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Registration Closed.
Last Date to Register: 4/3/2013 12:01 AM
Last Date to Cancel: 4/3/2013 12:01 AM
Agency: CESA 10
Agency Contact: Amy Carriere
Agency Assistant: Shari Owen 715-720-2060
Audience: Administrators, ECSE, 4?5K, Community Site Partners (Head Start, Childcare)
Location: CESA 10
725 West Park Avenue
Chippewa Falls, WI 54729
Facility: Conference Center (Rooms 1-2-3)
Date/Time:
4/5/2013 08:30 AM - 03:30 PM Registration: 8:15 am-8:30 am
5/10/2013 08:30 AM - 03:30 PM
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Wisconsin Model Early Learning Standards Training
Friday, April 5 and Friday, May 3, 2013
8:30 am - 3:30 pm

This training will provide participants with an opportunity to explore the WMELS so that they will be able to use them to build a foundation for high quality care and education for all children from birth to the beginning of first grade. Participants will learn how to apply the WMELS Performance Standards and connect them to Common Core Standards to determine what children should know and be able to do, plan learning experiences, provide supportive environments and collect data to ensure that all children are learning and making progress.

Presenters: Arlene Wright, WI Model Early Learning Standards Statewide Coordinator; Mary Joslin, WI Statewide Preschool Options Coordinator; Amy Carriere, CESA 10 Early Childhood Program Support

This training will include an overview of the contents and design of the WMELS as they connect to the Common Core standards and how to apply them within early learning classroom settings. Outcomes of the WMELS training include:

  • Understand the WMELS domains, sub-domains, developmental expectations/performance standards/program standards, developmental continuum.
  • Use the process of screening, observation, and assessment to identify current status of a focus child.
  • Use the teaching cycle (Planning and Curriculum goals; Implementation; Ongoing Assessment) to intentionally plan for children to meet developmental expectations.
  • Use an age anchoring ongoing assessment tool to organize information to determine goals and plan activities.
  • Practice planning for large group, small group and individualized instruction as well as embedding goals within daily routines and learning centers.
  • Reflect on current teaching practices using the teaching cycle.
  • Understand the importance of using the WMELS as a guide, along with Common Core for 5K, to determine local benchmarks/learning targets that will inform decision-making regarding curriculum and assessment.

Audience:    Administrators, ECSE, 4?5K, Community Site Partners (Head Start, Childcare)
Location:     CESA 10, 725 W Park Avenue, Chippewa Falls, WI
Cost:            Free of Charge for CESA 10 Title IIA Consortium Districts; $50 for all others. Book, lunch, and handouts provided through the IDEA EC Discretionary Grant and IIA funding.

Teacher Standards:  DPI Teacher License Standards met with this training: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10
 

The 2011 WMELS Training is based on the Interstate New Teacher Assessment & Support Consortium (INTASC) Standards. Follow this link to INTASC Standards: http://www.dpi.wi.gov/tepdl/pdf/10kdp.pdf

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: March 22, 2013 TO REGISTER: go to www.myquickreg.com

QUESTIONS? Call Shari Owen, 715-720-2060 or Amy Carriere 715-720-2054

Title IIA Member Districts

  • Abbotsford
  • Altoona
  • Augusta
  • Bloomer
  • Bruce
  • Cadott
  • Chippewa Falls
  • Colby
  • Cornell
  • Eau Claire
  • Fall Creek
  • Flambeau
  • Gilman
  • Gilmanton
  • Granton
  • Greenwood
  • Lake Holcombe
  • Loyal
  • Medford
  • Mondovi
  • Neillsville
  • New Auburn
  • Osseo-Fairchild
  • Owen-Withee
  • Spencer
  • Stanley-Boyd
  • Thorp
Teacher Standards
WES2The teacher understands how children with broad ranges of ability learn and provides instruction that supports their intellectual, social, and personal development.
WES3The teacher understands how pupils differ in their approaches to learning and the barriers that impede learning and can adapt instruction to meet the diverse needs of pupils, including those with disabilities and exceptionalities.
WES4The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies, including the use of technology to encourage children’s development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.
WES5The teacher uses an understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior to create a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation.
WES7The teacher organizes and plans systematic instruction based upon knowledge of subject matter, pupils, the community, and curriculum goals.
WES8The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the pupil.
WES9The teacher is a reflective practitioner who continually evaluates the effect of his or her choices and actions on pupils, parents, professionals in the learning community and others and who actively seeks out opportunities to grow professionally.
WES10The teacher fosters relationships with school colleagues, parents, and agencies in the larger community to support pupil learning and well being and who acts with integrity, fairness and in an ethical manner.