and complete information about each can be obtained by contacted the organization.


References

Grace, Cathy (2001).Assessing Young Children, Published: December 2001.The Internet Newspaper:  News, Blogs videos, Community.   Retrieved from (http://www.educ.msstate.edu/cni/eci/)

Guddemi, M. P. (2003). The important role of quality assessment in young children ages 3–8. In Wall, J. & Walz, G. (Eds.) (2003). Measuring up: Assessment issues for teachers, counselors, and administrators. Greensboro, NC: ERIC Counseling and Student Services Clearinghouse.)

http://asiasociety.org/china-learning-initiatives/assessment-0