UNESCO
The website that I reviewed was the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). This
organization advocates for early childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programs
that attend to health, nutrition, security and learning and which provide for
children’s holistic development. Their mission is to provide international
leadership to create learning societies with educational opportunities for all
populations, provide expertise and foster partnerships to strengthen national
leadership and the capacity of countries to offer quality education for all. Their
mission is to also work as an intellectual leader.
An insight that I discovered is the
fact that UNESCO genuinely cares about children who are less fortunate,
especially those who are most vulnerable and disadvantaged. This relates to my heart for children who are
immigrants. I often have many Hispanic children who enroll in my school program.
Often these children are disadvantaged because they do not speak any English
and have to try to understand many new concepts in two different languages.
This is the reason why I am in favor of all classrooms having at least one
staff member who is bilingual to assist the students who are disadvantaged in
the classroom. UNESCO, with the help of participating countries committed
themselves to “expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and
education”.
I discovered that every now and then
UNESCO has job vacancies. At this moment the vacancy is for a project officer.
The duties of the project officer are to provide capacity development for
education for all. The education sector sometimes needs extra services provided
by people other than their day to day staff. They like to bring in new staff
who can share their outside expertise as needed.
The UNESCO website has much valuable
information to share with individuals who are interested in international advocacy.
The biggest similarities between my professional goals and UNESCO mission are providing
quality and equal education opportunities to children of many different
cultures. That is what I try to do on a daily basis as a preschool teacher.
UNESCO and I both have a certain level of advocacy that we give to the field of
early child development. Of course my advocacy work is not as great as theirs but
my profession goal is to increase my advocacy work so that I can be an active
voice for the students that I educate.
Blog Responses
Cotati Thomas-Crompton – http://cothomas-crompton.blogspot.com
Parker Swanson – http://parkerandrew.blogspot.com
Brittany Tomek – http://btomek1813.blogspot.com
I commend you as a preschool teacher. It is hard work. I am too working on my advocacy role in my current agency. This course has opened my eyes to so much when it comes to the policies and laws for early childhood. After 13 years of being involved administratively, I'm learning those a whole other realm to this I never knew.
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