~** THANKS TO ALL **~

Greetings to all. I want to take this time to thank each of you for your responses and kind words on my blog.This was my first class in the masters program in early childhood studies and I must say you all were very helpful to me. I remember my first day of class like it was yesterday. You all made my transitions a smooth one!!! I'm so happy to have colleagues as special as you guys. I'm looking forward to working with many of you through my career goals. Good luck to all of you best wishes on your dreams and higher learning. Let us all receive another degree!!! Many special thanks to Janet Kien for being so helpful as well...

God Bless
Tomekia

*** Codes Of Ethnics***

**We shall demonstrate our respect and concern for children, families, colleagues, and others with

whom we work, honoring their beliefs, values, customs, languages, and culture.

 **We shall recognize our responsibility to improve the developmental outcomes of children and to

provide services and supports in a fair and equitable manner to all families and children.

**We shall recognize and respect the dignity, diversity, and autonomy of the families and children

we serve.

**We shall advocate for equal access to high quality services and supports for all children and

families to enhance their quality of lives.

**We shall use research designs and analyses in an appropriate manner by providing a clear

rationale for each. We shall provide enough information about the methodologies we use so that

others can replicate the work.

**We shall maintain records of research securely; no personal information about research

participants should be revealed unless required by law.

 **We shall conduct on-going research and field work that is consistent with and builds upon the

available cadre of evidence based practices.

**We shall utilize collaborative and interdisciplinary research for strengthening linkages between

the research and practice communities, as well as for improving the quality of life of children with

disabilities and their families.

 **We shall demonstrate our respect and concern for children, families, colleagues, and others with

whom we work, honoring their beliefs, values, customs, languages, and culture.

** We shall recognize our responsibility to improve the developmental outcomes of children and to

provide services and supports in a fair and equitable manner to all families and children.

** We shall recognize and respect the dignity, diversity, and autonomy of the families and children

we serve.

 **We shall advocate for equal access to high quality services and supports for all children and

families to enhance their quality of lives.

As educators we could use these codes that I listed. I found them to be very helpful to all teachers, parents, children, mentors, and our community. The information provided is very meaningful too. Also as professionals we can use are allowed to enforce the resources given by the Code of Ethnics.

 Code of ethics. Retrieved May 26, 2010, fromhttp://www.dec-sped.org/

Enhancement of Children’s and Families’ Quality of Lives

Ethical Practice in Research

Tomekia: " Additional Resources"

Tomekia: " Additional Resources": National Association for Family Child Care http://nafcc.org/ Motivating Learning In Young Children- http://www.nasponline.org/resources/h...

" Additional Resources"

National Association for Family Child Care  http://nafcc.org/

Motivating Learning In Young Children- http://www.nasponline.org/resources/home_school/earlychildmotiv_ho.aspx

Early head start national resources center(ehsnrc)

"Course Resources"

NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on school readiness. Retrieved May 26, 2010