Sharing Web Resources

The organization I selected is The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). The link  to this organization is http://www.naeyc.org. NAEYC'S mission is to raise the quality of early childhood programs and to continue building the association through a a growing global alliance of like-minded organizations.

One current trend from this website this year that caught my attention is that the association and  the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at Saint Vincent College released a comprehensive statement, “Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8,” providing important new guidance to early childhood programs on the effective use of media and technology. As educators, we need any new ideas on how we can teach children. Technology is all around us and this topic being presented on this website is beneficial to the 80,000 members it as.

Considering the topic for this week, that is, changing demographics and diversity, NAEYC prides itself in being culturally diverse and are mindful of the term inclusion. Its members are different people that are united by advocacy for children. They are composed of a variety of professionals and not just teachers. As a member of this  community, one has the opportunity to meet with people around the world who share the same passions and discuss current issues and research through a much broader audience. Ones circle of networking amongst professionals grows. Members are invited to child-advocacy events and be a part of projects to help children locally or in other parts of the world. This gives the opportunity to get experiences with working with people from different cultures and backgrounds and be better able to assist the culturally diverse families in ones classrooms.