What I have Leaned

HI Guys, sorry for being late with my blog, but I was on the road all day Friday and did not realise it was due until I checked this Saturday. The experiences I have had for the past eight weeks with my colleagues have really been tremendous. Sharing our experiences with each other in the field of early childhood and more so our experiences-learning about public policy and advocacy will go a far way into the future. The consequences of me taking part in this class has caused me to be more sensitive to the needs of children and families in the early childhood realm, to be more knowledge seeking and proactive. From the size of our class (four students) I have realized that advocacy is not a popular field although all early childhood professionals are really advocates in their own way. Well I can tell you this my colleagues when Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Marcus Garvey stood up for human rights they were not so popular and were often ostracized for what they were doing and the changes that they achieved through belief, sacrifice and persistence cannot be measured. My main goal is really to highlight the need for children to gain access to an early childhood system that provides for the basic needs of children. Health, nutrition, family and emotional health are a big part of my campaign. I also want to thank my colleagues that contributed to my professional development for the past eight weeks. We were small in numbers but I believed we have achieved great things. Judy