Seminars and Workshops

Seminars and workshops teach skills of all types — interpersonal, leadership, quality improvement, or computer technology skills. Others are industry specific, small business, health care, or telecommunications. WITC offers a wide variety of seminars and workshops for your continuing education. Here is a list of what’s coming soon:

21st Century Needs of Children - Superior High School Performing Arts Center

Monday, September 15, 2008, 7-9 p.m. Attendance is FREE. Presentation covers recent developments in Early Childhood, status of children on the national agenda, and what children need today. Presenter: Dr. Lilian Katz. Two hours of CEUs available for registration fee of $8.85. Register today! Call 715.394.6677.

Lilian Katz is an international leader in early childhood education and a professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education. She is a past president of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, and is editor of the first online peer-reviewed early childhood journal, Early Childhood Research & Practice. Professor Katz is author of more than 100 publications, including articles, chapters, and books about early childhood education, teacher education, child development, and parenting.
For 13 years she wrote a monthly column for parents of three- and four-year-olds for Parents Magazine. Dr. Katz was founding editor of the Early Childhood Research Quarterly and served as editor-in-chief for its first six years. She is currently chair of the editorial board of the International Journal of the Early Years published in the United Kingdom. Her most recent book, “Talks with Teachers of Young Children,” (1995), is a collection of her best known early essays and several recent ones. In 1989 she wrote Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach (with S. C. Chard). Dr. Katz has lectured in all 50 US states and in 43 countries. She has held visiting posts at universities in Australia, Canada, England, Germany, India, Israel, the West Indies (Barbados campus), and many parts of the United States. Dr. Katz is the recipient of many honors, including two Fulbright Awards (India & New Zealand) and an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Whittier College in California. In 1997 she served as Nehru Professor at the University of Baroda in India. Professor Katz was born and raised in England. Her PhD in Child Development is from Stanford University. She and her husband, Boris Katz, have three grown children, four grandsons and one granddaughter.

Conflict Resolution & Team-Building for the Workplace - Hayward

Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. A full day seminar with Diane Brander McCleary, a nationally known consultant, author, educator and life mentor. Learn to deal with techniques to react to, prevent and resolve conflict with co-workers. Discover the ingredients needed for good teams and leadership styles. Event will be held at Lumberjack Steakhouse, Hayward.

For course details and registration instructions: Conflict Resolution & Team-Building seminar
 

Save the date! 27th Annual Emergency Services Conference, March 11-15, 2009, Telemark Resort

Seminar details and registration will be available in December 2008.

 

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