Pre-Institute for 2008

Online Registration ends July 23, 2008. Register now!

The Pre-Institute features a full day of training sessions with presenters and topics nationally recognized as being important to infant and toddler professionals. When you register for the Pre-Institute, you will be asked to choose one of the following topics.

Nationally Recognized Speakers
Download a list of the trainings and information about out nationally prominent speakers by clicking here.

Pre-Institute Presenters and Topics:*

(This session is sold out.) Sandra Adams, Ph.D. --
Bayley Scales of Infant & Toddler Development - Third Edition: Administration & Interpretation
This session will provide an overview of the new and revised Bayley Scales of Infant Development. The Bayley has been expanded to include additional areas of measurement and is an optional evaluation tool used to determine child eligibility in First Steps.

(NOTE: Bring your own tools or purchase them at the Pre-Institute. Participation is limited to 50 people for this session, and you must pre-register to take this training.)

Donna Britt, Ed.D. --
Digging Deeper: Looking Beyond Challenging Behaviors to Discover Meaning
All behavior has meaning. Successfully reducing or removing challenging behaviors requires digging for the meaning and the cause. Explore four causes of challening behaviors — the child, the caregiver, the environment, and the parent.

Susan M. Connor, M.ED. --
Developing Meaningful Intervention Plans for Families and Providers
This workshop will provide participants an opportunity to examine the process of gathering family information, identifying priorities and outcomes, and developing strategies that are supportive of outcomes throughout the context of the child’s daily life.

(This session is sold out.) Chris Kelley --
Beyond Fundamentals: “Totally Terrific Training: Using Interactive Lectures & Effective Demonstrations for Remarkable Results”
Teaching content is a necessary part of training, so how do we make lectures as memorable as the games trainers play? This session provides a “toolbox” of trainer strategies to invigorate our lectures for maximum understanding and retention of training content.

Nicki Patton Rowe and Nancy Newberry --
CANCELLED: Art to Heart Train the Trainers
This session has been cancelled for the Pre-Institute. In this train-the-trainer module, you’ll take the first steps to learning about KET’s innovative Art to Heart series. The series has eight fully developed training modules, and trainers with credential levels 3, 4 and 5 are eligible to be instructors.

The Make-It/Take-It Reception beings at 4:45 p.m.

*Subject to change

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Pre-Institute Schedule:

August 11, 2008
Registration: 7 a.m. -- 7:30 p.m.
Pre-Institute: 8:00 a.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
Make-It/Take-It Reception: 4:45 p.m. -- 6 p.m.
Exhibit Preview: 4:45 p.m. -- 6 p.m.

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