This is one of the virtual courses that was to be presented at the 2020 Summer NAEYC Institute, which was cancelled due to Covid-19. This was an extremely beneficial webinar along with two HUGE resource lists that directly relate to my EDUC 275 course. There were many free textbooks and websites that I am embedding directly into my D2L shell, as well as creating a Pinterest board for the course that will allow students direct access to these tools. The course was broken into two main components in developing instruction for teacher education programs. One was the required elements of a course for dual language learning. The second part was the adaptation that needed to be taught. I am so excited to revisit these materials as I build my course presentations for the first time in EDUC 275.
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Today I completed this NAEYC Virtual Institute course focused on helping teacher education program write dual language courses to better prepare early childhood teachers to meet the learning needs of DLLs and their families. This was an excellent overview based on a research study done in California analyzing these types of programs. Several recommendations were made to assist community and public colleges in developing their own programs and certificates. I can utilize what I learned in this course directly in EDUC 180 and EDUC 275 which both teach about dual language learners and their families.
Since all NAEYC conferences and the Early Education Conference was cancelled due to Covid-19, NAEYC developed the Virtual Institute from June 1 - July 17, 2020. The list of outstanding professional development is HUGE! Since it just opened today, I am listing the areas I plan on attending. Each session has required hours to completion and a certificate when the course is finished. I will update when I have completed each session.
This spring, I joined three professional boards on Facebook to learn from my peers. The membership in these closed groups ranges from 4.6K members to 75K members. These members are professionals, teachers, professors all with expertise. Together we share and learn from one another. I have gained so many applicable ideas to pass onto my colleagues at HACC and my students. The Teach with Tech board was especially informative during the Covid-19 quarantine with teacher posting ideas to supplement and support online learning. These were so useful to me a virtual instructor, but also as a support to others.
At the end of March, I attended the HACC Virtual Learning retreat focused on the needs of Gen Z learning needs. As a parent of three Gen Z, I could very easily make connections to the material presented. These learners are great at multitasking and utilizing technology. They sometimes need to be reminded of their responsibilities and as an instructor, you must not enable them by doing things for them. I see this a lot with my students. As future teachers, this is a skill that must be acquired during their time in our program. The session also looked at the future of online learning.
On November 18-20, I attended sessions in the 2019 Global Education Conference. This is a world-wide annual event that brings educators from all over the world together for over 50 hours of learning. Here are the presenters I listened to with their topics:
This was a great panel discussion hosted at Penn State Harrisburg in Olmsted W107. I was so excited to attend this discussion, as it included former colleges, school psychologists, school therapist, and two probation officers from the local community. The discussion looks at the immediate and long term effects of children of incarcerated parents. Support options for students, as well as providing services for all at-risk students was also shared. I learned of several local resources for at-risk children that were valuable for my EDUC 180 Community Resource teaching and project. This was also important in understanding the importance of trauma-informed teaching, as I would like to develop a course around this topic at HACC for our students.
Not only did I attend this Cite presentation, I was a presenter. Along with my colleagues, we shared ways that we design our courses and modify our workload to successfully teach in a seven week session. You can access the presentation here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cTlgXt_JI0qiscaF00Kpt42GGnFvGwlP
I attended the Fall 2019 Convocation in the Rose Lehrman Center and the sessions that followed.
I attended the online education summit hosted by Education Week today. It was hosted mainly for K-12 Educators, but I found the topics they discussed were very informative for me not only as a community college instructor, but also as a professor writing courses for today's teachers to continue learning. The focus of the summit was three areas:
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AuthorAs a former elementary school teacher and reading specialist, I love imparting my knowledge on my college students at HACC. I also have a desire to continue learning. Here's what I have learned recently. Archives
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