Blog Assignment: Jobs/Roles in the ECE Community: National/Federal Level

 

     The three Job opportunities currently available that interest me by the national/federal organizations or communities of practice that appealed to are listed below: 

NAEYC Academy for Early Childhood Program Accreditation

·         Job Title - Reliability Specialist 

Duties: “to support the work of our Accreditation System which administers a national, voluntary, professionally sponsored system to help improve the quality of care and education provided for young children in group programs throughout the US.  

Works as a member of the national team overseeing the process of accreditation for early childhood programs.

Responsibilities - include working with child care program staff, NAEYC’s nationwide network of accreditation field assessors, and other NAEYC staff involved in the accreditation process. 

The Reliability Specialist - helps develop, revise and maintain instruments, forms and protocols used in accreditation site visit assessments; 

Support, train and monitor the performance of field assessors; support field assessors in their roles; travel to conduct field assessments or present training workshops;

 Help develop training workshops and materials; and perform analysis of the data collected and instruments used during assessment site visits”( http://www.naeyc.org/about/jobs, 2005, page 1, par. 4).

National and community Service – AmeriCorps

·         Job title: Austin Early Education Center Specialist

Duties: “Three members will deliver language comprehension assessments of children at ten early education centers. United Way will provide all training on the assessment tool and the training required by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. United Way would prefer bilingual candidates with some graduate-level experience in conducting research and collecting data. Members will need to have access to reliable transportation and experience with Microsoft Excel” (https://my.americorps.gov, 2015 page 1, par. 1 ).

Austin Education University (ACEU) of TX at Austin

Job title: Early Literacy Teacher

Duties:

“Make a difference in a child's life by teaching them to read. ACE Members serve as literacy tutors for struggling readers in Kindergarten to 2nd grade in Austin, Texas. In addition, during this time, members will also attend team meetings, and compile student data. Members serve an additional 6 hours throughout the week by contributing to the greater Austin community through community partnerships with other non-profit organizations and in after-school programs.” (https://my.americorps.gov, 2015 page 2, par. 2).

Skills and experience need to competently fulfill each of these roles includes the following list below:

Bilingual candidates - social services, technology. In addition, helps develop, revise and maintain instruments, forms and protocols used in accreditation site visit assessments and overseeing the process of accreditation for early childhood programs.

           Why, I chose these three job occupation is because I have a common interest in the issue and trends in full filling the roles to help children and families who are at risk. I want to serve as an advocate in helping the children and families succeed academically within their community and society. In addition, I would be interested to help promote and share ideas, by providing my experience, knowledge about the quality of child care and education for staff and young children in group programs within the United States and globally. Furthermore, as an advocate to reach their individual goals in order for the child or children and families to be successful socially and emotionally. So they can be productive citizens within the community and society. In addition, holding a positive and strong leadership to teach child care professionals within the classroom how collaborate and communicate effectively. For instance, to implement their own personal experience and ideas to develop quality assessment, to have a clear understanding about how provide the quality assessment and process of accreditation for early childhood programs used to help promote quality care for staff, children and their families.

 

 

Reference:

The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) http://www.naeyc.org/about/jobs, 2005

National and Community Service – https://my.americorps.gov, 2015

National and community Service – AmeriCorps

 (https://my.americorps.gov, 2015 

Blog Assignment: Exploring Roles in the ECE Community: Local and State Levels

The three local or state organizations, or communities of practice that appealed to me are listed below: • Texas Early Childhood Professional Development System “The Texas Early Learning Council is an advisory council established by Governor Rick Perry in late 2009. In 2010, the Council was awarded a three-year grant from the federal government to achieve a series of goals towards improving school readiness in Texas through targeted strategies stemming from the Council's four priority areas”( http://earlylearningtexas.org page 1 par. 1) • Community health workers (CHWs) “Have a close understanding of the community they serve. This trusting relationship enables them to serve as a liaison/link/intermediary between health/social services and the community to facilitate access to services and improve the quality and cultural competence of service delivery”(http://explorehealthcareers.org 2015 page 1 par. 1) • NAEYC Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation Programs “They use their understanding of young children’s characteristics and needs and of the multiple interacting influences on children’s development and learning to create environments that are healthy, respectful, supportive, and challenging for each child”( http://www.naeyc.org 2009, page 11 par.1) I decided to choose the three organizations or communities of practice listed above in which, appealed to me is their goal and mission to develop and identify the needs in early child care and make it a priority for improving the education system and facilitate high-quality outcomes. All children and families from diverse cultures can benefit from the development strategies engaging in school readiness programs. In addition, they all have a concern and passion and purpose in which is to help children and families within the community to have the accessibility and availability to be successful and achieve high quality education. Therefore, the organizations provide services to ensure the children and families receive quality child care based on assessments that help target the strengths and weakness of a child by promoting respect, support, trustful relationships. 
In addition, to process a healthy foundation of knowledge and improving the children and families skills within the growth and development. The individual needs and capability of children and families, educational resources to help a child with or without a disability to be successful academically with each domain.Also, this is achieved by ensuring learning age appropriate skills cognitively, physical, social and emotional in connection to the well-being of the children and families. In addition, to protect the lives of children within the care throughout each community to be honored by the code of ethnic ensuring there is an intervention and prevention plan of action that will help foster their growth and development, providing educational resources consisting of health, nutritional services in order for children to have a healthy, productive and positive outcomes long term throughout their lives academically within society.
Job opportunities currently available that interest me would be listed below as follow; • Senior Director, NAEYC Academy for Early Childhood Program Accreditation • Foster Family Worker • Advisory council The skills and experience that I would need to competently fulfill each of these roles consist of the following listed below: • “Senior Director, skills and experience I need will be to “Reach out to states and other systems to form partnerships that utilize NAEYC Accreditation as a cost-effective approach to improving early childhood systems.” (hr@nayec.org 2005 page 1, par.1). • Foster Family Worker I would be interested in pursuing, however- “There are no current employment opportunities with Angels Foster Family Network” (http://www.angelsfoster.org page 1 par. 1). • Advisory council skills and experience is being knowledgeable about “the Core Competencies and the knowledge and skills that early childhood professionals should possess to be successful in their careers aligned with corresponding categories of competencies: beginner competencies, intermediate competencies, or advanced competencies” (tecpds@uth.tmc.edu page 1 par. 1). In conculsion, I feel each of these opprotunities will help me fullfill my vision and mission within the early childhood education field. Based on my concern and passion to help foster the well-bing of every child and their families to have healthy productive lives within their community and society. Reference: http://earlylearningtexas.org http://explorehealthcareers.org http://www.naeyc.org http://www.angelsfoster.org tecpds@uth.tmc.edu