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            This assignment comes at the right time for me, with my masters in arms reach I am looking for jobs within the early childhood field that would be of interest to me. I love the work I do, but the feeling of growing out of a place and wanting to spread your wings and make an impact on the world is overpowering in a good way. I would love to become the director over a facility or assistant principal, even education manager over my district if the opportunities present themselves. This blog is given me the resources and thought process I will need when it comes to finding jobs that I qualify for and would benefit me in the future. I found three organizations/agencies that focus on what I do now as a childhood profession.

            U.S. Department of Education mission is to, “Encourage the increased involvement of the public, parents, and students in Federal education programs; promote improvements in the quality and usefulness of education through Federally supported research, evaluation, and sharing of information” (U.S. Department of Education, n.d.). When I read that they promote parent involvement, it had me sole! I truly believe parents make an impact and finding organizations that believe the same way is a goal of mine. I didn’t see any jobs that actually interest me on their website mainly because they are the federal side of things, I more so want to be involved with the community and not be the money supply of it.

            NAEYC organization, “promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research” (NAEYC, n.d.). I love this organization for everything they offer for not only educators but parents and children as a whole. They have the week of the child which I will expand on throughout my capstone project. They have resources for parents to help with their child’s development as well. They have a job for Sales Coordinator, which I’m not really interested in but would apply for the time being until something of my interest comes up. I meet all requirements of the job BS in business administration, organized, verbal and written skills, work in a fast-paced environment, team player, and proficiency in MS office.

            “The Office of Early Childhood Development (ECD) promotes a joint federal approach to improve early childhood education and development” (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, n.d.). This agency provides a wide range of resources for families, facilities, and educators that I think if used more often could help a lot of people. Especially dual language learners, autism children, families needing health care, facilities needing grants and so forth. At this time the don’t have any job postings, their jobs actually tie in with my first organization U.S. Department of Education.
References
NAEYC. (n.d.). Vision Statement. Retrieved from https://www.naeyc.org/about-us/people/mission-and-strategic-direction

U.S. Department of Education. (n.d.). Mission. Retrieved from https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/mission/mission.html
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (n.d.). Early Childhood Development. Retrieved from https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ecd

Comments

  1. Anna CJuly 27, 2019 at 6:13 PM

    Angelique,

    I have enjoyed reading your blog post this week. I have to agree with you that I always worry that will feel out of place or that I am not doing enough to make a difference. I think that as educators we nee to spread our wings once in a while so that we do not get to a point that we don't enjoy or love what we do. I too looked at two of you three agencies you looked at the U.S. Department of Education and the NAEYC.
    Thank you for sharing about The Office of Early Childhood Development (ECD). I will add this to my resources.

    Anna

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  2. Sarah Edwards July 28, 2019 at 9:53 PM

    Great Blog! I have to agree that this assignment comes at the right time when we are looking to see what we are capable of with our degrees. NAEYC comes with many opportunities to work for an amazing company. I love the things that NAEYC does for families of young children and their families. Throughout our degree we relied on a great deal of information that was supplied to us through articles that NAEYC had supplied. I know that this helps us to know that this would be a wonderful place to work for. Thank you for the job opportunities that you supplied, they were very insightful!

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