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EARLY LEARNING 2020: Leading & Learning in the New Decade KEYNOTES
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Welcome & Keynote | 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Keynote
Tom “Teacher Tom” Hobson is an early childhood educator, international speaker, education consultant, teacher of teachers, parent educator, and author. He is best known, however, for his namesake blog “Teacher Tom’s Blog, “http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/, where he has posted daily for over a decade, chronicling the life and times of his little preschool in the rain soaked Pacific Northwest corner of the US.
For nearly two decades Teacher Tom was the sole employee of the Woodland Park Cooperative School, a parent-owned and operated school, knit together by Teacher Tom’s democratic, progressive play-based pedagogy. Teacher
Tom came into teaching through the backdoor, so to speak, having enrolled his own child in a cooperative preschool, where he began working daily in his daughter’s classroom
as an assistant teacher under the tutelage of veteran educators although he’ll be the first to tell you that most of what he learned came from the children themselves. When it was time for his daughter to move on, he “stayed behind.”
Today, Teacher Tom travels around the world (Greece, Iceland, Australia, China, Vietnam, New Zealand, Canada, UK, and across the US) sharing his views on early childhood education, play, and pedagogy. He authored his first book, aptly named Teacher Tom’s First Book, http://www.teachertomsfirstbook.com/book.html, and is looking forward to the release of Teacher Tom’s Second Book in April, 2020.
Following Teacher Tom’s keynote, he will conduct workshop 6.01 A Deeper Dive with Teacher Tom: Educating Citizens through Play.
Teacher Tom (Hobson)
Educating Citizens through Play
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