Early Childhood Funding

This article about Early Head Start Program gave me a deeper understanding of how the process of getting special services doesn’t start with the family acknowledgement, that they might have had a child with developmental delays. In most cases it really begins with the EHS initiative to educate families how to identify the disability. It is also dealing with providing families with basic needs, the lack of which has an enormous influence on the child physical and emotional development. In my opinion, the authorities made a good decision to create the agencies that can help to prevent or ease the disabilities, especially the children at high risk and coming from poor families.

The state of the early childhood profession has been discussed on the basis of the following key points in terms of the characteristics, complexities, strengths, challenges and the impact of the policies, trends and movements.

Based on this policy analysis, the recommended alternative is for the federal government to educate states on recognizing the importance of and participating in the quality early education programs. Some states have already started making progress in modeling and developing early learning systems for children zero to age five. According to the Whitehouse (2011), “The President’s 2012 budget calls upon Congress to establish a new, competitive Early Learning Challenge Fund, administered by the Departments of Education (ED) and Health and Human Services (HHS), for states that are ready to take dramatic steps to improve the quality of their early childhood programs. The Early Learning Challenge Fund will be complemented by investments in Head Start

“Early roots of play as a best practice for early learning was documented by Plato, a Greek philosopher, who insisted that play is considered a natural activity of childhood.”(Ingrid Crowther, 2011, Pg. 2) Early Childhood Education is a term that refers to educational programs that are devoted to children from birth to the age of eight. “Children of this age learn by exploring and investigating; therefore, their environment should support and encourage this process.”(Rebecca Isbell and Betty Exelby, 2001, Pg. 11) Early childhood environments should be attractive and exciting. These environments should allow children to work and play using proper resources, materials, and tools.

This research report presents an analysis of and conclusions drawn from the experiences and perspectives of two educators that work in the early childhood setting. The main objective is to identify key elements and issues in relation to the families, diversity and difference. In particular how an early childhood educator implements, different approaches to honour culture and diversity, and to advocate for social justice in an early childhood settings. As such, it allows an insight into the important role that families and their background plays in the everyday lives of the children and educators within early childhood settings. In today’s ever-changing growing society it is essential for educators to be flexible to the

Do you want to work with children, but do not know what types of careers are in the early childhood development field? Do you want to be a teacher, for example, or run a childcare center, but are not sure what credentials are needed? This lesson will give you an introduction to careers, with information to help you identify career roles and responsibilities. You will learn what credentials are required in a variety of careers. In looking at career paths, it is helpful to study these differences and practice identifying each position by its qualifications and responsibilities. This lesson will help you learn, understand, and work with the specifics. You will see the connection between education and career pathways. You will know the terminology used in various credentials and become familiar with their acronyms. To assess what you have learned, you will practice matching credentials and requirements with career positions in a project that asks you to answer the question Who am I?

To help children and families shape their own futures. We put children and their families at the center of all that we do. Providing the most expert and compassionate care needed so they can heal, grow and thrive. Children Center Head Start supports the whole child. Children center provides the children with many resources such as dental, hearing and vision. Special education children are always welcome at Children Center Head Start which provides resources for the children and families.

According to the article from Head Start “About Us” the Head Start program began in the summer of 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson 's War on Poverty. Early Head Start was added in 1994. Head Start has served more than 30 million children since 1965, growing from an eight-week demonstration project to include full-day/full-year services and many program options. Head Start and Early Head Start programs support the mental, social, and emotional development of children from birth to age 5. In addition to education services, programs provide children and their families with health, nutrition, social, and other services. Head Start services are responsive to each child and family’s ethnic, cultural, and linguistic heritage. (http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/hs/about) Eclkc website

The mission of Petite Genie, is to provide an atmosphere where developmentally appropriate assessment, and active learning is key. Through hard work and play students have the ability to learn at their own pace, and in their own way. We provide a culture that believes that education is fun. Plant your little seedlings on steady educational ground. We will provide an atmosphere that is rich with learning opportunities at every corner, and caters to the different learning styles education is fun, the children of Petit Genie will play with a purpose.

“Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early education for children.” - Bernie Sanders. This quote is just one reason why Bernie is an amazing choice to be president. it shows how much he cares about how American children do not get the education they need, or how hard it is for the people to even afford health care. These two ideas need to be mandatory for a better nation. Bernie has the answer in this day and age to help the people of America with the problem of poverty and many more problems. These solutions make him the best candidate for the next president of the united states

All of these organizations are important to early childhood education and it is with great value that these organizations advocate and represent for the ones who can’t speak for themselves. Children are our future and someone must advocate for them and their rights.

After reading chapter 6 of the textbook, I have realized that children early years are severely important because they provide the foundation for the rest of their life, as adolescent, and as adult. Children that are well nurtured can live well and be sociable. Early childhood is the most rapid period of development in a human life. A child creates their own sense of identity. Indeed, it is important for a child to have a sense of identity. Although individual children develop at their pace, all children progress through an identifiable sequence of physical, cognitive, and emotional growth and change. The early child development approach is based on that children respond best when caregivers use specific techniques designed to encourage and stimulate progress to the next level of development. Early childhood is the time during which essential, intellectual, and emotional abilities form. Keeping young children safe and nurturing them is protective against lifelong problems. Including the risk of becoming involved in violence. Early experiences affect the brain development, shaping the brains physical growth and sculpting neural connections. This occurs primarily between birth and school age years. Besides, the family, community and society are powerful in shaping young children’s development. They grow at a very rapid rate during the first one and a half years of life. Their development is not only physical, it is also mental, emotionally, and social. These developments are

Partnership is all about communication and shared experiences. There are many indigenous resources to help Early Childhood services such as SNAICC and IPSU, the NSW Aboriginal Child, Youth and Family Strategy, Early Childhood Australia, ACECQA, these can help with information and resources and professional development. These services can help Early Childhood services connect with the local community to develop partnerships and goals.

Childhood poverty is interrelated with brain development and external variables more specifically brain volume and the caregiver and stressful life events. According to “The Effects of Poverty on Childhood Brain Development” a research article by Joan Luby, MD and several affiliates of Washington University, “poverty negatively impacts brain development” (Luby, 2013). A second popular press article in U.S. News & World Report, “Early Childhood Poverty Damages Brain Development, Study Finds” by Allie Bidwell, who is the education reporter at U.S. News, summarizes the research study by Joan Luby and her colleagues and incorporates census data, previous research studies, and the opinion of Charles Nelson of the Boston Children’s Hospital and

Thesis Statement: Early childhood education has many benefits and there is the potential for many significant outcomes if universal preschools were put into place.