Establishing Professional Conacts

Making contact with Early Childhood Professionals outside of the United States was more challenging than I thought. I have contacted an organization called “Thrive” in hopes of making contact with other professionals. Thrive is a network of organizations that have merged and work toward making a difference around the world. They have divisions dealing with health care, education and other issues of social welfare. There Model is: “We are connecting great ideas and people together in surprising ways to increase impact” http://thrivenetworks.org/program/early-childhood-education

 I thought this would be a good organization to try and make contact with a professional. I obtained an email address from the contact page and emailed the director asking for help in contacting an Early Childhood Professional in their network outside of the United States. I hope to make contact with someone within the upcoming week. I am excited with the idea of discussing the Early Childhood Field with someone from another country. I would like to see what the similarities and differences are.

The website that I chose to research and review was The National Association for the Education of Young Children. NAEYC is the leading organization in the Early Childhood Field. I chose the NAEYC website because it is well organized and I know the information that I find will be credible and accurate. Along with other publications, NAEYC publishes a quarterly journal called Early Childhood Research Quarterly. The journal contains research on Early Childhood. I plan on reading a few editions of the Journal to discuss on this blog.

I hope everyone luck in communicating with someone in the Early Childhood Field outside of the United States. I am interested to what everyone else’s results will be.