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