Blog Conclusion

•  One thing that I have learned is that there are organizations out here in the world who are putting themselves out there to get investments in early childhood education. Head Start is starting projects that work together to provide high quality services for children. These organizations can help in my development as a professional in continuous learning about early childhood education.

•   Programs such as "Grand Challenges Canada, Saving Brains” brings together mentors and experts in the fields of early childhood development, innovation systems, and learning communities. This worldwide project is committed to protecting the child’s brain development that mostly fails due to poverty or birth defects. This helps me to understand that we should be more cautious of those communities around us and to pay attention on how to better help families and children that are in this situation.

•   Home based centers I think are great to have because it will make the child feel like they are in a real home and they can be more comfortable but funding for these programs are hard to home by and are not considered as high quality due to no early childhood qualifications. A diploma of teaching in ECE is currently being implemented in New Zealand but they have a long way to go in implementing more qualifications.

One goal for the field related to international awareness of issues and trends and the spirit of collegial relations would be to have every early childhood professional contact another international professional or research early childhood international organizations.  This helps with awareness through the sharing of information and collaboration, it would also encourage the professionals and people involved to create more passion and enthusiasm for the field.