Jobs/Roles in the ECE Community: National/Federal Level

The first organization that I would love to be apart would be the Children’s Defense Fund, they work in all capacities to advocate for children.  I would love to get the chance to work with Ms. Marian Edelman Wright who is known through the profession as an advocate for education. They have a teacher institute program that they for professional development during the summer time. They host conferences to help educators with their professional development so that they can better assist students that may have different barriers to their learning.  This would be a great organization to be a part of communities of practices to give insight to how you as an educator overcome these barriers to get your students the information they need. Also Dr. Edelman-Wright has done advocating for children having access to pre-k programs. There are not any opportunities for careers but they do encourage financial support to keep initiatives going.

The next organization which I am sure will be a common one amongst our group is the National Association for the Education of Young Children.  The NAEYC have several things that I am interested in that they are involved in but my main focus right now is standards for child care program workers. They have a program that is for the development of the workforce. It is called the Early Childhood Workforce Systems Initiative’s (ECWSI). They are working to assist states in creating and developing and implementing their own policies for all early childhood education professionals working with or even on behalf of young children. Their intention for this policy creation is to make teacher actions intentionally. This will help ensure the teachers will become competent and stable fixtures in these classrooms and able to remain professional of early childhood. The job that I would be interested in the early learners coordinator in which the coordinator will plan activities that would be vital to children and parents throughout a local museum.

                                     

I have interest in the Zero to Three organizations. They have several ties to the early childhood community. They focus on the development of children from birth to age three. The se of course are the most formidable years of a young child’s life. They too have suggestion on how to build a strong workforce for infant and toddlers. All children in early childhood need great teachers who are nurturing and professionals who can articulate curriculum and needs of the children.  This is especially important for really young children as their brains are growing and developing. You do not want to cause any childhood trauma so you would want qualified trained professional in your infant and toddler classrooms to make sure they are fostering appropriate development. They job on the Zero to Three site that would interest me is the Senior Training Specialist; it involves the person training and informing others of the prenatal to five developmental in children. It would require facilitation and creation of trainings and presentations to be given throughout the county.