Jobs/Roles in the ECE Community: Internationally

Jobs/Roles in the ECE Community: Internationally

Researching the field of Early Childhood Education on the International level lead me to several sites and ideas of community services that caters to children and their families. As a professional of early childhood education, I am delighted to see so many very helpful organizations of community services that exist for aiding children of all ages in every area of concern. The following highlighted organizations are among the few that I found to be very impressive.

One Laptop Per Child 

Their mission is to empower the world’s poorest children through education.

The computer’s name is The XO. This is a nonprofit organization, and the kids are the company’s mission, not their market, or profit which means that the kids keep their laptop, and it focuses on early education ages 6-12 years old. It is solar powered, water proof, dust proof, drop proof. It caters to schools & classrooms so no one gets left out. It is open and free to connect to the internet and students can communicate with one another. The XO grows with the child’s needs in order that they can connect, learn, and explore. It will be available in the US by November.   

The founding members of the organization are companies we are familiar with such as EBay, and Google, but the others are unknown such as, Marvell, Red-hat, SES Astra, Nortel, Bright-Star, AMD, and Quanta Computer. XO organization also has partners that we are familiar with such as Citigroup, and other that are unknown such as, Foley Hog, Fuse Project, Greenberg Traurig, Nurun, Pentagram, Underwriters Laboratories, United Nations Development Progrumme. There are no job opportunities at this time, but the site suggests to check back soon.

I would love to work for this organization. I would be overjoyed to help get computers in the hand of a child, and watch them work on their computers while they learn.

Child Empowerment International

Child empowerment & education CEI is a registered 501c3 Non-profit organization.

Mission: is to challenge the cycle of poverty in areas of civil unrest through empowering & educating marginalized children. The organization provide education & healthcare to children living in refugee & displaced people camps, children from war experiences, trauma, and violence of any kind. These opportunities help children to reach self-actualization, self-reliance, and self-sustain, and self-sustainability, empowering children to reach maximum potential via higher education or vocational training and other life skills.

There were no connections to information for job openings with this organization, but volunteering seems to be connected through donating. I would not mind working for this organization to encourage the children that they can do anything, and that they are important.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy is a free online course, learning for children, and they can work at their own pace. The organization believes in a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional video, empowers learning in any subject.

Their Mission is to guide learnings from kindergarten on up. Their state-of-the-art adaptive technology identifies strengthens, and learning gaps. The organization is partnered with NASA, The Museum of Modern Art, The California Academy of Sciences, & MIT to offer specialized coaching in content, case studies, common core. Parents & teachers can see if a student, or child is struggling, and provides a summary of their performance.

This organization has several openings in many areas & subjects offered from instructional to internship & fellows, and more Nationwide.

I also come across an organization that is also helping children. The organization is

The School Fund 

Provides funding for children to attend school, by way of the donors, but the way they function disturbs me because the donors are allowed to browse the student’s profiles until they find a child whose physical appearance appeals to them. This is an example of unintended consequences, because the donors are discriminating. It seems to me that if a child is not attractive enough, or just doesn’t appeal to them by their appearance, then they don’t get funding to go to school? It should only be donating to send children to school, not just certain chosen children. Professional educators who work and study the well-being of children insist that, “never single out one specific child” when it comes to “physical characteristics” when doing anything for children it should always “be about all of the children”, and that we should (“teach children to respect and appreciate differences, to resist stereotypes and bias”; in addition, “all colors, shapes, and shade of people are beautiful” (Derman-Sparks, & Olsen Edwards, 2010, p. 34 par 6, p. 84 par 2). I’m not sure if the children are aware that this is how they get there funding for school, but I think that it would be strange that they would not be aware of how they get funding for school.

References

http://www.childempowerment.org  

Derman-Sparks, L., & Edwards, J. O. (2010). Anti-bias education for young children and

     Ourselves. Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children

     (NAEYC).

http://www.khandacademy.org

http://onelaptopperchild.org