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

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

Play Empowers Quarantine Conference Online, March 31, 2020

"Self Compassion:" Online Presentation and discussion for Lume Institute. May, 2020

"When Teachers Face Themselves: Learning What Makes Us Tick Emotionally When Young Children Need Our Attention." Presentation for the National Association of the Education of Young Children Virtual Institute. June, 2020

Bio and Vita

Tamar Jacobson is an early childhood development and education consultant for early childhood programs, organizations, and families. She 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.

Jacobson is a retired Professor from Rider University, New Jersey, and served as Chair of the Department of Teacher Education for seven years. Dr. Jacobson serves on the Consulting Editors Panel for NAEYC, was recipient of the 2003 Director of the Year Award, National Coalition of Campus Children’s Centers, 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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