NAECTE

The Name of the organization I am looking into is the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators. Here is the linkNAECTE. The purpose of the organization is to:

• To promote the professional growth of our membership
• To discuss educational issues specific to our membership
• To advocate for improvements in early childhood teacher education
• Provide a forum for consideration of issues and concerns of interest to educators of early childhood teacher educators
• Provide a communication network for early childhood teacher educators
• Facilitate the interchange of information and ideas about research and practice
• Use, as vehicles, the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, conferences, resolutions, position papers, and other publications
• Cooperate with other national and international organizations concerned with the study and education of young children

(NAECTE.org,  2013)

Looking on the site I found a book that one of the members wrote that has to do with the issue/trend that we were learning about this week. The book is Global migration and education: Schools, children and families. written by Adams, L., & Kirova, A. in 2007. (NAECTE.org,  2013). It would be great to be able to check out that book and see how it compares to what we have learned in class. Also I saw that in their newsletter they want to incorporate more classroom ideas and activities, which I think would be very helpful. 

I have yet to get in contact with someone from a different country and I even tried contacting two more. So unfortunately I think I am going to have to go with alternate for part one from last week.