Establishing Professional Contacts
To locate professionals outside of the United States to correspond with, I visited The Global Alliance of NAEYC website.  I chose five different countries that I have an interest in, and sent an introductory email to those educators to introduce myself, explain the nature of why I was contacting them, and ask if they would be interested in sharing information with me for the next eight weeks.  To date, I have received returned emails for 2 of the people I contacted stating the message was undeliverable and I haven't received any word from the other 3.  I will wait another 3-4 days, which will complete a week from when I sent the original emails, and if I don't hear from any of the remaining 3 professionals, I will choose option 2. 

For the second part of the blog assignment of this week, I have decided to investigate the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators.  They provide a newsletter that I am hoping will give me useful information during this class as well as after when I begin my next career as a teacher of adults.  I chose this website because I am not familiar with it and am curious what their support and information is to those who train future educators.

I don't have any useful tips to share about my process but am wondering if anyone else was successful in getting a response from professionals outside of the U.S.