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Put These Ideas Into Practice! Online Professional Development: Choices for Early Childhood Educators Heather Olsen, Ana J. Donaldson, and Susan D. Hudson Online Professional Development—What Is It? Online programs are professional development tools in which the curriculum is delivered electronically via the Internet to learners who are connected to one another and the instructor through computers. The words online education, distance education, E-learning, and distance learning are terms that are commonly used to describe this method of preservice and in-service education. Advantages of online professional development • career advancement • study at time and place of choice • self-paced learning environment • access to knowledgeable instructors • reduce travel time and costs • collaborate with diverse colleagues, teachers, and scholars • community to share ideas and exchange information Characteristics of successful online learners • high commitment and drive (self-motivated) • willing to communicate • engaged in their learning Four factors that are essential for participating in online learning • access to personal computer with Internet capabilities • course quality • accessibility of the instructor • networking opportunities The content of any course should • be research based • recommend best practices • provide up-to-date information • fit educators’ needs and interests Selected online professional development courses • Center for Early Childhood Professional Development & Leadership, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, http://sce-earlychildhood.uwm.edu • Center for the Child Care Workforce, www.ccw.org • Early Childhood Education, Northampton Community College, www.northampton.edu • Early Childhood Education, Penn Foster, www.pennfoster.edu • National Program for Playground Safety, University of Northern Iowa, www.playgroundsafety.org • The Care Courses School, www.carecourses.com Note: Dimensions of Early Childhood readers are encouraged to copy this material for early childhood students as well as teachers of young children as a professional development tool. 18 Volume 38, Number 1 DIMENSIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD Winter 2010
Meet the 2010 SECA President-Elect Candidates! The Nominating Committee of the Southern Early Childhood Association has certified two President-Elect candidates for the 2010 election that will be held in the fall. Those candidates were introduced at the 2010 SECA conference and are: Nancy Cheshire of West Virginia and Beverly Peden of Mississippi We know you’ll want to get to know them, so you’ll find both background information and excerpts from their vision statements for SECA on these two pages of Dimensions. You’ll also find additional information about them on the Leadership page at SouthernEarlyChildhood.org. Nancy Cheshire Nancy is Early Childhood Professor Emerita at Pierpont Community and Technical College in West Virginia. She has a Master of Education Degree with an emphasis in Early Childhood Education from West Virginia Wesleyan College and completed additional graduate work at West Virginia University. As a Professor of Early Childhood at Pierpont, she served as the Early Childhood Program Coordinator, Supervisor of Early Childhood Practicum Students, Director of the Fairmont State Laboratory Preschool, and Advisor to the Associate of Applied Science Degree majors and Early Childhood Occupational Development majors. In 2007, she received the Fairmont State Paul Edwards Outstanding Teacher Award. Prior to her role as a professor, she served as the Executive Director of Lasting Impressions Child Development Center, Inc., which is located at the FBI Complex in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and received a letter of commendation and merit award from the United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1996. Nancy has been a Governing Board member of the West Virginia Association for Young Children since 1995. She served as the West Virginia representative on the SECA Board of Directors from 1998 to 2005 and was named SECA’s Outstanding Member in 2009. She currently serves as co-chair of the SECA Editorial Committee. Beverly Peden Beverly recently retired as Executive Director of Crossgates Methodist Children’s Center in Brandon, Mississippi, a position that she held from 1993 to 2009. She has a B.S. in Elementary Education from Belhaven University. In 2004, she achieved the Director’s Credential Designation from the National Institute of Child Care Management and completed the Montessori Training from the Association for the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. She currently is an early childhood consultant, including working with the Mississippi State University Early Childhood Institute to assess programs with the Early Childhood Quality Rating Scale. Beverly has been a member of the Mississippi Early Childhood Association since 1988, serving as President in 2001, and was recognized with MECA’s highest award, the MECA Award. She currently serves as the Mississippi Representative on the SECA Board of Directors. She served on Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour’s Early Childhood Committee from 2007 to 2009 and currently serves on the Mississippi Department of Health Advisory Council. In 2004 she was named National Director of the Year by the National Association of Child Care Professionals and was recognized by the Mississippi Business Journal as one of the 50 Leading Business Women of Mississippi. In 2007, she received the Bettye Quinn Education Award from Belhaven University. Winter 2010 DIMENSIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD Volume 38, Number 1 19
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