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National Association
of Early Childhood Teacher Educators
On their homepage, they have a tab for Links to Related Organizations.
I chose the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. AACTE is a national alliance of educator
preparation programs dedicated to the highest quality professional development
of teachers and school leaders in order to enhance PK-12 student learning. AACTE supports the New Educator Reform Act
which was a bill that was announced on September 20. This bill proposes to improve the quality of
teaching in high-need schools by reforming and strengthening accountability of
educator preparation programs, and supporting partnerships to meet the needs of
educators. I was unaware of this bill,
and I realize this is an area in which I need to stay more current.
In addition, there was a section entitled AACTE Sheds Light
on Requirements Raised in PDK/Gallup Poll.
If you click on the blue highlighted title Public Education in the United States:
A Nation Divided - What Americans said
about the public schools. The topics
include finances and politics, teacher evaluations, immigrants in our schools,
bullying, confidence in our teachers, and so on. It was very interesting to read and some of
the opinions were surprising to me.
While searching the website for information regarding equity
and excellence in early care and education, I learned that at their Fall
Conference on Wednesday, November 7th in Atlanta, Georgia they have
chosen a keynote speaker who will address the importance of children’s play. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Nancy
Carlsson-Paige, and she will be speaking about her most recent work TAKING BACK
CHILDHOOD: A Proven Roadmap for Raising Confident, Creative, Compassionate
Kids. She will also be addressing the
need to preserve children’s play in order to support healthy development. I was glad to see that this national
organization is recognizing and supporting the importance of children’s play by
choosing a keynote speaker who will address this topic at their national
conference.
Resources:
Thank you for the information on conferences. I would love to attend one but they are always held out of State!
ReplyDeleteThank you Dianne for sharing!I'm in love with the title of the workshop..Taking Back Childhood..It really breaks my heart that more individuals are not in tune with preserving children's play! It's so important for development. I'm glad that you put an emphasis on how you believe that play is important also.
ReplyDeleteI would so love to attend that conference. Hopefully at some point I could convince my supervisors those types of confrences are worth my absences from the building. I truely relate to inspiring parents to Take back Childhood. I say constantly that allowing children to be children is the best education they can recieve. Forcing our children to act, think, and behave like small adults is crazy to me. They have their entire life to be grown-up and such a small amount of time to be a child. Thank you for sharing!
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