Sharing Web Resources

The information on the site that is relevant to my current professional development is the early head start section and the care and education section. The early head start section talks about how important it is for children to be in an early head start program and what teachers can do to help them. The care and education section talks about child care settings and how to effectively communicate with parents. Reading the section about challenging behavior made me think about issues in a new way. I learned why some children have challenging behaviors and what is done to help them with the behavior. Neuroscientists help support this site because there is a section on the site about brain development and how to get children off to establishing a healthy pattern of life long learning. There is also a section about public policy that politicians support. It talks about different policies that pertain to early childhood development. From researching the site I also learned about early literacy and how to promote it in children.

International contacts

From studying the website I learned that CHIP research is intended to be a resource for policy makers , practitioners and activists concerned about childhood poverty. The site highlights some ways in which CHIP output can be used for policy change in children. It also talks about different countries and the poverty in those countries. The website is very informative on talking about poverty and how it helps try to decrease poverty. From reading the site I learned different policies that help children in poverty.

Sharing web resources

The organization I selected is zero to three and their website is www.zerotothree.org. 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. Their mission is to promote the health and development of infants and toddlers. They provide information on behavior and development, maltreatment, care & education, and public policy from birth to three years olds. An issue from the newsletter that caught my attention was biting. Biting is common among children as they are learning to talk and express themselves. The article posted on the website talked about why toddlers bite, ways to prevent biting, responding to biting, and ways not to respond to biting. Zero to three did not provide any information on changing demographics and diversity.

Week 1: Issue and Trends.

I currently work at a child development center (CDC) on a military base. There are military bases all over the world so I asked my director to give me the phone numbers of two directors or trainers that are overseas. I called them and left a message but no one has returned my calls. I think that I am going to do the alternative option. The website that I decided to study is the zero to three website. I chose this website because I have been to it before and I really enjoyed reading some of the topics they had. I would like to study it further see all that it offers.