Education and Languages

Certification means that the instruction you obtain in a particular institution sticks to certain requirements in order to meet high levels of quality. Accredited colleges have fulfilled or surpassed the particular working requirements necessary for the accrediting organizations. Many potential employers call for that the school you went to be accredited. This tells them that you have the appropriate preparation to go in the career which you decide on.All of the institutions that will establish the evaluation considerations for educational facilities as well as professional programs are accrediting agencies. They can determine whether their own criteria are fulfilled for a certain quality level for the institution. The U.S. Department of Education posts lists of agencies that the Secretary of Education thinks to be industry experts on the quality of the courses made available by institutions of higher learning.Institutional accreditation is just one of two choices, and it measures the overall calibre of an institution. Six local organizations run in the United States to make sure that accredited colleges and universities meet the requirements set up through the agency. For instance, Harvard University has been accredited since 1929 by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges while Notre Dame obtained its accreditation from the North Central Association in 1913.Unique accreditation is the second type, and it focuses primarily on specified courses rather than the whole establishment. Numerous licensing panels for unique positions want that the job seekers graduate from certain programs that include specialized or even professional accreditation status. These specific job areas include nursing, engineering, education and law. Several states expected this in order for the new graduate to receive a certificate in his industry of preference.Accreditation is required for colleges to get access to both state and federal funds. Only accredited schools will be able to supply federal student aid programs, therefore it is actually in a school’s best interest to try to get accreditation. Large numbers of student aid applications are processed each year, and in the 2006 – 2007 school year more than 86 billion dollars have been given through the federal government as university student grants and loans.Many educational institutions count on federal backing for research programs as well as operating capital from the state. Educational accreditation is actually necessary for these monies also. Support through privately owned foundations is usually dependent on the accreditation status of an school. Commercial help is normally in the form of gifts for support with research and also college tuition. Also, accreditation helps make it less difficult to be able to transfer curriculums to an alternative university.Around 7,000 academic organizations and approximately 20,000 programs are already accredited in the United States. Accredited universities must follow a renewal process every 10 years or less. Universities might spend two years or more getting ready for this particular renewal. For instance, a Self-Study Statement may well be hundreds of pages long, and it ought to illustrate the objective of the college, successful teaching methods, getting ready for the foreseeable future and added analysis requirements.Sometimes a school’s accreditation is actually not restored or even provided in the first place. Mistakes on the application may possibly end up in an college needing to pay back government loans which should not necessarily have been awarded to start with. It may take a long time before most of these faults are usually found. At times refusal is based upon exactly what exclusively is usually demonstrated in one particular program. For instance, training creation within theology classes is good but certainly not in biology lessons.

As an Early Childhood Educator and one who genuinely loves children, just the mere thought of an innocent but yet vulnerable child becoming the target of an older individual’s sexual sick and perverse fantasies is enough to make my stomach turn. As I began conversing with Educators on the topic of Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse, I kept hearing a similar but yet alarmingly shocking response that sounded along the lines of this “It’s the parent’s job to do that.” My heart sank deeper than the ocean as I immediately began to think about those children in the foster care system who don’t even have parents. Whose job is it to reach those in the system that are silently being violated behind closed doors?Foster children are 10 times more likely to be sexually abused than children who live with both biological parents. So if it’s entirely the parent’s job to educate the child on prevention these children are forgotten in the process, in a system where they are already forgotten. Or what about those children who are growing up in single parent homes with a live in partner? These children are at the highest risk because they are 20 times more likely to be victims of sexual abuse than those who are living with both biological Parents. Or worst what about Parents who were never properly equipped and trained on Child Abuse Prevention so it isn’t quite on their to do list? It is not only the sole responsibility of parents to educate their children on Child Abuse Prevention it is the Educator’s job as well.As Educators it is our job to serve as a support system to the families of the children that are entrusted in our care, that involves academically as well as the child’s social, emotional and mental development which can be interrupted if a child is being sexually abused especially if it’s ongoing for an extended period of time. Consider the words of a child who was being sexually abused by her father. ” I am broken, I was only a girl hiding under my sheets you took away all my innocence left me dead inside.” Sadly the long term effects of the abuse led to the teen committing suicide at just 17 years old.How can we call ourselves educators when we educate on everything except Child Sexual Abuse prevention? The one topic that is rarely being talked about in the classrooms but yet it affects so many children. 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys are sexually abused by the time they turn 18. There are currently 42 million survivors of Child Sexual Abuse in America. How can we just sit back and allow the children who we say care about continue to be abused?Children are in our care for over 40 hours per week and whether we want to believe it or not there are children in our schools that have been sexually abused, currently being sexually abused or potentially would be sexually abused. Why not teach something that could potentially save a child’s life figuratively and literally because the suicide rate is higher for those who are victims of sexual abuse?At a time when Erin Merryn should have been enjoying the innocence of her childhood playing hopscotch, enjoying trips to the playground, building lifelong friendships, enjoying sleepovers incorporated with late night girl talk she wasn’t. One night during a friends sleepover her life was changed dramatically. A family member’s friend began sexually abusing her and continued for years. His exact words from the first encounter is forever engrained in her memory “This is our little secret and if you tell anyone no one will ever believe you.” So she kept it a secret until she was 13. Unfortunately after the abuse with this particular person ended someone else began sexually abusing her and continued for years. What if Child Abuse Prevention was taught at Erin’s school? Would Erin have held onto that secret for so long while the abuse continued to go on? If prevention was taught like other drills in schools such as fire drills, lockdown drills etc Erin would have known what to do after that first memorable and horrifying violation. Erin Merryn was one of the few who overcame what had been done to her and began a mission of making it mandated to teach Child Abuse Prevention in schools. I believe it’s beneficial for parents to teach child abuse prevention to their children, but I also believe it is the educator’s job as well to stand in the gap for those children without parents and for those children whose parents don’t do it for whatever the reason.