Assessing Early Education in Indiana
Early Childhood Meeting Place
Promoting School Readiness
Training & Outreach
- Training & Outreach
- Online Learning Series: Topics in Early Intervention
- Adapting Your Teaching to Individual Learners
- Beginning With the Objectives in Mind
- Designing Effective Transitions to Kindergarten
- Meaningful Language, Purposeful Literacy, Ready Children
- Reexamining Classroom Day to Promote School Readiness
- Rethinking How We Can Use Free Choice Time
- Targeting Skills That Make a Difference in Kindergarten
- Teaching Strategies that Support Children's Thinking
- When Actions Speak Louder
Unified Training System/First Steps
Universal Design in ECE
Past Projects
Products
Who We Are
Contact Us
Phone: (812) 855-6508
TTY: (812) 855-9396
Fax: (812) 855-9630
Director: Michael Conn-Powers, Ph.D.
e-mail: mipower@indiana.edu
Teaching Strategies That Support Children's Thinking
Overview
Early childhood education is being asked to address quality standards like never before. As classroom teachers, the quality and impact of our teaching matters. Our classrooms need to be positive places to learn, well organized to engage all learners, and instructionally sound. Current evaluations of classrooms show strenghts and weaknesses.This workshop focuses on designing learning plans that target "Big Ideas", and that employ teaching strategies which enable our children to learn those "Big Idea" skills.
Details
Dr. Michael Conn-Powers is the presenter of this workshop. Dr. Conn-Powers has worked in the field of early intervention for over 30 years. He is currently a Research Associate at Indiana University, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Education, and Director of the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community's Early Childhood Center. Over the past 5 years, Dr. Conn-Powers has been extensively involved in research and product development in the areas of early intervention, service coordination, school readiness, and universal design. Dr. Conn-Powers has also been involved with designing and implementing Indiana's First Steps (Part C) child and family outcome evaluation system.
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.