This week I chose to look at the Early Childhood Australia website that can be found at http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/. I chose this website because Australia is a place I would like to someday visit, but is also a place that I do not know much about as far as their education system goes.
In looking through the website, some of the current research topics I saw were:
- Learning and teaching through play
- Use and cost of family daycare
- Misconceptions about mathematics
- Teachers support of Children's scientific learning
- Parent and staff expectations of continuity of home practices
Surprising facts/insight I found:
- Not only does Early Childhood Australia work with government, professionals, and caregivers, but it is important for them to include and work with parents and grandparents. I find this to be amazing! Parents and other family members should be included in the care and education of their children, and I think this is something that the United States could use more work in.
Other information:
- Early Childhood Australia is affiliated with NAEYC
- They believe in fully including children with disabilities into classrooms
Melanie,
ReplyDeleteGreat blog post. I researched the Australian website and found it very interesting and amazing on all the information and resources. I also thought the information resources were great attributes that help all teachers, parents, grandparents, and professionals learn about new early childhood resources and sources. They offer a wide array of information in many different formats, catalogs, and online resources. It is really neat too how they have an ECA branches in every state/territory of Australia. I thought there position statement on how the Aboriginal children and families were valued and respected for the cultural differences was very inspiring. Melissa