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Jane Tingle Broderick

Jane Tingle Broderick is an expert in childhood development and an Assistant Professor at East Tennessee State University (ETSU).  Her focus is on teaching teachers how to teach.  Jane's main role in the workshop is to help individuals and groups learn the social tools necesary to interact in ways that optimize creative development and minimize distrust and lack of focus.  She develops customized programs that encourage inquiry and exploration, while developing skills necesary for discipline and organization.  Jane uses a variety of forms of documentation as the basis for developing creativity as well as for reflecting on improving the process of learning.

Dr. Broderick teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the Creative Development of Young Children, Observing and Assessing Young Children, Social Development, Family and Community Relations, and Creativity.  All the courses incorporate documentation inspired by the socio-constructivist schools of Reggio Emilia, Italy.  At ETSU she also serves as a mentor to the Child Study Center teaching staff in their implementation of Reggio inspired practice.

Dr. Broderick studied at the University of Massachusetts with Dr. George Forman, a leading authority on Reggio Emilia in the United States.  For three years she served as the Atelierista, Documentarian, and Co-Teacher in Early Childhood Laboratory School (ECLS) at UMass.  At the ECLS Ms. Broderick worked with the director, Dotty Meyer, in the training and supervising of student teachers within a Reggio inspired practice.

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