Friday, September 26, 2003
Conference focusing on early education
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The 13th annual Early Childhood Education Conference, for those working with children through age 8, will be held from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, October 4, in the Education Center on the University of Southern Indiana campus. Dr. J. Ron Lally, director of child and family programs at WestEd, an educational research and development laboratory in San Francisco, will be the keynote speaker. “Competence and Vulnerability: With Infants Both Traits Must be Addressed in Care” will be the topic of his presentation. For the past 15 years, Lally has directed the work of the Program for Infant/Toddler Caregivers, a video-based training program that includes the most widely distributed infant/toddler caregiver training materials in the United States. He is a founder and serves on the board of Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families, and taught for many years as a professor at Syracuse University, where he was chair of the Department of Child and Family Studies. Lally holds a doctorate in educational psychology from University of Florida and a post-doctoral certificate of infant testing from the Child Development Research Center in London. The conference is sponsored by the USI Department of Teacher Education; Evansville Regional Association, a chapter of the Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children; Indiana Child Care Fund Board; and Community Action Program of Evansville. On-site registration on the second floor of the USI Education Center the day of the event is $30. For more information, call 812/465-7044. |
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