Final Blog Week 8

When I was assigned to learn about the international early childhood field, I did not know what I was going to find.  I was really excited to learn what was going on in the field in other parts of the world.  I chose to review Save the Children website.  This organization is doing a terrific work for the most vulnerable children of the world.  They literally, “Save the Children” of the world with all the programs and services that they offer.  Besides reviewing this organization’s website, I learned a lot from reviewing my colleague’s blogs each week.  They all posted interesting and vital information that helped to strengthened and deepened my understanding of the early childhood field outside United States.

One of the most important things that I learned is about all the international efforts to alleviate the consequences of poverty in the early years.  Children in all parts of the world suffer from poverty in different ways.  I now understand how organizations as such as Save the Children work to provide children better opportunities and chances to fight poverty.

 I learned that quality, equity and access are issues affecting the early childhood field tremendously.  Many people in USA and outside USA have difficulty to access high quality programs.

The last thing I would like to mention is that I realized that early childhood professionals all around the world are not recognized as professionals.  Even though, credentials are required and that many programs are requesting degrees; we are still suffering of low compensation and lack of acknowledgments in what we do.  People still think that what we do is just playing with children.  We have a lot of education and awareness work within our communities to achieve recognition throughout the world.

One of my goals is to continue learning about what is going on in the early childhood field outside the USA.  Use that information to strengthened my practices and advocate for the field in general.