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Michigan DEC Annual Conference

This report calls for high-quality training programs that foster a shared knowledge base to support child development professionals in all sectors. It focuses on individual educators and addresses missing elements identified in the Transforming the Workforce report.

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Michigan DEC Annual Conference

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  1. Michigan DEC Annual Conference Early On Center for Higher Education Early Intervention Community of Practice Great Start for Higher Education April 26, 2019 Camille Catlett, FPG Child Development Institute Laurie Dinnebeil, University of Toledo

  2. To strengthen higher education, the report calls for high-quality training programs . . . that foster a shared fundamental knowledge base and competencies to support child development for professionals in all sectors who work with young children

  3. Power to the Profession

  4. Focus on the individual early childhood educator rather than on preparation programs • Address potential missing elements identified in the Transforming the Workforce report, including teaching subject matter specific content, addressing stress and adversity, fostering socioemotional development, working with dual language learners and integrating technology in curricula • Consider competencies from sister organizations (e.g., Council for Exceptional Children, DEC Recommended Practices, Council for Professional Recognition -Child Development Associate (CDA) Competency Standards) • Elevate inclusion, diversity and equity beyond the currently integrated approach to fully capture the depth and breadth of these issues

  5. All children have the right to equitable learning opportunities that help them achieve their full potential as engaged learners and valued members of society. As a result, all early childhood educators have a professional obligation to advance equity. They can do this best when they, the early learning settings in which they work, and their wider communities embrace diversity and inclusivity as strengths, uphold fundamental principles of fairness and justice, and work to eliminate structural inequities that limit equitable learning opportunities.

  6. Culturally Responsive Teaching • A 50-State Survey of Teaching Standards • Jenny Muniz New America • Understanding culturally responsive teaching • 8 teacher competencies that promote culturally responsive teaching • Using professional teaching standards to promote culturally responsive teaching • Excerpts from excellent teaching standards documents • https://d1y8sb8igg2f8e.cloudfront.net/documents/Culturally_Responsive_Teaching_2019-03-28_130012.pdf

  7. Culturally Responsive Teaching • Just over half (28%) of state teacher standards address self-knowledge • Analyze their cultural backgrounds and worldviews • Recognize biases they may hold and their effect on relationships with students and families • Recognize how common societal "isms" (e.g., racism, sexism, and classism) can influence on their own attitudes • CONSIDER • Asking students to reflect on or examine their attitudes about families before interacting with them as part of an assignment • Consider requiring an assignment to define culturally responsive teaching at the very beginning of the semester (e.g., as a quick write). Ask students to revise that definition at the end of the semester.

  8. Coming to Terms

  9. Early Childhood Inclusion: A Joint Position Statement of DEC and NAEYC

  10. Definition Early childhood inclusion embodies the values, policies, and practices that support the right of every infant and young child and his or her family, regardless of ability, to participate in a broad range of activities and contexts as full members of families, communities, and society. The desired results of inclusive experiences for children with and without disabilities and their families include a sense of belonging and membership, positive social relationships and friendships, and development and learning to reach their full potential. The defining features of inclusion that can be used to identify high quality early childhood programs and services are access, participation, and supports.

  11. “Professional development is facilitated teaching and learning experiences that are transactionaland designed to support the acquisition of professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions as well as the application of this knowledge in practice…..

  12. Definition (continued) The key components of professional development include: characteristics and contexts of the learners (i.e., the “who” ); content (i.e., the “what” of professional development); and organization and facilitation of learning experiences (i.e., the “how”).”

  13. Professional development tailored to each participating community college Resources, presentations, and webinars Replication Institute for other higher education programs

  14. Our Priorities from OSEP

  15. Graduate of the Future What’s qualities do you think are most important for future early childhood educators to possess?

  16. Points of Pride & Opportunities for Enhancement

  17. Enhancing Assignments Journal Review Assignment

  18. Destination Changes in Knowledge and Skills of Faculty and Students around Inclusion and Diversity

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  20. Measuring: • Change in faculty knowledge and application • Change in student knowledge • Change in syllabi • Change in field experiences

  21. What does this mean for you?

  22. http://scriptnc.fpg.unc.edu/ Course-Specific Landing Pads Locate course-specific resources to enhance coursework by incorporating evidence-based and competency-based practices that support the inclusion of children that are culturally, ethnically, and ability diverse. Includes archived webinars and resources. NC Community College Summit (coming in 2020) Find resources, handouts, and presentation slides from the 2-day event. Webinar Series Learn more about the webinar series, schedule and how to register for the webinars. SCRIPT-NC Supporting Change and Reform in Preservice Teaching in North Carolina

  23. Landing Pads SCRIPT-NC SCRIPT-NC http://scriptnc.fpg.unc.edu/resource-search Supporting Change and Reform in Preservice Teaching in North Carolina Supporting Change and Reform in Preservice Teaching in North Carolina

  24. EDU 131 Landing Pad SCRIPT-NC Supporting Change and Reform in Preservice Teaching in North Carolina

  25. http://ectacenter.org/decrp/

  26. https://rpm.fpg.unc.edu/

  27. https://members.earlyedualliance.org/content/ camille1234

  28. https://scriptnc.fpg.unc.edu/

  29. A small thank you gift

  30. Questions

  31. THANK YOU! Please complete evaluation and leave it on your table.

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