The Wikipedia. Wikipedia, Head Start Program. January 21, 2011. Web. Date of Access
According to Wikipedia, early childhood education was first created in 1965. A summer program designed to teach low income children, what they needed to know before they started kindergarten. It was detemined that six weeks failed to make up for five years of poverty. The preschool program, for children ages three to five, was established in 1981. Today eligible families are provided with year round education, heath, dental, nutrition and parent involvement. Why is the percent of disabled children so low in this program when percentages of disabled children are rising? Maybe many parents are unaware that this program serves disabled children. More parental education and advertising may be needed.
I am attending BSU majoring in Accounting. After school, I work as a Child Developmental Therapist. Which is one on one intensive therapy with a special needs child. I have experience working in a special needs classroom. Also, I have supervised high risk youth in a work place environment.
Hi Tina:
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you have a lot of valuable experience to contribute, especially considering your group will be working with Head Start. I look forward to hearing your perspective and seeing your writing this semester!
Hey, Tina I really enjoyed your source. It was a good explanation on what Head Start is. While looking at your MLA I noticed something’s were off. I think you based your MLA format for citing an entire website. Although your format is right for citing an entire website, but you’re citing an webpage from website and not necessary citing the whole website. Reference a Page on Web Page at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/ for more information.
ReplyDeleteThe MLA entry for this article should look something like this:
Wikipedia contributors. "Head Start Program." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 21 Jan. 2011. Web. 2 Feb. 2011.
I got this information for this article by clicking Tools then Cite this Page. Something I want to say about the author part, “Wikipedia contributors” is that if you didn’t know about the Cite this page link and since we don’t know who exactly is the authors of this specific article we could leave the author part blank or maybe used something different then is stated above like “Users of Wikipedia” as the author or something to that affect.
I appreciated your short summary of the article, you summed it pretty well in a short few sentences. One problem I see with this source when trying to analyzing it is trying to find the author’s rhetorical intent and their credibility. It’s hard trying to read between the lines because it’s written by many different people. It’s like Frankenstein, many people writing and putting their thoughts into the article. It sometimes comes off as awkward. They are stitching pieces together regardless whether they flow or fit. For example looking at this passage:
“Head Start was originally conceived as a quick catch-up summer school program that would teach low-income children in a few weeks what they needed to know to start kindergarten. Once it was determined that you can't make up for five years of poverty with a six-week preschool program, it was updated by the Head Start Act of 1981. ”
The “Once it was determined that you can't make up for five years of poverty with a six-week preschool program” flows differently from the first sentence which probably suggest it added by another person. Since it’s also written by many different people who may not necessary be experts in area that the article is talking about, I suggest not this source this in your writing.
When comparing your entry to some of the points in chapter 14, I really appreciated how you supplied outgoing analysis of sources and asking questions.
“Why is the percent of disabled children so low in this program when percentages of disabled children are rising? Maybe many parents are unaware that this program serves disabled children. More parental education and advertising may be needed.”
I think you are asking the right questions and making your own opinion on why maybe this problem exists. I also liked you talked about “the number of disabled children are rising”. You supplied more sources on how this may be a problem. Something you might expand on when using Chapter 14 strategies is using your own experience working with the disabled.