When I Reflect About My Collegial, Professional Learning Community

The three consequences of being a part of a caring, collaborative learning community for my personal growth and development are:

1             1.      I am able to be an advocate for all families in the development of their child as well as helping them build positive relationships among one another

2             2.      I am able to look at the history of successful initiatives of other people who fought for those who had issues in early childhood education and to use it to help families of the future.

3             3.      I am able to learn from other early childhood organizations and use their resources to help other families. I can use the organizations to better develop myself as a professional to be a better and positive role model for children.

My goal for using this collegial experience is to take advantage of it and use it to the best of my ability. If there is a concern for any aspect of early childhood education, I will be sure to step up and take a charge on making a change. I also want to encourage more families who may not fully understand early childhood education to enroll their children because it is the best thing for them. As well as guiding those to the resources that will help them enroll their children.

Early Childhood Systems Today: Moving Toward Coherency

• Have I given a complete picture of my family, or are there details missing that I should include in order to complete the assignment successfully? If so, what are your suggestions?
• I have given a complete picture of my family but I am missing the details that I need on the services that will help with the child and family needs. I need to conduct more research on ways that the family can better balance their work and family time to better support the child.

• Is this situation realistic? 
• The situation is very realistic due to the fact that there are plenty of children in the same situation and socioeconomic status. I think that a lot of people can relate to the situation that I have created.

• Are there any specific websites I should be reviewing with regard to learning about quality services and programs for my child and family in this hypothetical family situation?
• For my situation I am looking into the exceptional and special education websites. I am also looking into websites talk about hearing impaired and deaf children. Family support is highly need within this family so I am researching family situations where children are deaf and what they do to better support the child.

The Political Will to Improve Early Childhood Systems

          For my assignment, I did mine on special education and the way that the council advocates for exceptional children is that they work with all people from all levels of government. They examine policy issues, develop responses to the issues that influences those in local, state, provincial and federal legislation. The council also monitors and make recommendations for program regulations and funding. Through this, they are able to maintain network among its partners for influencing policy. I think that this organization is great because they are there to make sure that exceptional children are well taken care of through their networking and influencing policy. They are able to make changes and whatever they see does not fit to their expectations of the treatment of exceptional children then I am sure that they are quick to make changes. The Council of Exceptional Children are the lead advocates of special education policy so whatever needs to be done they are on the case about it!

Reference

Children, C. o. (n.d.). Policy & Advocacy: About CEC's Public Policy. Retrieved from The Council of Exceptional Children: https://www.cec.sped.org/Policy-and-Advocacy