Concurrent Sessions
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Promoting Age-Related Acceptance and Exploring How Elders Help Children Reach Their Highest Potential
Participants will be able to explain age-related intolerance, how intergenerational programs enhance age acceptance, and explore how to implement activities that decrease age-related biases.
Vicki Rosebrook Macklin, Intergenerational Institute, Findlay, OH
It Walks, It Talks, It's Fun: An Innovative, Technology-Based Approach to Professional Development
Introduces and demonstrates an interactive, high-tech, high-touch (Web-based and offline) CDA training program. Learn e-learning components, identify staff development applications, and discuss supporting teacher's learning.
Tim Waxenfelter Teaching Strategies, Inc., Washington, DC
The Cycle of Professional Development: A Proactive and Responsive Approach
This session will present a four-part cyclical model for providing individualized and intentional professional development for all those in the field of early education.
Barbara McCreedy, Caliber, Fairfax, VA
Jill Aviles, Caliber, Fairfax, VA
Involving Families in the Early Childhood Curriculum: Family Backpacks Across the Preschool Curriculum
In this workshop preschool teachers will learn how to develop and use family backpacks as a means of involving families in their children's education.
Mick Coleman, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Charlotte Wallinga, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Diane Bales, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
The Effect of Improved Timing and Rhythm on Reading and Mathematics Achievement
This session introduces a unique school-based research that lead to improved academic achievement. Participants will learn about a synchronized metronome tapping (SMT) based interventions, the effect of SMT-based interventions on mathematics and reading achievement, and studies investigating SMT interventions and brain plasticity.
Gordon E. Taub, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
The Crisis of Education for Children in Foster Care: Creating Equity Through Teacher Education Changes Based on Past and Current Neglect and Future Demands
Historical information on the educational status and challenges of children in foster care will be reviewed in presenting equity issues using future teacher training transformation.
Ada Puryear Burnette, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL
Tonja L. Root, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA
Tapping Every Child's Potential: The Power in Processing in a Learner Centered Environment
This session provides research supporting the power of processing, explains a five-step processing protocol and shows examples of how processing creates inclusive classroom environments.
Jacqueline K. Collier, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Jocelyn Weeda, Tower Heights Middle School, Centerville, OH
Nicole Duval, Tower Heights Middle School, Centerville, OH
Change for Good: Reversing the Impact of Poverty in the Classroom
Poverty has a pervasive negative impact on the developing brain. Learn how the brains of children of poverty are truly different and what you can do to change impoverished brains for good.
Frank J. Kros, The Children's Guild, Baltimore, MD
Getting Parental Involvement in the Early Childhood Program: What Do Parents have to Say?
The presentation will provide information on how to actively involve parents, via a myriad of ways, in preschool children's care and education in and out of the early childhood program.
Johnetta Wade Morrison, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Pamela Storey, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Chenyi Zhang, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO