The international website that I have been
researching and gathering resources from is www.earlychildhoodireland.com . The website has given me perspective on the
belief that no matter where children are from they need learning that is
specific to his or her individual needs. I found that reading the section about
involving fathers was particularly relevant to my current professional
development because where I teach there are extremely many more single parent
house-holds that are run by the mother.
The section of the website showed the importance of having both parents
involved in her child’s life.
There is an interesting program that has been designed
in Ireland to have children between the ages of 3 years, 3 months to 4 years, 4
months where children receive free, quality Pre-K education. It is called ECCE Year, which stands for
Early Childhood and Care Year. The importance
of finding out that more and more countries in Europe are providing this education
for early childhood, but it shows a greater need for me to see children in the United
States need this year. This information
is very pivotal to the relevance to the three fields of economists, neuroscientists,
and politicians because the idea of having quality early childcare and
education before primary school is important because research from each of
these fields have shown important impacts that early childhood education makes
on a child’s life.
Another big insight that was made to me
through the website is that it is so important how having a child placed in a
early childhood educational setting provides the child readiness in primary school, which makes for an easier
transition for the child socially,
academically, and emotionally. This also
takes stress off of parents when their child is able to know what to expect
when he or she begins school.
