2018 Idaho AEYC
Professional Development Institute

- Call for Presentation Proposals -

We are seeking highly-qualified presenters who are interested in providing professional development that inspires excellence in the early care and education of young children!

The 2018 Idaho AEYC Professional Development Institute will be held June 1 and 2, 2018, at the Boise Centre. It will be an engaging, educational conference for child care professionals, teachers, providers and advocates for Idaho’s young children. This year, the focus will be on emergent curriculum and the use of projects in the early childhood environment. We are seeking presenters who can help guide professionals to a better understanding of what emergent curriculum means across all ages (birth through age 8).

Topics we are interested in having explored include:

• What is an emergent curriculum/project approach?
• How to set up the physical environment for emergent curriculum/projects.
• How emergent curriculum/projects can be used alongside of Idaho’s Early Learning Standards.
• Assessment and emergent curriculum.
• Using loose parts as the backbone of the materials in your classroom/center.
• Emergent curriculum with infants and/or children with special needs.
• Literacy, math and/or STEAM and emergent curriculum.
• Classroom management.
• Planning for an emergent curriculum.
• Using an emergent curriculum outdoors.

We invite you to submit a 75-minute workshop proposal for sessions in the afternoon on June 1 and any session on June 2. We also invite you to submit a two-hour workshop proposal for sessions the morning of June 1. Please use the link below to submit your proposal. Deadline for submission is January 20, 2018.

As a token of our appreciation, presenters will receive complimentary registration the day you present. Co-presenters will receive a 50% discounted registration fee for that day.

 Questions? Contact Laurie Demko at ldemko@idahoaeyc.org or call 208-338-4737.

  * Your presentation is not a promotion or endorsement of a commercial product or for-profit program