14th Annual Southwest Virginia Early Childhood Conference at UVa-Wise April 22
"Teaching Everyone's Child: Diversity" is the theme for the 14th Annual Southwest Virginia Early Childhood Conference at The University of Virginia's College at Wise on Saturday, April 22. Featured presenters include Dr. Aldoph Brown, III, a popular motivational speaker and founder of the Wellness Group, Inc., and Emmy award-winning performer Gaia Tossing.
Order of Program
8:30-9:00 a.m. Registration Greear Gymnasium Lobby
9:00-9:15 a.m. WELCOME
David Prior
Chancellor of UVa-Wise
9:15-10:15 a.m. Dr. Adolph Brown, III
10:00-10:30 a.m. Break
10:30-11:30 a.m. “Singing in Signing”
11:30 a.m. Bill Dotson: Virginia Society for Technology in Education
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Lunch and visit:
Displays
Vendors
Door Prizes
Silent Auction
Keynote Speaker
1:00-2:50 p.m. Block I Workshops Zehmer & Darden Halls
1:00-1:50 p.m. Block II Workshops Zehmer & Darden Halls
2:00 -2:50 p.m. Block III Workshops Zehmer & Darden Halls
3:00 p.m. Silent Auction Ends
Door Prizes End
Silent Auction items will be displayed in the Gym lobby from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. All items will be moved to Darden Hall Lobby at 1 p.m. All items have a minimum starting bid and will increase $1 per bid. Auction will end at 3 p.m.
Workshops
(workshops are concurrent)
BLOCK I – 1:00-2:50 p.m.
Presider: Heather Duffy
Presenters: Earlene Craiger
Wise, Virginia
Location: Darden 122
“China”
Teach Chinese culture to children by helping them create mental
pictures. Mrs. Craiger and her husband lived in China for several years.
She will show Chinese artifacts. She will also present a 5-year goal for
teaching the China SOLs more effectively.
Presiders: Daniel Davis, David Long
Location: Zehmer 109
“Make-It, Take-It”
Participants will make SOL enrichment and review
learning activities to take back to their classrooms.
Materials will be provided.
BLOCK II - 1:00-1:50 p.m.
Presider: Katie VanHook, Alisha Cox
Presenters: GAIA
Location: Darden 214
“Signing Basics for Teachers”
Gaia will show participants how to sign and
communicate more effectively with hearing
and non-hearing children.
Presider: Ashlie Baker
Presenters: Linda Helton
Tazewell, Tennessee
Location: Zehmer 137 (Limit 10)
“Make and Take Your Own Felt Board”
Participants will choose to make a felt board
with water, sky, and dinosaurs or meadow, sky,
and farm animals. The first ten people will not
pay a fee; however, after the 10th person enters
the room, the charge is $15.00 per felt board.
(UVA-Wise paid for 10 boards.)
Presider: Larra Lambert
Presenters: Kimberly S. Addison, M.A.
UVA-Wise Adjunct and Head Start Director
Location: Zehmer 214
"Your Classroom Environment: More Than Just Desks and Chairs”
This workshop will present teachers with a variety of
classroom environments. Teachers will explore how
to use the classroom environment to encourage learning,
prevent discipline problems, and include strategies that encourage
brain compatible research findings. This workshop will also include
ways to organize the classroom on a shoestring budget.
Presider: Amber Brooks
Presenter: Jackie C. Barker
ODU Graduate -- Wise County
Location: Darden 118
“Classroom Management”
The focus will be positive discipline. Presenter will also
discuss behavior modification projects and how to sneak
SOLs into your management plan. Participants can expect
to interact with others during the workhshop and take away
new and exciting management approaches to use in their classrooms.
Presider: Josh Mabe
Presenter: Bill Dotson
UVA-Wise adjunct faculty, Wise County School Board Office
Location: Darden 010
“Creating Digital Stories with Photo Story 3"
Attendees will see how easy it is to combine digital images,
voices, text, and music into an amazing movie that can be
shared in many ways. Free software and instructions will be given.
Presider: Gina Gullet
Presenter: Carol Nash and Brandi MartinUVA-Wise Graduate,
UVA-Wise Intern Teacher
Location: Zehmer 224
“Teaching Inquiry Based Science Activities”
Activities will be shared that teach scientific concepts and
SOLs for grades K-3. Fifteen minutes will be devoted to
each grade level and to demonstrating teacher and
child-friendly experiments.
Presider: McKenzie Williams
Presenter: Anne Newlun
Kindergarten Teacher, Norton Elementary School
Location: Darden 223
“Inclusion in the Classroom”
Presenter will demonstrate how to serve special needs students
with a full range of abilities and disabilities in the regular classroom.
BLOCK III- 2:00-2:50 p.m.
Presider: Tiffany Ward
Presenter: Jennifer Ward Adams and Marsha Adkins
Second grade teachers, Wise Primary School
Location: Zehmer 205
“Egypt”
Presenters will share activities used to teach second-grade
students about Egypt in accordance with Virginia’s Standards
of Learning.
Presider: Julie Fritz
Presenter: Kathryn Gillenwater
The Center for Teaching Excellence
Location: Darden 114
“Egg-Cited About Word Study”
This session will highlight the phonological components
of reading instruction (phonemic awareness and phonics).
Practical research-based strategies and techniques will illustrate
how to expand and enrich word study within a literature-rich environment.
Presider: Rachel Imburg
Presenter: Marilyn Bumgarner
Mountain Empire Community College
Location: Zehmer 225
“Gaining Children’s Cooperation: Ideas from
Redirecting Children’s Behavior®”
This session will give information and have discussion on
what discourages children from cooperating. The session
will also show how parents and teachers can use positive
techniques to have better relationships with children.
Presider: LeAnn Mullins
Presenters: Paula Phillips
Elizabethton, Tennessee
Location: Zehmer 228
“Native American Heritage”
This workshop will discuss diversity from the
great-granddaughter of Chief Quanah Parker, the
last free war chief of the Comanche. She was born to a
Comanche mother and a white father. Participants
will also get a glimpse of Comanche storytelling, dance,
music, and crafts.
Presider: McKenzie Williams
Presenter: Kristen Bowen and Dana Middleton
SVEA Officers and UVA-Wise Intern, UVA-Wise Graduate/Teacher
Location: Darden 132
“Greece: Past and Present”
Kristen Bowen, Dana Middleton, and Mark Middleton went
to Greece in the Fall Semester 2005 with a UVA-Wise group.
They will share a PowerPoint Presentation on Greece that
covers the SOLs for third grade. They also have many items
from Greece for display.
Presider: Melanie Ball
Presenter: Lindsey Ray and Amanda Green
UVA-Wise Interns
Location: Zehmer 223
“Color My World”
Through hands-on activities your children will
discover colors in their everyday world. Integration
in the content areas will be demonstrated through
inquiry techniques.
Presider: Lisa Polly
Presenter: Phillip Timp
Location: Darden 123
“In All Her Silence”
An inspiring story of Beth Timp’s journey through life as told by her father. Beth is now 23 years old and will be present at the workshop to answer questions about her life as a deaf child going through the public school systems.
Presider: Meagan Grizzle
Presenter: Nancy Fernander
Kodak, Tennessee
Location: Zehmer 118
“Mother Goose and Other Rhymes and Songs”
Participants will make a “Mother Goose” portfolio and Make- It Take-It rhymes!
Presider: Larra Lambert
Presenter: Haydee Robinson
Director of Instruction, Wise County Public Schools
Location: Darden 118
Diversity comes in many forms. Presenter will discuss ways to teach all children in the classroom.
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