Resources for Early Childhood Teachers Check back regularly for updates! Articles Calendar Time for Young Children:  Good Intentions Gone Awry (Young Children, 2008) Circle Time Puppets: Teaching Social Skills (Teaching Young Children, 2011) Whatever Happened to Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Literacy?  (Young Children, 2005) Ooey Gooey Lady Discusses Storybook Reading and Circle Time Tips for Process vs. Product oriented art in preschool Links Dr. Phil on Prioritizing IEP Goals:  A parody on selecting meaningful skills for IEPs (Kansas Inservice Training System) Lesson plans for using children's books for social skills instruction (Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning) Teaching Tools for Young Children with Challenging Behavior (Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention)
Upcoming Events June 25-29, 2012 Content Teaching Academy @ JMU Inclusion for ALL: Practical Strategies for ECSE Teachers *All fees waived!* July 16-18, 2012 Creating Connections to Shining Stars:  Virginia's Collaborative Early Childhood Birth to Five Conference	Archived Newsletter Articles  Winter 2010:  Making Feelings Fun in Preschool Spring 2011:  For Future Reference:  Writing Standards Based IEPs in Preschool     Summer 2011:  Making Sense of a Curriculum Framework    Read Kristen's Back to School Packet 2011   Fall 2011:  Embedded Instruction   Winter 2011:  Using a Zone Defense in Preschool   Spring 2012: Tools to Encourage Play in Children with Autism
Online Learning Opportunities  Connect: The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge Online Modules Current modules: Embedded Interventions, Transition, Communication for Collaboration, Familiy-Professional Partnerships, Assistive Technology Interventions, Dialogic Reading Practices. CONNECT Modules are practice-focused instructional resources for faculty and other professional development providers. CONNECT modules are designed using a 5-Step Learning Cycle, an approach for making evidence-based decisions about practice dilemmas, based on the integration of multiple sources of evidence. Coming soon: Tiered Instruction   Virginia Early Intervention Professional Development Center Talks on Tuesdays Talks on Tuesdays are professional development opportunities that will be held the first Tuesday of each month. These one-hour webinars are designed to provide free online training opportunities related to important topics in early intervention. Topics chosen for the Talks on Tuesdays webinar series are based on feedback from EI practitioners about what they need to know more about!   Autism Center for Excellence @ VCU Free, 1 hour, archived webcasts on a variety of topics related to autism spectrum disorder.  Check out Dana Childress' Teaching Communication to Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Contact Information T-TAC ODU Early Childhood specialist: Kristen Ingram Weatherford (757) 451-3027	New books in the T-TAC Library! Click to download a list of new early childhood resources available for check out.