Throughout
my educational journey in early childhood, I have been studying several organizations.
There are so many organizations that I find helpful like the National Black
Child Development (NBCD). One of the things I found interesting about the NBCD,
is that they have created a cultural competency tool for professionals to use
to insure their curriculum is relevant to the children they are serving. As a
professional it is important that I meet the needs of the children and
families I work with by providing appropriate methods based on their specific needs.
One of
the issues NBCD campaigns for is childhood obesity and better nutrition for black
children. Teaching children how to have better nutrition at a young age is important
for children to continue to have healthy eating habits throughout their lives. This
information has made me more aware of this growing problem. Children need to
learn that eating healthy can be fun; finding new ways to create healthy meals that
children have fun eating is something I will make more efforts to achieve.
Another
thing that I found interesting about NBCD organization is that they offer the
public, politicians, and people of all professionals the opportunity to attend conferences
and come together to discuss the betterment of children and ways to share research
for early childhood programs. The organization continues to support programs for
children from pre k- 3rd grad as well as the continued support for all
children in all grade levels. As long as there are organizations that bring
together families, education advocates, politicians, and other professionals there
is hope for early childhood to thrive.
I think more professionals need to get together to discuss what ways we can provide better services for children and their families. It often seems as though there are many organizations that are working toward a common goal however they are not truly clear on what the other services are doing. As professionals we can learn a lot from talking with each other.
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