COURSE RESOURCES SECTION

• National Association for the Education of Young Childrenhttp://www.naeyc.org/
  
  
• The Division for Early Childhoodhttp://www.dec-sped.org/
  
  
• Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Familieshttp://www.zerotothree.org/
  
  
• WESTEDhttp://www.wested.org/cs/we/print/docs/we/home.htm
  
  
• Harvard Education Letterhttp://www.hepg.org/hel/topic/85
  
  
• FPG Child Development Institutehttp://www.fpg.unc.edu/main/about.cfm
  
  
• Administration for Children and Families Headstart’s National Research Conferencehttp://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hsrc/
  
  
• HighScope http://www.highscope.org/
  
  
• Children’s Defense Fund http://www.childrensdefense.org/
  
  
• Center for Child Care Workforce http://www.ccw.org/
  
  
• Council for Exceptional Children http://www.cec.sped.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home
  
  
• Institute for Women’s Policy Research http://www.iwpr.org/index.cfm
  
  
• National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education http://www.ncrece.org/wordpress/
  
  
• National Child Care Association http://www.nccanet.org/
  
  
• National Institute for Early Education Research http://nieer.org/
  
  
• Pre[K]Now http://www.preknow.org/
  
  
• Voices for America’s Children http://www.voices.org/
  
  
• The Erikson Institute http://www.erikson.edu/

Websites:

• World Forum Foundation http://worldforumfoundation.org/wf/wp/about-us
  This link connects you to the mission statement of this organization. Make sure to watch the video on this webpage
  
  
• World Organization for Early Childhood Education http://www.omep-usnc.org/
  Read about OMEP’s mission.
  
  
• Association for Childhood Education Internationalhttp://acei.org/about/
  Click on “Mission/Vision” and “Guiding Principles and Beliefs” and read these statements.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4964&page=22

Learning to Think Artistically
http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/art-ed-links.html

Starfall's Learn to Read with phonics

http://freestoriesforkids.com/

QUOTES / EXCERPT  FROM CONTRIBUTORS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD FIELD

Doug Lemov

“great art relies on the mastery and application of functional skills, learned individually through diligent study.”


You must distinguish between incompetence and defiance, responding to incompetence with teaching and defiance with consequence.

Deborah Leong

"Children need play in order to learn. Good, old-fashioned play - with an empty box or simple rag doll - provides something very important to later growth and development."

Louise Derman- Spark

“Children are still try to figure out all their different identities and try to figure out who others people are”.

Renatta M. Cooper

“Childhood leaves you ready for optimal life experiences”.

My personal Childhood  Web

My mother

She is the most influential person that I will be grateful for everything she has done for me forever..She has dedicated her life just to care about me and my siblings. Despite she was sick for a long time suffering from asthma, but I have never seen her complain or tired from helping and supporting us. She has been striving to make all our needs are met .I remember one day she got fainted and she spent the whole day in the hospital  but when she got out of hospital  ad  returned home she went right a way to kitchen to make  food for us. She always said my happiness is when I see every one of you happy. She was the person who taught me how to be a good wife and good women. She has been beside me whenever I need her. She is the most supportive person in my whole life.

My father

He is the person that I learned from him the true meaning of family and how is the family  is very important for a person to form his or her personality .He has been a very hard worker all his long life. He deprived himself from many thing, did all his best to make us be successful in our education and our life. Even though,  he is a way from me now in  another country but he never ceased from calling me and checking with me if I need  any help. Every time he was calling me, he was saying hat Iam in his prayer and his heart   all the time. I am so blessed that I have such a wonderful father.

My oldest sister

She is my companion, my friend and my dearest sister. She is the person who always pushing me to never surrender and keep going. She is very compassion and never hurt me or my siblings in a word .She has been constantly asking me how I doing in school and how was my day. She has been the one who always advice me in comfortable manner that lead me to take whatever she said into consideration. Basically I learned from her how to set a goal and who to keep fighting till you accomplish your goal. If I wanted to visit a friend or doing some stuff, she was the person that I feel happy to go with. Without her I don’t think I will be able to pursuit my degree in early childhood now. I love her so much

My oldest brother

He is the person who always makes me laughing and aiding my to  forgets the burden of life. He is very easy going person and very humorous. He is the one that always I would rely on in doing my homework especially at math .If I feel bored he would asked me to go out and having dinner outside or sometimes eating ice cream..Even when he got married and had his own family he keeps coming to see us almost every day. If anyone in my family has a problem he knows wisely who to handle it. I hope for my son to be successful in his like him.

My 6^th grade teacher  MS. Meha

She is the best teacher that I have ever met. Everyone in the class was admiring her way to explain materials and her way to make everyone enthusiastic about her lesson. She got used to give 5 minutes whenever she entered the class to warm us up and at the end of class she was telling us jokes or proverbs. When we got a bad grade, she was telling us not to give up because this is not the end of the world. Her lesson to us was to get benefit from our mistake and being able to cope with. She was very strong but at the same time very simple, she was very serious but also very humorous. I hope to be like her by making my students love the way I present materials and giving them valuable lesson in life.

Teaching Children: Five Creative Ways to Teach Colors

Posted in: Moms, Teaching

Our eyes are attracted to colorful things. Color gives life to paintings, drawings, photographs and television. If everything were in black and white there wouldn’t be much to characterize what we see. Here are five great suggestions for teaching your children about colors:

1. Teach colors through flash cards. Flash cards contain pictures of items in various colors. For example, if it was a picture of a bear it would be brown. The colors are shown as they would be in the real world. You wouldn’t want a card that shows a yellow sky or a red tree. The colors on a flash card are very bright so this is a good place to start. Say each color and let the child repeat after you.
2. Kids also learn colors through food. Foods come in a variety of vibrant colors. When your child asks for something to eat, tell them the color of what they are eating. Some varieties of foods, like apples and peppers, come in many colors, which also teaches the kids that objects can have more than one color. Use the basic names for colors like red, green, blue, and so on. Saying blue-green or orange-red may be too confusing for the kids.
3. Use paints to teach colors. Take a giant piece of poster board and lay it on a drop cloth. Let the children dip their hands in the paint and create handprints on the paper. Call out each color after they make a hand print. Wash their little hands and start over. Kids like to be messy so this teaching tool is both fun and educational.
4. Take your child outside. As you pass trees, stones, grasses and cars, identify the colors. After you have seen a wide variety of colors, point to something and ask your child what color it is. This exercise may be slow going at first because colors in nature don’t appear in the same hues as they do on flash cards or in a paint set.
5. Play games with your kids that involve colors. Use a pole with a magnet attached to a paper clip on the end of a string. Have fish or some other shapes of objects on the floor with magnets attached to them. When you call out a color, see if your child can pick up the pieces with that color. If saying the name of the color doesn’t work at first, hold up a piece of paper displaying the color you want them to fish for. Not only will they learn about colors, but also hand-to-eye coordination.

My son drew his hands when he was 3 years ,  I was very happy because I felt that he start use his imagination.

My current picture

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.


My  favorite quote

My first week in Walden University has been a quite difficult and stressful. I felt more frustrated when I setting up my blog because it took me time to set it up. I am starting my first class feeling that I will get benefit from the expertise of my colleagues in their fields. Right now, I  am very enthusiastic to start sharing information ,ideas and concepts  with all of my class I .I hope this stage of my life being a definitive shift towards learning new instructional methods that will  boost children learning .

There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.”