Resources

Early Childhood Resources

If you are looking for a kid friendly book about families or different family situations, I would visit this site. This link provides you will a list of book titles and a short synopsis of a variety of situations a child might face with their family.

http://tyc.naeyc.org/articles/pdf/Childrensbooksaboutfamilies.pdf

If you are someone who feels family involvement is important in a child’s life and you need help providing ways to parents on how they can be more involved, visit this site. This site provides the definition of family involvement and how parents/ families can be involved. I feel family involvement is extremely important and I often have parents asking me what they can do. This helped me give suggestions to parents at conferences.

http://www.earlychildhoodfocus.org/artman2/publish/quality/Family_Involvement_is_Important.shtml

 

If you are interested in learning more about Child Development I would suggest looking more into the Child Development Institute Parenting Today. I was interested in the Language Development of children and came across this site which offers so much more than just Language Development.

http://childdevelopmentinfo.com/child-development/language_development.shtml

 

Course Materials:

Position Statements and Influential Practices

NAEYC. (2009). Developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood programs serving children from birth through age 8. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/dap

 

NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on child abuse prevention. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/ChildAbuseStand.pdf

NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on school readiness. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/Readiness.pdf

 

NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on responding to linguistic and cultural diversity. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/diversity.pdf

 

NAEYC. (2003). Early childhood curriculum, assessment, and program evaluation: Building an effective, accountable system in programs for children birth through age 8. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/pscape.pdf

 

NAEYC. (2009, April). Early childhood inclusion: A summary. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/DEC_NAEYC_ECSummary_A.pdf

 

Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. (2010). Infant-toddler policy agenda. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://main.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_pub_infanttodller

 

FPG Child Development Institute. (2006, September). Evidence-based practice empowers early childhood professionals and families. (FPG Snapshot, No. 33). Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~snapshots/snap33.pdf

Global Support for Children's Rights and Well-Being

 

Article: UNICEF (n.d.). Fact sheet: A summary of the rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Rights_overview.pdf

 

Websites:

World Forum Foundation http://worldforumfoundation.org/wf/wp/about-us

World Organization for Early Childhood Education http://www.omep-usnc.org/

Association for Childhood Education International http://acei.org/

Selected Early Childhood Organizations

National Association for the Education of Young Children http://www.naeyc.org/

 

The Division for Early Childhood http://www.dec-sped.org/

Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families http://www.zerotothree.org/

 

WESTED http://www.wested.org/cs/we/print/docs/we/home.htm

 

Harvard Education Letter http://www.hepg.org/hel/topic/85

 

FPG Child Development Institute http://www.fpg.unc.edu/

 

Administration for Children and Families Headstart's National Research Conference
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hsrc/

HighScope http://www.highscope.org/

 

Children's Defense Fund http://www.childrensdefense.org/

 

Center for Child Care Workforce http://www.ccw.org/

 

Council for Exceptional Children http://www.cec.sped.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

 

Institute for Women's Policy Research http://www.iwpr.org/

National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education http://www.ncrece.org/wordpress/

National Child Care Association http://www.nccanet.org/

National Institute for Early Education Research http://nieer.org/

Pre[K]Now http://www.pewstates.org/projects/pre-k-now-328067

Voices for America's Children http://www.voices.org/

 

The Erikson Institute http://www.erikson.edu/