Part 3 international contacts

Question 1
 What issues are there regarding quality and early child development professionals talking about?

"There are not enough schools here for young children. many run the streets where there is much violence. there are public school being built but not ready and not for the young"

Question 2
What professional developments requirements are there?

There are many colleges here. Teachers still have to have a degree, but like the schools, there are not enough. Many foreigner teacher come to teach but leave because it is hard here. My friend is a teacher in a school like yours (Head Start) and she has a degree but in psychology with children"

Question 3
What are some of your professional goals?

"I want to finish my next degree. I want to be able to do better for my family."

When I think of Columbia, I think of beautiful people and place to visit. It has its tourist places and events, but like every country they have issues with the poor and not enough schools. It made me take a second look at the same issues here in my community.

consequences

I have found that I need to be more of an advocate in educating parents as to what we really do during the day. Many parents consider Early Head Start and Head Start to be a "Day Care"
 Another consequence I have come to realize is that I need to become more aware of the politics side of education. It seems as if as soon as Oboma comes on I turn the channel. I need to know what is going on so I can better prepare myself and my families.

Sharing Web Resources Week 6

This week I reviewed the Children's Defence Fund site. I decided to look into a "boring" for most people section. I looked through the Guide to the Federal Government Process link. I learned that spending falls into two categories Discretionary and Entitlement spending. Discretionary Spending must be approved by congress each year Entitlement spending does not need to be approved by congress. As you can see, there is only 2% spend on education. Does anyone else see anything wrong with this picture.

 

 

http://www.childrensdefense.org/policy-priorities/budget-watch/guide-to-the-federal.html

 

International Contacts-Part 2

Week5 Assign2 S Brieden

I have found that the people of Medellin are very proud, both the rich and to poor.  Many people in Medellin are poor. There is a very small area where there are wealthy people.  Juan informed me that he knew a family that left their home to go to the market and came back and her house was wiped away.

Here is a picture of the middle of the city I googled. I am working on having Jaun send me one that is more recent to me through Facebook.  When I get it, I will post it.

 Medellin, in August has a Feria de las Flores or Flower Festival. . Juan says that this is the one time that Medellin comes together.

 

 

Juan gave me a website where I learned the Medellin has of 30 Universities.  There are many programs in place to help educate the poor. Some of the programs are:

1.       Program: Nobody Is Out  Purpose

2.       Childhood Education

3.       Educative Benefits for Access and Permanence

4.       Public Service for Everyone and Respect for Diversity

There are also program to get more people able to go to college

Sharing Web Resourses Week 4

"This is an important conversation for our children, for our communities, for Democrats and Republicans. Speaking is difficult but I need to say something important. Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something. It will be hard. But the time is now. You must act. Be bold. Be courageous. Americans are counting on you.

Statement of former Representative Gabrielle Giffords to the Senate Judiciary Committee, January 30th, 2013" (CDF, 2013)

The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was an eye opener for everyone. There were 27 innoscent killed for reasons we may never know. Virginia Tech 2007, 32 were killed not by a stranger but a student and peer. Since the year 2000, there have been 64 school shootings with 147 killed. (List, 2013). This information is for the United States.  The question is "Should teachers be liscenced to carry hand guns on school grounds?" Australia and Great Britain have agreed to the  "National Firearms Agreement (NFA), which banned semi-automatic and pump action rifles and shotguns and required registration of all firearms, strict standards for gun licenses, and a permit for each gun purchase subject to a 28-day waiting period." (CDF.2013) Since this was put into affect Austroa in 16 years has had no mass shooting. (CDF, 2013). Since the Sandy Hook shooting my agency as decidied to keep all doors locked at all times. Parents are to knock to gain entry ad visitory are check in only at the office.

 

 

 

List of school shootings in the United States. (February 2013). Wikipedia. Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States.

 

"Our Turn to Say No More-Right Now". (February, 2013) Children's Defense Fund. Retrieved from:

http://www.childrensdefense.org/newsroom/child-watch-columns/child-watch-documents/our-turn-to-say-no-more.html

 

International Contacts

I am talking with JUAN GUILLERMO ACEVEDO. He is from  Medellín, Antioquia which is in Columbia.  When we discussed poverty he said that "there is so much poverty. Some people for their house it is just boards nailed together. Many only have a tarp as a roof. It is not lik in all the pictures of the pretty places. I wish it all looked like the pictures they use to make people want to come visit."

It makes me wonder about the poor here in the United States. Where I live there are poor and people living in poverty, but I have not seen homes in this bad of shape.

This is a video that Juan suggested. it is however not in English, but this is the true Medellin that he knows.
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D6zoKdeAmphE&h=nAQHE8P2y

Sharing Web Resources

I chose two resources. Both tie to Child Abuse.
"The CACCC helps abused children feel

less scared

less intimidated

and less confused

by the system that is meant to protect them.?"

Food for thought:

"1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will be sexually abused before they turn 18.

Only 1 in 10 will tell.

Over 40,000 of those children tell what happened to them at

advocacy centers every year in Texas.

247 of those children live in Comal County, Texas."

 

 

 

http://comalcac.org/site/