There are so many different jobs available internationally that revolve around making a difference in the early childhood field. One of the voluntary programs that looking into years ago was a program called Cross-Cultural Solutions. This is a volunteer program where teachers can travel across the world to a city of their choosing and work with under privileged students. The volunteers will work with the students regular teacher to help them enrich the education of their students. Sometimes the teachers have too many students and they need the help of the volunteer to help reach each students for individual learning time. There is a job opportunity available for this non-profit organization as a program specialist in New Rochelle, New York. As the program specialist you will help lead the volunteers in preparing for their international journey. You will have to communicate with all prospects and be able to answer their questions and concerns about volunteering abroad. To be qualified for this job you would have had to go through a Cross-Cultural Solutions program and traveled to previously volunteer. You would need an undergraduate degree and be able to organize a variety of tasks in a timely manner. It would be a plus for you to have previous telephone communication skills.
Academy of Educational Development is an organization that helps serve in many countries all over the world that helps educate others on interrelated developmental challenges. This organization wants all individuals in all communities to be able to reach their highest potential. I like how this organization works together to educate many different types of people all over the world and helps them become more knowledgeable. This organization has different job opportunities all over the world. One of the jobs that they had that interest me was the Early Childhood Education specialist based out of Washington DC. This job required you to work with grantees of the head start program for their School Readiness, Parent, Family and Community Engagement, Collaboration, and Professional Development individualized programs. You would have to attend meetings that will help these organizations continue to improve the quality of their programs. To be qualified for this job you have to have at least a BA or BS in Early Childhood Education but they would like to see a masters degree as well. You would have had to work with young children in field for at least 5 years and have knowledge of childhood development. most importantly you should have good people skills and be able to communicate and work effectively with teachers and other educators. You must be able to travel as 50% of the job is done traveling.
Association for Early Childhood Education International has a variety of programs that help young children all over the world. They have a great program called Love Me, Teach Me. This program promotes the needs and children's righter everywhere. They want all children to have the right to be heard and have their own personal identity. They believe that every child should be heard and have the right to participate. They believe that all children should be loved, they should feel loved, have stability and protection. They also believe that all children should have the right to education and to be taught to their greatest potential. One of the programs that this organization has is a country liaison. This person provides information and events to others in their countries organization. They go into public and private schools to help run theme based events. Each country has a different focus of education purposes. In order to be a country liaison you would just have to volunteer for the program through their website.
References:
Academy for Educational Development. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.fhi360.org/
Association for Early Childhood Education International. (2011). Retrieved from https://acei.org/
Cross-Cultural Solutions. (2014) Retrieved from http://www.crossculturalsolutions.org/
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