Resources Short Essay
As an early childhood educator, it is crucial to identify resources around the community to create a quality early care and education program. Our communities provide resources for families and early care and education programs to support children’s development. The Internet is a virtual tool that provides access to many resources. As a professional, you will need to evaluate the resources for quality and credibility.
For this assignment, you will write a three- to four-page paper providing a review of a community resource and two virtual resources that are available to you.  Please include:
  1. One community resource to share with parents and to use as an early childhood professional to support children’s development.
  2. One virtual resource to share with parents.
  3. One virtual resource that you can use as an early childhood professional.
For each of these resources, please provide the following:
  1. A summary of what the resource includes and how it supports children’s development.
  2. A rationale explaining why this resource is valuable to educators and to parents.
  3. An explanation of how you will use this resource as an educator or how you will encourage parents to use this resource.
Your paper should be three to four pages in length (not including the title and reference pages) and must be formatted according to APA style. You must include one community resource, two virtual resources (websites), the textbook, and one additional scholarly source, all formatted according to APA style.
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ECE 313 Week 2 Assignment Resources Short Essay,
A community resource is an agency or a company in the community that provide good level of education & opportunities to the students  by offering various child hood programmers by providing good education to educators. One of the Community resource in the USA is NAEYC which stands for National association for the education of young children which was established for the improvement of young children through providing quality education & services from the child birth to age 8. It offers numerous high quality of programs for the children’s which improves early educators in enhancing their way of teaching & provide variety of resources.
professional development    - In learning development provide learning and support activities to prepare educators to enhance their work with young children and their families and it provide opportunities to the young educators to improve their skills, expertise & practices.
  • It provide online learning programs
  • Provide training sessions on childhood subjects
  • Provide many workshops & networking
  • It provide training DVDs
Online Learning –By NAEYC’s learning program anyone can get knowledge on any topic related to children anytime. It connects with many childhood experts
  • Information from recognized experts
  • There is huge amounts of discounts for NAEYS’s members
Creating Classroom Portfolios – It is a program through which training is given to teachers to make their own portfolio & teach those best practices, tips & strategies. It provides lot of learning activities and gives opportunities to work with sample documentation
  • Explain the purpose of classroom portfolio
  • Describe benefits of creating classroom portfolio
  • Identify strategies for selecting and organizing portfolio
Webinars- It runs a lot of webinars on regularly basis for the experts which explores a wide range of topics, trends & best practices in field
There are different webinars available on NAEYC websites
  • Promoting the development of self- regulation in young children
  • Facilitating language development in young children
  • Measuring classroom quality
  • Crossing boundaries & building bridges
Face to Face Learning – It provides face to face learning programs between specialist and learners on various topics of to develop skills, knowledge &material. Through this intensive training is given to the trainers.