**As of October 4th, the Fall Conference is almost at capacity. If you need training hours or would like to fill one of the few remaining seats, please email Courtney Jones at caj88@cornell.edu as soon as possible.***
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The Child Care Council of Cornell Cooperative Extension invites you to the 2018 Early Childhood Educators Fall Conference!
SCHEDULE:
KEYNOTE 8:30A-10A
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
BREAK 10A-10:15A
SESSION 1 10:15A-11:45A
Recyclable Chopped!
LUNCH 11:45A-12:30P
SESSION 2 12:30P-2P
Effective Communication Between Parents and Providers OR
Storytime Yoga
BREAK 2P-2:15P
SESSION 3 2:15P-3:45P
Not-So-Spooky Social-Emotional Skills OR
Processed Foods: Friend or Foe?
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Descriptions of sessions:
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) presents prevention education for personal safety and internet safety/cyberbullying prevention through ‘NetSmartz’ and ‘KidSmartz’. This powerful presentation will discuss on-line and off-line predators; social networking dangers and consequences; samples of real-life scenarios; statistics of on-line dangers and solicitations; what child care providers/parents can do to help prevent dangers; and resources that are available. Presented By: Wendy Fical, NCMEC Program Director
Audience: Family/Group Family Child Care; Center Staff & Directors; School Age Staff & Directors, Preschool; LE; Parents
Topic Areas: OCFS: 4 CBK: 5 CDA: 1
Recyclable Chopped
You’re all familiar with the cooking show Chopped? Contestants are given a basket of ingredients and they have to come up with a new recipe incorporating those ingredients. Well, here is your early childhood activities version!!! We will provide the recyclables. Your job is to come up with a developmentally appropriate activity, game, art project that you can do with your children. This workshop is a hands-on opportunity to explore and play and see the world through children’s eyes! We are also being environmentally friendly using things in a new way; a great opportunity to teach caring for our world. Practice using your imagination and bring to life new engaging activities for your program.
Audience: Family/Group Family Child Care; Center Staff & Directors; School Age Staff & Directors, Preschool; LE; Parents
Topic Areas: OCFS: 1,3 CBK: 1,4 CDA:2,8
Effective Communication Between Parents and Providers
Pat Brown, Early Childhood Direction Center
How do we build effective communication? This workshop will include the benefit and importance of effective communication, “how to’s” of effective communication, ways to communicate, approaching a parent or provider, the “Be’s” of communication, barriers to communication, overcoming barriers, and much more.
Audience: Family/Group Family Child Care; Center Staff & Directors; School Age Staff & Directors, Preschool; LE; Parents
Topic Areas: OCFS 3,4 CBK 2 CDA 4
Storytime Yoga
Carol LaFache, YogaTales by Carol
Let’s Get Our Inner Yogi On This presentation will offer a fun, new twist on working with stories through the very physical movement of yoga. Yes, kids love stories, but kids love being ‘in’ the stories even more. Along with producing healthier bodies this approach improves reading comprehension and developing the children’s creative minds. Participants will have hands on experience acting out familiar children’s stories with yoga poses that depict problem, setting, characters, plot, sequence and resolution. Wow! So grab a yoga mat and start breathing!
Audience: Family/Group Family Child Care; Center Staff & Directors; School Age Staff & Directors, Preschool; LE; Parents
Topic Areas: OCFS 2, 3 CBK 4, 5 CDA 2
Not-So-Spooky Social-Emotional Skills
Ellen Olson
Children’s behavior is often a terrifying mystery to adults. During this hands on workshop we will explore our expectations and challenging behaviors. Like magic we will look at some things we can do right now to prevent and reduce challenging behaviors. We will look at ways that we can help children learn appropriate skills like emotion recognition, emotion regulation, problem solving skills and social skills that children need to be successful learners. Behavior is not so scary after all. Bippity, Bobbity Boo-ya!
Audience: Family/Group Family Child Care; Center Staff & Directors; School Age Staff & Directors, Preschool; LE; Parents
Topic Areas: OCFS 1,3 CBK 1,4 CDA 3,8
Processed Foods: Friend or Foe?
Karin Brinkerhoff
Is processed food your friend or foe? In this training we will be discussing the different types of processed foods, how to identify processed foods and how to read food labels. We will also be discussing tips and tricks to help with those picky eaters you might have in your programs and look at a variety of meal planning options. Participants who are enrolled with CACFP through CCE will receive credit for this as part of their annual training requirement for the 2018-2019 year.
Audience: Family/Group Family Child Care; Center Staff & Directors; School Age Staff & Directors, Preschool; LE; Parents
Topic Areas: OCFS 2 CBK 5 CDA 1
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About this conference:
- Early Bird Online Registration ended on 9/21.
- General Online Registration ends on 10/19. Online registration will also end at this time.
- Student registration will require a photocopy of the student's current ID valid for Fall 2018 to be emailed to caj88@cornell.edu
- Full Day Walk In registration is $100.
- Registration fees are non-refundable and workshops are filled on a first paid first served basis. We will contact you prior to the conference in the event that we need to place you into another workshop for any reason. A minimum of 5 participants are needed for workshops to be held. If 5 participants aren’t available you might be placed into another workshop.
If you have any questions, please contact Courtney Jones at (315) 223-7850 x 230 or email caj88@cornell.edu
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