Final Blog Assignment

Australia and UK The international contacts that I chose were in Australia and the UK. I have received very little help from the contacts. I have received a reply email about once or twice by both contacts, but they were redirecting me to someone else. I contacted the other contacts and I have heard absolutely nothing back. I have researched the websites and found interesting facts about the countries and the educational background. Australia’s poverty line of single parent families is 21.8%. In 2008-2009, the UK had 13 ½ million people living who were living below the low-income threshold. Most of the students of Australia fall below the poverty line. The short term goal for the UK was that child poverty be redirected to the number of children in low income households by a quarter. A goal I would suggest would be that countries try to come together for the good and make things work out to improve the education spectrum and make some good moves in the education field.

International Contacts-Part 3

The issues that are being discussed around me include the rules and regulations of Medicaid, eligibility requirements for children to qualify for special services, and the cost of daycare. As I have previous mentioned. I work for a daycare in the DDS department (Development Delayed Services) and it is funded by Medicaid for students who are eligible to attend based on their evaluation reports. The rules and regulations are getting tougher and tougher. We have to make sure all our I's and T's are crossed, because we are dealing with the federal government. We have different professional developments through out the year and it is also available for us to receive it online if we were interested. My professional goal is to receive my certification and get a job in teaching and recruiting, but I know I will have to go into to the classroom first as a stepping stone. I hope my time in the classroom is not as a long time, because I feel I can be more beneficial in the area of finding and recruiting teachers. One challenge that I am facing now is that I am kind of stuck on which area I would like to teach or what age level and that is something that needs to be decided in order for me to move further in my educational venture. I am hoping to pass my program and move on to my next educational level.

Canadian Association for Young Children....Sharing Web Resources

On the Canadian Association for Young Children website, I explored the "Membership" link and it explained the membership fees and incentives. It named the different membership levels and gave me the contact person's information. As I explore the website, I do not see any subscriptions to a newsletter. It a journal that comes our seasonally. It is online and it is called "The Canadian Children" contextualizes and maps pedagogical moments, practices, events, discourses, and conceptualizations of Canadian early childhood education. The articles examine arrangements, linkages, and assemblages can simultaneously create limitations and possibilities for children, educators, parents, researchers, policy makers, and curriculum developers.

Getting to Know Your International Contacts

I have contacted about four different contacts. My responses include redirection to the website or to another individual. The information I have gained has come from the websites and I have been referring to them regularly. I will continue to attempt contact and research the website, but as I have previously stated I feel these contacts do not feel a need reply to us. It is amazing how we are contacting different people, but we are getting the same results.