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Children Are Born to Learn: Motivation and Engagement from a Developmental Science Perspective

12 years ago
Student Engagement

Addressing Chronic Absenteeism: What Works?

2 years ago
Student Engagement

School Is Almost Out, Now What? Fostering Family Relationships Over the Summer

4 years ago
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It’s Not Either/Or: How to Balance Relationship Building with Behavior Management

4 years ago
Student Engagement

Motivating Students to Achieve Their Highest Potential

16 years ago

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How children learn is the single most important subject for teachers to understand. And to understand learning in all its complexity, we need to examine its development.

About the presenter

Wendy L. Ostroff, PhD, is a developmental and cognitive psychologist and a professor at the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University, a seminar-based program that prepares prospective teachers and emphasizes critical reading, writing, and thinking.

Dr. Ostroff has been designing and teaching interdisciplinary courses on child development, learning, and education for the past 15 years, and she offers workshops on applying child development research for scientists and practitioners. 

She is passionate about innovative and emergent pedagogies and state of the art teacher education.

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Topics covered

Social-Emotional Learning
Student Engagement

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