I visited my fieldsite on 1-24-13.  My goal was to observe and interact with professonals and children.  I began to do my classroom observations in the Infant and Toddler classroom.  I was intersted in how the professonals in the program did assessments and where services actually began.  There are two teachers and eight children in the classroom.  I found this classroom to be very warm and relaxing.  The teachers were very pleasent with the children and the families who came in with children.  As the parents arrived with their children the teachers introduced me to each family.  As I observed I could see the routine that had been built between them. 
I came with questions and the teachers were very receptive to me.  I learned that for the most part when children came ino their room the services had already been established.  I learned that the assessmets they used were the "Ages and Stages".  In their observations of milestones if they saw where a child was not yet reaching the milestone they would use materials in the classroom to help the child reach the goal.  If that was not successful they did another assessment and then spoke with the parent.They shared with me that sometimes a parent would not believe what the teachers were concerned about.  At that point the the teachers would bring in the program director to help the parent see the concern.  There are times when the parents still did not see the concerns and some would pull the child from the program.
Some of my questions were about what can we do to find services for the students who are not qualifing for resources?  We did some brainstorming and discussed different ways that might be a possibility.  We also did some discussion about funding and different ways to look into the funding of more resources in our local areas.
I left the fieldsite feeling much better about my topic.  I did not know if my topic was enough of a concern to advocate for.  I am finding out in all of my conversations that it is much needed.  I hope that I can help find a way to bring in more resources for our children and the needs that they have.