Sharing Web Resources
I have chosen the National Association of Early Childhood
Teacher Educators. The link to their
website is: http://www.naecte.org/
As posted on their website, below are their purpose statements:
- To promote the professional
growth of our membership
- To discuss educational issues
specific to our membership
- To advocate for improvements
in early childhood teacher education
- Provide a forum for
consideration of issues and concerns of interest to educators of early
childhood teacher educators
- Provide a communication
network for early childhood teacher educators
- Facilitate the interchange of
information and ideas about research and practice
- Use, as vehicles, the Journal
of Early Childhood Teacher Education, conferences, resolutions, position
papers, and other publications
- Cooperate with other national and international organizations concerned with the study and education of young children (NAECTE website)
They
have annual conferences. This year’s
fall conference will be on November 7, 2012 in Atlanta, GA (NAECTE website). The theme of this conference is 21st
Century Early Childhood Teacher Education:
Research, Reform, and Resilience (NAECTE website).
On
their website, I read a keynote address, given by Frances O’Connell Rust, at
the 2009 conference in Charlotte, NC that I found interesting and relevant
given our discussions on changing demographics and diversity. The keynote address was titled, Shaping new models for early childhood
teacher education programs (Rust, 2009).
Rust addressed inadequate preparation of future teachers in the areas of
students with disabilities, diverse cultural backgrounds, and limited English
proficiencies (Rust, 2009). Further
along in the keynote address, Rust offers thoughts on developing new models of early
childhood teacher education (Rust, 2009).
It made for a very interesting read.
I highly recommend it.
Rust, Frances O’Connell. (2009, June). Shaping
new models for early childhood teacher
Education. Speech presented at NAECTE 2009
Conference Charlotte, NC.
NAECTE website http://www.naecte.org/
Great resource! I will look at that keynote address. I find that I am using these shared resources in the class I teach at the adult ed program. Thank you for sharing another great one!
ReplyDeleteGreat resource! I am going to book mark it for future reference. Have you ever attended a conference? It looked very interesting. It would be so great if some of us from class decided to meet at one of these conferences huh?
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haley
I have to agree that the NAEYC is a great resource for all ECE educators. I just renewed my membership. I find that a lot of their position statements and articles are very useful in trainings that I do with staff. Thanks for sharing.
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