Calling all ECCE Council members. You are cordially invited to this free workshop by an international authority on reading:
Maryann Manning is professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and adjunct professor at Chugoku College in Okayama, Japan. Ms Manning is an active member of the International Reading Association (IRA), having received the IRA 2005 Special Service Award. She has co-chaired two regional conferences and served on numerous IRA committees, including Administrators and Reading and Infancy through Pre-School Reading. Her current research interest is documenting how young children learn to read and write and parent education.
Manning received her BFA from the University of South Dakota, MEd from Wayne State College, and EdD from the University of Nebraska. She was a K-12 public school teacher in Nebraska for 12 years. She also served as director of basic skills for Birmingham public schools.
Manning is author and co-author of journal articles appearing in The Reading Teacher, Research in Childhood Education, and Young Children. She is the reading and writing editor for Teaching K-8. She has written and co-authored numerous book chapters and several books and presented at IRA conventions, world congresses, and regional and state conferences.
Statement of philosophy
“IRA should have a stronger voice in solving national and world illiteracy problems and should be heard over the clamor of policy makers in all governments in the world’s nations. We should have a voice and presence in the United Nations. Important issues include increasing respect for IRA, decreasing government intervention in literacy programs, and more autonomy for the world’s reading teachers and professors.”
Presentation topics
Reading and writing dinosaurs: Extinct or endangered?
Scientific reading assessment – not the same old testing game
1000 book five-year-olds: We must all help!
