International Early Childhood Issues

I listened to another podcast on the World Forum Foundation website. Susan Lyon was the speaker and she was responsible for creating the first Italian Immersion preschool in San Francisco.  She also is the director of the Innovative Teacher Project. This project brings together public and private school professors to discuss their schools programs and professional development.

In her podcast, she speaks of her passion for children and how she likes to see how children view the world. She states that she wanted to prove that quality work can happen in a public place.

I also had to go with the Alternative assignment and I explored the Global Children's Initiative from Harvard. There, I learned about activities that they were involved in. :

In Brazil, they are working on applying the science of early childhood. They seek to strengthen leadership around early childhood development by having a leadership course and much more.

In Africa, there is an early childhood development project in Zambia. This is a collaboration project to help the anti-malaria initiative on child development. They have also created an assessment, the first assessment, in hopes that the assessment will improve the understanding of child development.

The global children's initiative also has projects to help child mental health in Shanghai, China, also help children in crisis in Haiti and Chile and much more.

I think it is great that so much is being done to help children worldwide.


References:

http://developingchild.harvard.edu/activities/global_initiative/

www.worldforumfoundation.org