Research That Benefits Families and Children

For the Children and Families

 

I chose option 1!

Just by surfing the internet about children’s programs for early childhood education. I came across the website for Head Start. I was excited to find that the program has evolved to what is in operation today and they have updated the programs to make them more family friendly and to include home based early childhood education. From research that has been done on the environment of children that helps them become school ready, the information is translated so that there are home visits to willing families from EC associates of the head start program to actually visit the home and give a sort of a modeling of what the families could be doing to create a learning environment for the children to grow and develop.

A great program!

I was also pleased to see how formats were in place to provide a continuous improvement practice for head start. This is such a plus for the families and children of this valuable program. Check it out and click the link below!

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/ehs/perf_measures/reports/prgm_perf_measures/prgm_perf_measure_4pg.pdf

All that would be left to do would be to develop affordable programing such as this to meet the family demographic whose incomes do not allow them to qualify for participation. They make just over the established income threshold but still find it difficult to find quality childcare such as described here.

Fellow EC colleagues, we have outreach and advocate work to do!

Research

Personal Research Journey

Hello All,

I am plunging head first into our current course, Research Competencies – 6163-1.  I am excited about learning the difference in quality sites and articles with which to glean information from. I am still trying to figure out how to go about determining the style of research for a simulation I should attempt here. My choice for research interest is the issue of closing the achievement gap from those children in poverty to those that have access to quality care and exposure. I seek to improve the learning situations of those children who seem to fall through the grasp of the educational reach that is currently in place. I would be willing to try different approaches and be advocates for the families that are served.

Developing the research chart should be a great help in determining the simulation and style of research to perform.

The following are links that I have already explored on the subject with professionals that have shared information on the site.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/09/achievement.aspx

Your comments and suggestions are invited and welcome indeed!