For the Children and Families
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!
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!
Hi Sheila,
ReplyDeleteI think children in the US are so lucky to have places like head start to give them a great start in life. I wish there were programs like head start here in UAE. Homes and the early childhood education programs are the two most influential environments in a young child’s life. Therefore, Involving families is so important for the development of the child. I wish here as well we had such home programs where parents could be partners with the education programs.