Growing Together: Understanding and Supporting Early Childhood Development
Session 1 | Foundations of Early Development: Motor & Language
TOPICS:
- Fine motor, gross motor, and language milestones
- Neurological development
- Primitive reflexes
- Sleep and feeding
- Red flags
- Environments that promote development
- Relationship of motor and language domains to each other and across all developmental areas
This is a 3-part series:
Presented by Dr. Andrew Stremmel, Professor Emeritus, South Dakota State University and Dr. Jennifer Kampmann, SD Birth to Three
CEUS Available: CHW and Social Work
Andrew Stremmel is Professor Emeritus in the School of Education, Counseling, and Human Development and former department head in Teaching, Learning and Leadership in the College of Education and Human Sciences at South Dakota State University. Prior to that he was department head of Human Development in the former college of Family and Consumer Sciences. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Purdue University in Early Childhood Education and Child Development and earned a B.A. in Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University. His research and writing are in the areas of early child development, teacher education, and inquiry-based approaches to curriculum and pedagogy. He has published over 60 refereed journal articles and book chapters and has co-edited three books and co-authored two books. His book, Teaching as Inquiry: Rethinking Curriculum in Early Childhood Education (2005, Allyn & Bacon), is the first comprehensive early childhood education text provoked and inspired by the Reggio Emilia Approach. His most recent co-edited book, Seven Crucial Conversations in Early Childhood Education (2024, Teachers College Press) is a critical dialogue among distinguished experts in early childhood and child development on the past, present, and future of early childhood education. He is an executive editor of Voices of Practitioners, the leading journal of early childhood practitioner research. In 2016 he received the Distinguished Research Award by the Association of Teacher Education for this co-authored article, Countering the Essentialized Discourse of Teacher Education.
Jennifer Kampmann is the assistant director and professional development specialist for SD Birth to Three. Prior to that she was an assistant professor of early childhood education and assistant department head of Human Development at South Dakota State University. Dr Kampmann received her Ed.D. from the University of South Dakota in Curriculum & Instruction and an. M.S. and B.S. from South Dakota State University in Human Development, Child and Family Studies with an emphasis in Early Childhood Education. She has held certificates in early childhood/early childhood education and kindergarten teaching. Jennifer’s research and writing are in the areas of early child development, teacher education, and inquiry-based approaches to curriculum, and child assessment. Her teaching expertise are in child development, early childhood curriculum and pedagogy, child assessment and family engagement. She has published in several early childhood journals including Young Children and Voices of Practioners. Dr. Kampmann was awarded the South Dakota Association for Colleges of Teacher Education Leadership Award in 2017.
