The three organizations that I chose for this blog assignment are: Zero to three: National Center for Infants, The National Association for the Education of Young Children, and Voices for America's Children.
Zero toThree: National Center for Infants appealed to me because it is an organization that provides helpful infomation about infants and toddlers. Zero to Three is a national, nonprofit organization that informs, trains, and supports professionals, policymakers, and parents in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers. At this time, this national organization did not have any job opportunities available, but this organization offers vacation, sick and holdiay pay, transportation subsidy, professional develoment opportunities and offer a family friendly workplace. http://www.zerotothree.org/
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), appealed to me because it is not only the nation's largest organization working on the behalf of young children from birth to age age eight, but it is the world's largest organization with over eighty-thousand members. On this website, the job that kinda caught my interest was an Associate Editor, Periodicals and Related Resources. The lucky candidate will identify authors, write articles, conduct interviews and collaborate with the editorial team to generate story ideas and formats for an issue of the Association's magazine for preschool educators. The minimum requirement for this job is BA degree and five years of editorial experience and excellent writing skills. Although, I lack work experience for this job, but now I know what a Associate Editor job duties are. http://naeyc.org/
Voices for America's Children appealed to me because it is the nation's largest network for multi-issue child advocacy organizations. This organization is a nonprofit, nonpartisan network which lead advocacy efforts at the community, state and federal levels to improve the lives of all children, especially those vulnerable, and their families. Most of the job opportunities that were available were familiar to me. Such as, a teacher, associate teacher, and cooks. Job requirements for the teaching job were a high school diploma, but a Bachelor's degree was preferred. Also, the lucky candidate must meet state requirements for education. This organization is another resource that is helpful to all children because it speak up for children and put children on government's agenda. http://www.voices.org/
Talae,
ReplyDeleteGreat choices of organization!
I think 'Voices of America's' Children is an organization early childhood professionals should consider as part of their COP.They lead advocacy efforts at the community, state and federal levels to improve the lives of all children, especially those most vulnerable, and their families.
I hope to find out more about their policies and programs for future resources.
Hi Talae. I'm glad that you chose organizations that also support parents in their child's education and development. All too often the focus lays solely on the schools and centers. Parent's, however, are a child's first teacher and nurturer, and many need training, assistance and support in how best to do this.
ReplyDeleteTalae, I checked out the websites you mentioned. Of course they are all helpful for your interests, but I was surprised at how hard it was to find information on father involvement on all the sites. I did find one piece of information on Zero to Three that I found useful for my COP. Voices looks very interesting and potentially useful to many in our class, and it is one I have never heard of. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHey Talae,
ReplyDeleteLike you I used Zero to Three as one of the voices for my community of practice. This organization mission is “to promote the health and development of infants and toddlers” (Zero to Three, 2011). As educators these are things that we live by in order to provide quality learning experiences to young children. The voices of American Children is an organization that may be helpful to my community of practice as it is my desire to provide quality learning experiences for those children who come from low income families. Great resources!
Reference:
Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.zerotothree.org/
Talae,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the wonderful new resources especially the Voices for America's Children. I have never heard of it before but definitely plan to look at the website especially for the jobs. I am very familiar with the Zero-To-Three and NAEYC are very common and ones that I frequently use as a reference when I am searching for topics in early childhood. Great post!!