Sharing Web Resources

 An outside link on the website brings me to information on Zero to Three's Annual Conference which will be held at New Orleans, LA on December 7^th till 9^th 2016. This conference was formerly known as National Training Institute which was “carefully developed to meet the education and networking needs of professionals working with infants and toddlers in Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention, Mental Health, Early Head Start, Child Welfare, Parent Education and Pediatrics” (Zero to Three, 2016).

 Under the section of Maltreatment, I have come across a tonne of information on “The impact of Trauma”. This section explains a lot about how much young children are affected by the things that takes place around them and how to help them to deal with it. There are articles on this page which explains how and when can we help to change the outcome of traumatized children, how to help them to cope with the trauma, on the methods of treating very young children who have witnessed traumatic events and gives a wealth of information on trauma resources which can create awareness to all levels.

 The latest newsletter talks a lot about what we have been discussing this week in this course which is excellence and equity in early childhood field. This newsletter focuses on “ efforts to: improve the capacity of home visitors to address maternal depression, increase cultural competency and equity in the early intervention system, evaluate the effectiveness of family child care networks that have the potential for improving family child care quality, and create competency standards in early care and education programs” (Zero to Three, 2016).

 This website contains a valuable tool which gives valuable information on how “infants and toddlers are doing in your state and to analyze existing state policies and funding choices” (Zero to Three, 2016). The survey questions in this toolkit will gather data to give you the correct information on how the young children are doing in your state and what are the existing state policies available as well as the funding choices in the state for early childhood care and education. I think this is a very important and relevant tool for this week's topic of discussion. Through this toolkit one can see how the equality or inequality and excellence of early childhood care and education in each state are.

 There was an issue on the website talking about the high statistics of children with challenging behaviors being expelled from preschool. In this article, the authors put together a table on “specific examples of strategies used by mental health consultants working with children at risk for expulsion” (Zero to Three, 2016). I found this table of examples to be very useful for early childhood professionals like me as sometimes as a teacher it can be quite overwhelming to have so many different types of behaviors to deal with in a classroom and having some sort of guideline to help with this is beneficial for the teacher and the students in discussion.