BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:78ac685dbce4f8b2cb042eaf65d287b251 CATEGORIES:Events SUMMARY:Early Childhood Conference DESCRIPTION:
12:30pm - 2:00pm CST / 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST | February 11, 2021
As wi nter continues, the possibility of remote teaching being some part of our f uture still looms large. Young children need to feel connected in order to learn. Remote teaching is a new and particular challenge for early childhoo d educators. This workshop looks at teaching and learning through the lens of connections. If students are connected to each other, their teachers, th eir families, and the world around them, they can remain engaged in learnin g.
This year, even as we have returned to in-person teaching, making connections has remained a challenge. As families are limited in their abil ity to visit the classroom and engage in the daily ritual of conversation w ith teachers at pickup and dropoff, we must find creative solutions to help families feel connected to their children’s school community. One of the c hallenges for remote learning is the diverse home environments that childre n experience. Creating opportunities for meaningful sharing of work and ide as can help to alleviate these differences and help children and families t o feel they are still part of a classroom community. These same strategies can be used to create virtual parent involvement as well. Using curriculum to nurture connections and using connection as a driving force for curricul um creates a cycle of learning that softens the barriers to growth and enga gement inherent in remote learning. Affirming children’s experiences can he lp them to make sense of the changes to their world.
Participants wil l investigate what it means to center connection, not content, in (remote) early childhood teaching. How does this change how content is taught? Along with sharing some successful practices and curriculum used as part of the Greenhouse Connections program and in one pre-k classroom, this workshop wi ll also provide space to apply these ideas in the context of your own class room.
David Vining is Head Teacher at Columbia Greenhouse in the 4-5’s classroom. He has taugh t at Greenhouse for eight years, all with the 4-5’s. David is also a doctor al candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University in the Early Childhoo d program of the Curriculum and Teaching department. His research interests are school readiness discourses, the transition to kindergarten, engaging children as educational researchers, and incorporating children’s voices in teacher education. David holds an MSEd in Museum Education-Childhood Educa tion from Bank Street College. His teaching practices are influenced by Reg gio Emilia, antiracist impulses, and project based curriculums. David is al so the father of two fourth graders and was navigating four different remot e learning platforms within his household from March to June 2020.
Cost: $45 for TAIS Members, $75 for Guests
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