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BEYER / PETER ANTHONY / Fr. WIRACH AMONPATTANA Workshop I Topic:Technology and School-wide Planning Title: Will 1:1 Wireless Computing Work For You? Description: 1:1 wireless computing is now a viable option for many schools. Representatives from Ruamrudee International School will present an historical perspective of their school's laptop program with practical information for schools considering such a transition. The workshop will include resources to help teachers in analyzing their current situation and preparing for implementation of a 1:1 computing program. Biography: Wayne Beyer is currently the high school technology coordinator at Ruamrudee International School in Bangkok. He began his career overseas in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan. Since then, he has worked at international schools for more than 30 years in countries throughout the Middle East and Asia. He has taught information technology classes at all grade levels from Pre-K through grade 12 and as a technology coordinator, he has worked with teachers at all grade levels. Wayne has been trained and has experience working in the International Baccalaureate program at PYP, MYP, and IB diploma levels. He earned his Masters in Computer Education from the University of Oregon. Peter Anthony is currently the Head of Social Science at Ruamrudee International School. He has worked in Australia, Malaysia and Thailand at the secondary and tertiary levels. Peter is a strong advocate of utilizing technology in the classroom and one of the early proponents of the laptop initiative at RIS. Peter teaches history and psychology at the AP and IB levels. He was awarded his PhD in International Relations from the University of New England, Australia. Fr. Wirach Amonpattana holds a Bachelor’s degree in Educational Administration from Sukhothaithammathirat University, a Master’s degree in Religious Education from Creighton University, and a Master’s degree in Social Work from Columbia University. While in New York he worked as a counselor for people with HIV and AIDS, and with alcohol and substance users in the Bronx. He has also counseled families and children with mental disabilities in foster care in New York. Fr. Wirach spent his first five years of priesthood developing educational programs for poor children in remote areas of North and Northeastern Thailand, founding the Nan Center for Children, which provides boarding facilities and education for hilltribe children. For the last three years, Fr. Wirach served as Assistant Director at Ruamrudee International School. In March 2005, Fr. Wirach was named as the Director of Ruamrudee International School. 
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CARTER Workshop I (part 1) Topic: Multiple Inteligence Title: Coaching Skills and the Habits of Mind: Motivation for Every Student Description: Coaching skills have been popular in corporate America for the last twenty years. Recently, this powerful tool has made its way into the educational arena. Since all of learning is based on emotion, the skill of coaching allows the teacher, tutor, advisor, counselor or parent to artfully ask the questions which can lead students to their own best answers. In this highly interactive session, Carol Carter will link coaching skills to Art Costa's Habits of Mind. Each attendee will explore not only the basics of coaching, but also how to apply coaching to help students manage themselves more effectively by taking responsibility for their choices and developing the requisite discipline to be successful in college, career and life. We will explore all aspects of coaching and really dig deeply into inquiry and powerful questions. These techniques can be used one-on-one, as well as with a group of students or professionals. In addition to helping with whatever role attendees play with students, this session promises to be one of the most meaningful and fulfilling sessions for their own personal development. Workshop II (part 2) Topic: Multiple Inteligence Title: Coaching Skills and the Habits of Mind: Motivation for Every Student Workshop III (part 1) Topic: Multiple Inteligence Title: Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences: Linking Learning to Careers, Majors and Fields of Interest Description: This interactive session will focus on how participants can help each student understand the basics of their own personality and their own learning styles. Based on the work of Mel Levine, Howard Gardner and the Kiersey Sorter, these frameworks provide students with valuable information about their strengths, weaknesses, aptitudes and interests, which can ground them academically and give them insight about professions which would be the best fits for them. We will explore how these basic areas link to real world experiences which students need to be competitive in today's global job market: internships, coops and part-time job experiences. Many students make career decisions based on an idealistic and often unexplored career. This session will give participants the framework to help them probe, question, examine and explore the careers that are of interest while they still have time to gain the requisite experience and exposure to know whether that field is a good fit for their gifts, talents and abilities. Each of us deserves to be passionate in our work. This session will help each student understand the knowledge of self that they need to feel creative, capable and joyful in their life's work outside of school and college. Workshop IV (part 2) Topic: Multiple Inteligence Title: Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences: Linking Learning to Careers, Majors and Fields of Interest Biography: Carol Carter is an international college and career success author and speaker. As Founder and President of LifeBound, an academic coaching and resource organization, Carol provides training and certification to become a LifeBound coach, as well as professional development for faculty at the high school and college level. Ms. Carter has authored and co-authored over twenty books on college, career and life success. Her KEYS TO SUCCESS series is used by more than 200,000 students each year in colleges throughout the US, Canada and Mexico. LifeBound's ninth grade success program is used to help high school students develop academic, emotional and social intelligence. Carol Carter’s passion is educational reform, especially at the middle school and high school levels so that entering freshmen in college can actually become college and workforce ready.
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FRANKEL Title: Leadership Seminar Biography: Marc T. Frankel is a consulting psychologist in St. Louis, Missouri, and is a senior consultant and principal in Triangle Associates. Dr. Frankel trained at Emory University where he received a Ph.D., and at the University of Missouri -Columbia School of Medicine. He consults and coaches with senior administrators, administrative teams, and boards of trustees primarily in the independent and higher education and health care industries. His experience as a practicing manager and as an independent school trustee gives him first-hand familiarity with issues of leadership and governance in nonprofit institutions. Dr. Frankel is lead consultant for Triangle Associates' management of the ESCOP/ACOP Leadership Development Program, and is a faculty member for the NAIS Institute for New Heads. Together with Judith Schechtman and John Feely, Dr. Frankel co-founded the School Leadership Institute now sponsored by NAIS, and the Missouri Physician Leadership Program for the University of Missouri - Columbia School of Medicine. His clients include major school associations and individual schools in North America and Europe. Dr. Frankel lives in St. Louis, along with his wife, Jacqueline, and their son, Alexander.
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GANTOS Workshop I Topic: CREATIVE WRITING AND LITERATURE Title: Writing Picture Books: READ A CLASSIC-WRITE A CLASSIC. From "Wild Things" to “Rotten Ralph" Description: All good writing begins with good reading, so let's take a look at classic picture books and find out not only what makes a good book a classic, but also how to teach, organize and write the future classics. Workshop II Topic: Creative writing and Literature Title: Writing PIcture Books: TODAY'S STUDENT JOURNALS ARE TOMORROW'S LITERATURE! Description: Join Jack as he takes you from his childhood journals to the writing of the "Jack Henry" series of autobiographical stories. If he can do it, you can do it, and so can your students. Find out how to bring content and structure together to create interesting, well written stories. Come to learn and laugh. Workshop III Title: WRITING IS ALL PERSONAL: You are what you write—from imaginative fiction to memoir. Description: From Rotten Ralph to “Jack Henry” to “Joey Pigza” to my young adult memoir, HOLE IN MY LIFE . What do all these books have in common besides my pen, cats, characters and lots of catharsis? Join me as I circumnavigate my own world for a discussion on how the content of your life becomes the content for your literature. Biography: Jack Gantos was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. He remembers playing a lot of “pass the chalk” in Mrs. Neiderheizer’s class in first grade. He was in the Bluebird reading group, which he later found out was for the slow readers. To this day he’d rather be called a Bluebird than a slow reader. His favorite game at that time was playing his clothes were on fire and rolling down a hill to save himself. When he was seven, his family moved to Barbados. He attended British schools, where there was much emphasis on reading and writing. Students were friendly but fiercely competitive, and the teachers made learning a lot of fun. By fifth grade he had managed to learn 90 percent of what he knows to this very day. When the family moved to south Florida, he found his new classmates uninterested in their studies, and his teachers spent most of their time disciplining students. Jack retreated to an abandoned bookmobile (three flat tires and empty of books) parked out behind the sandy ball field, and read for most of the day. His greatest wish in life is to replace trailer parks with bookmobile parks, which he thinks will eliminate most of the targets for tornadoes and educate an entire generation of great kids who now go to schools that are underfunded and substandard. The seeds for Jack’s writing career were planted in sixth grade, when he read his sister’s diary and decided he could write better than she could. He begged his mother for a diary and began to collect anecdotes he overheard at school, mostly from standing outside the teachers’ lounge and listening to their lunchtime conversations. Later, he incorporated many of these anecdotes into stories. In junior high he went to a school that had been converted from a former state prison. He thinks the inmates probably fled for their lives once the students showed up. Again, he spent most of his time reading on his own. In high school he decided to become a writer. But he would have to wait another three years, until he went to college, before he could actually meet other writers and study with teachers who thought writing amounted to more than just cribbing book reports and composing sympathy notes. While in college, he and an illustrator friend, Nicole Rubel, began working on picture books. After a series of well-deserved rejections, they published their first book, Rotten Ralph, in 1976. It was a success and the beginning of Jack’s career as a professional writer. This surprised a great many people who thought he was going to specialize in rehabilitating old bookmobiles into housing for retired librarians. Jack continued to write children’s books and began to teach courses in children’s book writing and children’s literature. He developed the master’s degree program in children’s book writing at Emerson College and the Vermont College M.F.A. program for children’s book writers. He now devotes his time to writing books and educational speaking. His publications can take a reader from “cradle to grave” -- from picture books and middle-grade fiction to novels for young adults and adults. Mr. Gantos is known nationally for his educational creative writing and literature presentations to students and teachers. He is a frequent conference speaker, university lecturer, and in-service provider.
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GHOOGASIAN Workshop I Topic: The Brain and Learning Title: Teaching and Learning in the Era of the Brain Description: Teachers will gain a better understanding of how the brain learns and how to use this information in a classroom learning environment. They will walk away with a better understanding of the brain and learning and several practical teaching strategies that take advantage of how the brain learns best. [This is a condensed version of the pre-conference session.] Workshop II Topic: The Adolescent Brain Title: Understanding the Adolescent Brain Description: Research is showing us that the adolescent brain, rather than being a finished product, is very much a work in progress. The old assumption that it is the same as an adult brain is being replaced with a different view. What many consider the “peculiarities” of adolescent behavior appear to have strong, underlying biological correlations. In this session, we will explore what some of these changes may be and what influence they may have. Biography: David Ghoogasian, educational consultant/trainer and school improvement facilitator, has a rich background in education. He works with parents, students, and educators with backgrounds from early childhood education through college instruction. His topics include the classroom applications of brain research, learning/teaching styles, multiple intelligence theory, differentiated instruction, classroom management, and emotional intelligence. He trains through his own company, The Lyceum, as well as through the extension programs at University of California, Riverside and Irvine. His presentations are consistently well received for their informative, practical, and applicable nature. He is a member of the Gift and Talented Education (GATE) and Professional Teaching certificate program advisory boards at UCI Extension and has served on visiting committees for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Accrediting Commission for Schools. He recently received the “Distinguished Instructor Award” from UCI Education Extension as well as the “Dean’s Outstanding Service Award.”
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HAYNES / DAVID BROWN Workshop I Topic: Experiential Environmental Education Title: Teaching Environmental Protection the EcoBoat Way Description: The EcoBoat Project is dedicated to the notion that teenagers -- both students from Vietnamese high schools on the fringes of Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, and students from international secondary schools throughout East Asia -- can be motivated to join in the search for solutions to the greatest dilemma of the 21st century: reconciling economic growth and environmental protection. In multi-day trips on Ha Long Bay’s jade-green waters, Fauna and Flora International (FFI) staff deliver a hands-on encounter with spectacular scenery, friendly people and serious environmental protection challenges. We try to send the kids home thoughtful. In this workshop, we show how the EcoBoat team uses hands-on experience of a spectacular natural setting and human impacts to create a context for animated discussion of how communities can manage development and protection. The kids who join us on the EcoBoat see below the surface, literally. They learn that environmental issues are complex and that answers lie in recognizing the various interests at play and in getting all the important actors engaged in solving the problems. The conceptual frame and methods we use on the EcoBoat are not site-specific; they can be adapted to frame the development vs. protection dilemma in any Asian country, make vivid the consequences of doing nothing, and fill students with a sense of their own capability to change minds and community behavior. Biography: Mike Haynes was trained in heritage education and conservation. He’s a gifted experiential learning teacher who joined the EcoBoat Project in May, 2006 after three years’ assisting Vietnamese coastal communities to develop and implement sustainable tourism management plans. Mike is the regular trip leader for international school outings, responsible for keeping all elements of an EcoVoyage smoothly synchronized and trouble-free. David Brown was for many years a diplomat specializing in Asian political and economic affairs. He’s always had a keen interest in environmental issues and cultural dynamics. After David’s retirement from the US Foreign Service, the venerable British conservation organization, Fauna and Flora International (FFI) offered him a welcome opportunity to return to Vietnam (his first overseas post) as manager of its Coastal Biodiversity Support Project.
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HENSLEY Workshop I Title: Tools for International Schools: How Can the College Board Better Connect Your Students to College Success? Description: This interactive session will provide a forum for EARCOS educators to advise the College Board on how to better support the work of their schools. We will also update you on new educational initiatives of the College Board. Join us for an overview of PSAT/NMSQT and the wealth of valuable resources and reporting offered through the program, including College QuickStart, Score Report Plus, MyRoad, the Summary of Answers and Skills Report (S.O.A.S.), AP Potential, Student Search Service (S.S.S.), Destination College, and more. Discuss lessons learned from the recently revised SAT. We will look at how universities and schools have responded to the changes and also review research to examine the effects of the changes. Learn about expanding -- and free -- online services for both students and teachers. There will be ample opportunities for questions and discussion. The College Board is a non-for-profit membership association with a hundred-year heritage and a leader in connecting students worldwide to college success. Workshop II Title: Advanced Placement Program (AP) and International Schools: Connecting Your Students to College Success and Opportunity Description: This interactive session will provide a forum for educators to advise the AP Program on how to better support the work of educators at EARCOS schools. We will also update you on AP's World Language Initiative, including AP Chinese & Japanese; on the AP Course Audit; on AP international university recognition efforts; on the AP International Diploma; and on expanded AP professional development opportunities. The College Board is a non-for-profit membership association with a hundred-year heritage and a leader in connecting students worldwide to college success. Biography: Clay Hensley is the Associate Director for International Services at the College Board. His primary responsibility is to support schools outside the U.S. that use College Board programs, such as AP and PSAT/NMSQT. He also actively promotes the recognition of AP at universities worldwide. Prior to joining the College Board six years ago, Clay taught English literature and studio art at Serramonte del Rey High School in Daly City, CA. He has also taught at the university-level. He holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, and a Masters of Fine Art in painting from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In his spare time, Clay is an exhibiting artist based in New York City.
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JOHNSON Workshop I Topic: Technology Integration Title: The Sane Teacher's Guide to Technology Integration Description: Never been a technology “geek” or “guru?” Still rather think of a mouse as something that eats cheese than rolls around on your desk? Yet as a conscientious teacher, you KNOW your students should be practicing technology and information literacy skills. This workshop explores how good teaching practices and the content area curriculum can be enhanced through the judicious use of technology “upgrades” that support best practice. Examples of real student technology enhanced projects are given. Workshop II Topic: Technology, School Libraries Title: E-books, E-Learning, E-Gads! Description: The practical e-book, already here in many forms, will have a significant impact on our schools, libraries, and our profession. Learn what a real e-book might contain, based on current products and trends along with strategies for staying relevant as a physical presence in our schools and students’ lives. For warned is for armed! Workshop III & IV Topic: Technology, Information Literacy, Research Title: Survival Skills for the Internet Information Jungle Description: Jungles can be confusing and even dangerous to the inexperienced traveler. The sheer abundance of resources in them demand the explorer have special skills if they are going to survive and thrive. This presentation describes six Information Jungle Survival Tips for students and suggests how they can be taught. Biography: Doug Johnson has been the Director of Media and Technology for the Mankato Public Schools since 1991 and an adjunct faculty member of Minnesota State University since 1990.His teaching experience includes work in grades K-12 both here and in Saudi Arabia. He is the author of four books: The Indispensable Librarian, The Indispensable Teacher's Guide to Computer Skills, Teaching Right from Wrong in the Digital Age and Machines are the Easy Part; People are the Hard Part His regular columns appear in Library Media Connection, Leading & Learning and Education World website. His articles have appeared in over forty books and periodicals. Doug has conducted workshops and presentations for over 130 organizations throughout the United States as well as in Malaysia, Kenya, Thailand, Germany, Qatar, Canada, the UAE and Australia. He has held a variety of leadership positions in state and national organizations, including ISTE and AASL.
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JUKES Workshop I Title: Living on the Future Edge: Thinking About Tomorrow Today (Part 1 of two part session) Description: In a world where change is the constant you can't trust your eyes because what you see will replaced tomorrow. You think your eyes are showing you reality, in fact, they are showing you history. The only way to see the reality of a world on the move is to look for global trends. By carefully examining the significance of several global exponential trends, this presentation profoundly challenges your fundamental assumptions about the world we live and the future that awaits us. The presentation begins by examining the culture of TTWWADI (That's The Way We've Always Done It and considers the role of TTWWADI in our unconscious assumptions about schools and learning It then explores global exponential trends and considers the effect these trends are having (and will have) on our lives both personally and professionally; and considers how they will affect our children, our learning institutions, the nature of teaching and learning, and even our definition of intelligence. With this as a context, the presentation then examines how these changes will affect the classroom, the curriculum, learning, instruction, evaluation and assessment. It identifies the shift in curriculum and thinking necessary to equip students for success in the 21st century, and discusses what this signifies for education, specifically in terms of our staff development models. How can schools prepare students for this ever-changing world? Perhaps by developing an instructional and learning strategy that simultaneously focuses on content and 21st century skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, information and technological fluency, useful failure, project-based learning and metacognitive skills needed to survive in the culture of the 21st Century. It then examines the big question. How do we effectively engage learners so that they can not only perform exceptionally well on state exams, but also simultaneously learn the critical twenty-first century literacies needed to excel in both school and life? It then takes a pragmatic look at traditional teaching practices, considers why they are becoming increasingly out of sync with our rapidly changing world; and identifies several principles and processes that transcend the new technologies. Participants will come away from the presentation with a clear understanding of how to meet both their curricular goals, as well as prepare students to meet the new realities of the 21st Century. Included is an overview of the 7-layered curriculum model (content, process, tools, school to career, school to community, school to home, and contiguous assessment) as well as a variety of resources to support the transition to this new model. Participants should come prepared to have many of their present assumptions about education challenged. Counseling will be provided. This is truly a twelve aspiring presentation. Workshop II Title: Living on the Future Edge: Thinking About Tomorrow Today (Part 2 of two part session) Workshop III & IV Title: Windows on the Future Revisited: New Schools For the New World Description: By now, most people have realized that the world is no longer the stable and predictable place that it once even just a few short years ago.There are many who say that the changes in the next 5 years will absolutely dwarf those of the last 50 years. What impact will this changing world have on education? What will learning look like? How will learning be assessed? What skills in learners and educators will be most highly valued? And how can educators design effective learning environments in a world of accelerating change? By taking a time machine 13 years into the future, this presentation explores the shift in curriculum and thinking that will be necessary to equip learners for success in the 21st century, and identifies what this signifies for education and educators. In a time when the primary focus increasingly seems to be on accountability, standards and high stakes testing, how can schools prepare students to be effective learners and educators to be more more effective teachers in a fundamentally different world than the one we grew up in? Participants should come prepared to have many of their present assumptions about education challenged. Counseling will be provided. This presentation is based on the award-winning book, Windows on the Future, written by Ted McCain & Ian Jukes and published by Corwin Press. Workshop V Title: From Gutenberg to Gates to Google and Beyond: .EDU meets .COM Description: As Gutenberg's printing press ignited the Renaissance, computers, the Internet, networking and now Google are igniting the Digital Renaissance. Emerging technologies will have a profound effect on the near and distant future of education. Fundamental change will happen whether schools, as learning institutions, embrace it or not because kids, teachers and parents will be using digital tools and accessing the Internet from home, at night, and outside of the purview of the school. They, rather than our traditions and traditional assumptions about learning and assessment will ultimately influence the direction of schools and learning. What happens when the people outside of education who are building information infrastructures start effectively leveraging the immense power of new technologies to deliver instructional opportunities to the YouTube and MySpace generation? What will education look like as we make a major shift in the who, what, when, where, why and how of teaching and learning which will be a direct result of the emergence of the Internet of a full-fledged commercial medium? And where is Google taking us? This presentation asks participants to reconsider the future of education as we move from Gutenberg to Gates to Google and beyond. Co-developed with Ted McCain. Workshop VI Title: Beyond TTWWADI (That's the Way We've Always Done It) Description: It's amazing how we can embrace doing things the way they have always been done without examining where the original decisions came from. We just accept a pre-existing mind-set because it's the path of least resistance. For example, the mind-set for the structure of our schools is based on decisions that were made in the days of the horse, buggy, kerosene lamp, factory floor, and production line. It's a system in which most students are still released for 3 months each summer so that they can harvest the crops based on some European agricultural cycle. This is classic TTWWADI (That's The Way We've Always Done It). Accepting this preexisting mind-set of what schools look like is easy because they haven't changed that much in a long time. Most educators embrace the entrenched ideas about schools and learning without thinking. However, the world is no longer the stable and predictable place it once was. Technology is fueling an engine of change that is making the world a moving target. What is startling is that the rate of change is picking up speed with each passing day. Radical new developments in technology are having increasingly profound implications for life as we know it. In this environment of change, it is critical that we begin to question the rationale behind TTWWADI in our schools. This presentation examines the development of our current mind-set for what schools look like. It traces the source of many of the foundational assumptions we take for granted in public education. It then looks at some of the key areas of technological development that are putting pressure on schools to change and explore the implications these developments have for what new skills and habits-of-mind we should be emphasizing in our schools to prepare students for life in the 21st century. We will examine the power of TTWWADI and discuss the difficulties we face in shifting people's ideas to a new vision for schools and learning. Finally, we will suggest a number of ways educators must change in order to keep up with a world on the move, a world that is forcing us to face a fundamental question about the nature of education: Do we prepare them for the world of tomorrow, or the farms and factories of yesterday? Biography: Ian Jukes has been a teacher, an administrator, writer, consultant, university instructor and keynote speaker. As the Director of the InfoSavvy Group, an international consulting group that provides leadership and program Development in the areas of assessment and evaluation, strategic alignment, curriculum design and publication, professional development, planning, change management, hardware and software acquisition, information services, customized research, media services, and on-line training as well as conference keynotes and workshop presentations. Over the course of the past 10 years, Ian has worked with clients in more than 30 countries and made more than 7,000 presentations typically speaking to between 200,000 and 300,000 people a years. In August 2002 Consulting Magazine Online named him one of the top ten educational speakers in America. Ian has written six books, 9 educational series and had more than 100 articles published in various journals. Ian is also the publisher of an on-line electronic newsletter, the Committed Sardine Blog, which is electronically distributed to more than 17,000 people in 60 countries. He is also the creator and co-developer of TechWorks, the internationally successful K-8 technology framework; and was the catalyst of the NetSavvy and InfoSavvy information literacy series; he has been a Contributing Editor for several journals and magazines. His two most recently published books are Net.Savvy: Building Information Literacy for the Classroom, co-authored with Anita Dosaj and Bruce Macdonald, and Windows on the Future, co-authored with Ted McCain. Corwin Press publishes both books. He is currently working on the 2nd edition of Windows on the Future and a book on Digital Kids and another on Schools of the Future. Ian is an educator first and foremost. His focus has consistently been on the compelling need to restructure our educational institutions so that they become relevant to the current and future needs of children. His rambunctious, irreverent and highly charged presentations and articles emphasize many of the practical issues related to ensuring that change is meaningful. As a registered educational evangelist, his self-avowed mission in life is to ensure that children are properly prepared for the future rather than society's past. As a result, his material tends to focus on many of the pragmatic issues that provide the essential context for educational restructuring.
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KORSUNSKY Workshop I Topic: Science, Mathematics Title: Teaching General Problem Solving Skills in Physics and Mathematics Description: This double-session workshop focuses on the pedagogy of teaching general problem solving strategies in the classroom setting. We will also solve (together!) some challenging problems. The workshop is based on the comprehensive ISET (Incentives, Strategies, Example, Tasks) approach developed by the presenter. Workshop II Topic: Science Title:Using Multiple-Choice Questions: Learning and Teaching, Assessment, Educational Research Description: Well-constructed multiple-choice questions can be used to identify student misconceptions; they can be used for “just-in-time” assessment of student knowledge and its development and also in educational research. We will discuss effective ways of selecting and using multiple-choice questions in the classroom. Workshop III Topic: Mathematics, Science Title: Gender Issues in Mathematics and Science Education Description: I use latest research findings and my own experience to delve into this politically charged aspect of education and present strategies that are based on sound empirical data and allow the teacher to effectively engage the students of either gender in mathematics and science classes. Workshop IV Topic: Science Title: Physics for Math Teachers Description: I will present several basic physics concepts (velocity, acceleration, Newton's laws, relative motion, etc.) and methods (dimensional analysis, basics of measurement and data analysis) that are relevant to teaching mathematics. The discussion will focus on "real-life applications" of seemingly abstract mathematical concepts. No prior knowledge of physics is assumed! Biography: Boris Korsunsky holds two graduate degrees from Moscow colleges and a doctorate from Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has been teaching high-school physics since 1986. In his ample free time, Boris has published several articles on various aspects of physics education, two books of problems and several thousand problems for various textbooks and for the online tutoring system MasteringPhysics. In 1996-97, he served as a coach of the US Physics Team. Since 2001, Boris has been authoring the column of Physics Challenges in The Physics Teacher. He has taught and presented workshops in the US, Russia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Boris's hobbies include travel, reading and competitive badminton: he has played since middle school and is currently ranked as one of the top players in the USA in his (secret) age group.
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LAMB / NAOMI FUNAHASHI / RYLAN SEKIGUCHI (SPICE) Workshop I Topic: Social Studies Title: Strategies for Teaching World Religions Description: This interactive workshop will focus on teaching about Confucianism and Islam. Participants will engage in several activities from two SPICE curriculum units, Religions and Philosophies in China and Islamic Civilizations and the Arts. This workshop is appropriate for middle school Social Studies teachers, and participants will receive complimentary curriculum from SPICE. Workshop II Topic: Social Studies Title: Along the Silk Road Description: This interactive workshop will present methods and materials for teaching about various aspects of the Silk Road. Participants will engage in several activities from the newly revised SPICE curriculum unit, Along the Silk Road, which was recently developed in a partnership with the Silk Road Project. This workshop is appropriate for both middle and high school Social Studies teachers, and participants will receive complimentary curriculum from SPICE. Biography: Stefanie Lamb is a curriculum writer and East Asia seminar coordinator at SPICE. She has co-authored several SPICE curricula on topics ranging from Islamic art to the Cultural Revolution in China to global natural disasters. Before joining SPICE in 2000, Stefanie taught middle school social studies in Hong Kong and Oregon. Stefanie has a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education and a master's degree in Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education. Naomi Funahashi has worked with the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) since August 2005. Her responsibilities at SPICE include coordinating and teaching the Reischauer Scholars Program (a distance-learning course on Japan and U.S.-Japan relations for high school juniors and seniors in the United States), coordinating and leading seminars for high school teachers on teaching about Asia, and curriculum writing. Prior to working with SPICE, she became a credentialed high school history teacher and worked with the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California for two years as program coordinator for the California Nisei High School Diploma Project and a project on the 100th Anniversary of San Francisco’s Japantown. She attended high school at the American School in Japan in Tokyo, Japan and received her bachelor’s degree in International Relations at Brown University. Rylan Sekiguchi has worked as a Curriculum Writer at SPICE for a year and a half. He is currently developing a curriculum unit on urbanization in China, to be used as a teacher’s guide for the documentary film Transforming the Earth, Part One: Ten Thousand Shovels, and last year served as the primary author of An Examination of War Crimes Tribunals. He also has contributed research and writing to other curricula and helps coordinate National Consortium for Teaching about Asia teacher seminars at Stanford University. Rylan received his Bachelor of Science degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, and has since worked with high school students as both a tutor and a classroom teacher.
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LEWIS Topic: Global Issues Network Biography: Clayton Lewis has administered international schools for 26 years, currently as director of the International School of Luxembourg, and formerly as high school principal at the American School in London and the American School of The Hague. He is a member of the ECIS Board of Trustees. Through published articles and conference presentations, Mr. Lewis has challenged international schools to live up to their stated mission to promote global citizenship. His school and others in Europe and Asia are linked by a Global Issues Network based upon the ideas of JF Rischard, designed to promote communication and cooperation among students around the world.
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LUEBBE / JAY ATWOOD Workshop I Title: simCEO Simulation (90 minutes) Description: Created by an EARCOS administrator and teachers, simCEO is the web’s only online simulation where students 1) create their own business, 2) research each other‚s companies, 3) buy/sell shares (which influence the individual share prices), and 4) do all of this while reacting to teacher-input news. Easily integrate almost any classroom content. Engaging and flexible, this will surely spark some very real enthusiasm in students. As a teacher, let it take them wherever you want. Lesson plans worksheets, tutorials, quizzes, connected to standards, and more. This simulation is free for all attendees to take back to their school. Suitable for grades 4-12. This session will be aim to be interactive. Laptops are encouraged but not mandatory. Biography: Derek is a former social studies teacher and currently the Upper School principal for the Shanghai Community International Schools’ (SCIS) Pudong Campus. This is his eleventh year in international education. Prior to working with SCIS, Derek worked at International schools in Hangzhou, China; Kaohsiung, Taiwan; and Cairo, Egypt. In 2006, Derek founded Jetlag Learning to create and develop simCEO. Jetlag Learning aims to rethink education by putting a learner's interest at the forefront and engaging students in relevant tasks and meaningful play. Jay Atwood worked in International schools in both Taiwan and Egypt before venturing out as an education consultant, specializing in educational technology and IB psychology. He currently divides his time between Kuala Lumpur and Sydney while working as the Director of Technology for Jetlag Learning – the company responsible for creating and developing simCEO (www.simceo.org). Much of Jay's work focuses on teacher training, whether it be with how to effectively integrate technology into the classroom or leading teacher training workshops around the world for IB psychology. He has also been working as an adjunct professor for the SUNY-Buffalo graduate program teaching technology integration courses for international teachers. Jay is heavily involved with the IB psychology program as a senior examiner, curriculum writer, exam writer, teacher trainer, examiner trainer and author. He is also involved in the development of online teacher and examiner training programs as part of a new IB initiative. |
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MCCUAIG Workshop I Topic: Music Title: Exploration of rhythm using South & North Indian counting methods. Description: Using percussion instruments we will experiment with South and North Indian Rhythm counting sequences. We will then apply the rhythms to different percussion instruments. The goal of the session is to have a group rhythm experience while creating an original composition. The group will perform at the gala event on Saturday evening. No previous music experience or musical knowledge necessary! (Group size limit 20) Workshop II Topic: Music Title: Basic Improvisation and Ostinato creation using simple rhythms. Description: This session will focus on creating rhythms and learning to improvise on a variety of percussion instruments. We will learn basic rhythms (Quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes, Quarter rest). The goal of the session is to have a group rhythm experience while creating an original composition. The group will perform at the gala event on Saturday evening. No previous music experience or musical knowledge necessary! (Group size limit 20) Workshop III Topic: Music Title: Exploration of Brazilian Samba rhythms. Description: This session will focus on learning Samba rhythms and applying these rhythms to percussion instruments. We will also learn an easy Samba Dance. The goal of the session is to have a group Samba Rhythm experience. The group will perform at the gala event on Saturday evening. No previous music experience or musical knowledge necessary! (Group size limit 20) Biography: Ian McCuaig is a music teacher and percussionist from Canada and has been teaching overseas for 8 years. Ian holds a Jazz Performance degree from Capilano College and a Music Education degree from the University of British Columbia in Canada. Ian has continued his studies to include; Level I, II, III Orff Schulwerk, Orff Jazz with Doug Goodkin (Taipei), Drum set Rhythm Camp with drumming legends Steve Smith, Ed Thigpen, Jeff Hamilton (Germany), South Indian Rhythmic studies with Karuhna Murty, North Indian "Benares" Tabla drumming (McGill university). Ian has also been performing on drum set for more than 20 years and can be seen on the Jazz club stages of Shanghai.
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JORGE
NELSON / ANDREW KERR Workshop I Topic: Educational Technology Title: mLearning: Keeping up with the Millennial Learner Description: Today’s students are never far from learning tools. Not just their laptop or handheld computers, but their iPods, mobile phones, too! How can a school harness this technology savvy knowledge of the student for teaching and learning? This session will give practical examples on how to utilize technology for learning with the Millennial student. Workshop II Topic: Educational Technology Title: Preparing the 21st Century Learner Description: While preparing the 21st Century Learner is a new U.S. initiative, it contains the same skills we want for all students: critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, creative, information and media literacy, and contextual learning. How to do we make the balance between educating students and preparing students for the workforce? It should not be a conflict as the end result is the same, creating a life-long learner. Biography: Andrew Kerr (Andy) is an educational technology consultant for St John’s School on Guam. He is the former Associate Director of the U.S. Department of Education program, the Pacific Regional Technology Education Consortium (PRTEC), and a university instructor, instructional technologist, and technology coordinator. He specializes in working with technology solutions for underserved areas, especially in rural and remote areas with little to no access to modern infrastructure and services. Dr. Jorge Nelson is Headmaster at St. John’s School on Guam. He has been working in international schools overseas for 22 years.
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DAVID
OTTAVIANO Workshop I Topic: Testing, Professional Development, or Governmental Regulation Title: How No Child Left Behind will Affect you. Description: As a result of the Federal legislation, No child left behind, American public schools are on the path to becoming more competitive with International schools in the quality of the education being received by students. How will this affect the future demands of your constituents, the parents? What can you do to meet this challenge head on? What are the new licensing requirements for teachers and administrators? This workshop will explore challenges and solutions. Biography: Dr. David Ottaviano was appointed Superintendent of the Highland Park Public School District in November 2004. Following 13 years as Headmaster of the Canadian Academy, in Kobe, Japan, The American School of Milan in Milan Italy and the International School of Belgrade in Yugoslavia. Prior to this Ottaviano was a public school superintendent in both Mine Hill, New Jersey and Mendham New Jersey. In total he has been a head of school for 20 years. David received a BA from Grove City College in psychology, an MA in school psychology from Montclair State College, and an Ed.D. from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Educational Leadership and Psychology. He has written numerous articles on the adjustment of children, on psychology, and on the education of students. His hobbies are reading, jogging, bicycling scuba diving , and flying a small airplane. He and his wife Cathy have been married for 34 years. Cathy is a Certified Financial Planner for the ISS Financial Network and Raymond James serving Ov |