Important Codes of Ethics

1.  The Division for Early Childhood's #5 under Professional and Interpersonal Behavior:

  "We shall use individually appropriate assessment strategies including multiple sources of information such as observations, interviews with significant caregivers, formal and informal assessments  to determine children's learning styles, strengths , and challenges."

This code is important for me because often times people forget about individual appropriateness and become wrapped up in developmentally appropriate practice.  Although, DAP is extremely important, each individual; their experiences, culture, etc., must be considered as well.

2.  NAEYC's statement within their Preamble:  "When the issues involve young children, then these provisions also apply to specialists who do not work directly with children, including program administrators, parent educators, early childhood adult educators, and officials with responsibility for program monitoring and licensing." is also very important for me.  This one specifically involves those who should follow the code of ethics including those who may not work directly with young children.

3.  NAEYC's 1-3A.4:  To accord co-workers due recognition of professional achievement.

This is a tough field!!  We often work around the clock with NOT phenomenal pay or benefits.  Teachers accomplishments need to be celebrated!!

Additional Early Childhood Resources

Here are a few more great resources:

 First, I chose this resource because it is important, and particular, to my state - Montana
http://mtecp.org/

I have used this website frequently in my work with training in the CDA program and working with in-home child care providers:  
http://nafcc.net/

And this one...., I know it may seem a bit strange, but I have found that while working with parents in child care they have lots of questions about common childhood illness' that arise.  I have found that webmd.com is easy to use and offers some great synopsis' of common illness as well as pictures that can be helpful to answer parent's questions.