Professional Contacts

       Provide the name and link for the international website you selected, and a brief description of the organization’s focus.

        

South Africa
OMEP South African National Committee
The National Early Childhood Development Alliance
Mr. Eric Atmore
P.O. Box 2363
Clarinch, 7740
South Africa
Tel: 27 21 683 2420
Email: cecd@iafrica.com

 

The website focuses on Early Childhood Education

Ghana Rev Charles Arko-Nunoo
P.O. Box MK 157
Mankessim C/R Ghana
Tel: + 233 42 34180
Email: 2kdotcom@ghana.com

 

       Identify one current issue/trend from the newsletter and/or from the website that caught your attention.

 

One of the Current issues that caught my attention was the issue on School Readiness.

 

Head Start is the leader in the early childhood field with a strong and clear focus on healthy child development. These developments include physical, cognitive, social and emotional development, all of which are essential to children getting ready for school.  Head Start requires all programs to establish school readiness goals, setting expectations of children's status and progress in a full range of development domains, as part of Head Start reform regulation.

 

The site shares a parent post card as well as a worksheet  that  teachers parents how to feed their children healthier meal and what proportions are needed for the children to get a balanced meal as well as discussed how important it was to limited television time and more outdoor play.  This was very interesting to me because our children are not actively involved in more outdoor activity in our schools or at home. The site also discusses tips for children and infants to succeed in school as well.

 

 

       Share if there was anything else you learned from studying these resources related to the topic of this week.

        

       I have learned that there is a lot of information out here if one is able to access it. I believe that all children have the right to a great education.