Sessions: Thursday, April 23
3:00pm-4:30pm con't
Processing Disorders:
Different Routes to Learning STEAM
(Pre-K to 3)
Session Code: T312
This presentation provides an overview
of the neurological processing
disorders that cause students to
struggle with STEAM understanding,
play-based activities, and academic
classroom content (pre-k to grade 3).
Problems to be examined include
visual, sensory, and auditory disorders
as well as dysgraphia, dyscalculia, and
reading disabilities. Techniques to
assist these children as well as
multiple ways to enhance STEAM
learning will be presented. Techniques
are appropriate for both children with
and without these conditions.
Presenter: Maria Sargent
Hip-Hop to Rock and
Literacy
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Featu s re
Session Code: T313
Ses ion
In this interactive session participants
will discover how to use songs, music
and movement to support literacy
development. By incorporating
kinesthetic activities with sing-along
songs children develop auditory
discrimination, vocabulary, fluency,
and coordination. Most important of
all, it promotes the natural love for
reading. Take back strategies to
integrate text through song-card, chart
tablet, or pocket-chart phrases to
nurture confidence in your young
readers.
Presenter: Mike Longoria
Age Focus: ALL
Main Topic: Music and Movement
Age Focus: PRE
Main Topic: Science
Strengthening the
Foundation: Building Children Up
Using Their Strengths (part 2) K-3
Session Code: T314
This training focuses on supporting
school age children’s social emotional
development through the use of the 40
Developmental Assets. Participants
will be able to take away practical
strategies that they can use to support
and help their children build these
skills.
Presenter: Brittany Jackson
Age Focus: SA, K-3
Main Topic: Social-Emotional
Development
Networking Opportunity:
Ohio Directors' Network Forum | Facilitated by Belinda Costin
Code: FDirectors | 5:00pm-6:00pm
Understanding Attachment
and the Separation Process
Session Code: T315
2 hours | 3:00pm-5:00pm
Through role-play and case
discussion, participants will explore the
crucial role that attachment has in the
learning process and how children and
parents respond to separation. In
addition, participants will identify
strategies that they can use to help
parents and children remain
emotionally connected, especially
when preparing children for
care in an out-of-home program.
Presenter: Karen Goulandris
Age Focus: ALL
Main Topic: Social/Emotional
Development
What are the Top 3 Reasons
Early Childhood Teachers Leave the
Profession in Ohio?
Session Code: T316
This session is designed from a
qualitative research project to gain
perspective on teacher turnover in early
childhood educational settings.
Participants will engage in a round table
discussion with prompts from recent
research completed in Ohio on teacher
turnover in ECE settings. Teachers,
administrators, directors, and program
coordinators are
encouraged to join the conversation.
Leave with a new vision for hiring novice
teachers and developing individual
training programs to meet all new
teachers at their level of development
and areas of opportunities.
Presenter: Charlotte Perlaky
Age Focus: ALL
Main Topic: Professionalism, Leadership
& Ethics