The CU-Boulder School of Education and Chautauqua have collaborated to create the first-ever Education Series at the Chautauqua Community House. The series, "Learning In & Out of School," offers one forum per month on an education topic of current interest to parents and educators. Don't miss this excellent series!
Tickets are on sale now at http://www.chautauqua.com/events/talks/.
Educators and CU students: Please contact kristen.davidson@colorado.edu for information on receiving an educator or student discount and earning clock hours toward teacher recertification.
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Engaging Children's Emotions in Learning
with Professor Elizabeth Dutro
Wednesday, November 19 - 7:00 PM
What does it mean to embrace children’s emotional lives as productive aspects of their academic and social experiences? Whether or not they are invited, stories from life experiences, including stories of trauma, do enter classrooms and other sites of learning. Children’s deeply felt experiences can either be harnessed as resources or discouraged as distractions–a choice that has important implications for students’ opportunities to thrive. Based on years of research with students and teachers, CU Professor Elizabeth Dutro will reveal that the stakes are high in how stories of emotional experiences are incorporated into the act of learning. Dutro will draw upon children’s voices and stories to explore questions about what it means to invite, recognize, and carry these experiences in any learning setting.
How Students' Interests Develop
with Professor Bill Penuel
Wednesday, December 10 - 7:00 PM
Interest and learning go hand in hand. When children and adolescents are deeply interested in a topic, they actively seek out ways to learn more about it. In turn, their growing knowledge helps deepen their interest. CU Professor Bill Penuel will describe what research reveals about how children’s interests develop in and out of school and the role that social supports play in helping young people find activities that captivate and sustain their attention over time. Penuel will discuss ways that parents, teachers and the community can support the cycle in which interest and understanding can grow together, with emphasis on the middle grades and adolescence—when interest in many school subjects tends to decline.
Literacy Squared®: Valuing Bilingualism
Lecto-Escritura al Cuadrado®: El Valor del Bilingüismo
with Professors Kathy Escamilla, Lucinda Soltero-González, and Sue Hopewell
Wednesday, January 21 - 7:00 PM
miércoles, el 21 de enero a las 7.00
Spanish translation available at this event./ La traducción al español disponible en este evento.
There are over 10 million children in the U.S. speaking languages other than English, 85% of whom speak Spanish as their other language. These children have enormous potential, but historically have not been well served by U.S. schools. In addition, school programs provided only in English often result in both Spanish language loss and a missed opportunity to foster bilingualism and intercultural understanding among all children. CU professors Kathy Escamilla, Lucinda Soltero-González, & Sue Hopewell will discuss Literacy Squared®—a program designed to accelerate the development of English as well as maintain and develop Spanish in emerging bilingual children—as well as suggest research-based strategies to make the most of the rich multicultural resources of children in the U.S. and encourage bilingual literacy.
Hay más de 10 millones de niños en los EE.UU. que hablan idiomas distintos del inglés, el 85% de los cuales hablan español. Estos niños tienen un enorme potencial, pero históricamente no han sido bien servido por las escuelas de los Estados Unidos. Además, los programas escolares previstos sólo en inglés a menudo resultan en tanto la pérdida del idioma español y una oportunidad perdida para fomentar el bilingüismo y el entendimiento intercultural entre todos los niños. Profesores Kathy Escamilla, Lucinda Soltero-González, y Sue Hopewell discutirá Lecto-Escritura al Cuadrado®-un programa diseñado para acelerar el desarrollo de inglés, así como mantener y desarrollar el español en los países emergentes como los niños-bilingües, así como sugerir estrategias basadas en la investigación para hacer la mayor parte de los ricos recursos multiculturales de niños en los EE.UU. y fomentar la lecto-escritura bilingüe.
How Students Learn Math and Science
with Professors Edd Taylor and Valerie Otero
Wednesday, February 18 - 7:00 PM
Math and science are often thought of as challenging subjects that can prevent children from being successful in school. However, many aspects of math and science resonate well with students’ hearts and minds. New teaching and learning practices have changed the look of math and science and these novel formats are often unfamiliar to parents, students, and educators. CU Professors Edd Taylor & Valerie Otero will reveal aspects of math and science learning environments that are inviting and empowering and demonstrate how math and science appeal to curiosity and problem-solving instincts.Taylor and Otero will also discuss the rationale for current changes in math and science classrooms (e.g. solving problems in non-traditional ways), as well as the changing roles for parents in this somewhat unfamiliar space.
Standardized Testing and Special Needs
with Professor Derek Briggs
Wednesday, March 18 - 7:00 PM
There is considerable controversy over the use of standardized tests to assess academic progress of children with special needs. The very act of standardization appears to conflict with the tailoring of a student’s learning goals through an individualized education plan (IEP). Some also argue that the process of preparing students to take a standardized test takes away valuable time that could be spent on more authentic learning activities. Professor Derek Briggs will discuss the pros and cons of standardized testing for children with special needs. He will also explore the features of the newly designed large-scale assessments that all Colorado students will be taking in the spring of 2015 and discuss how these features may address frequently raised concerns about standardized testing.
Related Faculty: Elizabeth Dutro, William Penuel, Kathy Escamilla, Lucinda Soltero-González, Susan Hopewell, Valerie Otero, Edd V. Taylor, Derek Briggs