As I explore the "ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families" website http://www.zerotothree.org/about-us/ , I have l learing many things that I ignored from this organizations. It is not only focusses on providing informtion, training and support to parents and professionals in the field of education, but it also makes sure to provide the same information to policy makers in regards to the importance health and development has in the development of infants and toddlers.
This organization focuses on the importanct of those early experiences, in the development of a child. Experiences that can either have a possitive effect or a negative depending of the type of experience offered by the parent or caregiver.The website also offeres wonderful videos that demonstrate a variety of different issues that encourage learing, promote self esteem, language, gross, social emotional development as well as many other developmental areas. These videos are no more than 10 minutes long, but are full of valuable information that parents, professionals and policy makers can easy assess and lear from. This week I had the opportunity to view two of these videos, one was “Why Experiences Matter”, about the importance of early experiences in the child’s life and how parents and caregivers are the main providers of these experiences that help share a child concept of value, and appreaciation of life. The second one was tittled “A Window to the World”, this video demonstrates how Language and Literacy development contribute to a child’s success throughout life. How caregivers and professionals in the field can promote literacy and language as well as its present and long term benefits.
Something that caught my attention from this website, is the variety of resources it can provide to the families, professionals and policy makers. Issues such as Behavior Development, Maltreatment, Care and Education and many more. All impontant factor to know when it comes to working with children. I also loved the idea that they offer a free newsletter every month that shows how children learn and grow each month from birth to age 3. This newsletter offers stradegies parents can tailor to their unique family situation and to the needs of their child.
I love this website, it gives lots of resources and information for parents and educators.
ReplyDeleteI shared this website with my co-teacher who has a 3 month old granddaughter. She loved it and she loves the newsletter that they provide.
Isabel,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog! Again, I think this is really cool that there is an organization out there that focuses on children as young at birth. It is really amazing to think of how many milestones children go through before they see me in primary school!
I llke that the Zero to Three website trains parents. We need more people that can help parents. I think I will check out some of the videos that you talked about.
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