someone is getting an opportunity - Portland Community College
someone is getting an opportunity - Portland Community College
someone is getting an opportunity - Portland Community College
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12<br />
OUR FUTURE TEACHERS ARE LEARNING AT PCC<br />
Teaching the Teachers<br />
�e Early Education <strong>an</strong>d Family Studies Department used donor contributions to their PCC Foundation<br />
Program Fund for Excellence to put on a winter symposium in partnership with the Oregon Association<br />
for the Education of Young Children. �e symposium, “Brain Science Meets Early Childhood<br />
Development – a Timely Convergence,” brought contemporary <strong>is</strong>sues in research <strong>an</strong>d practice to students<br />
enrolled in PCC’s program <strong>an</strong>d the larger early education community. Over two days, students had the<br />
<strong>opportunity</strong> to attend a lecture by child development expert Dr. Kathy Bobula <strong>an</strong>d take part in group<br />
workshops. “�e symposium gave educators <strong>an</strong> <strong>opportunity</strong> to hear about what’s happening in research<br />
<strong>an</strong>d to use those �ndings in applicable ways,” said PCC student Char Kepner. “�e knowledge of how<br />
I impact children’s lives will ch<strong>an</strong>ge my teaching forever.”<br />
Troy Tate, Early Education<br />
<strong>an</strong>d Family Studies student
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