are designed for early childhood/primary grade teachers, Head Start programs, curriculum coordinators, special education teachers, and ESL teachers to help develop and support enriched... childhood and elementary curriculum. Participants experience the joy and intensity of learning as they work with a variety of blocks and expand and refine their own curriculum... environments in which children and adults are actively engaged in the learning process. The workshops focus on the rationale of using blocks as an ideal learning tool in the early...

Blocks in the Early Childhood Curriculum: An Overview Blocks Tell a Story: Enriching Literacy Through Block Play Exploring Forms and Patterns in Space: The Aesthetics of Block Play... Mathematical Thinking Representing Our World: Blocks in the Social Studies Curriculum Children as Scientists: Physical Knowledge and Block Play Blocks in the Early Childhood... Curriculum: An Overview This introductory workshop looks at the development of block play in young children from infancy through the early childhood years and the use of blocks...

of Education; Founder and President of Learning Materials Workshop; toy designer; former early childhood, art, and primary school teacher; continuing education faculty, University... of Vermont Jeanne Goldhaber BA, Ohio State University; Ed.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Professor of Early Childhood Education, University of Vermont; former early... childhood teacher and curriculum director Rebecca Santner BA, Vasser College; M.Ed. Bank Street College of Education; K-1 teacher, Poughkeepsie Day School Keisha P. Williamson...