Join a free webinar on Wednesday, June 5, 2013
There has been a growing interest by education funders to understand how early childhood education impacts a child later on in life. What do children need to know before they start formal schooling? And, how do these early year skills impact children’s quality of life or academic achievement and income?
Join the Global Partnership for Education’s June numeracy webinar to learn about a project that examines what standards are needed for early childhood education to create effective curriculum, instruction, assessment, and teacher training for early year learning – specifically in mathematics education.
Dr. Linda Platas, from the University of Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education, will discuss this project and the complexity of transforming early learning standards for effective early childhood education. Dr. Platas will describe the opportunities and challenges of this project and present the most useful indicators that measure the learning of mathematical concepts during early childhood.
Access the webinar through Adobe Connect at 10:00 am EDT / 2.00 pm GMT (other time zones): http://worldbankva.adobeconnect.com/numeracywebinar/
(Click on the “Enter as Guest” option, enter your full name in the text field and then click the “Enter Room” button.)
The webinar series is part of a Community of Practice on Numeracy facilitated by the Global Partnership for Education. The community of practice is open to teachers, educators, practitioners, researchers, academics and others interested in numeracy.
Join the community of practice on ‘Numeracy for Development’ here.
All webinars are at 10am EDT (2pm GMT) and typically fall on the first Wednesday of the month, unless otherwise noted. Here is the schedule for upcoming webinars:
- July 10th, 2013 – Steve Leinwand, American Institutes for Research – What we know about high quality instruction and need to see in all math classes
- August 7th, 2013 – Luis Crouch, Global Partnership for Education – Economic Development Arguments for Numeracy
- September 4th, 2013 – Aarnout Brombacher, Brombacher and Associates – Developing Number Sense, Experiences from Classrooms
- October 2nd, 2013 – Leanne Ketterlin Geller, Southern Methodist University – Review of the EGMA data from a psychometric perspective
- November 6th, 2013 – Kamal Herath, Plan Sri Lanka – Boosting Mathematics Skills Through Play-Based Learning in Sri-Lanka
- December 4th, 2013 – Meera Tendolkar, Pratham India – Pratham’s ‘learning camp’ model – a non-linear approach to explore how children best learn math in India
If you have specific expertise in numeracy and would like to present in a webinar, please contact me at dsrikantaiah@globalpartnership.org.