Research Around the World

 

    While looking the website of Early Childhood Australia I found many resources in the early childhood field. The one thing I found was a publication tab and there is a section for their Research in Practice Series. In this area you can write, advertise or even subscribe to the Research in Practice Series.

  Also while exploring the website I found out what some of their current topics up for discussion along with some remarkable perceptions that help broaden my knowledge of  early childhood education Australia. They have a program called Kids Matter, and what this does it works with early childhood educators and other care services to help ensure and support mental health and welfare of young children and their families. By working together they instill prevention and early intervention framework.

  Some other topics that you can find in the ‘Research in Practice Series’ include quality of early childhood education, professional partnership, supporting literacy in the early years, and many more. I find it encouraging that Australia is researching some of the same topics to the ones that are being researched here, in the United States.

    Another noteworthy topic I discovered was their new Digital Business Kits for Early Childhood.  These kits have been created to equip early childhood managers, teachers, staff and families to becoming more educated on how to use technology to make a bigger impact in the sector of early childhood education through quality high speed broadband connection.  This will enable them to expand their knowledge and skills by being able to explore, learn and see from a global perspective.

 "Who will help shape children's lifelong technology habits if educators don't participate? Young children often seem more "tech savvy" than many adults but they are not yet tech mature.  They need parents, educators and leaders to make wise informed choices on their behalf" (Early Childhood Australia, 2015).

 http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/

 

  

Research that Benefits Children and Families

I am very much interested in working with special needs children. So I am always looking for articles or anything that would help me to help them. So when I was looking up some information I found a website that would help me to set up an inclusion classroom to fit the different needs of a child. One thing I want to do is have special needs children with regular students and to teach them to work together. I work in a special ed. Classroom now and it is wonderful to see how excited they get when their partners come to work with them. I want to make sure that the special needs child does not feel left out.  One thing they mention is and this is something all teachers can use make sure to model appropriate behavior, make sure there is room for all children to move around, make sure the environment is set up for all sensory modalities, and that there is a program set up for social skills. I am really looking forward to teaching an EC classroom for all children with or without special needs and to help make it affordable for all.

Including Children with Special Needs: Are You and your Early Childhood Program Ready?

www.naeyc.org/files/yc/file/200903/BTJWatson.pdf

 

Your Personal Research Journey

My focus for this class is affordable childcare for children with disabilities. I have learned from personal experience that it is hard to find quality and affordable childcare for special needs children. My grandson is special needs and finding childcare that was affordable and could handle him was very hard. Because of his behavior he is only in school for an hour a day. If schools cannot handle him how will we be able to find quality childcare. We are not able to get a voucher to help pay and most places want more than we can afford. If we can get our government representatives to focus on this maybe help will come to all who need it. I am not saying it is only for children with special needs but even low or middle income families need it also.

I truly believe that there are trials and that they have existed for quite some time, but I also believe that change is on the up rise of things and we can make a difference if we don't lose hope.  A solid start has been made by many professional in this field to focus on the need for early childhood education but we must continue to keep plugging forward and know that we can have an abundant finish if we don't lose heart. We are all taking these classes because we about the children and we want to give them the best and quality childcare we can.