Just when I think I have explored everything that's out there on Early Childhood I become reminded that I have only begun to touch the surface. This week I visited the Center On The Developing Child (Harvard, 2014) and I found a new location of pod casts. I have been a member of NAEYC for just over nine years, how have I missed that they have pod casts? This week I discovered that both of my top favorite sites have pod casts! Both NAEYC & Zero To Three have pod casts, I am so excited, not only for myself but for my clients. What a fabulous resource on such a wide range of topics dealing with Early Childhood AND it's FREE!
Developing Child from Harvard has a variety of types of resources such as multi-media, reports, briefs, and articles. As an example of just one of the links on how the brain works, there were more articles and multi-media than I could get through. Each link has tons of information on it's particular area of Child Development. It also felt to me that there were different levels of information, such as some papers might have been directed more for the general public to read and be able to comprehend. While other material was clearly written for practitioner's, there was something for everybody.
I very much enjoyed going through a variety of pod casts from NAEYC Radio (NAEYC, 2014). There was such a variety of topics. One of the pod casts that I listened to was on creating emotionally safe environments for children. It talked specifically about bullying and one of the suggestions was to teach assertiveness not aggressiveness and of course that the child that is doing the bullying is most likely learned this behavior from their environment and is using it as a defense mechanism. I would encourage anyone involved and interested in ECE or anyone that is a parent to check out these resources.
Jennifer Pore`
Harvard University, (2014). Center On The Developing Child. Retrieved from
http:/developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/global_initiative
NAEYC Radio. (2014). Retrieved from
www.naeyc.org/newsroom/NAEYCradio
I was thinking about joining the NAEYC but haven't really looked into it anymore. I enjoyed reading about the developing child and the different things that they have going on. I enjoyed reading your post and you shared wonderful insights.
ReplyDeleteJennifer - What awesome resources. As an NAEYC member, I was unfamiliar with their pod cast. I am eager to review their pod cast along with Zero to Three. I have siblings with small children across the country that I will be able to share some of my knowledge with now through these wonderful resources. Thank you for your research work this week. I am looking forward to watching your blog.
ReplyDeleteI am a NAEYC member and did not realize they had podcasts either!! Good to know! Thanks for that information.
ReplyDeleteI also found the Harvard website very informational. Another new website to look at.