Free Professional Development Webinars w/ Certificates

A colleague, Betsy Fox, of mine told be about access to some great Webinars. These Early Childhood Webinars are free and after attending you receive a certificate to put in your Professional/personal/ career portfolio! ;)

Go to this link:
http://www.earlychildhoodwebinars.com/

or Search for the website- Early Childhood Investigations, click on the register button and you will put in your information and the webinar notification will be emailed to you.

Thank you Betsy Fox (http://foxeducation.com/home ) for your inspirations and walk by the sea in Bellingham, WA, and thank you to my training participants for your dedication and commitment to the early childhood field ~ hope to see you all in the future!

Long-term Projects to Study in your preschool classroom

Here are a variety of Long-Term Projects that your students can study in the preschool classroom.

They are called:  Marvelous Explorations Through Science and Stories (MESS)

MESS long-term projects have a variety of "themes" including: My Body My Senses, Water, Plant Life, Prehistoric Life, Insects and Spiders, Kitchen Store, etc.

Click on this-> Marvelous Explorations Through Science and Stories    or go to Office of Head Start's website:

Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center

https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/

and search MESS to get free PDF booklets on these long-term projects for your preschool classroom.

Time Well Spent

Thank you for your support, inspiration, dedication and hard work. Being among my group of colleagues at Walden University has empowered me in my work, and given me deep validation that I am exactly on the professional path that I have always hoped to be. What a wonderful feeling!!! I wish you all the success and joy that you have so diligently, carefully and intuitively envisioned. God bless the miracle within you. See you later!

Jobs/Roles in the ECE Community: Internationally

A national training position is My Teaching Partner (MTP). This position is hired through different organizations, including Teachstone. It is available for early childhood teachers, it would be a great role to be in. MTP coaches need experience working in the classroom, coaching adults and a 4 year degree.

Being a UNICEF ambassador....

Literacy Intern with The Science of Improving Lives retrieved from https://jobs-fhi360.icims.com/jobs/14352/intern%2c-literacy/job works from Washington DC on international projects. This position requires a 4 year degree but a Master's is preferred. One position available.

Exploring Roles in the ECE Community: Local and State Levels

Save the Children Early Steps to School Success (ESS) Program Specialist. This position develops, oversees, trains and conducts outreach to preschool age children and their families. They are responsible for guiding home visitors in their work with children and families. The ESS program serves families in my community. Save the Children is global organization that serves humanity in a variety of ways. They seem to me to be a vessel for services to those in need of resources.

Child, Youth and Teen Programs (CYTP) for military installations provide services locally and globally, as well. Their administrative professions work with caregivers and teachers in the field. They also use the Creative Curriculum from Teaching Strategies and the ECERS for preschool classrooms, these are two pieces of quality practice that I have worked with. Most of their administrative positions currently require a Bachelor’s Degree or higher.

Local Community College (Copper Mountain and College of the Desert) early childhood education faculty.  The early childhood divisions at my local colleges are expanding and evolving with the need and research in early childhood. In order to be a college instructor I need to complete my Master’s degree in early childhood, and I will then be able to teach courses in social science as well.

Thank you!

 

...to all my fellow Walden classmates. Your ideas, insights, hard work and experiences have made this journey possible. I will continue to look to your blogs for more enriching ideas in Early Childhood.

~Take Care~



Adjourning as a part of Group Development

Adjourning- "[Where] group members reflect on their accomplishments and failures as well as determine whether the group will disassemble or take on another project"

(O'Hair & Wiemann, 2012).

It is empowering to be a part of the adjourning stage after intense projects, especially when they turn out successful. We had an annual federal review while I worked at Head Start and it was fun to share our successful moments, what we learned, the silly goof ups and how we overcame them, and how we could make the process even smoother the next time.  In our meeting we went through these things and talked about what projects were coming up next. After talking about our previous success it gave us confidence in the projects to come.

O'Hair, D., & Wiemann, M. (2012). Real communication: An introduction. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's