Sunday, 4 November 2012

MY PROFESSIONAL CONTACTS For educ 6162




                                                             

I. Mrs.Bimbo Are

                                    Ajoke International School
                                     New Jericho, G.R.A.
P.O.Box 679, Dugbe, Ibadan
Nigeria
Tel: 080-23236933
Email: arebimbo@yahoo.com

                                                            II.      Jeannie Farr    Head Start Teacher, Oahu, Hawaii, USA. 
                                      jeanniekfarr@yahoo.com
 
                                                                                                                                                These First contact was sourced for from the Global Alliance of The Global Alliance of NAEYC and the second was a  colleague I discovered at the start of my program.
http://www.naeyc.org/resources/partnership/globalalliance

1.    Barbara Jones (BJ)
Barbara Jones (BJ) founded the Pine Grove School in Falmouth, Maine in 1985 and celebrates the schools 25th anniversary this year. The school is a charming, wood-shingled building nested in a grove of pine trees and was used as a school house as far back as 1917.
The Pine Grove School was featured in the Program Showcase section of the July/August 2010 issue of Exchange magazine.

I picked particular interest in Barbara and I really identify with the little profile written about her. I hope she respond to the mail I did to her school.  The source for Barbara is World Forum Foundation Radio. Includes links to podcasts of conversations with early childhood professionals.
http://www.worldforumfoundation.org/wf/radio.php

Saturday, 13 October 2012

MY SUPPORTS


Daily, I wake up and I am hopeful, I mean really hopeful.

Hopeful because there is life. for which I am grateful.
Hopeful because God is constant, and faithful.
Hopeful because I have a Family for which I am thankful.
Hopeful because I shall be helped just as I also have helped and I am helping- Praise Allagoa 

Factors within my daily Environment that are helping me to carry on and making sure that I am successful are:

God. In life we all have what makes us thick. For me, my primary strength factor is my connection to the One who holds and sustains my life. He is the peace I experience in the face of adversity. The first thought each time I feel any sense of accomplishment. I cannot do without communing with God each time I wake up and knowing that he goes ahead of the day gives me a disposition of, I can achieve all of my life's task.

Family. What is life without Family. My immediate family is so supportive. They provide me with encouragements, guidance, respect, and love.

My friends provides me with a great sense of motivation.They are not so many but few as they are, some of them spur me to so many good things and one of those good things is this studies in early childhood.

My professional colleagues are always there for me offering professional insights.

Clients: Our school Parents are there to patronize us, giving us the privilege to provide service, without which the sense of accomplishment felt would not exist.

Among these parents are a special few who liase between the school and their fellow parents.

I remember how I felt when I was introduced to websites and resources, I think the developmental supports I get by reaching out to the materials I have been exposed to so far has strengthened my stand both as an individual and as a professional.

Some technological tools, like my phone and computer for several things like communicative ability, organization, storage and memory help and, some organizational tools like my planner, my time table, both for home and work

I do not know if I can survive without these supports. How do I get into the day without a quiet time to pray and study? How could I exist without my family, both primary and extended, my friends, How? Who would I have turned to when those times of uncertainties come up, if I did not have access to my colleagues, mentors and my wonderful staff.

I cannot imagine it, I do not think it exist because I have never been without one form of support or another. I suppose however, that I would bear the shock and adjust.

If these supports weren't there, I just would not be where I am today. I would be way behind. Life would not gain acceleration like it has and development would be hindered.

With all of these factors, picture with me a my life without modern Technology in the forms of mobile phones, computer, internet access.   I would need to depend on maybe the media through, public Newspapers Analogue library and the Liberian. I would not be able to do this my masters program if I could not go to America. I would not be able to access information and would also lack the ability communicate.  All of these put together still would not be sufficient to provide me with the type of support that I currently enjoy.

Factors Within My Daily Environment  that would be supportive in the previous state. A mobile Phone, A Computer, and an I E- Library. They all would give me the speed like that of a lightening in my work.

If these supports weren't there, I would not be a member of this class. I would not be able to communicate effectively.