Who’s in Charge?
Helping Young Children Manage Themselves
in Literacy and in Life
A half-day mini-conference for early childhood teachers, parents, and administrators
presented by
The School Literacy and Culture Project
Rice University Center for Education
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Duncan Hall, Rice University
8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Keynote
Before and Beyond the Curriculum:
The Necessary Habits of Successful Young Learners
And What We Can Do About Them
Dr. Patsy Cooper (New York University) takes a practical look at the impact of self-management on becoming a successful learner in early childhood and later schooling. She also looks at what parents and teachers can do to foster the psychosocial and cognitive habits involved in this process.
Breakout Sessions
The Relationship Between Self-Management
and Learning to Read and Write
Dr. Cooper’s workshop session later in the day explores how young children often fail to benefit from the early literacy curriculum because they lack basic psychosocial skills, such as the ability to sit still during story time, stick with a center-based activity, and play imaginatively. Specific literacy practices and curriculum that support and help develop self-management are considered.
Additional breakout sessions, led by School Literacy and Culture Project (SLC) staff and guests, will address the needs of both first time attendees who are unfamiliar with the SLC Project’s work and returning participants who have been taking children’s stories for years. Sessions geared to special interests (bilingual classrooms, toddler curriculum, etc.), will be offered as well. Selected breakout session topics include the following:
Write on… Teachers from the Summer Creative Writing Workshop share ideas for writing success
Making it real… Applying educational research to early childhood classrooms
Fitting it in… Incorporating story dictation and dramatization into busy classrooms
I want it now… Early literacy make-and-take activities you can use tomorrow
Buenas ideas … Literacy activities for bilingual preschool classrooms
Thinking ahead… What toddlers and three year olds really need
Morning Schedule
Books, puppets, and other teaching materials will be available for purchase
before and after the conference, as well as during break times.
* For additional information, please contact us at 713-348-5333 or email Debbie Lingrey.
Click here for information on the 2007 conference.
Click here for information on the 2006 conference.
