Sunday, March 27, 2011

Early Childhood Resources

Course Resources:
 
Additional Resources:

http://www.ncprek.nc.gov/Foundations/index.asp
This web link provides educators and administrators with the Early Learning Standards set forth by North Carolina's Department of instruction.

http://www.infed.org/thinkers/gardner.htm

This web link provides information about Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences and education. I strongly agree with his research and theory and feel that early childhood educators will benefit from studying his work.

http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/Head%20Start%20Program/Director
This web link provides users with information about Head Start performance standards.

EDUC 6005 Resources:

Part 1: Position Statements and Influential Practices
Selected Early Childhood Organizations
Selected Professional Journals Available in the Walden Library

  • YC Young Children
  • Childhood
  • Journal of Child & Family Studies
  • Child Study Journal
  • Multicultural Education
  • Early Childhood Education Journal
  • Journal of Early Childhood Research
  • International Journal of Early Childhood
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Inspirational & Motivational Quotes

Quote By Lilian Katz
"Each of us must come to care about everyone else's children. We must recognize that the welfare of our children is intimately linked to the welfare of all other people's children. After all, when one of our children needs life-saving surgery, someone else's child will perform it. If one of our children is harmed by violence, someone else's child will be responsible for the violent act. The good life for our own children can be secured only if a good life is also secured for all other people's children." 

Quote By Susan Bredekamp, Ph. D

"Children benefit most from teachers who have the skills, knowledge, and judgment to make good decisions and are given the opportunity to use them." – NAEYC, Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8 (2009)

 
A Motivational Poem
"When We Share"
 
When we share laughter, there's twice the fun;
When we share success, we surpass what we've done.

When we share problems, there's half the pain;
When we share tears, a rainbow follows rain.

When we share dreams, they become more real;
When we share secrets, it's our hearts we reveal.

If we share a smile, then our love shows;
If we share a hug, then our love grows.

If we share with someone on whom we depend,
That person becomes family or friend.

And what draws us closer and makes us all care,
Is not what we have, but the things that we share. 

-Anonymous  


If a child doesn’t know how to read, we teach.
      If a child doesn’t know how to swim, we teach.
      If a child doesn’t know how to speak, we teach.
      If a child doesn’t know how to behave,        we...     
  teach?      punish?
  Why can’t we finish the last sentence as automatically as we do the others?”
  -Tom Herner (NASDE President ) Counterpoint 1998

"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."
Carl Jung – psychiatrist
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