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Willie Lou Williams, a
teacher of three- and four-year-old
children at Little Sunshine In-Home
Childcare Center in Clarksdale, Miss.,
made alphabet cards at a workshop on
using fairy tales to promote literacy
skills for young children. The Campus
Instructors Unit of the Mississippi
Delta Early Learning Corps held the
workshop April 26, 2008. |
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The Campus Instructors
Unit of the Mississippi Delta Early
Learning Corps – (Front Row, L-R):
Leigh-Anne Gant, Delta State University;
Tolernisa Butler, Coahoma Community
College; Ericka Davis, Mississippi
Valley State University.
(Back Row, L-R): Sonya Young,
Mississippi Valley State University;
Theresa Calhoun, Coahoma Community
College; Alice Camp, Northwest
Mississippi Community College. |
As part of
its training, the Campus Instructors
Unit conducted a half-day workshop for
early childhood teachers on April 26,
2008. Theresa Calhoun, an instructor of
child development technology at Coahoma
Community College in Clarksdale, Miss.,
demonstrated how to create a color wheel
to help young children recognize colors. |
Campus Instructors Unit, Mississippi
Delta Early Learning Corps, Finishes Training
MAY 6, 2008 │The Campus Instructors Unit of
the Mississippi Delta Early Learning Corps has completed its
preparation during the first phase of a two-year project to
promote higher early literacy skills for young children in the
Delta.
The
W.K. Kellogg Foundation awarded $300,000 to the
National Center for Rural
Early Childhood Learning Initiatives for recruitment and
training of the Mississippi Delta Early Learning Corps.
Cathy Grace, Ed.D.,
professor and director of the institute, is coordinating the
project.
The Corps will include the Campus
Instructors Unit, the Technical Assistants Unit, and the Child
Care Providers Unit.
Members of the Campus Instructors Unit teach child development
and related courses at colleges and universities in the Delta
counties of Mississippi. They participated in an intensive
one-semester training program in order to strengthen material in
their courses on ways to support literacy development in young
children.
The Technical Assistants Unit will provide
consultation and mentoring to child care facilities in the
region, focusing on classroom methods for promoting early
literacy. The assistants also will advise licensed programs on
how to succeed in the
Mississippi Child Care Quality Step
System. The institute will provide intensive training, on
teaching techniques to help children develop and practice early
literacy skills, for the technical assistants.
The Child Care Providers Unit will be
comprised of participating teachers, paraprofessionals, and
directors at centers that receive the technical assistance. The
participating centers will receive sets of learning materials.
At centers that achieve improvements in standardized assessments
of center quality, directors and teachers will receive one-time
financial awards.
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tel. 662-325-4836 / fax 662-325-5436
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Updated
05/06/2008
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