Wk 8: Time Well Spent

The three deeply felt learnings from this programs consist of the following list below:

·                To help me understand the compassion of individuals from diverse cultures with the ability or disability to become successful within reaching their individual goals and aspirations within academic achievements. I learn is to believe in trust and be honest with myself in order to help and create, interaction with other individuals by using effective communication and sharing knowledge, ideas, own experiences and educational resources.

·               To be knowledgeable about who we are and what hope, vision, goals and dreams can be successful for the children and families to succeed academically if we put our minds together to make it happen it can happen. In other words together we stand and divided we fold. Therefore, we must “share our individual wisdom with each other”(Laurcate Education, 2011).

·               Contribute to children and their families by sharing trust, honesty, and respect, support one another to learn and grow as professionals within the community and throughout society globally. For instance, “To create a saver more injustice world for the kids” (Louise Derman Sparks, 2011).

The one long-term goal will consist of making and different in the lives of the children and families who are at risk that face a challenges with specific learning disabilities related to dyslexia disorders and other learning disabilities. To developmentally have appropriate accommodations and fair treatment within providing equal opportunities within the home, schools, community, and other supporting stakeholders. In addition, to have positive outcomes within being successful learners academically within receiving accessibility and availability of high quality education within all early child care, post and secondary schools.

To: Dr. Dartt and my Fellow colleagues

I learned so much valuable knowledge within your excellent post you contribute within this course. I will be proud to share the knowledge with the children and families in which I work within my community. Therefore, I thank you and I have the upmost respect and for you’ll always within the upcoming years. I know it will help me to create new ideas that will contribute to the content of exploring options for members of the community of practice, professionals and organizations.

I enjoyed each and every one of your insights and thank you’ll  for contributing to a brighter future for the children and families in which, will help me to support them throughout my journey .This has been an exciting year working with you. Therefore, I wish everyone have all success you need to succeed to reach your individual goals within your lives.

Sincerely,

Herleen

Thank you!

Here are my favorite quotes in which, I hope you enjoy.

·         “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”— (Martin Luther King, Jr 2015).

·         “ We rise by Lifting others”- Robert Ingersoll

·         Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – (Harriet Tubman, (2015).

·         When I reflect back about the valuable insights my instructor and my colleagues contribute within collaboration within discussing the issues and trends to make this world within the early childhood program to be a better place to live in for the children and families within the community. I learned that trust, honesty, respect and support is the key to education. In which, providing motivation to other’s will develop high quality education and effective communication upon suggestions and opinions in which, collaboration and sharing one’s ideas develops a plan of action to help an individual reach their goals within society. Therefore, this will help carry me the rest of the way within accomplishing my goal within my life. I will remember unique people who contribute valuable insights within this course in the early childhood development field at Walden University.

Herleen Pickrom

Contact information- vpickrom@hotmail.com

Reference:

Great Quotes for kids About Passion and Enthusiasm-

Luther King, Jr 2014).

(2014)-http://inspiremykids.com,

Great Quotes for kids About Passion and Enthusiasm,(2015)-

(Harriet Tubman,2015)- http://inspiremykids.com,

Great Quotes for kids About Passion and Enthusiasm-

Robert Ingersoll ,(2015)- http://inspiremykids.com,

(Laurcate Education, 2011).

(Louise Derman Sparks, 2011).

Week 6 - Blog Assignment: Jobs/Roles in the ECE Community: Internationally

The three international organizations or communities of practice that appealed to me and why I chose them are listed below:

           The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Why?, because they advocate for a good cause that upholds the integrity of children and families at risk due to disadvantages out of their control. Furthermore, their community of practice relates to my vision in which, my main focus and mission is to promote the well- being of all children regardless of their ability or disability. It is an organization that advocate for children at risk and fosters the well-being for all children everywhere to protect their civil rights and provide equal opportunities within early childhood development in which, includes the adolescence. The (UNICEF) mission is to help children reach their full potential by promoting high quality education to the children at risk due to disadvantages relating to their disability or in a fragile situations related to poverty. For instance, “One billion of the world’s six billion people live in fragile states, and one third of all people surviving on less than USD 1 per day. Of all the children in the world who die before reaching their fifth birthday, half were born in these countries” (OECD-DAC 2007). In addition, it is “leading trait that international development actors use to define fragile states is their (in)ability to provide basic services to the poor, either as a result of a lack of political will, weak capacity, or both”(ODI, 2008).

    Furthermore, I choose “Save the Children because their community of practice also, promote education to children in which, the child or children can gain high quality education within the home and school. In addition, I chose the Academy for Education Development in this program train teachers, parents, community volunteers and other child care providers effective strategies in which, includes language ,social, emotional, physical and cognitive development to assist children to learn early on, in preparation before they start school. In addition, to promote long-term positive and healthy outcomes with the children individual lives. Save the Children is to prevent children from dropping out of school and falling behind, heal, learn and be prepared before the child or children enter school. Furthermore, “The study main focus determinants the key behaviors and their socio-ecological contexts with innovative and participatory research methods to address factors at multiple levels” (http://www.fhi360.org, 2011). For instance, “increasing capacity in design, implementation and evaluation through systematic assessment, training and mentoring frameworks by using face-to-face and online trainings and Establishing university courses for institutionalized capacity in countries to learn more about behavior change, communication, strategic planning and policy analysis” (http://www.fhi360.org, 2011).

The skills and experience I would need to competently fulfill each of these as follow below:

There wasn’t any job opportunities’ I was interest in at this time with. “The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)”. ( http://www.odi.org, page 1, 2008).

However, I was interested in working for “The Academy for Education Development

The skills and experience I would need to competently fulfill each of these roles working with The Academy for Education Development” ( http://www.aed.org, 2011 ).

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              Center on Technology and Disability- 

The Center on Technology and Disability (CTD) increases the capacity of U.S. families and educators to learn about, acquire or implement effective assistive technology (AT) and instructional technology (IT) devices and services. This collaborative project brings together the collective power of FHI 360, the American Institutes for Research and PACER Center. These organizations bring to CTD over 25 years of expertise in AT and IT.

I would be interested in this position, however I don’t qualify” (http://www.aed.org).

·         “Human Resources Specialist, P-3, Nairobi, Kenya, ESARO

Qualifications of Successful Candidate

- An advanced university degree (Master's) in Human Resources Management, Public Administration, Business Administration, International Relations, Social Sciences, Psychology or a related field is required.

- A minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience, at the national and international levels, in Human Resources Management is required.

- Prior work experience in emergency duty station is an asset.

- Fluency in English (written & verbal) is required. Knowledge of French and/or Portuguese is desirable. Knowledge of an additional UN Language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Spanish) is considered an asset” (https://careers.unicef.org).

“Save the Children”(http://www.savethechildren.org). I would be interested in this position but I don’t qualify. There wasn’t any other positions I was interested in doing at this time. 

·          Emergency Responders - Standard deployments include individuals with functional expertise in Operations, Logistics, Media, Proposal & Grants, Human Resources, Finance, Communications, Security, Technical Programmes, Education and Monitoring and Evaluation” (http://www.savethechildren.org).

Reference:

·         United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). (n.d.). Retrieved November 28, 2011, from http://www.unicef.org/

·          Save the Children. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6115947/k.8D6E/Official_Site.htm

·          Academy for Educational Development. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.aed.org/en/index.htm

The World Bank in Fragile Situations: An Issues Paper - http://www.odi.org, 2008.

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