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NEW!
Creating a Curriculum for an Inclusive, Integrated Classroom (PreK - K) TEWS666N
This workshop will focus broadly on how to concretely design and set up an integrated Kindergarten curriculum based upon a Bank Street model, including social studies, literacy, math, science, and art activities that incorporate work with materials and play. The workshop will include ways of making these activities more inclusive to address the needs of a diverse student population. The unique and specific contexts of the participant's settings will be taken into account and discussed.

Jennifer Lightman has been an early childhood educator for the past nine years and most recently was the head teacher of the SNAP program (a program for children with special needs) at Central Synagogue Nursery School. She is currently working privately and through the NYC Board of Education as an educational consultant with children with special needs.

Timothy Lightman has been an early childhood teacher and educator for over 12 years. He has taught Pre-K and Kindergarten at the Bank Street School for Children and has worked as a consultant for curriculum development. He spent four years as researcher in the Teachers for a New Era Project at Bank Street College. He is currently working on his dissertation on  exploring issues of disability in elementary schools, at Teachers College, Columbia University.

April 5
Saturday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
.6 CEU only $265
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline: 3/28

NEW!
Incorporating Islam into the Curriculum (Grades 4 - 8) TEWS667N
The impact of Islam on world history, our own times, and the increasing number of Muslim students in our schools all warrant a greater study of Islam in the Classroom. While teachers increasingly recognize this need, just when and how to teach about Islam is not always evident. This course is designed to help teachers find new points of entry through which they can teach about Islam in their Social Studies courses, as well as ways they can create integrated units with teachers of English, art, science, and mathematics.

Joan Brodsky Schur is the author of Eyewitness to the Past: Strategies for Teaching American History in Grades 5-12, Immigrants in America: The Arab Americans, and Editor of Coming to America: The Arabs. Her articles on teaching about Islam have appeared in numerous professional journals and she has written lesson plans for a variety of Websites including The Islam Project.org. Schur serves as Social Studies Coordinator at the Village Community School in New York City.

February 9
Saturday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
.6 CEU only $265
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline: 2/1

NEW!
The Reggio-Emilia Approach: From Theory to Practice (Infancy - 5 Years) TEWS668N
The early childhood program found in Reggio-Emilia, Italy, incorporates an emphasis on the learning environment, process vs. product, developmentally appropriate practice, and the importance of the community of learners. Much of this philosophy reflects the culture of the Italians and is difficult to re-create in the United States. This workshop will attempt to bridge The Reggio-Emilia theory with American culture. We will view the Reggio-Emilia approach as a means to combat the push-down curriculum, competition, product over process, and the jump/skipping of learning stages we are now experiencing in this country.

Rick Ellis has been involved in the fields of early childhood and elementary education for 33 years.  He has taught infants through nine-year olds and has also worked in educational administration as a teaching coach/unit leader, mentor, administrator, and instructional computer coordinator. In 2007, he attended a week-long seminar in Reggio-Emilia, Italy, which included visits to schools implementing the Reggio approach.  In addition, he is a consultant to a variety of institutions, both public and private, concerning developmentally appropriate practice for early childhood/primary age children and the long-term effects of the "push-down" curriculum.

March 8
Saturday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
.6 CEU only $265
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline: 2/22

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