WK 8 :Time Well Spent

 

My three deeply felt learnings from this program are that the early childhood field is much bigger and various than a simple bundle of preschools and daycares, that there are a lot of professionals with passions for advocating for children in the early childhood field, and that every early childhood professional can make a change for children. I now understand the complexity of the early childhood field as the Wordle in the “Merging Vision, Passion, and Practice” shows. This gives me motivation to involve with it as more than just a teacher. I learned the importance of having passions. I got to know the early childhood professionals through the course materials. I learned that people who accomplish a big achievement started from a passion inside them. Through the capstone project, I thought about what I can do for the early childhood field. I learned that I have background and experiences I can use to make a change for children and that the actions of each of us make the early childhood field better for children.

 

My long term goal is to support immigrant children by providing environments where they can learn their language and culture on top of proper early childhood education under an English environment.

 

Dear Dr. Teri & my colleagues,

Thank you very much for supporting me through the program. I feel that I am very lucky to have Dr. Teri for this course and my peers through the program. I gained a lot of insights from you and the passions you have for children and self-growth helped me to push through hard times and assignments and finish the program, and this will help me go on in my career when I face difficulties.   Good luck on your future careers.

My contact info is ariatoairi@hotmail.com. Please let me know when I have something I can help you with or when you have any updates in your career J

Jobs/Roles in the ECE Community: Internationally

SOS CHILDREN’S VILLEGES (http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/About-us/Working-with-us/Job-offers/Pages/Continental-Programme-Development-Advisor.aspx)

I chose this organization because they help families all around the world to take care of their children instead of taking the children away from them to take care of them. The position I found is Continental Programme Development Advisor. The skills you need for this position are an advanced degree in social work, social pedagogy, psychology or international development, at least three years of work experience in child protection and care, fluency in written and spoken English and Russian and knowledge and experience of deinstitutionalization and child welfare systems.

 

ChildFund International (http://www.childfund.org/child-sponsorship/sponsor-a-child.aspx)

I chose this organization because I am interested in organizations that provide child sponsorship programs. This position is not currently available but there was a position called Early Childhood Development Sr Specialist. Skills you need for this position are a Master’s or Doctoral degree in early childhood development, over 8 years of experience in early childhood development, experience working with children experiencing deprivation, exclusion and vulnerability, and their families, experience with proposal development, including technical strategy design and narrative writing, experience with USG donor agencies and grant making processes and so on.

 

International Rescue Committee (http://www.rescue.org/careers)

I chose this organization because they help children and families when emergencies occur and stay there as long as needed. The big earthquakes, tsunami and floods that have occurred in recent years made me think that these kinds of organizations are very important and needed. The job I found is Emergency Child Protection and Education Coordinator. The skills you need for this positions are a postgraduate degree in International Development or Education, excellent professional track record with at least three years of international management level experience within NGO leadership working in emergency / humanitarian program implementation within conflict or immediate post conflict environments, successful experience working within a volatile security environment, previous experience managing programs financed through US, EU, UN and private foundations, solid managerial skills and experience in an international multi-cultural setting; strong project planning, organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills and technical writing skills.