Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 3

Early childhood is properly for children learning.  Early childhood learning helps the developmental process of the brain.  Children learn to become secure with their caregivers and explore the world around them.  A child needs a positive person in their lives that care and respond with sensitivity to their needs.  As well as, children becoming comfortable with interacting with children, also support each other’s needs with a warm response. 

  

The early childhood education programs are planned to prepare young children for a diversity of occupations in adulthood.  Learning skills and develop opportunities to advance as well as gain the overall competencies necessary for adulthood.  Early childhood educations compromise a child the opportunity start with a solid beginning in their developmental stages of life.  

I have gained several insights from this week reading and websites.   We must learn more about how children develop and grow in order to provide the correct stages of physical, cognitive, social and emotional development.  UNESCO advocates for Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programmes that attend to health, nutrition, security and learning and which provide for children’s holistic development.

Early Childhood Care and Education

Reference

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/ 

Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 2

The knowledge of a child’s development shows that the foundation of their mental health which is assembled early in life, as early experiences including the child’s relationships with parents, caregivers, teachers, and peers help form the structural design of developing the brain.  Being able to focus and work with information in a child’s mind, distractions can control coordination to manage information as they grow.  In the brain self-regulation of a group of skills and experiences, begin to advance in early childhood and continue to progress through the early adult years.  Acquiring the early building blocks of these skills is one of the most important and challenging tasks of the early childhood years, and having the right support and experiences through middle childhood, adolescence, and into early adult life is essential for the successful development of these capacities.

Reference

“Building the Brain’s ‘Air Traffic Control’ System: How Early Experiences Shape the Development of Executive Function” and the Working Paper series from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.

www.developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/