Saturday, July 5, 2014

Getting Ready—Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources


Establishing Professional Contacts
In order to contact two professionals, I used the Global Alliance of NAEYC and UNICEF websites as a guide. The first two that I found were Kingston, Jamaica and Hong Kong, China. Both of the emails that I sent to them failed. In addition, I also emailed the Philippines, Albania, and Belarus. I am currently waiting for a response but I will not be so dependent on just these three, throughout the week I will be emailing them again and also more contacts until I get a response.

Expanding Resources

I have decided to further explore Harlem Children’s Zone. The reason I chose this website because it gives information about children ages 0-5, school-aged, and includes families and community. I hope that this website helps to me to learn more about the early years, the impacts of the early years to later school-aged, and also more of how to relate to and involve the families by exploring their website and also subscribing to their newsletter.

2 comments:

  1. Erika!!
    I'm happy to be in another group with you! I do enjoy reading your posts and look forward to reading many more. I love your choice for your organization, I cant wait to see what interesting things you find out about the Harlem Children's Zone. As for your international contacts, I'm sure you will get a response soon. Stay vigilant and don't give up!

    Best Wishes,
    M.Bussey

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  2. Erika,

    I agree with you. If this set of emails fails, I will try another set. It is frustrating, but I considered the fact the information may need to be updated. I am not sure how long the contact info has been available on the NAEYC. Perhaps their are other people in the positions we are reaching out to. I'm not sure...just a thought. Hopefully we will all be able to successful connect with two or more professionals so that we will be able to fulfill our class assignments.

    Another classmate that I replied to chose the Children's Harlem Zone. I shared my desire to combine early education with that of formal schooling. I will study the CHZ concept and hopefully I can apply some of their tools.

    Thanks,
    Stephanie

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