Final Blog Assignment

Three consequences of learning about the international early childhood field for my professional and personal development

1. Some of the international early childhood field are working on some of the same issues and trends are the USA
2. Some of the international early childhood field contact seem to be very busy
3. It was very hard to get in contact with a lot of them because of the services they provide in the other countries. 

One goal for the field related to international awareness of issues and trends and the spirit of collegial relations is to try to answers some of the questions we need answers to so we can I have a better understanding in the world. 

Getting to Know Your International Contacts

I had no luck with my contact this week.  I sent a message to them on the 14th and they responsed sending this message on the 15th: 
Dear Sir or Madam,
Thankyou for your inquiry.  Regrettably, due to the volume of such requeststhat we receive and the volume of work we have here at UNICEF's globalheadquarters, we cannot devote staff time to assist with studentor personal projects.  We greatly regret that this is the case.
However,we believe that our website is an excellent source of information onUNICEF-related issues.  We would kindly encourage you to revisit ourwebsite (www.unicef.org) and, in the Search box, perform a search using keywords related to your topic.  That will yield many results andget you off to a very good start.

For more detailed information, wewould also point you to the following outstanding UNICEF and UN websites forstatistics and monitoring:
www.unicef.org/devpro
www.childinfo.org
www.devinfo.org
http://www.unicef.org/statistics/index.html
We areconfident that you will find reams of information regarding your topic withinthese sites.
Again, weare sorry we cannot be of more direct assistance but wish you, nevertheless,every success with your project.
Withsincere thanks for your interest in and support of UNICEF,

Sincerely,

UNICEF
Web: www.unicef.org

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However, visiting their website their is a lot of information and article about health, education, and child survivor.  All of the articles are interesting because they are always somewhere helping the chidren and single and young mothers.  They are teaching young mothers about how to care for the babies, teaching the children about health and also educating them about health foods and education.  They are always provide the essential things they need to survive in their countries. 

Sharing Web Resources

As I have shared earlier with everyone https://kinderplans.com, www.babycenter.com, and http://www.educationworld.com/ are great sites to visit. The main one I remand is Education World. They have several articles that are helps with a lot of things.  Following this website and receiving their newsletters have answered many of my questions I have had.  Through this website I have find tips on lesson plan, tips on professional development, co-teaching tips, and tips about technology. 

Here is a link to one of the newsletters I received weekly http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/summer-brain-builders-for-educators.shtml.  This particular article gives tip on summer brain builders for educator.  It meant for middle school but it can still be use for all grade level teachers. 

The websites I selected never responded back and I forget who I have chosen to follow.  So recently I have been follow UNICEF, where I have found to great articles on their website.  Here is the link so you can visit http://www.unicef.org/index.php.  UNICEF organization focuses on health, protection, education, and child survival, which are the basic for issues and trends in some of the foreign countries. 

They always have new information and insight on health, protection, education, and child survival weekly. However, I have not sign up for newsletters but by explore the site and reading different articles I have gain a lot of information about foreign countries and what they have issues and trends they have. 

Getting to Know Your International Contacts

I really like the website UNICEF.  It has great articles and share a lot of things that people are doing all over the world.  A lot of their article are touching and sad.  That can be a good thing because it makes me want to get out and do something to help out.  An article I read June 1 called Post-natal home visits improve newborn survival in Gaza, was about help young mother of infants improve their parenting skills after birth.  Stated in the article,  every year, an estimated 1,600 babies die in the first four weeks of life in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Most of these newborns deaths could be prevented if mothers and newborns’s health was systematically evaluated, and if young mothers received advice on how to best care for their children (Weibel, 2012).  That sadden me because I am mother of three kids, a three year and a set of twins that are about to be one.  Just imaging my babies in the first four weeks is something I probably will not be about to live.  UNICEF is doing some amazing things by sending our nurses and midwives to help these mothers and they are visiting them three times within the first four weeks.  They are promoting breastfeeding which I am really big on. 

Another part of the article that caught my eye when Hafsteinsdottir stated,  "A 38-year-old mother who had just given birth to her 14th child. She and her 15-year-old daughter were pregnant simultaneously, and consulted together at the clinic,” Hafsteinsdottir said. “The mother told me she wanted all her children to marry young, to move out of the family house and start having children immediately because this is what she did, and because it is a practical way of making room for the younger children in her crowded house (Weibel, 2012)."  That raise a question, "Is there any type of birth control in Gaza?  Who are educating them about sex or abstention?  Where are the parents of the young teenage mother? 

In different countries and ethics group I guessing that where the differences comes in values and moral.

References 

Catherine Weibel. (2012) Post-natal home visits improve newborn survival in Gaza.  Retrieved from http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/oPt_62538.html.