Tamar Jacobson

CONSULTANT AND PRESENTER

Dr. Tamar Jacobson:

Early childhood development and education consultant for early childhood programs, organizations, and families.

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Recent and upcoming events: 

Keynote speaker: "Don't Get So Upset!" Help Young Children Manage Their Feelings by Understanding Your Own.” 2019 Annual Conference Long Island Infant Toddler Resource Center: “The Power of Emotions: Working Together to Strengthen Resilience.” Suffolk County Community College. Brentwood, New York. September, 2019

Presentation at New Jersey Association for the Education of Young Children Conference, October, 2019

Presentation at National Black Child Development Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 2019

Three-hour presentation at National Association for the Education of Young Children Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, November 2019

2019 Annual Conference South Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children: Invest in Each Other: Connect, Collaborate, and Learn. Tucson, Arizona. December 2019

Childspace 2020 Wellbeing Conference, Wellington, New Zealand

Annual Conference: Kindermusik International, Inc. Toronto, Canada. July 2020

 

Bio and Vita

Tamar Jacobson was born in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and traveled to Israel where she became a preschool teacher with the Israeli Ministry of Education. Jacobson completed a doctorate in early childhood education at the University at Buffalo (UB). As Director of the University at Buffalo Child Care Center (UBCCC), she created a training site for early childhood students from area colleges including UB. Dr. Jacobson is an early childhood development and education consultant for early childhood programs, organizations and families, and participates on the Consulting Editors Panel for NAEYC. She is a retired Professor of the Department of Teacher Education at Rider University, recipient of the 2003 Director of the Year Award, National Coalition of Campus Children’s Centers, and of the 2013 National Association for Early Childhood Teacher Educators (NAECTE) Outstanding Early Childhood Teacher Educator Award, and is a former Fellow in the Child Trauma Academy. Tamar Jacobson presents at International, National, State and Regional levels. She is author of: Confronting Our Discomfort: Clearing the Way For Anti-Bias (Heinemann, 2003), Don’t Get So Upset! Help Young Children Manage Their Feelings By Understanding Your Own (Redleaf Press, 2008), Everyone Needs Attention: Helping Young Children Thrive (Redleaf Press, 2018).

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