Sharing Web Resources 2

Under the Care & Education tab there is a section called School Readiness Interactive Birth to 3. This is a great tool for educators and parents that encourage early learning experiences. Now that I work in an elementary school, I am constantly hearing the term school readiness. I am going to share this tool with my supervisor since she is in contact with so many families. I am also going to share the tool with our principle and staff so that we can share it with our families. As a professional, I will be using this tool as I have many three years old in my classroom come this fall. As I keep investigating the Zero to Three website, I have begun to understand just how important education is for those children. I think that many times society feels that children from birth to three are so young and often think, “what could they possibly be learning?” This website has really opened my eyes to the world of education from birth to three years old. I hope that as an educator I can begin presenting the importance of educating children in this age bracket. When looking around the website there is a tab called Public Policy. Within this tab there is information about federal, state, local, and community policies. My favorite find was the Zero to 3 Policy Pocket Card. Found at http://www.zerotothree.org/public-policy/policy-toolkit/5x12-card-trifold-final-12-1-10.pdf This is a great way to advocate for young children. This demonstrates the importance of informing our local policy makers. In the search bar for the site I typed in neuroscientist and economists and many articles came up that had very good information in them. I learned about the Rally4Babies which is a petition that you can digitally sign that supports early childhood education to start from birth. There is also a video that you can view. It is a very enlightening video, I personally enjoyed viewing it. Zero to Three. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.zerotothree.org/