Sharing Web Resources

The name of the organization I selected from last week's task was the HighScope Educational Research Foundation. The link to this organization is www.highscope.org . The international contact that I have currently heard back from is the High Scope Teacher Education Center: China North and there is no website available at this time. But, the HighScope website itself, has information on the efforts of its international partners.  As a result, the goals of these institutes are to maximum the "potential of all children and youth, advance learning environments through the use of High Scope practices that are conducive to growth and strengthening of open democratic societies, promote global cooperation and networking of all the members of the High Scope Internation Registry and work cooperatively to enhance the use of available staff and resources "(Highscope Educational Research Foundation, 2013). One current issue/trend that I found on the website under the seasonal magazine: Resource (Spring 2013) was an article called "The Changing Face of Early Childhood: Using HighScope to Support Cultural and Linguistic Diversity"which goes along with this week's lesson called "Changing Demographic and Diversity". In this article, research shows that best practices suggests "that educators foster the development of children's home language in the classroom noticed that ELLs (English Language Learners) learned English faster and performed better in school on a long term analysis" (Highscope.org, 2013). I thought that fact was quite interesting and supported information that I was already knew about recognizing and supporting the use of home language in the classroom environment.

High Scope Educational Research Foundation. (2013). International Institutes. Retrieved from: https://secure.highscope.org/Content.asp?ContentId=110

Highscope.org. (Spring 2013). The Changing Face of Early Childhood:Using HighScope to Support Linguistic Diversity. Resource, 5. Retrieved from: https://secure.highscope.org/file/NewsandInformation/ReSourceReprints/Spring2013/HSReSource2013spring_72.pdf