Excellence and Quality in Australia

After a more careful review of the website Early Childhood Australia I learned that they not only have their own e-newsletter but they also have a magazine publication. When I click on that link it takes me away from the website to these actual articles from the magazine for several years back. This is a great resource tool for teachers and parent alike because a lot of these articles are researched based and can help a parent or teacher to understand child development or ways to handle a problem that they are having with a specific child.

            One thing that the Australian Government is doing to help the field of early childhood development is a project called the American Early Childhood Census. This program is trying to develop a nationwide quality rating system to ensure that all children receive the same quality of care across the nation. A program like this would be a great benefit to the United States our nation is so divided when it comes to the field of early childhood development that it is difficult to determine what is considered quality care from one state to the next. No two children in the United States receive the same standard of care and that is frustrating. As an ECE specialist it exasperates me to know that if I go to a different state I would be held to a different standard of care for the children in my center. Australia is trying to remedy this problem in their country so that all children receive the same quality of care.