International Contacts
I was hopeful that I would have an international contact by now but unfortunately I do not. So this week, I chose to explore the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University website.
I read about the Zambian Early Childhood Development Project. In the past 3 years the Zambian Ministry of Education along with some other worldwide organizations collaborating together created a new comprehensive assessment tool to assess children's physical, socio-emotional and cognitive development before and throughout children's school age years. The Zambian Early Childhood Development Project is hoping that this new assessment tool will give them insight into the development of the whole child and help identify improved outcomes for their children in a world that offers many challenges (Global Children's Initiative, n.d.).
I also read The Zambian Early Childhood Development Project 2010 Assessment Final Report and found it quite comprehensive and impressive. I was surprised to find out that research on cognitive development assessment has been taking place for thirty years in Zambia. It was just recently that the ZECDP decided to include other facets of child development which I find encouraging and interesting. It's encouraging to me that other countries in the field of early childhood are interested in young children as a whole and realize the importance of taking all of a child's development into consideration of a child's success in school and into adulthood.
Harvard University's Global Children's Initiative. Retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/global_initiative/
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