Adapting Your Teaching to Individual Learners

Overview

Early childhood settings have always had children who learn at different rates and have different skills; children who have different interests and bring different backgrounds and experiences to the learning environment. Each one needs to be ready to succeed in kindergarten. Teachers are responsible for making intentional decisions about their instruction so that each child is acquiring the skills and knowledge needed for becoming a successful kindergarten learner.

As a workshop participant, you will learn nine types of adaptations to use in meeting children's readiness needs. You will also acquire a framework for planning, implementing and evaluating those adaptations.

Objectives

Participants will:

     •  Learn and use the Nine Types of Adaptations.
     
     •  Apply a lesson-planning strategy that incorporates planning for children's individual needs.

     •  Learn more than 20 examples of strategies for implementing individualized instruction.

     •  Identify one adaptation that could enable a child in her or his classroom to be a more successful learner.
 

Details

Dr. Alice Frazeur-Cross is the instructor for this workshop.

Dr. Alice Frazeur-Cross has had a wide array of experiences in the early childhood field. Alice is a Research Associate in the role of Early Childhood Education Specialist. In this role she has written articles, conducted research, and provided training on school readiness, prekindergarten education, and the inclusion of young children with disabilities. She has been director of child care centers, regional resource and referral director, Head Start education coordinator, adjunct faculty of Ivy Tech, kindergarten teacher and classroom teacher of four- and five-year-olds.

Workshops: All topics presented by the Early Childhood Center can be designed to meet your in-service needs. Topics can be presented as full- or half-day workshops.

Technical Assistance: We have recently been using two nationally validated classroom assessment measures to examine the quality of children's time in preschool and the quality of teacher-child interactions that children experience--the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) and the Emerging Academic Snapshot. We have used these tools to evaluate both individual classrooms and overall early education programs followed by more individualized inservice training. Talk to us about how we might bring these new resources to your program to improve the quality of your early learning environments.

How to Register

There are currently no workshops on this topic planned.