Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 3

I have continue to look at the different links on the international website that I have been using and I am always finding great information  that I can share with the followers of my blog.

This article about Early Childhood Development gives the best definition of what our children must have to be school ready. I have learned just how important our jobs are as a teacher working with children in the early childcare setting. In reading I like the way, they explain school readiness. I understand now why some students become dropouts or have problems that place them in the special education classes or how they may repeat their grades. Please check out the article. Here is a small piece that I would like to share.

Early Child Development is the first and essential step toward achieving primary school completion. Learning begins at birth, if not before. It does not wait for kindergarten or primary school. It develops in relation to broad environmental forces. Both the content of learning and learning behaviors are influenced by the immediate surroundings of a child’s family, home, and community. Education begins here – neither in the confines of a school building, nor when a child reaches primary school age (http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTEDUCATION/0,,contentMDK:20264764~menuPK:617557~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:282386,00.html)

I hope you enjoy.

Sandra