Exploring Roles in the ECE Community: Local and State Levels

This week we had to explore local and state early childhood organizations, agencies, and communities of practice to help us imagine a variety of jobs that foster the well-being of children, families, and the early childhood field as a whole.


The three state organizations that appeal to me most are: 


1) Healthy Child Care (PA) - http://www.ecels-healthychildcarepa.org/
2) The Pennsylvania Council For Exceptional Children - http://www.pacec-sped.org/
3) The Pennsylvania Early Learning Keys to Quality - http://www.pakeys.org




I Chose these three organizations because they each address EC education and provide different resources for parents and educators. I also admire how child care providers are able to access training opportunities through the sites and one of them even offers a disabilities bibliography list of children's books.


Some of the Job opportunities that are possible with help of these sites are: 
School Age Care,  Early Head Start, Head Start Early Intervention, Work in the Public School Districts, Work in Private Academic schools, Mentors, Trainers, Consultants...etc. 

What I ABSOLUTELY LOVE about the PAKEYS site, is that it provides a Career Latice that tells you exactly what skills you need to achieve the goals you want.  For example, where I stand currently with an unrelated Bachelors Degree and at least 30 ECE credits allows me to be an assistant group teacher or assistant group supervisor here in Pennsylvania.  But when I achieve my Master's in ECE I'd be able to be achieve my goal of being a Teacher or Director or even a Group Supervisor in EC education.