Learning all over the world

Hello all As we end our journey with this course it brings me to discuss all the valuable information we researched and found with the different issues and trends around the world. I investigated a variety of websites that provided so much information about the early childhood field, especially about building the professional skills of early childhood teachers overseas. I think about myself, and how at 37 I am just now finished with my BS and in the upward climb of my masters. I went back to school to become more knowledgeable in the field of early childhood and to learn how to educate adults in this field. How awesome would it be to be one of those teachers that got to go overseas and teach other adults how to work and educate young children? I had a professor during my junior year at UC and she lived by Dubai and her job as a western teacher was to help educate and demonstrate to the teachers in that country the importance of learning through play and how socializing is a vital part to learning. My husband has been to that part of the country so I knew a bit about where she was at. She was my teacher for my Student Teaching and we had to have conferences via the web (skype) to go over my videos, activity plans, and overall teaching which she was able to view from the video. She mesmerized me with her knowledge and understanding of how to communicate and talk to young children. We also discussed a lot about what her work there involved and how responsive the teachers were to western teachers educating them. I could not get ahold of this professor to be able and see how well her time overseas was, but she truly loved her job and enjoyed being there. Gas was also only 89 cents. HELLO!!!! My consequences to using international websites, resources, and podcasts are: see how other early childhood teachers handle current issues and trends, to see how the early childhood field is or isn't valued overseas, and I truly understand how we all overseas and in the United States need to build our professional skills to work with young children. We are not baby sitters; we are educators that help develop the minds and bodies of young children. I enjoyed this class and I am honored to have Dr. Johnna Darragh be the instructor for this course. Your interviews for other courses are tools that are extremely helpful in understanding the early childhood field. Melissa