Studying the international early childhood field through this course rekindled my passion to create a high quality education and service for children who are diagnosed deaf, hard of hearing, and/or deaf-blind. The consequences of learning about Save the Children and many other international early childhood field:
1. Gain Knowledge: I find that gaining knowledge is critical in early childhood field. Knowledge opens doors for improvements, modifications, and continuing research. This applies to both professional and personal developments.
2. Domino effect is the second consequence. Because I am constantly learning and studying early childhood field in United States and have been shifting to world wide early childhood field, there is connection between children in United States and other countries in the early childhood field. This has domino effect through my learning and advocating. My part in early childhood field may be the most least impact, but it has ripple effect regardless on others.
3. Passion and Drive play large roles in my reasons for pursuing early childhood education. Now that I've learned some things about early childhood education through international websites, research, and so forth and this forced me to reconsider what I initially wanted to improve, especially for deaf/Hard of Hearing/Deaf-Blind children. I realized that most international and United States organizations focus on children in general and there were not enough emphasis on serving children with disability. With rekindled passion, I am determine to explore the information and service that are available for young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind.
There is one goal for the field related to international awareness of issues and trends---I would like to establish contact with someone internationally who works with deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind young children. This would help me to expand my knowledge. Perhaps, I would be able to have some training, if there is any.
I agree with you that learning has to be continous because new develops and programs are happeing everyday and as a professional you have to stay up to date on all the new research and developments.
ReplyDeleteI like your goal to establish contact with someone who works with deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind children. It would be so interesting to see what programs they offer or ideas they have to work with the children and provided them with the high quality education. Their ideas are something you could build on and develop a new idea.
I have really enjoyed working with you during this course. You have provided such great information and have helped me more than you know. Thanks for everything. I wish you luck with everything in the future.
I really enjoyed your explanation of the domino effect as being a consequence. I too have found myself sharing new knowledge and insights that I have gained in this course to my co-workers.
ReplyDeleteWhat an excellent goal to have. I wish you all of the luck as you persue finding an international contact who works with deaf children in some capacity.
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