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Brain Building and Early Literacy and Numeracy: Strategies and Supports for Young Children (Birth to 8)
This professional development opportunity is the kickoff event for new early literacy and numeracy professional learning communities that will provide strategies and supports that have the strongest impact on learning and development of young children. It is open to instructional leaders from early education and care programs serving children from birth through age 8, including community based programs, family child care, public school, and Head Start.
Participants must be in a supervisory, managerial role or an instructional leader within their agency or system or community leader. An instructional leader may be an educator who spends at least 50% of his/her time outside of the classroom conducting professional development, supervision, curriculum, mentoring or other managerial duties.
FCC educators are considered instructional leaders of their programs.
Keynote: Lilian Katz
Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
International leader in early childhood education:
Cost: $15.00 per person; includes registration fee and lunch
PLEASE NOTE: Slots will be filled based on the order of applications received as well as a review process that ensures a diverse representation of the mixed delivery system in Massachusetts (child care, Head Start, public schools, independent family child care providers, system family child care providers, after-school and out-of-school time providers and community leaders). If awarded a slot, participants will be asked to sign a Memorandum of Understanding confirming their commitment to this 7 month professional development opportunity. A waitlist of participants will be kept in the event that an individual is unable to attend.
Early Literacy Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) will be formed from the particular strands (workshops) chosen by participants at the conference.
Participants are committing to participating in the PLCs from the conference date through June, 2012. Participation will include several meetings and or webinars scheduled during this time. NOTE: Participants who are selected will need to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with EEC and ESE.
The strands of the conference and the PLC include:
Literacy: Expanding vocabulary in the early years is a key to literacy, reading, knowledge of the world, and a love of reading. This presentation will promote an understanding of the importance of oral language development; review the research on oral language development; and make a connection with the 2011 standards.
Numeracy: In this strand participants will learn how the development from early number to place value concepts is embedded in concrete experiences in the classroom. We will engage in hands-on activities that can be brought back to the classroom.
Social-Emotional Development: The Social-Emotional Development strand of this professional development opportunity recognizes that children s social-emotional growth is critical to their learning and overall development. The presentations in this strand will deliver content, strategies and approaches that:
*Help educators construct an effective learning environment that promotes positive social-emotional growth and is developmentally appropriate.
*Provide opportunities to share best practices that foster social-emotional learning and the development of self-regulatory skills and give an overview of the relevant models/curriculum related to this work.
*Explore effective techniques to aid key transitions (both during the school day and between grades and/or systems).
Family and Community Engagement: Family and community engagement is a shared responsibility that brings early childhood providers, schools, and community organizations together to engage families in culturally and linguistically sensitive ways.
This professional development opportunity will emphasize evidence-based content, strategies, and approaches that providers can use to build positive relationships with families and support parents as the co-producers of good outcomes for their children. Participants will learn how culturally and linguistically sensitive family and community engagement in support of children s learning and development can be carried out everywhere children learn and take place across a students life.
Leadership and Professional Development: This facilitated session is focused on leadership that can prompt self-reflection and self-assessment for the purpose of professional planning and development. A second purpose is to focus on the importance of networking across different settings in the early childhood system for the purpose of easing and aligning transitions.
If you have any questions please contact Cindy Hutcheson at 413.736.3900 Ext. 105 or at chutcheson@preschoolenrichmentteam.org
Scholarships available! For more information, please contact Pam Roux, Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care at 617.988.7820 or email at Pam.Roux@state.ma.us
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