Tap into a Treasury of 200+ PreK-K Activities and Ideas to Build Lifelong Readers with Dr. Jean!

PETERBOROUGH, N.H., March 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Children are naturally curious and enthusiastic about learning if you can captivate their attention. One of the challenges under the new standards is to infuse their learning while keeping them entertained with activities they enjoy, such as singing, rhyming, moving, and hands-on projects.

Known by most simply as "Dr. Jean," Dr. Jean Feldman has been inspiring educators across the country with workshops that are fun, creative, entertaining, and full of practical, easy-to-use tomorrow strategies. This spring, Staff Development for Educators' (SDE) presents Dr. Jean's top-rated seminar: Dr. Jean's Rock, Rhyme, Write & Read! Everything You Need from A to Z! for PreK-K educators. Dr. Jean will train educators to clap their hands, stomp their feet, and catch the reading beat with hands-on and research-based strategies designed to make learning naturally fun. 

In this seminar, Dr. Jean balances solutions for developing the cognitive skills necessary for your students with engaging activities that teach 21^st Century skills and support executive function development. The classroom-tested and use-right-away strategies tie into the Common Core State Standards using songs, games, and activities that children enjoy while applying brain research to create active, challenging learning experiences.

An experienced classroom teacher and educational consultant, Dr. Jean's depth of experience and high-energy presentations help to make teaching and learning fun. Always a teacher favorite, Dr. Jean is also a best-selling author, having written many popular teacher resources, including Wonderful Rooms Where Children Can Bloom.

"You'll discover how to keep your young students' attention and interest all through the day, and give every child the opportunity to learn to read and write and feel successful," explains Feldman. "This seminar is chock-full of the keys to beginning reading—songs, games, chants, finger plays, stories, and partner activities for building oral language, phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, and print awareness."

Teachers will explore specific and engaging strategies for reinforcing 21^st Century skills through literacy centers, partner projects, and innovative activities. Dr. Jean will help build on oral language and vocabulary skills through lively finger plays, stories, and daily routines, and provide ideas to strengthen young learners' alphabet knowledge with playful songs, dances, and hands-on activities. She will also focus on phonological awareness and techniques for engaging all students through fun chants, name games, and rhymes.

In addition, Dr. Jean focuses on innovative and creative ways to enhance and reinforce essential print concepts with difficult themes and subjects throughout the curriculum, and provides ideas for bookmaking, poems, and hands-on activities. Particular emphasis is also placed on the importance of creating effective classroom literacy centers to foster independence and provide students with fun-filled practice time for newly acquired skills.

The seminar is designed for new and veteran teachers alike.

"I promise that teachers will return to their classrooms with a renewed sense of joy and purpose and wonderful 'use-tomorrow' strategies for nurturing and encouraging a lifetime love of learning," says Feldman.

Staff Development for Educators is America's leading provider of professional development for PreK through Grade 12 educators. SDE believes that educators have the most important job in the world. That's Through Onsite PD, PD Events, Web-based PD, and PD Resources, the company empowers teachers and administrators across the country with ongoing professional development that is not only research-based, innovative, and rigorous, but also practical, motivating, and fun. All SDE training is presented by the nation's top authors and educational experts, with the goal of creating extraordinary classrooms that prepare students for the evolving demands of the 21^st century.

All SDE events include a free resource book of handouts, lesson ideas, reproducibles, and more, and a free 60-day membership at TeachingMadeEasier.com. With the paid registration of a staff member, SDE extends free tuition to a principal from the same building, and also offers group discounts for groups of 10+ and 20+.

Dr. Jean's Rock, Rhyme, Write & Read will be offered in New Orleans, LA on March 25, Jackson, MS on March 26, Knoxville, TN on April 1, Lexington, KY on April 2, Des Moines, IA on April 8, Elk Grove Village, IL on April 9, Livonia, MI on May 6, and Indianapolis, IN on May 7.

Educators interested registering for this seminar, or learning about more about SDE's national conferences, upcoming SDE events, or other professional development opportunities, can visit www.SDE.com, call 1-800-462-1478, or email [email protected]. 

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