Title: Powerful Practices, Part-One: Foundations for Focused Life Skills Teaching to Promote Lifelong Social-Emotional Health, Part 1
Date: Feb 28th, 2025
Time: 9am - 11am CST/ 10am - 12pm EST
Description:
This training is part-one to a two-part series. This session focuses on foundational knowledge of six essential life skills that build social-emotional competence and boost powerful interactions between adults and young children. Part One of this learning sequence will make room for understanding the essential skills, how to identify a life skill area of need, and how a gap in life skill development may reveal itself in both family life and learning settings.
*This training is catalogued with Train TN as a Health & Safety ECE licensure training for developmental screening.
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Powerful Practices, Part Two: Application of Focused Life Skills Teaching to Promote Lifelong Social-Emotional Health:
This session builds on Part One by providing practical application of the six essential life skills. Participants will bring along the knowledge gained in Part One of Powerful Practices to engage fully in rich discussion and problem-solving activities, applying the six essential life skills to their interactions with young children and families. The resulting powerful practices will give participants skills to identify, connect, and teach life skills so that children and families may build a structure for social-emotional health across the lifespan.
*This training is two parts. The second part will be held May 2nd, 2025, 9am-11amCST/10am-12pm EST.
*This training is catalogued with Train TN as a Health & Safety ECE licensure training for developmental screening.
Presenter(s): Martha Howard, Ph.D., IECMH-E®
Dr. Martha Howard is Professor of Early Childhood Special Education at Tennessee Technological University. In addition to her teaching role, she serves as Faculty Liaison for the campus Child Development Lab and Executive Director of two grant funded programs, BRIDGES Early Intervention Resource and Milestones Evaluation Agencies.