Sharing Web Resources-week 6

National Black Child Development Institute

http://nbcdi.org/

*Follow some of the outside links that you have not yet explored. Where do they lead? On the NBCDI website, I clicked on the T.E.A.M tab and it led me to "T.E.A.C.H Early Childhood D.C. I learned that TEACH/TEAM was a scholarship opportunity for individuals who wanted to educate our disadvantaged children in hopes to stabilize the teaching field/workforce and hopefully put an end to the high turnover phenomena!

In 1990, Child Care Services Association created the Teacher Education and Compensation Helps (T.E.A.C.H.) Early Childhood® Project to address the issues of under-education, poor compensation and high turnover within the early childhood workforce.  The T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Project gives scholarships to child care workers to complete course work in early childhood education and to increase their compensation.
T.E.A.C.H. is built on four components:
Education: T.E.A.C.H. helps participants to earn a required number of college credit hours in early childhood education each year.
Scholarship: T.E.A.C.H. offers counseling and financial support to pay for college courses and fees, books, travel, and time away from work.
Compensation: T.E.A.C.H. recipients earn a compensation bonus or raise after successful completion of a year of education.
Commitment: T.E.A.C.H. recipients agree to continue their service as a child care professional in their current early care and education setting.
(National Child Development Institute, 2012). 



*Thoroughly search one area of the site. What do you find?
I decided to explore the 'AFFILIATES' tab, and I found the many cities that affiliate with the NBCDI. The closest affiliate that is located in my area is the affiliate in Houston, Texas. Although, I could pass this information onto EC professionals who live in these respective cities.




*If you receive an e-newsletter, follow a link related to one of the issues you have been studying. What new information is available? I have not received a newsletter but you can access ALL of their newsletters on their website. The newsletters have innovative strategies, thoughts, research and information that's important for parents, children, teachers, EC professionals and the general public.




*Does the website or the e-newsletter contain any information that adds to your understanding of equity and excellence in early care and education? Yes, the NBCDI networks with most of your foremost early childhood programs (i.e. Head Start, Zero to Three,... I discovered a link/section entitled PreK-3rd. PreK-3rd is dedicated to creating equity in ensuring that all children are prepared in every area of development for formal education.




*What other new insights about issues and trends in the early childhood field did you gain this week from exploring the website and/or the e-newsletter? I strolled upon a section located under the initiatives tab entitled, 'Entering the College Zone (ECZ)' this is a great program. It provides children in the middle/high school level an opportunity to gain information on colleges and assists them in preparing for college, in terms of filling out financial aid, applications, SATs,...