After reviewing the podcast with
Barbra Jones, I now have a deeper understanding of how monastery schools system
operates and how she founded the monastery school Pine Grove School in
Falmouth, Maine. Ms. Barbara mentioned that her student teaching experience a
public school teacher did not speak to her and how she then made efforts to
gain employment in the monastery private sector of education. Similarly, Ms.
Barbra shared her traveling experience abroad in order to obtain the necessary level
of education and certifications to be a monastery educator with credentials.
Ms. Barbara believed that obtaining her degree in monastery education would
provide evidence to those she desired to work with that she was serious about
working in that particular division of education. I find Ms. Barbara’s desire
to open her own school very insightful. As a Child Care Center Director for a
private based child care center, I can relate to Ms. Barbara professional
development experience. I find this Ms. Barbara’s experience is a trend among
many educational professional with regards to reaching a level of ownership in
the field. I find that my desire to own my own Child Care Center is very
similar to Ms. Barbara’s story, which is one of the reasons why I am pursuing
my master’s degree in Early Childhood Education, (World Forum Foundation,
2013).
After reviewing the Harvard, Center
of Developing Child website, I found the following items most intriguing. The
Center’s commitment to global work, which represents both an acknowledgement of
moral responsibility to meet the needs of all children and a critical
investment in the roots of economic productivity, positive health outcomes, and
strong civil society in all nations, from the poorest to the most affluent.
Furthermore, the three strategies that the center focuses on such as: (1) reframing
the discourse around child health and development in the global policy arena by
educating high-level decision-makers about the underlying science of learning,
behavior, and health, beginning in the earliest years of life; (2) developing supporting
innovative, multi-disciplinary research and demonstration projects to expand
global understanding of how healthy development happens, how it can be
derailed, and how to get it back on track; and (3) building leadership capacity
in child development research and policy—focused on both individuals and
institutions—in low- and middle-income countries to increase the number and
influence of diverse voices and perspectives that are contributing to the
growing global movement on behalf of young children,(The President and Fellows
of Harvard College, 2013). Lastly, I believe that the Director Jack Shonkoff’s
article, Pediatrics reveals that new
knowledge in the biological and social sciences, which offers a unifying
framework that can inform innovative strategies to improve both child survival
and early development as well as adult outcomes in health, learning, and
behavior, (The President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2013).
After reviewing the Pre-K Now
website and the video Pre-K Now: Marking a Decade of Pre-K Milestones. I feel
so inspire and have a greater appreciation for how scientists, economists and politicians
work together in order to enhance the quality of Pre-K service nationwide. I am
completely concur with the message unveiled in the video with regards to
ensuring that parents and their children have the opportunity to access quality
Pre-k programs. I am very certain that quality Pre-K program will only help
better prepare students for higher setting of education and support their overall
development. The video also mentioned how an increase of interest and funding
has generated from policymakers, which is certainly an success story for the
field. I do believe that Pre-K is important and research supports how important
it is for children between the ages of birth and 5 to be giving the opportunity
to learn in adequate and structured atmosphere, (Pre-K Now: Marking a Decade of
Pre-K Milestones, 2012).
References:
Pre[K]Now: A Campaign of the Pew Center on the States. (
2012). Pre-K Now: Marking a Decade of Pre-K Milestones. http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/initiatives_detail.aspx?initiativeID=31672
(Newsletter: http://www.preknow.org/signupform.cfm ).
The President and Fellows of Harvard College. (2013). Harvard
University’s “Global Children’s Initiative” website (http://developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/global_initiative/)
World Form Foundation. (2013). Barbara Jones. Podcast
retrieved from, http://www.worldforumfoundation.org/world-forum-radio/
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