Date: Saturday November 3, 2012
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM (Registration at 8:30 AM)
Lunch on own 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Location: UW-Superior Swenson Hall 2009
Instructor: Becky Gamache

This workshop can be taken noncredit or for academic credit.

Credit Information: ECED 481, Section 925, Course #3085

CEUs (noncredit registrations): .5 (5 Contact Hours)
Credits (credit registrations): 1 (undergraduate)

Noncredit Registration Fees:

Early Bird Rate (before 10/19): $50
Regular Rate (after 10/19): $60

Credit Registration Fees:

WI Resident: $272.31/credit
MN Resident: $282.67/credit

+ additional $15 workshop fee

Overview

It seems like the world around us is increasingly fast, busy and intense. Every year, it gets harder for early childhood educators to provide developmentally appropriate curriculum due to new regulations and outside expectations. On the other hand, in a child's mind, the world revolves around them at a meandering pace, stopping and starting when a butterfly approaches or a block tower teeters in front of them.

How do early childhood educators find the balance between what is right for children and the changing demands around them?

This seminar will give early childhood educators researched-based, developmentally appropriate, and practical strategies and activities to work with young children today. Participants will learn how to advocate for developmentally appropriate play experiences and create make-and-take activities and ideas to use right away. You will leave this seminar with the tools needed to meander along with children, stopping to observe the butterflies and steady the block tower!

• Use knowledge about child development and individual children to develop and deliver curriculum.
• Become an advocate for developmentally appropriate play experiences.
• Create developmentally appropriate learning experiences.
• Use state early childhood standards as a foundation for early learning experiences.
  

• Head Start Teachers
• 4K Teachers
• Childcare Providers
• K-2nd Grade Teachers
• Anyone who works with children

How to Register

Noncredit:

• Register Online (Coming Soon)
  
• Contact Brenda Dalpiaz at (715) 394-8032
  
• In person at Old Main 102
• Fax a Registration Form to (715) 394-8381
• Mail a Registration Form to:

Center for Continuing Education
Attn: Brenda Dalpiaz
Belknap & Catlin
PO Box 2000
Superior, WI 54880

Credit:

1. Download and fill out a credit registration form (for tuition costs)
   
2. Download and fill out a workshop registration form (for the $15 workshop fee)
   
3. Send both forms with two separate payments to:

Center for Continuing Education
Attn: Brenda Dalpiaz
Belknap & Catlin
PO Box 2000
Superior, WI 54880

(make checks payable to UW-Superior)

Minnesota Reciprocity: The Minnesota-Wisconsin Reciprocity Agreement enables Minnesota residents attending UW-Superior to pay the same tuition rate they would pay at a similar state institution in Minnesota. This offers a substantial savings over the nonresident fee.

To take part in this program, Minnesota students must file for and receive reciprocity before the end of their first semester of enrollment. We recommend students file for reciprocity before the semester starts or as early as possible. It is the student's responsibility to apply for reciprocity. Failure to apply for and receive reciprocity will cause the student to be liable for paying nonresident tuition and fees.

The Minnesota Higher Education Services Office requests that students apply for Minnesota Reciprocity online from any internet access computer at: www.getreadyforcollege.org.

Questions about eligibility, the application process, or technical assistance should be directed to the Minnesota Education Services Office at (800) 657-3866.

About the Instructor

Becky Gamache - Becky Gamache has over 15 years experience in early childhood education. She received her MA degree in early childhood education from Concordia University. Becky has taught parent education; infant, toddler and preschool classes; and undergraduate students in AA and BA early education programs. For the past 11 years she has been the regular education teacher in a "team-taught" inclusive classroom.