WORKSHOP SESSION 2
THURSDAY, 26 March ‘09
Time: 13:15-14:15
RON FAST
Target Audience: MS and HS counselors
Title: Confidentiality: Understanding the Complexities in an International Setting
In this workshop, we will explore the many facets of confidentiality within the context of an international setting. Specifically, we will examine those guiding factors which influence our decisions as counselors including: ethical standards, laws (local, state/provincial, national), age of consent, school policy, and personal values. A variety of case scenarios will be discussed in small groups. This will be followed by a brief review of the literature and recommendations for professional practice.
BARBARA BILGRE
Target Audience: Any school community member interested in having global issues as part of school vision
Title: How to Promote a Global Issues Program at Your School
Our students are growing up in a globalized society, and schools should have a means of preparing students for dealing with global issues. This workshop will present suggestions on developing a global issues action plan and a global issues school fair to engage the community in the global issues vision. It will demonstrate how “action” can be more effective than “talking about action.”
CHRISTINE TAYLOR
Target Audience: Grades 9-12, HS English teachers, HS teachers in other disciplines, administrators, curriculum developers
Title: Student-Directed Seminars: An Assessment for Learning Task
Student-directed seminars provide a forum in which students not only develop presentation and facilitation skills, but take an active role in their own learning. Further, students are fully engaged in the assessment process from the creation of the project to the summative assessment task. In this workshop, teachers will become familiar with methods for setting up student-directed seminars, encouraging student participation, and using the assessment tasks in the classroom.
NANCY DIEHL
Target Audience: Grades 3-12, probably best for 6-12
Title: Memory and Recall: Nifty Tips to Help Students Retain Information
This memory workshop combines interactive activities and demonstrations using current research findings and summarizing the essentials of memory storage and retrieval. Topics will include, but not be limited to, flashbulb memories, encoding, retrieval, schema activation, and specific tools like mnemonic strategies, peg words, etc. The focus of the workshop is on application-—helping teachers to identify how they can apply what is known about memory to better help their students increase long-term recall. Clicker technology is incorporated into this presentation.
SAM SHERRATT / CHAD WALSH
Target Audience: All levels
Title: Creating a Community of Learners
The workshop will encompass the following elements:
Essential Agreements: allowing students to decide on what behaviors impact their learning.
Learning Environment: creating an efficient learning environment within which students can freely, and independently access resources and materials.
Academic Honesty: creating a culture of academic honesty in which students feel confident and comfortable about showing their strengths and weaknesses and using them to inform their learning.
Visible Thinking: bringing thoughts, feelings and ideas to life by displaying the processes of learning, not just the products. Collaboration: bringing key people together at the right times in order to facilitate learning engagements that maximize knowledge, expertise and creativity.
Student Empowerment: realizing that given opportunities and trust, students of any age are capable of exceeding our expectations.
CATHERINE AHLIN-MOORE
Target Audience: All levels
Title: Fearless Art: Managing Art Experiences in the Regular Classroom
Integrating art media such as paint, clay, collage, and sculpture is a messy business, but can provide rewarding experiences for your students. Often teachers avoid using these materials to the detriment of students’ self-expression. Well, fear not, there are ways of controlling these media and the resulting projects that work to salvage your sanity while providing creative outlets for visual and kinesthetic learners. Come and explore these ideas and techniques.
LINDSAY WELBES
Target Audience: Focus on MS and HS, MYP and DP, all subject areas
Title: Creating Thematic Units Based on the UN Millennium Development Goals
The workshop will start with a presentation of different ways of organizing thematic units around the MDGs. We will discuss the links between the goals and different MYP and DP courses, including the Extended Essay, CAS, and TOK. Also, examples of units and meaningful culminating projects will be presented and discussed. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss other possibilities and ideas.
JODI BONNETTE
Target Audience: Grades 2-5 classroom teachers and RLA teachers
Title: Nothin’ But Nonfiction
Enter the exciting world of nonfiction! Children love to learn about the world around them, but too often, in the classroom, students are not taught the necessary strategies for reading and comprehending informational texts. Guide your students to become engaged readers and writers of notification. Get tips for mini lessons and simple publishing ideas. Get ideas for selecting quality nonfiction and learn strategies to set up both nonfiction readers’ and writers’ workshops.
BRUCE MACNAMARA
Target Audience: Grades 8-12, various curriculums
Title: Conducting Meaningful Oral History and Participating in the International Witness to War Project
This workshop will help teachers to conduct meaningful oral history. It will also provide an introduction to the International Witness to War Project (IWWP) and serve as an invitation to join the project. The presenter will provide contact details of IWWP partner institutions, which are mainly university archives from across the East Asia region, and encourage teachers to make contact with them so that student oral history can be archived for perpetuity.
PAUL DUNBAR
Target Audience: MYP 1-5 (grade levels 6-10) teachers
Title: Using Narrative Archetypes in Literature Teaching
A succinct introduction to the theory of narrative archetypes and how they can be used to support enriched, grounded student interpretations of narrative. The workshop is structured around a participatory exercise in interpretation.
PATTI SWANSON
Target Audience: Early education, primary and MS
Title: Boys and Girls Learn Differently—Strategies for the Elementary Classroom
This workshop focuses on the gender differences that influence learning between boys and girls. Using brain-based research and classroom strategies, this presentation will help you understand that while both genders are equally capable of learning and succeeding; they do so often in very different ways. You’ll come away with useful activities to help both genders maximize their natural strengths, and provide support in areas that are often misunderstood.
BRENDON BREEN / TAMMY NEID
Target Audience: Anyone interested in teaching invasion sport activities
Title: Teaching Generic Strategies for Invasion Games
This is an active session demonstrating the applications of teaching generic strategies to students of invasion games: soccer, hockey, football, basketball, etc. In creating a progressive active learning environment using invasion games, students will increase their tactical awareness, quick decision making skills based on anticipation, and execution of fundamental skills. This session follows the work of Dennis Slade’s use of Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU). Come prepared to play!
PYONG-MUN YUN
Target Audience: All levels
Title: Look Good, Feel Good, Teach Excellence!
Idea sharing for role models who believe health to be of utmost importance, and those who desire to pursue lifelong health and wellbeing.
MELANIE WILSON
Target Audience: Grades 9-12
Title: Portraiture Technology: A Risk-Taking Approach to Cross Curricular Lessons
In this cross-curricular lesson combining art and technology, students step outside their comfort zones to create unique and exciting self-portraits. In addition to learning to use a digital camera and a digital projector, students alter photographic images using Photoshop. In their self-portraits, they demonstrate risk-taking approaches to color and design, all in the name of self-expression.
JAMES ARMITAGE / KELLY ARMITAGE
Target Audience: K-Grade 5
Title: Exploring Science Inquiry
Participants will be engaged with hands-on materials to explore practical and philosophical uses of inquiry in the elementary school classroom. Learning concepts include: building a common understanding of the inquiry approach, exploring components of an inquiry lesson, describing different types of inquiry instruction, assessment ideas, and finding ways to embed inquiry-based instruction in learning.
KENDRA FARRELL
Target Audience: K-Grade 12 Art educators
Title: Using Web 2.0 Technology to Enhance Learning in our Art Classroom
This workshop is for art educators grades K-12. It will present the latest web 2.0 technology that we can use in our classrooms to help expand, promote and enhance learning. We will learn about wiki spaces, nings, voicethreads, ipods, igoogle, blogs and youtube just to name a few. Most importantly, we will become inspired to make some changes in our own classrooms in order to accommodate this new digital world that we inhabit.
STEVE HISLER / MICHELLE JUHASZ / JULIE ROGERS / GLENDA BAKER
Target Audience: All levels
Title: How We Are Making our School OD
We will explore how OD principles and practices fit with the PLC model while outlining the evolution of ASIJ’s Organizational Development Group. Delivery will include activities and group work. Participants will leave with examples of warm ups, debriefs, and protocols to use with groups.
FRAN GRIMBERGEN / TIM THOMPSON
Target Audience: Upper elementary, MS and HS PE teachers
Title: P.E. Racquet Sports – A Methodological Approach
This hands-on workshop will assist physical education teachers in grades 3-12 to effectively plan, introduce, implement, or improve a racquet sports unit in their physical education curriculum. Participants will be exposed to the games of pickleball, soft tennis, and lawn tennis and be able to learn and practice a variety of singles and double drills as well as specific strategies for games situations. The focus will be on student’s progression of skills grip changes, footwork, stroke techniques, game tactics, and game play.
MARNEY ROSEN
Target Audience: HS English teachers
Title: This is English Class: There Are No Chapter Questions
How can we encourage our intelligent, thoughtful, and otherwise active high school English students to stop being so passive when they read? What role can students take in setting the questions on a reading ... or even setting the assignment itself? And in teaching students how to question, prioritize, and theorize, how can we foster everything from research skills to thesis building, from active reading to critical awareness?
STEVE NORTHCOTT
Target Audience: K-12 teachers
Title: Rockin’ for the Environment - Inspiring Students to be Agent of Change
The workshop presents methods of increasing environmental awareness and stewardship in students through the celebration of the arts. By the end of the workshop, participants will be introduced to the vision, mission, brief history and operational requirements of “Rock for the Environment,” explore possibilities for implementation in their own schools, and take home support packages in order to facilitate implementation. The workshop aims to develop a network of environmentally and artistically minded educators and students who can inspire and support each other.
TERRY LINDEMAN
Target Audience: Grades 6-12 teachers
Title: Stage Movement-From The Ground Up
The workshop focuses on practical stage movement exercises to improve your student’s movement on stage. Exercises are easy to incorporate in class and will work for all skill levels. Exercises incorporate Viola Spolin’s theories and exercises on movement as well as Laban movement techniques. Although this is not a dance class, you may find these exercises valuable for dance students. Be prepared to participate in the activities.
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WORKSHOP SESSION 5
FRIDAY, 27 March ‘09
11:45-12:45
TIM SHRIMPTON
Target Audience: Grade 5-8 or Science teachers
Title: Forensic Science for Middle School
This workshop is a course that the presenter has developed at ISB. It will present details on how forensic science is taught and include some hands on activities. People attending should bring their flash drive to pick up the course details.
MICHAEL SHEEHAN
Target Audience: HS and MS teachers
Title: Creating a Culture of Academic Integrity
The key to changing the aberrant student attitudes and behavior with regard to academic dishonesty may very well lie with the classroom teacher. This workshop outlines the seriousness of the issue of academic dishonesty and examines strategies and best practices that will help the teacher — and the school — create an environment in which a culture of academic integrity prevails.
PASCALE THOMAS / NIKOLAS TREBESH
Target Audience: K-Grade12 teachers and counselors
Title: Bully Prevention
The purpose of this presentation is to provide K-12 teachers and counselors positive teaching strategies and activities that enhance student behavior, improve school climate, and promote academic achievement while reducing bully behaviors.
CLAIRE WEBSTER
Target Audience: All grade levels
Title: Articulating a Curriculum Subject
This workshop will look at how to develop documentation to show articulation from early years to grade 12 in a curriculum area. Participants will see how to incorporate a variety of requirements from accrediting bodies, including IB, CIS, and WASC into school documentation.
DIANA BLAZAR / KATIE THORLEIFSON
Target Audience: Grade 1-8
Title: Student-Led Conferences: Why, What, and How?
This workshop will support teachers interested in student-led conferences. We will discuss the benefit of student-led conferences and how to implement them in your classroom. The workshop will be broken into two parts, designed for primary and intermediate teachers.
EDWIN TANNER
Target Audience: Music and primary teachers (grade 2 & up)
Title: Recorder for Beginners — An Aural Approach with Jazzy & Pentatonic Tunes
Most music teachers teach recorders from books. The presenter reasoned that it is important and natural for young children to first learn an instrument aurally before reading music, and has developed an approach to teaching beginning recorders. Children will learn the recorder in a fun way, with jazzy and pentatonic tunes, both traditional and original. For this workshop, teachers need to bring their own recorders (a limited number of recorders are available for purchase at cost).
KAREN NOLL / GLENDA BAKER
Target Audience: HS teachers
Title: Communication and Visual Literacy: Art and English Teachers Developing Common Assessments
We will explore issues that teachers face when designing and assessing communication assignments, specifically where visuals and language are featured together. Art and English teachers can collaborate to teach, assess, and have students transfer the components of good visual communication and the traits of good language communication across disciplines.
ALTHEA BESA
Target Audience: Grades 9-12 teachers (including IB/AP)
Title: Teaching for Transpersonal Intelligence in the English Classroom
Transpersonal Intelligence enables us to discover greater meaning in our actions and to become more compassionate and holistic in our relationships with others, and with the wider world. Sadly this way of thinking/learning is often ignored in academic curriculums. This workshop presents alternative teaching approaches to help English/humanities students gain a fuller grasp of the literature, while at the same time encouraging them to become more self-aware, compassionate, and “critically contemplative” human beings.
MATT BUGBEE
Target Audience: Secondary (mostly); Science teachers
Title: DERT: Designing Environmental Resources to Teach
Based on Faith Academy’s DERT (environmental science) Club’s successful experience, a 10-step process will be outlined that enables teachers to develop an environmental science/community service outreach program with their students.
DALE ETHRIDGE
Target Audience: Grades 4 -12 Language and ESOL
Title: Learning through Play: Language-Rich Games for the Classroom
As language teachers, we are faced with the difficulty of providing enough practice in the target language without too much unauthentic drilling. One answer is playing games that are language-rich and that help build fluency. This workshop will share (and play!) several popular dice/card games that can be utilized in the language classroom (and advisory classes) as either full lessons in themselves or quick 10-minute “filler” activities.
MICHAEL CASTELLANI
Target Audience: MS/HS Mathematics
Title: Math Games and Manipulatives for All Classrooms
The presentation will explore several key math manipulatives and games that have been around for a long time and that are very useful and applicable to all math teachers. Teachers will learn how to make minor adjustments to make it grade/curriculum-specific, regardless of level. In addition, teachers will explore how to make inexpensive versions and integrate technology, updating these games and making them even more fun for all.
RINGO DINGRANDO
Target Audience: HS and MS Science
Title: Rocketry: A Tool for Teaching Experimental Design
The ability to design a valid scientific experiment is an important skill not only in the IB curriculum, but also in any laboratory science course. In this presentation, I will show the audience how to use model rocketry (which is interesting on its own) as a tool to teach experimental design to students. As a side benefit, the audience will learn how to easily have their students build air powered rockets and launchers.
ADAM TEATHER
Target Audience: K–Grade 10
Title: Making Connections in Mathematics
Come and see how making a few adjustments to a traditional math tool can transform it into the Ultimate Math Tool to teach all 10 NCTM Standards at all grade levels. We will touch on the following: differential instruction, inquiry-based instruction, visual and tactile learners, and building number fluency. Teachers will leave the session with the sample activities, sample assessments, and lesson ideas, which they can implement immediately.
SUNNY SUN
Target Audience: All levels
Title: Improving Communication: ESL Parent Information Sessions
One of the ways to understand and communicate better with our ESL parents is through addressing their needs to learn about second language acquisition and acculturate to a new academic environment. This session will look into the reasons and benefits of providing ESL parent information sessions, workshop topics that ESL parents find most informative, and the ways to organize the ESL parent educational sessions.
MARY FISH
Target Audience: Upper Elementary to MS
Title: Modeling Writing during Writing Workshop
As English teachers, we ask our students to be readers and writers, so we must be readers and writers too. In this workshop, you will see how I overhauled my entire curriculum to reflect a balanced literacy approach to instruction after attending the Columbia Teachers College Reading and Writing Project Summer Institutes. The focus will then narrow, and I will demonstrate how I use my own writing within Writing Workshop to model the writing process in my classroom.
BEN ROBERTACCIO
Target Audience: K-Grade 12 teachers, counselors and/or administrators
Title: Understanding the Most Prevalent Childhood Psychological Issue: Anxiety
Anxiety is the most common psychological issue children face. Working in a school almost guarantees experience with childhood anxiety. The workshop will give an overview of possible anxiety related issues that school-age children might experience. After attending the workshop, a participant will recognize common symptoms that anxious children show, become familiar with different types of anxiety, and gain ideas to use when dealing with an anxious or stressed child, including specific strategies for helping children to cope.
MATT FEBREY
Target Audience: MS or HS (secondary)
Title: Dance for the Non-Dance Specialist
Matt will present a series of simple practical ideas that can be used within a basic dance unit. Such ideas include: rhythm awareness, simple salsa, simple swing, and movement composition. This will be an active workshop and all participants will be expected to join in.
GEOFFREY RODOCKER / SHUNA SUN
Target Audience: Pre-school-Grade 3 (age 3-8)/any teacher with special appeal for Physical Education and Foreign Languages
Title: Integration of Physical Education and a Foreign Language
In this workshop, we will introduce the integration of the Perceptual Motor and Chinese program at Singapore American School. We will discuss the cognitive, psychological, social, and cultural benefits of integrating a foreign language with movement. There will be a video clips of the program followed by a discussion of the challenges, solutions, and application of an integration program.
FELICITY CARTER
Target Audience: All levels
Title: Stand Up For Shakespeare
“Children learn better when they are excited and engaged ...” Excellence and enjoyment, a strategy for schools, May 2003. Shakespeare can be both exciting and engaging. We know that young people can learn about Shakespeare and his work, but more importantly, they can learn about themselves and our world through the stories, characters, and language of the plays. Theater-based approaches can have a real impact, encouraging a personalized approach to learning that gives confidence and depth to young people’s written responses as well as enhancing their speaking and listening skills. This workshop responds to learning objectives: speaking, listening, and responding; group discussion and interaction.
LYNETH ROZZUELL MAGSALIN
Target Audience: K2 – Grade 5 homeroom teachers
Title: Questioning: A First Step in the Path to Scientific Understanding. The use of science experiments as tools for inquiry based learning.
This workshop will identify some of the different ways to use experiments for further inquiry and understanding. Classroom-tested experiments will be presented where participants will be engaged in science activities. This workshop is for teachers whose goals are to provide students with engaging, fun, and meaningful science activities while activating their questioning skills. When students experience the concepts, there is a greater chance for retention and understanding. Teachers in the elementary years will get to appreciate how these activities keep the students engaged and eager to explore and learn more.
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WORKSHOP SESSION 9
SATURDAY, 28 March ‘09
11:30-12:30
JULIE MCDAID / RACHELE DE ROZARIO / LISA BUGENSKE
Target Audience: MS Science teachers
Title: Moving from Implicit to Explicit in the Science Classroom
This workshop will focus on presenting strategies grounded in best practices in education, such as scaffolding, differentiation, and assessment. The purpose being to make what is implicit to teachers in the science curriculum, explicit for students. Implementation through co-teaching/collaboration to achieve success will be emphasized. Workshop will be interactive and activity based.
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JENNIFER MAGIEROWICZ
Target Audience: MS and HS but can adapted for use in upper elementary
Title: The 4th Roles of Reading Framework: Enhancing Literacy
The 4 Roles model for critical literacy is an excellent framework to support literacy and can be used in all domain areas. Students learn explicitly what successful readers do when they access text, both fiction and non-fiction, develop deeper understanding of text and vocabulary acquisition skills. The workshop is hands-on, and participants will have an experience similar to that of the students, with time for debriefing and discussion.
STEVE SUMMERFIELD
Target Audience: Advisory programs at upper elementary, MS/HS
Title: We Need To Come Full Circle!
When students are standing around the ‘fire,’ good things happen. We face one another and there are greater opportunities to connect, interact, and team-build in ways that are all inclusive. We can also learn to manage the demons inside the circle when conflicts arise. All participants quickly learn that the Event + Response = Outcome, and by changing our response when bad things happen, we can avoid getting ‘burned.’
RAMONA BOYLE / MARYANNE O’NEILL
Target Audience: MS and HS teachers involved with or interested in MUN programs
Title: MUN: Tools, Topics, and Tests
This will be a facilitated discussion on our experiences with MS and HS MUN as a club and then as an elective course. There will be an opportunity for participants to share their experiences and for people new to MUN to learn more about setting up a program.
NICOLE IBERRI
Target Audience: All grade levels/ All subjects
Title: Graphic Tools for Applying Thinking Skills in Content Learning
In this workshop you will learn to use visual teaching tools called Thinking Maps®. The program is grounded in the latest brain research, and is comprised of eight maps, each of which corresponds to a fundamental thinking process — defining, describing, classifying, comparing/contrasting, sequencing, seeing part-to whole relationships, distinguishing cause and effect, and seeing analogies. Thinking Maps help learners to transform information into knowledge and foster and encourage life long learning.
TIM WILSON
Target Audience: Grades 9-12 counselors
Title: The PSAT test, My College Quickstart and Beyond
Trying to utilize your PSAT test results and provide individualized instruction regarding career awareness and college planning? This workshop will provide you that answer by using PSAT test results and My College Quickstart from the College Board to have students identify careers, explore courses of study, and conduct college searches. An in-depth tour and analysis of the My College Quickstart program will provide the focus of the workshop with additional resources being included.
SHARON VIPOND
Target Audience: Librarians, media/info. tech. educators & staff: HS/MS
Title: Virtual Launch: Key Steps to Paperless
Synopsis: If you are dreaming of a paperless library or looking for a process and implementation model for creating a virtual library, this session is for you. Within the context of the twenty-first century learner profile, there will be a discussion on the pros and cons of going virtual, the identification of possible stumbling blocks and strategies to surmount them. There will be a sharing of the various ways virtual will impact every facet of the library’s operation. The question of what should replace the collection development policy as the library’s contract with the school will be explored. Ideas on the elements to include in the new contacts, mission statements and policies also will be discussed. Participants will be encouraged to complete an online google document survey on going paperless with the results available to all workshop participants.
SUSAN WHALEY
Target Audience: All levels
Title: Linking Multiple Intelligence Theory to ESL/Foreign Language Lessons
This will be an introduction of theories of dominant learning style and multiple intelligences. Participants will complete two short self-assessments: one for revealing alternatively left or right brain dominance; the second to determine learning strengths. Results will be discussed briefly. Examples of classroom activities for an ESL/foreign-language lesson will be presented to demonstrate how to cater for students with different intelligence profiles. The audience will divide into groups, pooling ideas, designing activities for given topics, and then presenting results.
ERIK WILENSKY
Target Audience: MS with some applications to HS physics
Title: Enhancing Middle School Physical Science with Phun Physics Simulation Software
This workshop has two main objectives: first, to demonstrate how to effectively use “Phun” software to create scenes which demonstrate concepts in physical science; and second, to demonstrate some examples of custom made scenes and to explore ideas for “Phun” based projects and assignments. “Phun” is a free physics simulation package. It is fully scalable and student friendly.
JACYNTHA ENGLAND
Target Audience: MYP – Grades 6-10
Title: Making It Real!: Drama and Literature in the English B Classroom
This practical, hands-on workshop will focus on the role creative drama can play in encouraging English B students to make real-life personal connections to challenging literary texts. Using excerpts from novels and poems studied in MYP English B classrooms, workshop participants will see how such easy to learn drama techniques as image theater, hot-seating, and monologue-building can engage even the most reluctant English B students in creative and critical exploration and discussion.
DON CHAMBERS
Target Audience: Grades 4-12
Title: Robotics, an Avenue for 21st Century Education
This workshop will present an argument for the use of robotics to enhance student learning and prepare them for the 21st century world. It will include:
- Educational justification for robotics.
- Argument for robotics as an important technology in the 21st century.
- Overview of what’s available in robotics for education.
- Hands on work with robotics.
- Resources for teachers wanting to include robotics in their curriculum.
KIM COFINO
Target Audience: PK-Grade 12 classroom teachers, technology teachers/facilitators, librarians
Title: Connecting Classrooms across Continents: Planning and Implementing Globally Collaborative Projects
Globally collaborative projects are an exciting way to engage your students in authentic and meaningful learning across cultures and continents. Successfully combining a variety of web 2.0 tools (like blogs, wikis, Skype, IM, social networks, etc.) can remove the barriers of time and distance to connect your class with others around the world. Not only do students love to meet their far-flung peers, but learning to collaborate and create in an entirely online and intercultural environment will clearly be a critical skill for their future. Learn how to develop a successful global project — from design and planning to implementation and product — as well as see examples of successful projects from all grade levels.
TARA MUNCH
Target Audience: Primary school, ESL classroom teachers
Title: Ready, Set, Storytell!: Teaching with Storytelling and Story Re-telling
How and why should storytelling be used in the classroom? This workshop gives a rationalization for and the importance of teaching storytelling in primary and ESL classrooms using children’s literature. Preparation and implementation as well as practical application are the main focuses. The students will learn to be storytellers.
PATRICIA KEARNEY
Target Audience: MS/HS teachers who teach “Romeo and Juliet”
Title: A Little Ditty ‘Bout R & J
Don’t shoot the messenger. Romeo and Juliet is not a love story. It is a story about teenagers who let their emotions lead them to one bad ending. I will go over the lines and scenes which you can use to help your teens relate to this story. Shakespeare may be old, but he shows us that teens in his times are no different than kids sitting next to each other in your classroom.
CONNIE CHUNG / REBECCA GARNHUM
Target Audience: K-6 teachers and grade level leaders
Title: Leading and Facilitating Curriculum Development through a Time of Change
Are you faced with the challenge of implementing and/or facilitating curriculum change? Through interactive activities and group discussion, this workshop will address research-based theories of curricular change and its challenges. We will work together to explore practical strategies to guide you in becoming an effective ‘change leader’ in your classroom and at your grade level.
RACHELLE RUEBE
Target Audience: Upper school science teachers
Title: Make Science Fun and Creative with Student-Centered Activities
I would like to share and demonstrate a number of student-centered activities. This workshop is aimed at all grade levels, with particular focus on grades 3-10, to support the foundation principles and to ensure a high level of student involvement, creativity, and fun in science.
TOM ECCLESTON
Target Audience: Test makers: grades 9-12 classroom teachers
Title: Making It Fair: Adapting Classroom Tests and Exams for Exceptional Students
Equitable assessment does not necessary mean the same assessment. In most high schools, traditional tests and exams remain a reality for all students, including those with special educational needs. This presentation aims to provide classroom teachers with practical strategies for adapting tests through their construction stage, administration, and scoring without diluting their evaluation validity, so that exceptional learners are evaluated fairly.
NEIL WOODS / LISA MORRISON
Target Audience: IB teachers both TOK specialist and non-specialist, IB coordinators and administrators
Title: Consequential TOK from the Classroom to the Presentation...
This presentation will demonstrate how solid pedagogy, a focus on critical thinking, and creativity in the classroom can be neatly combined with strategic planning to deliver consequential TOK in your school. Learn how two experienced TOK teachers have turned the TOK oral into a showcase for student talent in their school community.
NATALIE GIACONE
Target Audience: Grades 5-12
Title: Pen Name Peer-Pressure Writers’ Workshop
This writing process unit gets students discussing drafts in the hallways. By creating a peer audience, students are motivated and regulated by one another. The safe pen name drives them to clarify purpose as they learn how to approach their papers as readers. Students hone style, voice, and organization through multiple drafts. Lastly, mini lessons on grammar allow for immediate application with skill lasting effects.
RUTH AUTY
Target Audience: K-12 - Adult
Title: Theatresports for Everyone, In/Out of Any Ordinary Multicultural Classroom
Timed, competitive, total involvement, exciting, fun, endorphin-enhancing, adrenaline-pumping, mind-stretching, subject/theme/topic/event/holiday related, for group/class/year/team/whole school, multi-lingual, multi-cultural, “no kid left out,” fantasmagorically supermendously outrageously exhausting yet exhilarating challenging...TheatreSports in an international school. Do not expect to sit in your seat for this one.
ROBERT HEATH
Target Audience: HS and to some extent MS PE
Title: Practical Applications of the “Teaching Games for Understanding” Approach
The “Teaching Games for Understanding” approach to teaching physical education is based on the theory that it is possible to teach much, if not all, of the required content within the context of the game situation. The theory is that this approach maximizes motivation and also promotes fitness development. The key to a successful TGFU program is the imaginative modification of game rules and conditions, and this is what this workshop will be about. Participants will be shown a number of tried and successfully tested modifications of soccer, volleyball, softball, basketball etc., as well as perhaps the motivation to invent their own.
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