Getting Ready—E stablishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

Part I

For the blog assignment for this week 1, I was able to contact two people that are good friends of mine in the professional field.  They are both working in other countries at the moment.  They stated that they would be happy to assist me in whatever help I needed.  I feel that I will be able to gather enough information from these professionals to assist me for this assignment.

Part 2

I chose the following website:  National Black Child Development Institute
http://nbcdi.org/  (Newsletter: http://nbcdi.org/support/sign-up-for-nbcdi-newsletters/)

I chose this website because I wanted to get more information regarding family engagement regarding African Americans and also how the development of African American children compares to other cultures.  I realize that some cultures regarding academics develop sooner than others and I wanted to find out what some of the defining factors were.  I also feel that it is important for all culture to receive the best health benefits possible in order for them to grow, learn and prosper.  I was also interested in National Institute for Early Education Research
http://nieer.org/ (Newsletter: http://nieer.org/resources/newsletter/index.php)  I feel that this website will give me some new and fresh ideas on new research that is being implemented in the field of early childhood.  They have some very good information that will help me to become better in my teaching field and will inspire me to be a better role model for the students that I teach.  I think I will use the first website that I chose.

As far as the establishments of professional contacts are concerned, I feel that it is easier to begin by asking the people that you work with first and then move on from there.

References

National Black Child Development Institute
http://nbcdi.org/  (Newsletter: http://nbcdi.org/support/sign-up-for-nbcdi-newsletters/)