Making Professional Contacts- Part 2

Unfortunately making professional connections has been fraught with illusiveness.  However I remain undaunted.  I have made contact with 2 early childhood professionals in Finland, but discussions have had to wait until after June 2, which is the beginning of the summer holiday for Finnish schools.  On my Facebook page I have posted a status soliciting professional connections with early childhood professionals in other countries.  Finally on LinkedIn, I have joined a dozen early childhood groups, and have posted a request for professional contacts on with a group known as "Education in Developing Countries".  We'll see what happens.

En lieu of having a discussion with an actual contact, I visited World Forum Radio, and listened to the podcast with Barbara Jones (not our dear classmate).  After listening to the podcast I learned that Ms Jones is a Montessori teacher in an old remolded school house in Falmouth, Maine.  I think part of me would love to do the same thing.  After receiving her Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Ed. Ms Jones became disenchanted with public schools of the time, and went looking for a method of teaching that was more conducive to the needs of children than adults.  She took a job in a Montessori school, became acquainted with the method, and pursued her Montessori teacher training at the Montessori St. Nicholas Center in London, England.  After receiving her training Ms Jones, and through a series of serendipitous events, Ms Jones was able to buy old boarded up school house in Falmouth, Maine, and open a "modified" Montessori school, which has continued, for the last 25 years, to be known as the Falmouth Child Development Center.

Hopefully by the end of this class term, I will have more than few contacts with early childhood professionals... maybe even a few from other countries!