International Contacts part 2

I have reached out to a number of international professional hoping to gain more insight for this course. Unfortunately, I have not received any response back from any of the professional. Four weeks ago I tried reaching out to a professional who heads up the Mongolian Education Alliance, but I am still awaiting correspondence.  

Zambian Early Childhood Development Project is a project to evaluate early childhood development in a developing country. There is an anti-malaria initiative in Zambia. The Zambian Early Childhood Development project also measures the effect of the anti-malaria initiative on the children’s development of Zambia. There was an assessment created to measure children’s physical, socio-emotional and cognitive development called the Zambian Child Assessment Test (ZamCAT). The assessment is the first assessment tool of its kind in Zambian. The purpose of the assessment is to provide a broad assessment for Zambian pre-school age children (Harvard University, 2012).

 Un Buen Comienzo (UBC) meaning a good start is a project to improve early childhood education. The improvement is done through teacher professional development. The purpose is to improve the quality of education for children ages four to six year old in the area of language development.  The purpose of the project is also to improve school attendance by intervening in the area of critical health. The project began in 2007 with the goal to eventually encompass 60 schools. The project has an evacuation system that is unique because no other Latin American country has a system like it. The Un Buen Comienzo project places Chile at the forefront of high quality early childhood education (Harvard University, 2012).

            Improvement to Early Childhood development is the focus many counties. Research and improvement of early childhood development have been the focus of developed counties for many years, but now early childhood development has become a priority to less developed counties as well. Assessments have been created to measure the success of all of the programs and projects to gain an understanding of what works and what does not. Improvements can be made according to the evaluations.

           

References

Harvard University. (2012). Un Buen Comienzo. Retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/activities/global_initative/ubc/

Harvard University. (2012). Zambian Early Childhood Development Project. Retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/activities/global_initiative/zambian_project/