A Comprehensive Early Childhood Education Lesson Plan Format: Integrating Theory into High Impact Practice through Student Assessment | Download Documents

The presentation will show the documented progression of competence in lesson planning from the first semester through the capstone experience. By intentional design, the lesson plan requires students to demonstrate knowledge in multiple intelligences, developmental domains, objectives, standards, curriculum webs, literacy links, environmental design, and student self-reflection while planning age-appropriate lessons.

Transforming Lives: Developing a Professional Identity | Download Documents

Through a series of interactive activities, faculty members and students from Bronx Community College's early childhood/teacher education program will engage the audience in a discussion of strategies and initiatives that focus on the development of a professional identity for prospective teachers as they transition from the academic to the professional environment.

I can use an iPad with Early Childhood Students | Download Documents

Educators are charged with using new mobile devices responsibly and effectively. In this session, educators will be exposed to techniques for using iPads with children ranging in age from two- through eight-years. Early childhood educators will learn how to set-up an iPad to be a safe and educational tool for children and enhance current skills on how to use an iPad in the classroom.

Center for Career Changers to the Classroom | Download Documents

The Center for Career Changers to the Classroom is a non-profit organization working with Maryland community colleges to provide the experiences and information needed to recruit and assist career changers. This partnership is specifically created to recruit individuals from math and science corporations.

Bridgeport and the Bafokeng: a Cultural and Educational Partnership | Download Documents

Learn how community groups, a Housatonic Community College, and a group of South African early childhood educators created a partnership that raised cultural awareness and improved the practices of early childhood educators in both Connecticut and South Africa. Participants will hear from educators and students from South Africa and Connecticut. Attendees will take a peek inside an online class that combines South African and Connecticut students and gain insight into the partnership that funded the project.

The Format of Field-Based Experiences: How to Assist Students in Making Early Career Decisions | Download Documents

Helping students to decide as early as possible whether teaching is the career for them is important to everyone. At the Community College of Baltimore County, students are placed in classrooms for their practicum to simulate the student teaching experience as closely as possible. Qualitative data collected has suggested this to be more successful than field-based experiences offered at other institutions.

The Benefits of Supplemental Instruction for Community College Teacher Education Programs | Download Documents

This presentation summarizes an ongoing, community college Supplemental Instruction Program (SI). This presentation will include highlighting experiences from current SI leaders (and future teachers) and promoting partnerships between SI and community college teacher education programs. Student presenters will engage audience members in a simulated SI session to showcase program benefits in preparing science and mathematics teachers.

Follow My Lead: Encouraging College Completion | Download Documents

In collaboration with Mesa Community College's Project Healthy Outcomes through Prevention and Education (HOPE), pre-service teachers created a public service announcement (PSA) to help students understand how unplanned pregnancy can affect their educational goals and what they can do to prevent it. The PSA is designed to raise awareness among peers and in the community.

The Silver Tsunami: Leadership in a Dangerous Time

Community colleges are facing their destiny: significant changes in leadership are upon us. Participants will reflect upon and engage rules for 21st century leadership within small groups. This presentation will consist of several activities to illustrate and generate conversation about the leadership crisis we are experiencing in education today.

Quick, Easy, and Cheap Distance Education Instructional Design

Participants in this session will learn how to approach designing distance education courses in a quick, easy, and cheap manner. Educators interested in improving distance education courses that encourage active learning and the use of contextualized knowledge are encouraged to attend.

Statewide Early Childhood Program-to-Program Articulation: Policy Meets Partnership in Pennsylvania | Download Documents

Pennsylvania statewide program articulation system allows students with an associate's degree in Early Childhood Education to enter the workforce and transfer into a bachelor's degree program leading to PreK-4 Teacher Certification. Learn how a grassroots effort by educators led to a statewide initiative supported by legislative policy and education/government partnerships.

Promoting Appreciation of Diverse Learners | Download Documents

Using multicultural adolescent literature as a vehicle, the presenters will demonstrate how an appreciation of diverse learners and the richness of their experiences can be successfully utilized in the classroom. Young adult literature with multicultural themes will be shared. Examples of active reading strategies, oral history and research projects, and service learning experiences will be shared.

Two plus Two Equals Effective Teachers | Download Documents

Towson University, through the Universities at Shady Grove campus, partners with Montgomery College to bring teacher certification programs in early childhood education and elementary/special education to students in this diverse, suburban Washington, D.C., area. Hear about the benefits and challenges of this grow your own teaching pathway and consider the possibilities for your own programs.

Preparing Future Teachers through Cross-Institutional Collaborations | Download Documents

The Teaching Foundations Project endeavors to reform undergraduate teacher preparation through a collaboration between Arizona State University, community colleges, and public school districts. This session will provide insights gained and lessons learned along the complex journey across the terrain of curriculum articulation, teacher preparation reform, and state licensure requirements.

Meeting the Professional Teaching Standards Innovatively in Freshman Foundations | Download Documents

This session will examine how the Freshman Foundations of Education courses at Raritan Valley Community College engage students in meeting the Professional Teaching Standards through mentorship and collaboration in a model program of professionalism within the classroom as a "team of teachers" and out in the "field" with the cooperating teachers for the assigned 15 hours.

Increasing Access to Affordable Teacher Education Programs

The Teachers College at Western Governors University (WGU) was funded by the U.S. Department of Education to provide affordable and accessible teacher licensure programs to working adults and others who need online access. This presentation will provide an overview of licensure programs, costs, admission policies, and related issues for NACCTEP education graduates who may need an online degree program. Scholarships are available for NACCTEP member graduates who enroll in the WGU Teachers College.

W00t (Wow, Loot!)

Explore the possibilities of a game-based learning management system for problem-based learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Participants will see how students complete quests to earn their loot (badges, achievements, awards, and gamer score) while working through problem-based activities and course standards.

Learning from our Students: a Case Study of Community College Education Majors

This session will describe a case study used to analyze the experiences of students who completed an Associate of Arts in Teaching degree. Learn about the overall themes that emerged from interviews with graduates and join in a discussion of how this information can help attendees enhance their own programs.

Holler if You Can Hear Us: Using the Perkins Act to Expand our Influence

Interested in expanding influence and credibility with your transfer institutions? Learn how community colleges in Minnesota's Twin Cities Metro Area used Carl D. Perkins grant requirements to bring their transfer institution representatives to the table to clarify, strengthen, align, and make consistent the teacher preparation standards delivered by community colleges.

Program Course Review: Time to Evaluate

Last year, Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) evaluated its education courses to align with new evidence based practices. Evaluating courses can be a daunting task. To facilitate the review process at LCCC, a Program Course Review tool was created. This tool looks at each course according to six key areas and allows for input from students, instructors, colleagues from other community colleges, and community stakeholders. This session invites participants to bring a syllabus and gain hands-on experience using this innovative tool.

How Does Video Restructure a Math Content Course for Prospective Elementary Teachers? | Download Documents

Short videos of children's mathematical thinking may motivate future elementary teachers to learn mathematics, but they also affect the mathematics taught in the course and student-instructor interactions. This session offers several concrete examples of instruction that uses video to engage students with important mathematics for their future teaching.

Kindergarten Field Placement Sites that Exemplify Best Practices | Download Documents

Participants will learn how teacher education faculty led the way to higher quality student teaching sites by collaborating with school districts to establish model classrooms. Procedures, collaborative efforts, training, and written materials will be illustrated and shared, followed with opportunities for individual questions.

Leading the Way in Preparing Elementary School Teachers through an Early Learning Foundation | Download Documents

This workshop outlines a pilot of a comprehensive model funded by the Packard Foundation which includes cohort-based learning partnerships between a community college, a university, community-based organizations, and Early Learning Centers to prepare future elementary teachers with a deeper knowledge of child development linked to a constructivist approach for effective instruction.

Who's in Charge? A Role-Playing Activity to Promote Student Understanding of Governance Issues in an Introduction to Education Course | Download Documents

Today's students want to be entertained. Capitalizing on their desire for amusement, Dr. Hauptli has created a governing board simulation to teach governance and finance issues related to public education that engages students and has become a highlight of the course. Come experience this interactive session. Handouts will be provided.

Academic Standards for Early Childhood Teaching Credential | Download Documents

The 2009 Arkansas Legislature passed ACT 187, creating a Birth through Pre-kindergarten Teaching Credential for teachers in non-public Arkansas Better Chance (ABC) programs, Early Head Start, and Head Start programs. Learn how the community colleges of Arkansas collaborated to develop a strong early childhood teacher credentialing program in our state.

Leading the Way: Cultural Conversations with a Brain-Boosting Twist | Download Documents

Retention of diverse student populations at the community college level will be examined through the lens of cultural conversations in this interactive 'brain-boosting' presentation. Participants will practice innovative ways to connect diverse cultures with active learning experiences through cultural conversations and various communication techniques. Methods of incorporating technology and partnerships which serve as open doors for cultural communication will be woven throughout the presentation.

Leading the Way in Anti-Bullying Legislation: Facilitating Proactive Solutions | Download Documents

The goal of this session is to explain and discuss New Jersey's newly enacted anti-bullying legislation, considered the toughest in the nation. The dangers of bullying are undeniable, and compounded by social networking. This session will explore New Jersey's innovative programs, with an interactive, solution-based discussion on what really works.

Virtually Enhancing Your Teacher Education Course

Virtual learning environments (VLE) can be used to supplement traditional face-to-face classroom activities. A VLE can be similar to a face-to-face classroom environment in that it allows direct communication with the course instructor and peers. Students are offered the opportunity to share their work with the class. Students can also be split up into groups in order to work with each other and discuss course context topics. Instructors have the ability to share documents and multimedia files directly with students.

Creating a 2+2 Partnership in Early Childhood Education | Download Documents

Bloomsburg University and Lehigh Carbon Community College have developed a seamless program transfer agreement that allows students to progress from a community college to an Early Childhood Education Bachelors of Science degree at a four-year institution. The agreement is competency based, bridging Danielson's Framework model between programs.

Leading the Way: Educating Globally-Engaged Thinkers and Community Leaders | Download Documents

Students today must develop skills and knowledge to navigate increasingly complex global realities like violent conflict. Educators will be introduced to teaching resources that engage students in considering issues related to global events while presenting a framework for active learning that promotes respect for human dignity and encourages multiple perspectives.

Curriculum Integration: Teaching Origami with Interactive Notebooks | Download Documents

An active hands-on learning environment will demonstrate the curriculum integration of Origami while learning how to design an interactive notebook. Come fold Origami, the ancient art of paper folding, learn interactive notebooks, and develop an organizational strategy to engage students in active learning to encourage them to become independent, critical thinkers.

The National Association for the Education of Young Children's Commission on Early Childhood Associate Degree Accreditation

The National Association for the Education of Young Children's Commission on Early Childhood Associate Degree Accreditation is now six years old and the first accredited programs will submit reports for accreditation renewal in 2012. This session will focus on helping faculty and administrators understand the renewal process and learning from faculty and administrators how accreditation renewal can be a meaningful process for ongoing program development.

Education Transfer Pathways: Insuring Seamless Transitions for Community College Students

This session will provide information and resources about the transfer pathways that have been developed for education majors by the Maricopa Community Colleges in collaboration with Arizona's public universities. Through these transfer pathway projects, students receive benefits including guaranteed admissions, dedicated advising, and financial incentives as they transition from the community college to the university. Topics include developing the pathways, collaboration, and lessons learned.

Essential Questions Leading the Way to Integrated Learning

What possibilities emerge when essential questions are used to structure a cross disciplinary learning community? How might these questions ground all future teacher-learning? We will explore our successes and challenges within our specific context and engage all participants in crafting questions for their own learning communities and programs as a whole.

The Environment as the First Teacher Model for Higher Education Training

Participants will gain an inside look through digital photography at the evolution of this nationally accredited Teacher Education Center and Fowler Model. The center leads the way with cutting edge resources and an intentionally designed environment that serves as a first teacher model for students and their community. Great attention is paid to detail in this model that continues to evolve through time and research.

Bridging the Gap between High Schools and Four-Year Institutions

Bridging the gap between local high schools and four-year institutions can be very challenging but yet vital in order to ensure a smooth transition from high school to the two-year institution and then on to the four-year institution. Grayson Community College (GCC) articulates with high schools in order for high school courses that meet GCC objectives to be taught by qualified high school educators. Once a student completes an associate degree, they are able to smoothly transition into one of the four-year institutions that has an articulation agreement.

Show Me How: Improving the Field Experience in Foundations Courses

Many teacher preparation programs have a field experience requirement. Some programs have clearly defined outcomes; others are just getting started. Come see the tools and resources Maricopa County Community College District uses to prepare students for the field. Bring electronic files or hard copies to share what your college is doing.

Staying on Track

This workshop focuses on techniques to motivate students to finish their degrees and/or goals for college. Community colleges have traditionally had low retention rates in all programs including education. Individual academic and personal development plans, clear articulations agreements, mentoring, networking, a clear plan of study, extracurricular activities, learning communities, and advising groups are some methods used in community colleges to retain students in programs.

A Post-Baccalaureate ESOL Certification Program: Fostering Community Partnerships for Authentic Teaching and Learning | Download Documents

Conference participants will learn about the innovative post-baccalaureate teacher certification program for English Speakers of Other Languages K-12 (ESOL) and the exciting community and college partnerships associated with it. Question and answer time will be provided for participants to gain insights regarding best practices as well as lessons learned.

Leading the Way in Maryland: Lessons Learned from the First State to Develop the Associate of Arts in Teaching

Maryland was the first state to develop the Associate of Arts in Teaching (AAT) degree program. This session will address how the AAT in Maryland was created, the partners in development, AAT outcomes procedures and assessment, and why your state needs the AAT.

Getting Past Go: Students Readiness for eLearning | Download Documents

Life factors and academic skills are contributing to low completion rates for students enrolled in online and hybrid courses. By embedding an orientation folder into these courses, students are able to measure their strengths and weaknesses for eLearning utilizing learning strategies and life tools to promote academic achievement.

RISK: Raising Intelligent Self-Reliant Kids

The main tenets pushing teacher planning at all grade levels should be wonder and risk. Risk taking is a fundamental pre-requisite for learning. When risk is removed from the classroom, we remove discovery. We should want our students to experience their education. We should want our children to wonder and discover. "I wonder what will happen when I add sugar to potassium nitrate?" As more schools graduate worker bees, we need to change the educational system to encourage the inventor or entrepreneur.