The website: Pre[K]now: http://www.preknow.org/
Under this website I clicked on the Educators link. The educator link provides information to help educators learn more about what a high-quality pre-k classroom looks like and about how to get involved in their state's pre-k movement whether through planning or implementation, regardless of the type of program they teach in. In addition, they offer profiles of great teachers from across the country who makes a difference in the lives of children every day. The links are as follows:
Pre-K Teachers Resource Center- get the facts about pre-k and teaching that every early childhood educator should know.
Virtual Classroom Tour- see what a high-quality pre-k program really looks like.
Community-Based Pre-K Providers- learn about the issues affecting community-based pre-k providers and how they can become involved in the pre-k movement
Teachers Profiles- read the inspirational stories of pre-k teachers from across the nation who have made high-quality pre-k their top priority (http://www.preknow.org/educators/index.cfm?&print=1&print=1
The newsletter: http://www.preknow.org/: I found an article: Even Start Family Literacy program focuses on adult, early childhood education by Kathy Walsh Nufer, August 4, 2011. This article talks about Even Start ,which is based in McKinley Elementary School, puts a premium on adult and early childhood education so low-income and "second language" parents learning to master English can improve their lives, and their young children are prepared for school. This program helped a thirty-four year old mexican woman learn to master English and earn her high school equivalency diploma. Also, it gave her youngest daughter, Abigail 23 months, a jump-start on acquiring language skills she will need later in the classroom. Without this program, Bedolla (mexican woman name) would not have been able to accomplish this because thirteen years ago; she depended on friends and tv to help learn English after she moved from Mexico. http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20110804/AOC0101/108040470/Even-Start-program-focuses-adult-early-ch...
This article shows how Even Start provides a Family Literacy Program that helps a immigrant mother from Mexico participate in this program for three years to learn English and receive her high school equivalency diploma. In addition, she gave her youngest daughter, Abigail, twenty-three months a jump start on acquiring language skills she will need later in the classroom. This program provide the accessibility that immigrant families needs to overcome the educational barriers that they encounter when they enter in the United States.
Talae,
ReplyDeleteThe immigrant from Mexico was able to offer those services to her daughter because she was aware of those services and the benefits to her child. Unfortunately, not many immigrants are aware of those services available. It is impoprtant that we make those services available so that immigrant femilies and children can have full access to those services that would behefit all of them in the long run.