The organization I selected was High Scope (Inspiring educators to inspire children). High Scope provides a child directed preschool curriculum as well as assessment tools and up to date research and information in regards to current trends in early childhood education. Below is the link to the High Scope web page: www.highscope.org

I enjoyed watching the preschool comparison study that High Scope conducted on students who were through the age of 23. The study showed that students who participated in High Scope and other nursery schools that were child led were more likely to be successful socially and obtained higher education as well as less occurrences of teenage rebellion and less incarceration.

A current trend that was discussed on the web site that caught my attention was an article about High Scope developing six new key indicators in the area of Social Studies. These six indicators focus on integrating cultures and values into the classroom and honoring diversity. All six of these indicators relate to this week’s learning resources. One of the new indicators was telling stories. Stories relate directly to cultures and diversity and that is how information is passed down from generation to generation; so the ability to tell stories directly relates to our current learning resources. I think back to the story of the family that immigrated to the United States from Mexico. The stories they told their children about religion, their culture growing up, and their families were all stories that preserved their history for future generations.  (http://www.highscope.org/content.asp?contentid=839)

References:

http://www.highscope.org/file/NewsandInformation/ReSourceReprints/Spring2013/ReSourceSpring2013_TeachersCorner.pdf

www.highscope.org