Getting Ready-Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

Getting Ready—Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources Before getting started with this assignment, I reviewed the various websites and countries I was given the opportunity to choose from. Next I typed a general letter, explaining who I was and I would like to learn about early childhood in their country. I asked if we could communicate over the next 8 weeks on trends and issues concerning early childhood education in their country. There were a lot of countries that interest me; it was hard to only choose two. I chose professionals from 6/7 countries; Germany, Dominican Republic, New Zealand, Eastern Caribbean, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. Then I emailed the letter to each individual country, and address it personally to the communication contact. I have yet to hear from any of the countries. I am looking forward to hearing from them all. I am eager to become aware, compare and contrast early childhood education from the U.S. to each of the 6 countries. For selecting a childhood education website I was stuck on two of them that I need to narrow my research. Those 2 websites were National Black Child Development Institute and The National Association for the Education of Young Children. In researching them both I have became aware of a lot of helpful and insightful information. I will probably go with the National Black Child Development since I was able to subscribe for a free electronic news letter. I am not an expert but I am always willing to assist each of you in any way possible. Don’t hesitate, feel free to ask and if I don’t know then I will do my best to research and find out for you. I wish you all good luck with discovering about other countries outside of the U.S.