Time Well Spent

It is amazing it all came o an end and i feel very sad about it though i was very stressed through out the program because of the load of responsibilities that i had including succeeding in this program as i am working, raising my three children while their father is away an going to school but it is all worth it. I came out from this program an improved individual one that looks at the world now from a different lens and that is due to the learning experience this program has offered me, the program taught me to become a better communicator, self observer, relationship builder, a diversity advocate, and most important a child advocate.

I find my self now more excited about education, and more alert to the issues that concern education, I am eggar to become an educator hoping that i will offer students the best of what i have learned from the program. I become so motivated after the program that i have applied to my second masters degree in special education i think I am now more driven to become a changing force in the field than i when i have started the program.

My long term goal is to become the teacher that respects, cares, understands, communicates, and embraces their student. My goal is to become the educator that learns from their student and teaches their students , to be the teacher I  as a student wished for one that provide students with love , caring, encouragement, believing in the students ability , nonjudgmental a teacher that leaves no stone turned for the sack of their students. Though some of you might say is that all possible with all the responsibilities we have as educators and individuals in society, my  answer is yes because if we understand that as educators  we are the first and most influential first step in any child’s learning and developing experience after parents and that our roll as educators  surpasses the academics part of learning  I am positive that our educational system and students  achievement will improve greatly .

It has been a great pleasure and honer to go through this program with all my fellow classmates and professors they all added greatly to me personally and academically i wish all of you the best on the paths you chose to take and hope hat we might one day cross paths in the future job well done fro every one may you all be blessed with peace, love and happiness.

I found a quote that i really liked and addresses my passion towards education by Ralph Emerson ” The secret in education lies in  respect the student” .”The man or women who can make things easy is the educator”.

” Education is a shared communication between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectation” Bob Beauprez.

” Education is preparation for life education is life itself” John Dewey.

 

Jobs/Roles in the ECE Community: Internationally

For this weeks assignment i chose the fallowing organization as they interested me the most :

• save the children.
• UNESCO.
• UNICEF.

Save our children organization was established in 1919 to fight for childrens right in the USA ad internationally their main mission is to offer children the opportunity of a healthy life, opportunities to learn, and offer protection . The organization is active in more than 120 countries from the USA, Africa, Latina america, Asia, and the middle east providing health, education ,disaster relief, and protraction to children.

In the field of education save our children organization provides training for teachers , support fro families and community, and provide volunteers to help children with their academic work after school . The organization has reached more than 35,000 children in the early childhood education in the united states plus help 150 children in literacy programs, in addition they offer a child protection program that helps children who are abused, neglected, or are in war zones. The organization offers the public opportunists to help children through sponsoring a child, fundraisers, run or race, or becoming a strategic partner . i was really interest in a volunteer position in the organization in the child protraction programmer as it is very important fro me as a parent and an educator to provide children with a safe, healthy, caring, environment therefore this is the only position would be interested to be in this organization.

UNESCO  is an international organization that was founded in 1945 in Paris France interested with 50 field offices around the world, UNESCO works for promoting  an open dialog between cultures and and civilization through respect and shared values to achieve mutual respect, human rights, and alleviation from poverty therefore the main goal of UNESCO is to ” to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information. The focus of the organization is to  promote quality education, mobilizing science,addressing social and ethical challenges, cultural diversity,and building inclusive societies through information and knowledge with a main focus in Africa and gender equality.

UNESCO offers multiple positions in ranging from professional staff, young professionals, to internships  all positions that i would be interested in but unfortunately will not be qualify to apply as in the professional position in education there is a minimum experience need of two or three years which i do not have in the young professionals position has an age limit of 32 years old and i am older mean while the internship is relocating the applicant and that is impossible fro me as i am a mother of three young children but i could do a volunteer position if possible.

UNICEF was created in the after math of world was two in 1946 to provide children with food, clothing , and health care and its work has continued. UNICEF  is a permanent member of the united nation and is present in 190 countries  advocating fro children. UNICEF partners with governmental institutes, cooperate sector , civil organizations, and national committees. Both UNICEF and UNESCO share the same concern in education, child survival and protraction, humanitarian action, and gender equality.

 

Resources

• Save the Children. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6115947/k.8D6E/Official_Site.htm
• Website: International Step By Step Association. (n.d.). Retrieved November 28, 2011, from http://www.issa.nl/index.html
• Website: United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). (2011). Retrieved from http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/about-us/who-we-are/introducing-unesco/
• Website: Academy for Educational Development. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.aed.org/en/index.htm