MADISON

Instructor: PAUL GASSER   (Look up syllabus and additional information)
Location: Best Western West Towne Suites
Description: Fri & Sat, Dec 18 & 19, 2009; Fri, 4:30 - 9;30 pm; Sat, 8;30 am - 4:30 pm. LOCATION: Madison; INSTRUCTOR: Gasser. Discipline problems result in lost instructional time in classrooms each day. School administration and educators alike are struggling to improve academic standards and learn more effective ways to deal with the oppositional behaviors of regular educational children and children with special needs. Learn strategies to prevent and/or reduce arguing and the power struggles and how to set behavioral limits with strong-willed youth while meeting their development needs. Our discussion will have a strong-developmental focus to address the needs that today's children bring to school. We will discuss why children need to be held accountable for their misbehavior and poor social skills. Participants will be offered methods regarding the 'science of control'. This research-based course will provide information for helping this population of children to grow up and become respectful, responsible and resourceful adults.
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Instructor: PAUL GASSER   (Look up syllabus and additional information)
Location: Madison Area
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Instructor: RITA KEHL   (Look up syllabus and additional information)
Location: Bishop O'Connor Center
Description: Jan 23, Feb 20, Mar 20, 2010; 8:00 am - 5:30 pm. INSTRUCTOR: Kehl, LOCATION: Madison. The purpose of the course is to provide early childhood care and education staff with knowledge and expertise in the teaching and learning of early literacy and early mathematics. This will include the key elements of early literacy (oral language development, vocabulary and concept development, letter name awareness, print awareness, and phonological awareness) and the instructional components of early literacy (shared reading, read-to's, independent reading, modeled writing, interactive writing, scaffolded writing, and independent writing). It will also include the five content standards for mathematics for the young child (number sense, time and space, geometry-shapes, early algebra- patterning, and data analysis-classifying and sorting) and the instructional strategies to support learning by problem solving, reasoning, communicating, representing, and connecting. Instruction will also include how to embed early literacy and early mathematics activities into all domains of the early childhood classroom experience. Finally, teachers will gain insights into how to partner with families to support early literacy and early math development.
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