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11:00am-noon - Lunch
12:15-1:15pm - Classes
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Class 301: Empowering Early Intervention Clients in Rural Early Intervention Areas
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Description: This presentation will teach skills, techniques, and methods to assist families in advocating for their child. How, where to look for resources, and helping families feel empowered.
Instructor: Catherine Jurado
Professional Credit: CEU
Professional Category: Infant/Toddler
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 302: Using Learning Centers to Support Core Standards
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Description: Using social emotional strategies, choice and accountability to set up a classroom that supports learning standards and helps children become life-long learners.
Instructor: John Funk
Professional Credit: CEU
Professional Category: Preschool, Kindergarten
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 303: Screening for Academic Readiness with the Battelle Developmental Inventory, 2nd Edition
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Description: This presentation will provide an overview of the Battelle Developmental Inventory, 2nd Edition Screening Test, a standardized, individually administered assessment battery of key developmental skills in children from birth to 8 years of ages. Participants will learn basic administration and scoring of this instrument. A brief overview of appropriate uses and interpretation of results will be provided.
Instructor: Margaret Yebra
Professional Credit: CEU
Professional Category: Preschool
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 304: My Instrument--My Soul: Development of the Child's Singing Voice (and Yours)
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Description: Simple activities to encourage the use of a child's singing voice. What to expect at different stages of vocal development. The healthful benefits of singing.
Instructor: Julie Goodro
Professional Credit: CEU
Professional Category: Preschool
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 305: Preschool Pioneer (Online) Library: Where Kids Go to Click, Learn, and Grow!
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Description: Come and explore all that UEN and the Preschool Pioneer Library have to offer Utah's youngest residents, their parents, caregivers, and teachers. I will be presenting Preschool Pioneer's collection of website resources from the Utah Education Network and key partners that support school readiness for Utah students.
Instructor: Lisa Cohne
Professional Credit: CEU
Professional Category: Preschool
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 306: Seasons vs. Holidays
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Description: Curriculum ideas for teachers to use for the seasons, not around the holidays.
Instructor: Andrea Howard
Professional Credit: CEU
Professional Category: Preschool
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 307: What is PICCOLO? An Overview of an Observational Measure of Developmental Parenting
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Description: PICCOLO stands for Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes. It is a new measure of positive parenting interactions that can be used for family assessment, intervention planning, and program evaluation in Early Head Start and similar programs.
This workshop will provide basic information on the PICCOLO measure and show brief video examples of the parenting behaviors included in the measure. We will give participants and brief overview of what PICCOLO is, how it was developed, and how to use it in working with families.
Instructor: Gina Cook
Professional Credit: CEU
Professional Category: Infant/Toddler
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 308: Leave No Child Inside: Nurturing Children through Nature
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Description: Children's access to outdoor play is evaporating like water in sunshine. It is not accidental that at the same time we see children's access to nature decline, we see early childhood obesity and mental health and behavior issues increase. Come prepared to have a rollicking good time in this fast-paced workshop that will leave you with great new ideas and materials to make your outdoor time sizzle and your behavior issues evaporate.
Instructor: Elisabeth Barker
Professional Credit: CEU
Professional Category: Preschool
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 309: Ready! Set! School!
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Description: Come learn how you can help the children in your care and their parents prepare for kindergarten with 20 quick and easy lessons designed for parents and children to do together. Then take it home and try these lessons with your own child!
Instructor: Meg Miles
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Professional Category: Preschool
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 310: Learning Through Our Senses
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Description: This course will help you understand how we gather information from our senses, interpret it, and use it for daily activities. We will discuss ways to use this information to understand how children interpret the world and how we can tailor activities to the child's individual needs.
Instructor: Trevor Warner
Professional Credit: CEU
Professional Category: Infant/Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st/2nd Grade, Administrator
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 311: Working With Young Children Who Present With Possible Autism, ADD/ADHD, or Specific Language Impairment
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Description: Attendees will be able to: recognize these special needs in the classroom, discuss their findings with the parents, learn management and language stimulation in the classroom and know when and who to refer.
Instructor: Julia Lidgard
Professional Credit: CEU
Professional Category: Preschool
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 312: Making Science Fun: Science Lesson Tips for the Classroom--Hands on Learning
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Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 313: ART, Toddler Style!
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Description: If your room is filled with temper tantrums, toilet training and incessant chatter in an unknown language with the word "no" frequently repeated, chances are you are working with toddlers! This presentation will share age-appropriate art activities that will help toddlers master fine-motor skills and help them learn about cause and effet as they make changes in materials. Ideas will also be shared on how caregiver scan set up for success and keep parents involved by documenting and sharing the creative process. Process not product!
Instructor: Kimberly Melville
Professional Credit: CEU
Professional Category: Infant/Toddler
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 314: Inquiry-Based Science IN Early Childhood Classrooms
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Description: Introducing science in EC Classrooms is a great opportunity for children to ask questions and investigate answers. This is a cross-curricular discipline and builds on the child's curiosity about the natural world, develops the child's language, as well as math and problem-solving skills. Participants in this workshop will learn how to present an inquiry-based, developmentally appropriate science to early childhood learners.
Instructor: Amy Whittemore
Professional Credit: CEU
Professional Category: Preschool
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 315: Using Books/Stories With Infants & Toddlers
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Description: Participants will learn the benefits to reading and telling stories. While learning some new techniques, you will be given some ways to use different materials to tell stories.
Instructor: Jan Welsh
Professional Credit: CEU
Professional Category: Infant/Toddler
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 316: The Thinking Child
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Description: Do you want to teach children how to think not what to think? Strategies to teach children practical skills to prevent and resolve everyday problems.
Instructor: Encarni Gallardo
Professional Credit: CEU
Professional Category: Infant/Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st/2nd Grade, Administrator
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 317: Young Explorers in Art
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Description: Construct a simple book. Using washable paint, make finger and thumbprints in the book. Add lines, shapes and dots to the prints to make animal drawings. Add words to the pages that identify animals and a fact about the animal.
Instructor: Mary Wells
Professional Credit: CEU
Professional Category: Preschool
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 318: Cultivating a Community Classroom
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Description: Strategies teachers can use to build a community within their classroom, benefits of strong classroom community on development, and how activity or storytelling dramatization can build community.
Instructor: Jacqueline Kemp
Professional Credit: CEU
Professional Category: Preschool, Kindergarten
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 319: Teaching Art Through Children's Books & Illustrators
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Description: We will demonstrate the art techniques that illustrators sue in children's books.
Instructor: Maridan Jensen
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Professional Category: Kindergarten
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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Class 320: 911 Does Not Always Help
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Instructor: Tammy Taylor and Sandra Grimshaw
Professional Credit: CEU
Professional Category: Infant/Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st/2nd Grade, Administrator
Room: TBD
Session: 3
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