Curry School Events
CURRY CALENDAR
Upcoming Curry Events
Monday, November 2 @ 11:30am: Education Policy Seminar in Ruffner 200. Jim Wycoff will be presenting "Recruiting Effective Math Teachers, How Do Math Immersion Teachers Compare?: Evidence from New York City."
Tuesday, November 3 @ 11:30am: SEEDS4Change Curry Conversation in Ruffner 200. Lunch is provided.
Wednesday, November 4 @ 12noon: Faculty & Doctoral Brown Bag Lunch Series discussing curriculum in Ruffner 200.
Thursday, November 5 @ 12noon: Tea & Technology in the CLIC. This Tea and Technology will focus on Collaborative Tools specifically used in blended learning. During this session, John Bunch and Kari Wold with Yitna Firdyiwek and Will Davis will overview their plan for a CLIC Blended Learning Focus Group to be held in this Spring. Discussion and questions for all professors and students at UVa are very much encouraged during this informal session, so please come ready to explore this intriguing topic. This session is replacing the one by Sara Kajder that was previously scheduled for this date.
Friday, November 6 @ 11am: Curry Education Research Lectureship Series welcomes Doug Clements to the CLIC. Title: The Building Blocks of Early Mathematics. Abstract: What are the building blocks of mathematics? Dr. Clements will present lessons from research gleaned from three recent publications that he helped write: 1) the report of President Bush's National Mathematics Advisory Panel, 2) NCTM's new Curriculum Focal Points for early childhood, and 3) a recent report on early childhood mathematics from the National Research Council. One effective instructional approach featured in all three reports is basing instruction on learning trajectories. This approach will be illustrated by a set of NSF (National Science Foundation)- and IES (U.S. Dept. of Education)-funded projects that produced and evaluated research-based mathematics curricula.
Tuesday, November 11 @ 12noon: Faculty & Doctoral Brown Bag Lunch on Diversity in Ruffner Hall 200
Tuesday, November 11 @ 7pm: SEEDS4Change Book Club at C'ville Coffee
Thursday, November 12 @ 12noon: Tea & Technology in the CLIC
Friday, November 13 @ 11am: Curry Education Research Lectureship Series welcomes Ann Kaiser to the CLIC. She will present "Good Talk, Bad Talk: The Relationship Between Language and Behavior in Preschool Children." Abstract: Young children with low language skills are more likely to exhibit problem behavior than children with typical language. Although the co-occurrence of language and behavior problems is frequently noted among both children at risk due to poverty and among children with specific language impairments, the mechanisms that connect language and behavior problems in development are not well understood. In this presentation, I will report preliminary findings from a meta analysis of the language behavior relationship in young children characterizing the strength of this relationship in different populations of preschoolers and child characteristics associated with comorbid language and behavior problems. I will also discuss findings from an ongoing longitudinal study of 440 children enrolled in Head Start. The particular role of behavior for children who evidence persistent language delays will be examined in terms of how the presence of behavior problems may moderate language and related reading development.