Well it has taken me a little while to get a response, but I emailed the school of education at the University of Queensland in Australia and I finally got a response giving me the names of several professors who would be willing to correspond with me about the trends and various topics in early childhood education. I emailed four of the professors on the list and I have successfully made contact with one for sure as of late last night. I chose to find someone in Australia because in another course while at Walden University, I had researched some of the testing methods used for the students in the country and compared them to the testing methods used here in the United States. I do not think that I will have difficulty in obtaining another professor to correspond back and forth with from the list I was given from the Dean of the school, but just in case I have not received a response by Tuesday from a second person, I have a few more options in another country that I may try.
The website that I chose to study is http://nieer.org/; this is the website for the National Institute for Early Education Research. I chose this website because I would like to learn more about the different methods being used to determine what is best in the classroom and what is best for the students that we teach. The site has a newsletter and there is no cost to subscribe to the organization.
If you are having a hard time finding someone to correspond with, my advice would be to do as I did and find a school devoted to the higher education of educators and send out some emails asking for volunteers. I look forward to sharing what I learn from my contacts with you all in the coming weeks.
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