Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 3

After exploring UNESCO’s Early Childhood Care and Education website, I came across some information about the region of Arab. They are working on providing a stable learning environment that provides good quality education for all in society. This relates to my professional goals because I want all children to have access to a good quality education. It is their right regardless of their income level.

In Africa they have workshops on ways to improve teacher development in Early Childhood Care and Education. This applies to my professional goals because I want to be a high-quality Early Childhood Care teacher. It is important to know how to educate our young children. Early Childhood is the starting point for their learning development. When they leave my class I want to have inspired them to want to continue learning.

In Latin America and the Caribbean they are addressing the needs of education and cultural diversity. Issues addressed are how they can communicate educational policies that promote respect for cultural diversity, how education can bind the richness characteristic to cultural diversity to improve the teaching learning process and add to a more broader human development, and how they can turn cultural diversity into a foundation of understanding, multiplicity, and social structure. This relates to my professional goals because I want to learn ways to educate children and families of cultural diversity. As more families from other countries move into the United States it is important to know how to communicate with them in ways they understand.

These are not my only professional goals, but they are three important ones. I never had an idea that other countries were dealing with cultural diversity issues. This was surprising to me. It is enlightening to know that other countries are working to address issues related to education, especially early education. It is all about the children.