Sharing Web Resources



I chose to select the National Association of Early Childhood Teachers, or NAECTE for short. Their website can be found at www.NAECTE.org. I chose this website because I, myself, am an Early Childhood Teacher and was drawn to their goals and purpose.

Their purposes are as follows:

• To promote the professional growth of our membership
• To discuss educational issues specific to our membership
• To advocate for improvements in early childhood teacher education
• Provide a forum for consideration of issues and concerns of interest to educators of early childhood teacher educators
• Provide a communication network for early childhood teacher educators
• Facilitate the interchange of information and ideas about research and practice
• Use, as vehicles, the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, conferences, resolutions, position papers, and other publications
• Cooperate with other national and international organizations concerned with the study and education of young children

In looking over their Winter 2013 newsletter, I found their theme for the upcoming spring conference to be interesting. The theme of the conference is Fostering Resiliency, Agency, and Advocacy in Early Childhood Teacher Candidates. This is the exact topic I chose to write about in this week’s discussion, so it was neat for me to also see this big organization also concerned with preparing our future educators with the necessary tools to become strong advocates for their children.