Australia Early Childhood

The website that I chose is, Early Childhood Australia.  I went into their recent news section and read an article that they posted on October 30^th.  This article talks about the importance of investing in early childhood education.  “If we are serious about improving the education outcomes for future generations of children, then we need to start at the very beginning and invest in early childhood. The National Quality Framework should be seen as the first step in this area” (Early Childhood Australia, 2013). 

 

The surprising facts that I found, was that there is support for early childhood!

I have been hoping to see more support for early childhood development, and I was excited when I saw it on the Australia Early Childhood website.  There is so much negativity out there about how Americas should not put their money into preschool programs, or early childhood education because they do not see enough growth from it.  The fact is, is that there is growth at all in the area.  It is welcomed to see such support and positivity coming from another country, I hope that they succeed in getting their support, and that other countries will follow!

 

There is a section on their website called Everyday Learning. This part of their website has information about how to create positive learning environments for young children! This is helpful to me because, this is the information that I am researching for our assignments! So I am grateful to find another resource that might hold some extra information that could be very valuable to me in the upcoming weeks!

 

There is a lot of good resources on their website that I will be investigating further, to see if there are newsletters and such that I can sign up for.  It is nice to see that there is all sorts of information in one spot, of information that I have not seen before.  I am eager to see what more information I can gain from the website!

Positive Research

I originally saw this video on Facebook, and decided to research it further.  The title of this video is Fire with Fire. This is an amazing advancement in medical technology.  These doctors have taken the HIV virus and made it no longer harmful.  What they do is they take part of the cancer from the patient and put it with the non harmful HIV and reprogram the cells to attach the cancer. In this specific situation the girls cancer went into remission.  This treatment has been testing with other patients before, but it has only been used on patients that have leukemia or lymphoma.  They are working on testing out theories on other cancer treatments.
When I saw this video I astounded that medicine has come this far, that we are working with a strong lead on how to cure cancer.  I was skeptical about the research findings, and did research of my own, and concluded that it is quality research.  If you would like to see part of the study from the Dr. that is working on the trial click here: http://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p2328. 

It is truly inspiring the way that this research has positively impacted young children and their families.  

Research Simulation

Ladies and gentlemen this is hard! The topic that I chose is positive support in the classroom.  I chose this topic because I feel that I currently work in a position where everyone is against what we (our program) does.  Everyone around us questions why we do what we do, and does not say anything positive about it.  They just kind of roll their eyes and walk away.  These instances set me up for the rest of the day!  If I come into the classroom with a negative attitude my students are going to feel it, and it can change their attitude as well.  So, I am looking for research about the benefits of positive support in the classroom.

I feel that I am going to have a difficult time with this class. I have the tendency to get excited about a topic, and while research it I will find another topic that intrigues me more, so I start researching that one and end up with no information for my assignment.  So I am hoping that with my current topic being short, sweet, and to the point, that I hopefully will not get as deterred as I could be.  Does anyone else have this issue?  If anyone has some pointers on where to begin or articles that they found useful, please let me know. 

Lets master this research class!!