PDS Workshops

Ongoing Workshops
Printed: 05/20/2013

Topics in this course include the meaning of standards based education, information about Ohio’s Early Learning Content Standards, and guidance relative to teaching strategies that are connected to Ohio’s Early Learning Content Standards.

Themes

• Home-school relationships
• Adaptations for diverse learners
• Integration across curriculum
• Role of conversation and dialogue
• Inquiry-based experiences and project approach
• Play based learning
• Symbolic representation
• Role of environment

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Pre-K/K SIRI classes. If this site does not provide registration information call 1-800-678.6352.

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the dates/site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section of the online registration form.

In order to receive a grade, please fax your certificate of completion to: 440-366-4066

The document A Way of Knowing provides teachers with information about the importance of intentional observation as well as protocols for data collection, analysis and interpretation. This course uses the document to provide guidance to link data to classroom practice and teaching strategies.

Themes

• Home-school relationships
• Adaptations for diverse learners
• Integration across curriculum
• Role of conversation and dialogue
• Inquiry-based experiences and project approach
• Play based learning
• Symbolic representation
• Role of environment

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Pre-K/K SIRI classes. If this site does not provide registration information call 1-800-678-6352.

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the dates/site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section of the online registration form.

In order to receive a grade, please fax your certificate of completion to 440-366-4066

This course provides guidance for working with parents and creating a rich environment for supporting and challenging early literacy skills.

Themes

• Home-school relationships
• Adaptations for diverse learners
• Integration across curriculum
• Role of conversation and dialogue
• Inquiry-based experiences and project approach
• Play based learning
• Symbolic representation
• Role of environment

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Pre-K/K SIRI classes. If this site does not provide registration information call 1-800-678-6352.

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the dates/site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section of the online registration form.

In order to receive a grade, please fax your certificate of completion to 440-366-4066

This course provides teachers with knowledge around the creation of conditions to foster talk along with instructional approaches for the development of oral language.

Themes

• Home-school relationships
• Adaptations for diverse learners
• Integration across curriculum
• Role of conversation and dialogue
• Inquiry-based experiences and project approach
• Play based learning
• Symbolic representation
• Role of environment

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Pre-K/K SIRI classes. If this site does not provide registration information call 1-800-678-6352.

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the dates/site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section of the online registration form.

In order to receive a grade, please fax your certificate of completion to: 440-366-4066

This course provides teachers with guidance for working with letters and words. The sessions will help teachers to understand the meaning of and strategies for teaching phonemic awareness.

Themes

• Home-school relationships
• Adaptations for diverse learners
• Integration across curriculum
• Role of conversation and dialogue
• Inquiry-based experiences and project approach
• Play based learning
• Symbolic representation
• Role of environment

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Pre-K/K SIRI classes. If this site does not provide registration information call 1-800-678-6352.

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the dates/site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section of the online registration form.

In order to receive a grade, please fax your certificate of completion to: 440-366-4066

In this course, teachers will understand how to help children move from scribbles to words in addition to ways to evaluate children’s early writing to understand children’s developing knowledge of print.

Themes

• Home-school relationships
• Adaptations for diverse learners
• Integration across curriculum
• Role of conversation and dialogue
• Inquiry-based experiences and project approach
• Play based learning
• Symbolic representation
• Role of environment

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Pre-K/K SIRI classes. If this site does not provide registration information call 1-800-678-6352.

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the dates/site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section of the online registration form.

In order to receive a grade, please fax your certificate of completion to: 440-366-4066

The use of quality literature and story time are important tools for introducing concepts of print and focused strategies that support knowledge of words and sounds. This course provides knowledge and skills related to these tools.

Themes

• Home-school relationships
• Adaptations for diverse learners
• Integration across curriculum
• Role of conversation and dialogue
• Inquiry-based experiences and project approach
• Play based learning
• Symbolic representation
• Role of environment

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Pre-K/K SIRI classes. If this site does not provide registration information call 1-800-678-6352.

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the dates/site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section of the online registration form.

In order to receive a grade, please fax your certificate of completion to : 440-366-4066

Mathematics Module

This is a graduate level class. However, undergraduate credit is available upon request. There are no changes in content, price, or expectations.

In the mathematics module, we explore the teacher’s role in supporting young children’s early concepts of number and early addition and subtraction. We also examine the early childhood roots of patterning and algebraic reasoning, geometric reasoning through children’s play and how measurement and data analysis can be taught through developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant activity. Strong emphasis is placed on supporting diverse learners through intentional teaching and differentiated instruction.

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Mathematic Module classes. If this site does not provide registration information call 1-800-678-6352.

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the dates/site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section of the online registration form.

In order to receive a grade, please fax your certificate of completion to: 440-366-4066

Science Module

This is a graduate level class. However, undergraduate credit is available upon request. There are no changes in content, price, or expectations.

The science module will emphasize the “big idea” that early childhood science experiences are integrated into a child’s everyday life and into the environment instead of set up at a science table in the classroom/ center or planned as a separate science lesson. Science is also integrated with art, literacy, music, social studies and math. Across the four sessions, the standards and benchmarks for earth and space sciences, life sciences, and physical sciences will be explored. Process standards are always considered along with content standards. All experiences are designed for the participation of diverse learners.

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Science Module classes. If this site does not provide registration information call 1-800-678-6352.

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the dates/site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section of the online registration form.

In order to receive a grade, please fax your certificate of completion to: 440-366-4066

This course is based on 4 course sessions taught in regional locations to groups of early childhood educators. The Department of Education has published new Early Learning Standards for all the disciplines including science. Standards are new for the early childhood community to be thinking about as they plan curriculum. In this course, the standards for science will be understood as a framework along with developmentally and culturally appropriate practices.

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Pre-K/K SIRI classes. If this site des not provide registration information, please call 1-800-678-6352.

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the dates/site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section of the online registration form.

In order to receive a grade, please fax your certificate of completion to 440-366-4066.

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Pre-K/K SIRI classes. If this site does not provide registration information, call 1-800-678-6352

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the dates/site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section of the online registration form.

In order to receive a grade, please fax your certificate of completion to 440-366-4066

This course is based of 4 course sessions taught in regional locations to groups of early childhood educators. The Department of Education has published new Early Learning Standards for all the disciplines including Social Studies. Standards are new for the early childhood community to be thinking about as they plan curriculum. In this course, the standards for social studies will be understood as a framework along with developmentally and culturally appropriate practices.

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Pre-K/K SIRI classes. If this site does not provide registration information, call 1-800-678-6352

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the dates/site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section of the online registration form.

In order to receive a grade, please fax your certificate of completion to 440-366-4066

Social Studies is the study of who we are and how we connect with our family and our community. This includes economics, the study of the choices that we make about production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. Although the concepts may sound more sophisticated than the average preschooler can comprehend, this module will explore the knowledge that preschool-aged children already have and are building on about decisions involving what they and others around them have, want and need. The module will also build educators' knowledge and skill in ways of supporting that growing understanding in the children in their own classrooms and programs.

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Pre-K/K SIRI classes. If this site does not provide registration information call 1-800-678-6352

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit , be sure to include the dates/site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section of the online form.
In order to receive a grade, please fax your certificate of completion to : 440-366-4066

This module closely represents two social studies disciplines from Ohio's early learning social studies content standards; Civics and Government. The National Council of Social Studies (NCSS) recognizes the importance of these content standards by defining the primary purpose of social studies..."to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world" (NCSS Task Force on Standards for Teaching and Learning in the Social Studies, 1993, p.213).

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Pre-K/K SIRI classes. If this site does not provide registration information call 1-800-678-6352

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the dates / site of your workshop in the "Addition Comments" section of the online form.

In order to receive a grade, please fax your certificate of completion to: 440-366-4066

This course is based on 6 course sessions through 18 contact hours taught in regional locations to groups of early childhood educators. This module provides strategies to support teacher inquiry, community building, and documentation of projects. Creating responsive environments, play, intentional teaching and incidental learning opportunities are continuing themes in all of the content standards modules but a particular focus in this module. The role of assessment and accountability in all early childhood environments is woven throughout the module.

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Pre-K/K SIRI classes. If this site does not provide registration information call 1-800-678-6352.

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the dates / site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section.

In order to receive a grade, please fax your certificate of completion to: 440-366-4066

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration , site and time information for all Pre-K/K SIRI classes. If this site does not provide registration information call 1-800-678-6352.

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the date/site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section of the online registration form.

In order to receive a grade, please fax your certificate of completion to: 440-366-4066

Undergraduate credit is availailable upon request

Course Objectives: This course will incorporate principles of inclusive early childhoos practices and elements of effective, reflective, professional development. The following big ideas and threads will be reviewed throughout the course:

• Play as the vehicle for learning
• Connections to children's literature
• Connections with families
• Universal Design for Learning 
• Focused and reflective practice

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Pre-K/K SIRI classes. If this site does not provide registration information call 1-800-678-6352

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the dates/site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section of the online registration form.

In order to receive a grade, please fax your certificate of completion to: 440-366-4066

Course Objectives:

• Understand and develop foundational underpinnings of research-based literacy mentor/coaching
• Develop skills and strategies to support effective mentoring and coaching
• Work collaboratively with ECE team to support Teacher Leader skills and strategies for effective mentoring and coaching.
• Build positive adult to adult mentoring and coaching relationships
• Gain knowledge of organizational behavior and leadership within education.
• Utilize an online Share Point network to collaborate with colleagues involved in Teacher Leader throughout the state.

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Pre-K/K SIRI classes. If this site does not provide registration information call 1-800-678-6352

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the dates/site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section of the online registration form.

In order to receive a grade (S) please fax your certificate of completion to: 440-366-4066 or email it to sjones3@ashland.edu

Course Objectives:

• Understand and develop foundational underpinnings of research-based literacy mentor/coaching.
• Develop skills and strategies for effective mentoring and coaching
• Work collaboratively with ECE team to apply skills and strategies for effective mentoring and coaching
• Build positive adult to adult mentoring and coaching relationships
• Gain knowledge of organizational behavior and leadership within Education
• Apply effective mentoring and coaching according to the Ohio Department of Education Professional Development Standards.
• Document coaching strategies and progress, goal setting, protege growth and reflective practices in an outlined portfolio.
• Implement the fundamentals of Intentional teaching: Language and Literacy Development for All Young Children domains into coaching with the protege.
• Use of technology in coaching through the collection of classroom and coaching video clips (FLIP cameras) and the analysis of videos captured.
• Track coaching progress through an online tracking system - Teacher Leader Tracker.
• Utilize an online Share Point network to collaborate with colleagues involved in Teacher Leader throughout the state.

Before registering for Ashland University credit, you must  visit www.ecqnet.org for specific registration, site and time information for all Pre-K/K SIRI classes, or call 1-800-678-6352

If you choose to register for Ashland University credit, be sure to include the dates/site of your workshop in the "Additional Comments" section of the online registration form.

In order to receive a grade (S) please fax your certificate of completion to 440-366-4066 or email it to sjones3@ashland.edu