International Website:
I chose to further explore the website from Early Childhood Australia. I have actually used information and articles from the parent resource section for parent meetings on separation anxiety.
Early Childhood of Australia is dedicated to advocacy for early childhood education, early school years, before and after school care, in-home childcare, social and emotional well being of children, maternal health services, parent education, and policies affecting children and families. Of particular interest is their focus on advocacy and protection of aboriginal children and Torres Straight Islander children to ensure that they are thriving and learning.
Their current advocacy campaign is entitled Early Learning Everyone Benefits. They are advocating for investing in early childhood education and increasing access to quality programs.
http://www.everyonebenefits.org.au/
Some of the many ways they advocate include publishing, building media presence, appearing before Parliament, keeping a social media presence, conducting campaigns, and engaging early childhood entities in policy issues. They also believe strongly in empowering early childhood professionals to become leaders at their local level to promote advocacy for early childhood education issues.
The ECA has a section on their website dedicated to parent education on issues such as child nutrition, separation anxiety, and sleeping habits. Each parent education tab contains articles and links to additional information on related topics.
References
Early Childhood Australia (2017). Retrieved from http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/.
Hello Rebecca,
ReplyDeleteWonderful BLOG! Early childhood education seems to be on the agenda in all areas of the world. If we can reach a child in their younger years (early childhood) then we have hopes to better a persons chances for a better life.
Melodi Cashio
Hello Rebecca,
ReplyDeleteYou did an excellent job on your blog posting this week. The site you chose was insightful and full of knowledge. I valued your statement "The ECA has a section on their website dedicated to parent education on issues such as child nutrition, separation anxiety, and sleeping habits." In the United States we have the NAEYC and they provide a wealth of information to our parents on a site just for parents. I think it is wonderful that other countries are also providing their young families high quality information to help their young child succeed. Have a marvelous week!
Tammy
I also chose http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/. I chose this site because their education is almost similar those of the United States. Thanks for the informative information.
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