Sharing Web Resources

Follow some of the outside links that you have not yet explored. Where do they lead?

The website that I've been looking at is www.nbcdi.org. I've been looking in their resource section of the website and under Policy and Advocacy is a link to a Letter to the Senate- Recommendations for Elementary and Secondary Act Reauthorization. This was a letter bout bridging the achievement gap between black and white students. The recommendations sounded a lot like the recommendations provided in last weeks reading, over inequity in quality early child care programs. This letter is dated May 2010, so there are things that we are still lagging behind.

Thoroughly search one area of the site. What do you find?
 
Another outside link I looked at is T.E.A.C.H. T.E.A.C.H (Teacher Education And Compensation Helps)


is an early childhood project that addresses the issues of under-educated, poor compensated and high turnover within the early childhood workforce.
 T.E.A.C.H. is built on four components:

Education

T.E.A.C.H. helps participants to earn a required number of college credit hours in early childhood education each year.

Scholarship

T.E.A.C.H. offers counseling and financial support to pay for college courses and fees, books, travel, and time away from work.

Compensation

T.E.A.C.H. recipients earn a compensation bonus or raise after successful completion of a year of education.

Commitment

T.E.A.C.H. recipients agree to continue their service as a child care professional in their current early care and education setting.
 
If you receive an e-newsletter, follow a link related to one of the issues you have been studying. What new information is available?

I have not received a e-newsletter yet.

Does the website or the e-newsletter contain any information that adds to your understanding of equity and excellence in early care and education?

The letter to the Senate addressed a lot of things about inequity pertaining to bridging the achievement gap between race and socio-economics.

What other new insights about issues and trends in the early childhood field did you gain this week from exploring the website and/or the e-newsletter?

I didn't know how much was offered to aspiring teachers. TEACH is getting more qualified teachers in early childhood education.