Week Five, Assignment 2

     This week I found a couple articles that sparked my interest.  I started my search in the general database of the Leatherby Libraries. I then limited my search to only look within the Education scope. This brought me to LibGuide Education in the electronic resources.  Even with having success within the EBSCO database I decided to branch out and look into other databases.  I started a search in the Emerald Journals.  I did find an article titled, "Pre-Service Teachers' Images of Teaching".  Although this was an interesting article that followed a great number of teachers and their journey, I wanted to keep searching.
     I continued my search back where I had the most success in finding what I needed.  I searched in the ERIC(EBSCO) database.  Here is where I found the article I was most interested in.  This article was titled, "First Year Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers: Challenges of Working With Parents".  This article followed a study that was given by 14 first years teachers and the ways they tried to increase teacher/parent collaboration. This article made me realize yet another aspect of teaching that I had not thought about.  The article was interesting to me because it gave multiple aspects that would contribute to parents and teachers not building a healthy relationship.
     I feel like my research skills have improved greatly since the beginning of this course.  Although I have found a specific database that I prefer, I am less hesitant to try searching in other resources.  As my research continues I will challenge myself to look in at least one other database in hopes to expand my resources even more.