UW-STOUT'S 40TH ANNUAL ECE CONFERENCE

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Tami Rae Weiss, Executive Director, A.I.M., UW-Stout

"Beads and Breakdancing: Understanding Empathy Through the Arts"

In a multimedia presentation, Dr. Tami Rae Weiss shares various arts strategies from dancing to doodling through which teachers can cultivate empathy with even the youngest of learners. Specifically, Weiss emphasizes an untaught literacy in schools which is of most importance: aesthetic literacy, which she describes as the ability to read human emotion.

Keynote Dr. Tami Rae Weiss

Having fun listening to keynote Dr. Tami Rae Weiss this morning :)

Posted by UW-Stout's Early Childhood Education Conference on Saturday, April 21, 2018

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ALSO presenting at the ECE Conference will be Art Education student-teachers who recently represented A.I.M. and UW-Stout at the National Art Education conference in Seattle, WA :
Olivia Revolinski, Makaya Ruhe, Nicole Seidler, Anna Koehne, Marko Pechnik, Megan Sykora, Sierra Thomfohrda, and Hannah Saphner. 

FRIDAY, APR. 20, 2018
PRESENTATIONS:

DRIVE THE PLANNING FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY TEACHING
Makaya Ruhe, Art Education, UW-Stout
Sierra Thomfohrda, Art Education, UW-Stout

SYMBOLS AND MAKING MEANING - ASIAN ART AND CULTURE INTEREST GROUP
Olivia Revolinski, Art Education, UW-Stout
Megan Sykora, Art Education, UW-Stout

BEYOND BOOKS: CREATIVE SPACES, ARTWORK, AND TEACHER RESOURCES AT THE STOUT LIBRARY
Kate Kramschuster, Educational Materials Center Director, UW-Stout
Dr. Tami Rae Weiss, UW-Stout/A.I.M.

SATURDAY, APR. 21, 2018
PRESENTATIONS:

KEYNOTE: BEADS AND BREAKDANCING: UNDERSTANDING EMPATHY THROUGH THE ARTS
Tami Rae Weiss, PhD, UW-Stout/A.I.M.

LET’S MAKE MISTAKES TOGETHER! UNDERSTANDING EMPATHY AS A MATTER OF PERCEPTION
Dr. Tami Rae Weiss, UW-Stout/A.I.M.

ART AT THE CENTER: YOUNG CHILDREN EXPLORE AND EXPRESS UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD
Nicole Seidler, Art Education, UW-Stout
Anna Koehne, Art Education, UW-Stout

ENSURING THE MEANINGFUL INCLUSION OF STUDENT WITH DISABILITIES: ACCESS AND EQUITY IN THE ART ROOM
Hannah Saphner, Art Education, UW-Stout
Marko Pechnik, Art Education, UW-Stout