Week 6

    Follow some of the outside links that you have not yet explored. Where do they lead?
A lot of them lead to other sites and articles about the site that I was on.  

    Thoroughly search one area of the site. What do you find?

The one site that I really looked into was National Institute for Early Education Research. Which I ended up in this news article about Bleak picture for minority kids in public schools from USA Today.  Which talks about how minority students still face educational opportunities, which are different than white students? This could mean less educational teachers and harder discipline.

    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 do not receive a newsletter even though I thought I had signed up for one.

Additionally, find out if the site you selected at the beginning of this course offers any information about the issue of this week:

The website that I had looked into week one was http://www.nccp.org. This website talks about the poor families around the world. They overall talk about the different types of people who are poor and how this is a trend that families circle. Unfortunately this does include the minority in every state no matter where you might live.   

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

This website also talks about the importance it is to make an investment into children. When you have a bigger and better education you will have a better program that this helps families get out of the poverty line and stops the cycle of poverty. I find this very important I just think that a lot of people don’t realize the important part of having better education helps kids and their families get out of the poverty line and make a better life’s for themselves and their future.

    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?

The more and more I was reading into the website to me it felt as though every child at one point in time has been in some type of hardship which then affects the child overall health. Some examples that they gave was, single mothers, moved in 6month or less, non-speaking parents, large families, non-college parents, teen mother and non-employed parents. I just feel as though one of these situations had to have come up in every child’s life somehow. Not everyone life is perfect and things do happen. So trying to stop all of this in every child I know will not happen. Just knowing that making a difference in the families where this is happening for long period of times or has more than one of these risk factors. Even to be able to help a hand fill of families a year is at least starting to make a difference and is bettering the life of families in the future.

During the beginning of the week I e-mail 2 professors to keep in contact with. With no success I e-mail two other professors again during the middle of the week. Again on Friday I still had no luck and I e-mail two more. With no one returning my e-mails I just decided to do the alternate assignment. I lessened to the radio on BOOM NOW, where they were talking about bulling and what parents as well as teachers can do about bulling. First they talked about what parents can do as well as what to look for. They talked about if you think your child is being bullied you might want to look for signs like there child not wanting to go to school, or be in any activates after school. They talked about how you should talk to their teacher and see if they have noticed anything, if they did what they thought or did about it. They also talked about how you should talk to the teacher about the problem and if the teacher is unwilling to help or do anything then go to the principle. If that doesn’t work than to go to the school board, if all else fails that you should seek legal action because your child safety is that important. On the other hand they talk about being the teacher and how to deal with a bully or someone being bullied in your classroom. First and for most, the parents need to be involved in this situation. It is their child and they need to handle this problem as well at home. You want to talk to the parent as this is a group effort between all of you that it’s going to be a group effort. Also if their child is the one bulling other children, you should talk to the parent with facts that you have, this way no one is thinking that you are just picking on the child. I also looked at the website http://www.nccp.org/ which talks about poverty. I ended up reading an article on their called National Center for Children in Poverty this was about poverty in the United States and how there are more and more children in poverty than ever before. “One child in five lives in poverty in the United States and almost half of all children live in low-income families, with incomes less than twice the poverty threshold” (National Center for Children in Poverty). The talk that it’s not because the parents aren’t working because in most cases there at least one parent who work full time all year round, they state that it’s so expensive to live and people are only making minim wage. It also expresses children parents who have gone to collage are less likely to live in poverty. Cited: BAM Radio http://www.bamradionetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=106&Itemid=300 NCCP http://www.nccp.org/ National Center for Children in Poverty http://nccpblog.tumblr.com/post/77836283262/almost-half-of-u-s-children-live-in-low-income