With students returning from virtual learning we are seeing little hands with even less motor development, we created leveled activities for our teachers that are ready to use with common items that incorporate some literacy and math activities as well as some fun sensory games.
We will explore, apply, and practice innovative ways to rethink early literacy from that of practicing with worksheets, charted territory, to engaging students in workstation tasks, uncharted territory.
You are already thinking about how Fall 2021 will be for you, your students, and their families. Let's explore my top 5 favorite websites for getting everyone ready, before the school year even begins. Participants will receive information on at least 5 websites with teacher-friendly strategies to ease the transition for families and students into the Pk and K classrooms. Transition supports for young learners with IEPs will be specifically highlighted. Participants will leave with access to websites through an on-line organizer.
Number talks are short, daily exercises aimed at building number sense and a student's ability to talk about his or her thinking in mathematics. The focus is not on the correct answer, but more so on all the possible methods of solving the problem. Join us during this session to learn more about this practice and how to set them up it in your Pre-K classroom.
Explore how interdisciplinary project-based curricula create an authentic learning environment that will inspire and empower the change-maker in every student.
Are you interested in unique ways to offer High Quality PreK Coaching? Learn six different tried and tested formats to energize and invigorate every coaching session. We want to help you CREATE coaching experiences that are memorable and empowering for both teachers and coaches!
Tuesday June 15, 2021 10:00am - 10:50am CDT
Virtual
Purposefully integrating new words into daily conversations with children helps build their vocabulary. In this jam-packed session, suggestions for incorporating vocabulary throughout daily classroom activities will be presented.
Tuesday June 15, 2021 10:00am - 10:50am CDT
Virtual
This session will focus on how to work with students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing as well as the support staff (interpreter or communication facilitator) who may be in your classroom. We will talk about how to meet the needs of your student as well as navigating this new experience. Screen reader support enabled.
Tuesday June 15, 2021 10:00am - 10:50am CDT
Virtual
Bring learning to life through play that purposefully exposes students to content they can relate to right in their own neighborhood! Familiar places provide the backdrop for learning through scenarios that include unique materials and experiences. Transform your centers into your town with help from students, parents, and local businesses.
Tuesday June 15, 2021 10:00am - 10:50am CDT
Virtual
Are the principles of coding foreign to you? In this session, we will explore how to build your students’ higher-order thinking skills through infusing looping into your instruction. See how patterning can help build your students’ future-readiness skills without being tech-dependent.
Tuesday June 15, 2021 10:00am - 10:50am CDT
Virtual
Purposefully integrating new words into daily conversations with children helps build their vocabulary. In this jam-packed session, suggestions for incorporating vocabulary throughout daily classroom activities will be presented.
Tuesday June 15, 2021 11:00am - 11:50am CDT
Virtual
Are you an early childhood, classroom teacher being tasked with navigating the uncharted territory of Specials classes or Fine Arts? Or are you a Specials teacher that all of a sudden has to navigate the uncharted territory of supporting Pre-K? Come and sail with me as we engage in, design, and practice math and literacy-based activities that can be implemented within the Specials classroom or using music in the General Education classroom for Pre-K students.
Tuesday June 15, 2021 11:00am - 11:50am CDT
Virtual
Classrooms are busy places that provide multiple opportunities throughout the day for students to share responsibility in the workload. Classroom jobs provide a structure to those opportunities. As a teacher boss, it is important to advertise jobs to all students, provide a robust training program, and recognize the efforts of students. Time to post a position as “Help Wanted” and build your classroom community.
Are the principles of coding foreign to you? In this session, we will explore how to build your students’ higher-order thinking skills through infusing looping into your instruction. See how patterning can help build your students’ future-readiness skills without being tech-dependent.
Number sense is the foundation of math, and it begins early! But what about when numbers are just not making sense to students? Participants in this session will learn about high-leverage strategies to build number sense in the early childhood classroom.
Have you ever sat in an ARD meeting and felt like you were delivering a parent’s worst nightmare? When ECSE students are approaching kindergarten age, that is often what happens. Parents hang on every word during the placement portion of the ARD and hope they don’t hear the words “Life Skills.” In this session, you will learn about and receive resources for drafting IEPs for ECSE students with success in the general education setting in mind. Rather than a standards-based model, determining skill targets to provide early intervention to set students up for success to attend kindergarten for all or part of their day.
We will explore, apply, and practice innovative ways to rethink early literacy from that of practicing with worksheets, charted territory, to engaging students in workstation tasks, uncharted territory.
Classrooms are busy places that provide multiple opportunities throughout the day for students to share responsibility in the workload. Classroom jobs provide a structure to those opportunities. As a teacher boss, it is important to advertise jobs to all students, provide a robust training program, and recognize the efforts of students. Time to post a position as “Help Wanted” and build your classroom community.
Number talks are short, daily exercises aimed at building number sense and a student's ability to talk about his or her thinking in mathematics. The focus is not on the correct answer, but more so on all the possible methods of solving the problem. Join us during this session to learn more about this practice and how to set them up it in your Pre-K classroom.
Music is a powerful, multi-sensory learning tool that EVERYONE can use! This session will focus on how to utilize music and movement effectively within different learning environments to boost development. Participants will learn techniques for implementing, adapting, and extending a variety of music-based activities, including fingerplay, circle dances, instrument play, and more! As they experience these activities, participants will also develop understanding of how intentional implementation can better support learning across domains, such as language and literacy, cognitive, fine and gross motor, and social-emotional development.
Do you get that same feeling of dread like “walking the plank” as you do when teaching math? We were taught math procedurally and may subconsciously teach math this way with our own students. How do we build upon our students’ natural curiosity and facilitate a more playful math experience?
Read Alouds are the foundation for literacy in early childhood education and the centerpiece of Circle Time. Even though you may have read hundreds of books aloud to your students, come and see how your read alouds can be even more effective than ever before!
A little pixie dust and some bibbidi-bobbidi boo - You are cordially invited to a royal event that will transform your classroom engagement into magical experiences where your students use technology to create learning opportunities and projects that are sure to be grand. This virtually hands-on session will address creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking as well as give you learning station ideas and tech tools to take back to your school. Screen reader support enabled.
Bring learning to life through play that purposefully exposes students to content they can relate to right in their own neighborhood! Familiar places provide the backdrop for learning through scenarios that include unique materials and experiences. Transform your centers into your town with help from students, parents, and local businesses.
Visual schedules are an intervention that can foster independence when completing daily activities by assisting individuals with autism to follow a routine, transition between activities, and develop new skills.
Number sense is the foundation of math, and it begins early! But what about when numbers are just not making sense to students? Participants in this session will learn about high-leverage strategies to build number sense in the early childhood classroom.
