I had the opportunity to interact with the Infant& Toddler Specialist because the Site Director was out that day. I learned what literacy is and how important it is to implement it to the students. My understanding of advocacy is to go after something that is important and support it in the process. I would address advocacy issues with professionals by asking them why they feel that literacy is important to them. The learning experience that I can share was the day that I observed and interviewed the Infant and Toddler they had a literacy event that I was able to attend. The literacy event gave me the opportunity to see how literacy is implemented with the parent and the child. The event gave the parent the opportunity to read to their child and complete an activity.
That is great that your center has a literacy event. Our does not, but we are working on implementing a library that will serve toddlers through grade school where parents can come and look at books and take them home. There are book cases slowly filling up and a table. We have added a rug and a lamp. We hope to have it ready by April 1 so that we can start bring parents upstairs.
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