Exploring
Roles in the ECE Community: Local and State Levels
Local agencies are: Early
Childhood Education Schools in Oklahoma : OK Colleges, you could teach in their
early childhood program if you have your Master degree in education. The offer
workshops, training, and will come to your program to share any new information
in the field it time permits.
(DHS) Department of Human
Services, which train Foster parent for children in foster care program, train
parents who have lost custody of their children, adoption, child welfare, and
remove children who have been abused. These are just some of the task this
organization carries out on a daily basis.
In the state of
Oklahoma we have the Early Childhood of Oklahoma; www.ecak.org
this group offers conference, and they have a accreditation committee which can
approval your programs for accreditation. They offer other links that support
children programs such as: www.naeyc.org, www.southernearlychildhood.org,
www.cdacoucil.org, just to share a few. They
are also offering a serives of events designed to increase awareness and
stimulate conversations about the value of diversity. They offer luncheon’s,
and chapter function around the state of Oklahoma.
ECAO is pleased to offer the following as state
chapter affiliates for our members to join:
Ada Area
Early Childhood Association
Metro Area
Early Childhood Association
Mid-Del
Early Childhood Association
Red River
Early Childhood Association
Tulsa
Early Childhood Association
Weastern
Early Childhood Association
Wheat
Capital Early Childhood Association
Australian
Early Childhood has come a long way
Early childhood education in
Australia has been a rapidly growing part of the education sector for the past two
decades and, while complex and often controversial, has, until very recently, generated
limited discussion in mainstream educational policy arenas and relatively
little investment in research and development. Most sector growth and
investment has been in
services and fee subsidies to
provide care for young children while their parents work. There has been less
focus on developmental issues and outcomes for children, little emphasis on strengthening
early development and education components in child care, and a widening gulf
between preschool and kindergarten programs and childcare programs for children
in the year or so before school
Almost all child care centres in
Australia are privately operated, either by not-for-profit community groups or by
for-profit commercial businesses. There are few free public early childhood
services of any type. In fact, fees were paid on behalf of 92% of children who used
any formal early childhood service in 2002 (Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS),
2003a, p. 5).
Lighthouse International's Early
Intervention Program is dedicated to helping children with
visual impairments and/or developmental delays from birth to three years of
age. The site offers
Our professionals
foster learning and the development of critical early childhood skills through
the following high-quality services.
·
Service Coordination
·
Multidisciplinary
Evaluations
·
Functional Vision
Assessment
·
Vision Service
·
Orientation &
Mobility
·
Physical Therapy
·
Occupational Therapy
·
Speech Therapy
·
Social Work Service
·
Special Instruction
·
Family Training
·
Nutrition Service
These are a few things
Lighthouse International offer .
Call the New York State Department of Health at (800) 522-5006 to be authorized to receive services for Lighthouse International's Early Intervention Program.
For questions about our Early Intervention Program, email kkim@lighthouse.org.
After looking at some
of our state agencies I truly say we all have come along way in the Early
Childhood field and we all should continue to do our very best as we use
communities of practices around the world. We have to opportunity to be a part
of their program for children too, we just have to be willing, are you willing? There are many opportunities of careers in each one of my site, and this is yet a growing field for growth as professional in education.
Reference
Australian Education
Review
www.unixl.com/dir/early-childhood-education/oklahoma/
www.lighthouse.org/services-and-assistance/early-intervention
Oklahoma ECE
Sandra,
ReplyDeleteDo you belong to any of the organizations that you speak of? Are there local chapters represented in your community? How do these organizations come together to collaborate on behalf of early childhood?