Thanks for a great course!

Hello all,
I am relieved to be concluding this course as the holidays rapidly approach.  I do think there have been some great discoveries and conversations this course.

Learning about the international early childhood field has been extremely beneficial throughout this course.  It has served to:

1. Emphasize that questions of equity of care affect children all over the world.
2. Teach me that the training of early childhood educators in the field is incredibly important throughout the world.  Teachers in other countries often have less preparation than teachers here in the United States.
3. Show that there is an opportunity in less developed nations to prepare families and teachers in the early childhood field to appropriately utilize play as an early childhood strategy before more traditional pressures of assessment and standardized testing take hold.

I hope to further my international contacts and continue to develop my knowledge of international strategies and resources.  Building international connections could only help to further the early childhood education field.