Saturday, October 13, 2012


Sharing Web Resources 

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:

National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators  http://www.naecte.org/

American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education  http://aacte.org/

 

 

 

 

3 comments:

  1. Thank you for the information on conferences. I would love to attend one but they are always held out of State!

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  2. Thank 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.

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  3. I 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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