I was able to successfully send an introductory email to Juan Sanchez from Spain and Eteri Gvineria from Georgia. As of this writing, I have not heard back from either one of them. Keep your fingers crossed.
I went out on a limb a bit and searched for International Parent Education Organizations and found one. I sent an introductory email to Mr. Habib Abdennebi, the General Secretary of the International Federation of Parent Education,in France. Again, keep your fingers crossed.
Here is the email I sent as an invitation to connect:
Greetings Sioban, I am looking for a pen pal of sorts. I am currently enrolled at Walden University in a Masters program. I teach parent education in an early childhood setting here in the states and am looking for an early childhood professional to connect with over the next 8 weeks while I am in a class called "Issues andTrends in Early Childhood Education". I am hoping you might be able to help me find someone willing to communicate via email once or twice a week. Maybe even yourself!
I have attached a flyer to introduce myself. Thank you very much for considering!
Katy Smith
Licensed Parent Educator
ECFE Winona, MN
As always, your posts are very detailed and submitted early! I, too, have not heard back from the people I emailed. I'm wondering if the emails are out-of-date. I guess time will tell! Good luck to you! I am anxious to see if anyone will be able to connect with someone.
ReplyDeleteI am in the same boat! I started off with the Global Alliance, I think I sent about 10 and they were all returned, so I thought well I'll go check somewhere else. I would have been so excited if those would've worked! I'm glad you attached what you wrote to her in the message. I struggled with that but made something up anyways. Thank you for the detail in your blog post. It helps others to post in their blogs. I always look at someone else's before I post. GReat job. Good luck, I hope they respond!
ReplyDeleteI had a feeling that this would be a challenge to the assignment. When I email former colleagues from Ghana, it takes weeks for them to respond, and sometimes I don't even hear back. Because of this, I chose to do the alternative assignment. Good luck to you!
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