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Leaping into Literacy, Moving through Math

MOVE-ABILITY: Nurturing Body, Brain and Spirit

Leaping into Literacy, Moving through Math

Presenter: Laurie Tarter, BFA 

Young children learn best through active involvement. During this interactive workshop, participants will recognize movement as means of helping children physically experience emergent math and literacy concepts. Practitioners will explore the basic elements of movement and be able to design active, fun experiences that reinforce basic skills and keep children moving and learning every day.
 
CBK Code: Knowledge Area 2, Competency Level 2; Topic Code 19
 
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MOVE-ABILITY: Nurturing Body, Brain and Spirit

Presenter: Laurie Tarter, BFA

This interactive workshop will demonstrate how incorporating developmentally appropriate loco-motor and axial (non-loco-motor) movement experiences can build upon individual abilities and learning styles and support children with special needs. Based upon The Brain Dance, developed by Anne Green Gilbert, participants will learn how to apply the eight movement patterns of early human development to jump-start the body and the brain. Participants will recognize how movement strategies accompanied by familiar nursery rhymes can be applied when working with children with special needs.

CBK Code: Knowledge Area 2, Competency Level 2; Topic Code 19
 
Terms:Early Childhood, For Educators, Professional Development
 
 

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  • November 10, 2011 
    On the Road & On the Air

    Taking the ‘stage’ at the historic Pump House, managed by the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area this past June, Tom Breiding recorded the PHC’s Humanities on the Road episode Steeltowns, Coalfield and the Unbroken Circle, which airs this weekend.


  • December 21, 2011 
    A Whirlwind of Collaboration

    Two densely-scheduled days this November marked the fruition of a collaborative project two years in the making, designed by Gateway to the Arts and the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University. The goal was to assist the graduate chamber music ensembles at CMU in developing dynamic outreach programs for public school students grades K-12. Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, project coordinators Lisa Hoitsma of Gateway and Dr. Natalie Ozeas of CMU enlisted the expertise of the Grammy-nominated African-American woodwind quintet, Imani Winds, known world-wide for their high-quality outreach programming that focuses on excellent musicianship, audience participation and repertoire.


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