|
Resources for
Infant Educarers
Presents the
14th ANNUAL INFANT / TODDLER CONFERENCE
for Parents and Professionals
“Authentic Infants – Competent Children – Peaceful Adults:
Creating a Caring, Connected Society”
Co-Sponsored by
Long Beach Association for the Education of Young Children
SATURDAY, MAY 3,
2003 • 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE
LIBERAL ARTS CAMPUS • 4901 East Carson Street, Long Beach, CA
Keynote Speaker:
ANNA TARDOS,
Director of the Pikler Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Come to learn the source of many key ideas about
infant programs being implemented in the international arena of early
childhood education today.
RIE, the non-profit organization founded by
Magda Gerber and dedicated to infants and
their caregivers, conducts the annual conference to provide training for
adults working with very young children. A variety of workshops presented by
RIE Associates and facilitators will give Conference participants the
opportunity to deepen knowledge and practice of the respectful RIE approach.
Presentations will offer introductory through advanced levels. One of the
fourteen workshops will be in Spanish.
The 2003 Conference will be celebrating the time-tested
worldwide influence of the RIE-Pikler model of developmentally appropriate
practices for infants and toddlers. We are excited and honored to have as
our keynote speaker Anna Tardos who
directs the Pikler Institute in Budapest, Hungary, named in honor of
Dr. Emmi Pikler (1902 - 1984) who was a family pediatrician from 1935 to 1945,
then founded the Pikler Institute and was its director from 1946 to 1979.
Early in her career, she discovered the value of the baby’s spontaneous
activity and free development of movement, realizing their importance in the
development of the child’s personality. When allowed to exercise freely,
babies find it possible to use their own resources fully, following
self-initiative. This permits each to develop in his/her own rhythm, with
harmony and without constraint. Emmi Pikler’s name stands for a basic change
in awareness in caring for infants and toddlers. The child is respected as a
human being and as a partner whose need for security is fulfilled through
loving and undivided attention during care. This gives the base for infants’
social-emotional development and self-knowledge that coincides with
consistent support for autonomous growth. Dr. Pikler applied her approach
first in families, and in 1946 adapted it to infants and toddlers in
residential group care, when she originated and introduced the primary
caregiving system with small ratios and continuity of care at Loczy, now
renamed the Pikler Institute. This approach to infants was introduced to the
United States by Magda Gerber, whose sensitivity to the needs of parents and
caregivers in her new country built respectful relationships that have
helped so many to see infants with new eyes and to adopt this approach as
their own. Come to learn the source of many key ideas about infant programs
being implemented today in the international arena of early childhood
education.
|
8:00 to 8:45 am |
Registration – on-site and pre-reg pick-up |
|
|
|
|
9:15 to 10:00 |
Keynote Address –
Freedom and Limits: Meeting the needs of
Infants and Toddlers - Anna Tardos |
|
10:15 to 11:00 |
Questions and Responses with Anna Tardos |
|
|
|
|
12:45 to 1:45 |
LUNCH |
|
2:00 to 3:30 |
Workshop B Session |
|
3:45 to 4:15 |
RIE Annual Membership Meeting |
Workshop titles
include the following:
“Developing
Your RIE Sensibilities: working with parents and infants”
“Creating a RIE
Center: training teachers, educating parents and observing children”
“The Importance
of Struggle”
“First
Exposures Create Lasting Experiences: building parent/caregiver alliances”
“Applying the
RIE/Pikler Methodologies in Non-Traditional Settings”
“Time to Eat /
Es Hora de Comer”
“RIE’s
Evolution”
“Parent – ‘n –
Me: providing community service partnership”
Hotel accommodations with group rate are available at
the nearby Long Beach Airport Marriott, 562-425-5210. For double room the
cost per person is $55.44 a night. Please
request conference rates by using “RIE Conference.” Rooms with these rates
will be held until April 18, 2003, so
make your reservations early.
Directions to
hotel:
Take 405 Freeway to Long Beach - exit “Lakewood Boulevard” - go north
(right) on Lakewood - then right turn on Spring Street. Turn into hotel
driveway at 4700 Airport Plaza Drive
Directions to Long
Beach City College: Take 405 Freeway to Long Beach - exit “Lakewood
Boulevard” - go north (right) on Lakewood – Right turn on Carson – Left
turn on Clark.
Show Map
Registration
Registration is limited, so please register
early to avoid disappointment
|
RIE: