Title: Powerful Practices, Part Two: Application of Focused Life Skills Teaching to Promote Lifelong Early-Relational Health
Date: May 2nd, 2025
Time: 9am- 11am CST/ 10- 12pm EST
Description:
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 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.