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Promoting Successful Home-to-School Transitions for Military Families with Young Children

Name: Promoting Successful Home-to-School Transitions for Military Families with Young Children
Start: 2019-11-06T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-11-06T12:00:00-05:00

Wed November 6, 2019: 11:00 am-12:00 pm EST

Free

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Elementary school students walking into school

About This Webinar

This webinar will focus on promoting positive transitions from home to school and from school to school (e.g., during a move) for young children and their families. The presenters will identify important transitions that occur during early childhood including moving from home to school or school to school and discuss what research indicates regarding how these transitions play a role in children’s socioemotional and cognitive development. The challenges that exist within these transitions will be identified.

Presenters will describe and promote participant discussion of a range of research-based strategies for military families and caregivers/teachers to promote effective home-to-school/school-to-school transitions, strategies that promote positive socioemotional or cognitive development prior to, during, and after a transition. These will include how to connect with schools/teachers from a distance, moving, creating routines within transitions. The presentation will include a question and answer session immediately following.

Learning objectives

Identify important transitions that exist for children birth to age 8
Describe how transitions can influence young children’s socioemotional and cognitive development
Identify and articulate the benefit of strategies for promoting positive home-to-school/school-to-school transitions for young children

Presenters

Mitzi Ziegner, M.Ed.
Associate Chairperson & Director, Great Plains IDEA degree program
Department of Human Development & Family Studies
Texas Tech University.

Gayle Luze, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Education
Department of Human Development & Family Studies
Iowa State University.