Wednesday Sessions #32 | NAECTE (National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators) Annual Conference and Meeting 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. JW Marriott, Diamond Ballroom 5 The theme for our full-day meeting, “Narratives of Transformation: How We Make a Difference in Early Childhood Teacher Education,” emphasizes the preparation of early childhood teacher candidates whose strengths lie in their ability to fully embrace and address the needs of children and families. The focus of the keynote panel, as well as the scholarly work presented through roundtable sessions and poster presentations, will emphasize how effective teachers of young children are prepared to provide the conditions for academic learning and, more broadly, to teach toward justice and equity for all. Will Parnell, Portland State University; Kelly Baker, University of Central Oklahoma; Angela Baum, University of South Carolina.
Language & Literacy #33 | Imagination, literacy, and the Common Core: Inclusive and equitable learning to help all children succeed in the twenty-first century 8:30–11:30 a.m. Los Angeles Convention Center, Concourse Hall 150AB The arts offer joyful opportunities to engage children equitably and inclusively in learning while developing mindsets for flourishing. This collaborative workshop helps participants build practical principles to lead arts-based learning in their schools and communities. We will explore imagination as a creative-adaptive capacity that enhances learning and life skills, rather than an aesthetic ability of the gifted. We then examine our teaching-learning contexts to identify challenges and opportunities for developing imagination capacity. In doing this, we will map imagination processes to Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts to identify places in our curricula for effective arts infusion. Shamini Dias, Claremont Graduate University. First- to Third-Graders
#34 | Developing as writers: How to scaffold the early writing of preschoolers and kindergartners through teacher talk that attends to the many aspects of emergent composition, including purpose, genre, concepts of print, and spelling 12:30–3:30 p.m. Los Angeles Convention Center, Concourse Hall 150AB In this interactive workshop, we will examine preschool and kindergarten children’s writing samples for what they show about the young authors’ knowledge of genre (use of language for different purposes), concepts about print (conventions of print), and the English spelling system (from scribbles to conventional spelling). We will then discuss and practice ways of responding so that children are supported in each domain. Carol Donovan, University of Alabama. Preschoolers
Leadership Development #35 | The honeycomb and beyond: Learning to see your program from a systems perspective, developing systems to sustain quality, and understanding how power influences operations 8:30–11:30 a.m. Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 404AB Throughout this session, we will draw parallels between the social system of the honeybee and the social system in which early education programs exist. Participants will learn that they no longer can focus on one aspect of a system, such as classroom quality, and expect the organization to make lasting, sustainable change. Instead, a systems approach that considers a variety of components beyond the classroom (e.g., the external environment, people, structure, processes, culture) must be addressed. Jill Bella, McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership, NLU.
#36 | Strengthening your day-to-day interactions with staff as you collect meaningful documentation for performance appraisals: A Powerful Interactions stance can help! 12:30–3:30 p.m. Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 404AB By using a Powerful Interactions stance for performance appraisal, supervisors look for a teacher’s moments of effectiveness and then highlight for the teacher what they did or said and why it was important for children’s development and learning. Documenting a teacher’s moments of effectiveness related to the organization’s performance appraisal tool supports
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