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Workshops

This page describes some workshops I have developed. I am open to working with your group to create a workshop designed to meet your exact needs. 

I have a whole set of Head Start workshops, keyed to the CDA competencies, and I have often been a Head Start trainer. Please ask.

Sometimes you need a paragraph about me. Here is one. I'll be glad to write you one that is longer or shorter or meets other needs; please have me do that, since sometimes what others write about me is surprising (and sometimes even inaccurate!). Thanks.

Lessons from Reggio Emilia, Italy's Preschools:
Newsweek calls them: "The best schools for young children in the world."

Documentation:
Making our Work and the Children's Visible

Children & Teachers Making Stories & Fantasies:
Gianni Rodari's Reggio Emilia Lectures and What They Mean to Us

Children Bring Their Own Agendas:
Emergent Curriculum in Our Classroom

Literacy Workshops

Key Words:
Sylvia Ashton Warner's Delicious Way of Teaching Beginning Reading

Storyplaying:
Vivian Gussin Paley's Prize Winning Language Development Technique

Children's Literature:
The Enchanted Child in the Real World

Mental Health/Discipline Workshops

Saying Goodbye and Other Scary Times:  
A workshop on death, divorce, separation, and the first day of school/childcare

Helping Children Mind:
A Discipline Workshop

Working with Children:
Implementing Responsive, Reflective Practice in the Early Childhood Classroom

Children of Incarcerated Parents:
They're crime victims, too!

Creative Arts Workshops

Children and Creativity: What's So Important?

When Is It Science? When Is It Art?

Art:  A Special Part of Every Day

A Creative Arts Approach to Peace Education

Diversity Workshops

When Children Make Errors:  
A constructivist teacher's ways of intervening ...

White Teacher: For teachers who want to work better across cultures

White Teacher, Black Teacher

E-mail:  sydney@eceteacher.org, www.eceteacher.org • (C) Copyright Sydney Gurewitz Clemens, 2007