All events relating to ECEC

Description:

Is there a Federal Government chill on women's equality?
- Are women's advocacy groups being muzzled by the Government of Canada?
- Is it time, finally, to put women's true concerns on the federal political agenda?

Join panellists from leading national women's organizations: Andrée Côté (NAWL), Monica Lysack (CCAAC), Nancy Peckford (FAFIA) and
Prof. Sheila McIntyre, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa.

Refreshments
Admission free
Register at: issues@cfuw-ottawa.org
For information call: 613-731-2739

Organized by The Canadian Federation of University Women - Ottawa

You're invited to the first pan-Canadian ECE Faculty Forum. Designed for anyone who works or has an interest in early childhood training and education, the forum provides an opportunity to share current trends and issues, best practices, and promising new initiatives.

This conference hosted by the World Association of Early Childhood Educators aims to:

- Establish Early, Initial or Preschool Education as the base and first link for all the educational systems. Only with early childhood education can we achieve a peaceful world.

- Highlight the stage of initial and preschool education as the best time to model a harmonious personality in children as well as to provide them with education in values as this is the time when they are shaped in children.

- Make available for teachers, pedagogical and methodological procedures to help them instill in children norms, values, concepts and behaviors that foster the attainment of peace and the rejection of violence as essential components of their personality. We propose a continuous work with the children to influence any future actions on their part, to pass on values that remain with them for life.

- To make the world aware, from Albacete , of the fact that only with quality, global education, full of values in the widest sense of the term, can we achieve a better world.

- To call on Supranational Institutions and Governments to provide the necessary resources and to work so that all the children in the world, without distinction of race, color, sex, language, religion, national or social origin, economic situation, birth or any other condition, have access to the quality education they deserve just for being children, and from the moment of their birth.

This education series, taking place at the Hundred Languages of Children exhibit, will be led by Carol Anne Wien, Associate Professor of Education.

Topics of exploration:

-Children as protagonists of their own learning
- The "hundred languages of learning"
- Pedagogical documentation
- Teaching as research
- Collaboration and emergent curriculum as central to learning
- Parents and community as integral to schooling
- The environment as a third teacher

Program dates:

All sessions will be held on Monday evenings (5:30-8:30pm).
Oct. 23, Nov. 6 & 27, Dec. 11, Jan. 15, Feb 5, Mar 5, Apr. 2, 23, or 30

Location:

Oct - Dec: TD Centre, 66 Wellington Street, 39th Floor
Jan - Feb: Columbus Centre (Lawrence & Dufferin), 101 Lawrence Ave W.,
Mar - Apr: York University, TEL Building, 4700 Keele Street

Deadline for Registration Nov 1, 2006

Description:

Three day conference features Amelia Gambetti, Reggio Children Coordinator and Liaison for Consultancy in Schools studying the Reggio Emilia approach and Lella Gandini, co-author of The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach-Advanced Reflections.

Program:

OPENING EVENING

Friday, October 20, 2006
Toronto-Dominion Centre
Toronto Dominion Tower
66 Wellington Street West, 39th Floor
Toronto, Ontario

7:00 – 8:00 pm Presentation
8:00 – 9:00 pm Visit of Exhibit

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Toronto Marriott Bloor Yorkville
90 Bloor Street East, Toronto

8:00 – 9:00 am Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 9:15 am Welcome and Introductions
9:15 – 10:30 am Presentation: Amelia Gambetti and Lella Gandini
10:30 – 10:45 am Break
10:45 – 11:45 am Facilitated Discussion Groups
11:45 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:15 pm Presentation: Amelia Gambetti and Lella Gandini
2:15 – 2:30 pm Break
2:30 – 3:30 pm Facilitated Discussion Groups

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Toronto-Dominion Centre
Toronto Dominion Tower
66 Wellington Street West, 39th Floor
Toronto, Ontario

9:00 – 10:00 am Breakfast
10:00 – 11:45 am Response to questions generated by discussion groups - Amelia Gambetti and Lella Gandini
11:45 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 pm View Exhibit
3:00 – 3:30 Closing

Description:

First conceived by Loris Malaguzzi and his closest associates, this exhibit is rooted in the thirty years of experience of the educational institutions operated by the Municipality of Reggio Emilia. The exhibit bears witness to the originality and the extraordinary nature of the years of research that have led the Reggio infant-toddler centres and preschools to become a primary point of reference for those who work in early childhood education worldwide.

This exhibit presents a narrative of what is possible when many hands and many minds-educators, parents and community- work together on ways to support children, with the conviction that Children's potential and rights are at the centre of sound education.

Presented in partnership with Seneca College, The Toronto District School Board, York University, and The Bishop Strachan School, the exhibit will offer educators the chance to learn first-hand about The Reggio approach and its impact on young learners. It will be open to the public as well.

The Hundred Languages of Children exhibit will be on display from September 18, 2006 to December 20, 2006 at the Toronto Dominion Centre 66 Wellington St., 39th floor, and again from January 12 to February 28, 2007 at the Columbus Centre, 901 Lawrence Ave. W.

Presented by the Toronto Children's Services and George Brown College, this two-day learning symposium features insightful speakers, thought provoking learning experiences, opportunities to dialogue with colleagues and practical hands on workshops.