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Recycleteria
We need your help to keep our innovative Recycleteria fully stocked for all of your creative teaching ideas. Remember our Recycleteria motto: "Take a Bag, Give a Bag." Don't forget to donate your clean recyclables this fall!
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Book Drive
Congratulations to KDP and our community for donating 457 children's books to Cops 'N' Kids of the Lehigh Valley!
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An ELC Story
Our Early Learning Center enjoyed a delicious treat and STEM learning with a special preschool field trip from the Ice Cream Lab. Click the photo to observe their ice cream storytime followed by an ice cream experiment.
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Our Faculty Recommends
Faculty Schelly Engelman recommends this dynamic forty video clip series developed by Switzerland's Department of Education focusing on how children explore their world.
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Lab Title Highlight
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Build upon what our faculty are teaching in our courses by reading Loose Parts by Lisa Daly and Miriam Beloglovsky, featured in our Reggio section in our Resource Lab.
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Food Drive
Join Professor Joe Davis' classes, TESA and KDP's mission to stop hunger by donating food to our food drive. Drop your canned goods in our box located in our Community Room on Main Campus. This drive benefits Carbon County churches..
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The TEACH Connection
Welcome to our second issue of the LCCC Teacher Education newsletter, a reflection of our model! Make sure to check your LCCC emails monthly to discover resources, professional development training, events and ideas that will inspire your teacher education learning journey, and each day for important messages from your faculty. Please contact Carly Simon at [email protected] to submit articles and photos for potential inclusion in our newsletter. |
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Resource Lab Hours
Closed over Winter Break
December 13th - January 4th
Reopens January 5th
Mondays & Fridays 8am-2:30pm
Know your spring semester 2015 schedule? Email [email protected] to volunteer in our Teacher Education Resource Lab and earn volunteer hours for your credential portfolio. |
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Teacher as Lifelong Learner
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ECE celebrity, the Ooey Gooey Lady, Lisa Murphy, was the star of this year's Super Saturday Seminar on Saturday, November 1st. Over 100 teachers took part in a dynamic day of discovering how to use multiple intelligences in their classroom and exploring her sensory play recipes. Click here to see her in action.
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Community of Partners
|  Fall 2014 Intern Capstone Showcases
You're invited to be a part of the Fall 2014 Intern Capstone Showcases on Thursday, December 11th at 6:30pm and Friday, December 12th at 12:30pm. Come be inspired and see how using the Environment as the Third Teacher can transform children's learning.
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Making Teaching & Learning Transparent
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Is it science, engineering or Constructivism? Professor Laura Segatti's EDU 101 class worked on solving the problem of creating a boat that floats using recycled materials. Just in case you are not sure, hands-on, activity-based teaching and learning is an example of constructivism.
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Making Teaching & Learning Transparent
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Faculty Schelly Engelman's day and night ECE 12o classes documented what practices were DAP and not DAP through an upcycled bicycle wheel. Click here for more Reggio inspired, upcycled bicycle wheel pins from Pinterest.
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Teacher as Lifelong Learner
|  KDP Initiation Ceremony Congratulations to our new KDP members and officers! KDP, a national honor society for education majors, held its annual installation ceremony of new members on Thursday November 6th. Our local chapter is the only community college teacher education chapter in Pennsylvania.
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Teacher as Lifelong Learner
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Community of Partners
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Teacher as Lifelong Learner
| Revised Sand Position Statement
In October 2014, the PA Position Statement regarding sand was changed after discussion with input from the Bureau of Certification. Based upon additional review, research, and input from stakeholders, the use of sand for children under 3 years old, either as a play medium or impact absorbing surface, is not prohibited. The PA Position Statement prohibiting the use of sand has been removed.
Although the use of sand is permitted, there are factors that should be considered when using sand with young children, including supervision and abilities of the children. Certification will not cite sand when used as a protective surface for ground cover as well as a play medium. AAP/APHA guidelines for child care programs (Caring for our Children) recommend that when sand is used as a ground cover, it shall not be used simultaneously as a play medium for infants and toddlers.
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