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ALAN ATKISSON
Workshop 1 - Title: Using ISIS: An Introduction to the ISIS Method and the Accelerator Tools
Description: This workshop will provide participants with an overview of the ISIS Method -- a generic way of structuring sustainability teaching and practice -- and the ISIS Accelerator, a set of tools designed to support educational and professional work in sustainability. The Accelerator tools are rapidly being adopted by schools, public agencies, and companies in East Asia. With a mixture of presentation, case studies, and short interactive exercises, participants will get an orientation to the full sequence of ISIS-related techniques.
Workshop 2 - Title: Compass Schools: A New Program for Orienting Toward Sustainability
Description: The "Compass Schools" program, which is coordinated by the AtKisson Group, was initiated by schools and education leaders in Asia who have adopted the ISIS Compass (also known as the Sustainability Compass) as a curriculum and organizational planning that is particularly well suited to middle and secondary education. The ISIS Compass converts the "North, South, East, West" of a regular English-language compass into "Nature, Economy, Society, and Well-Being." Based in scholarly research on sustainability, Compass is used as a guide in companies and government agencies as well. This workshop will introduce educators to Compass as a tool for education, and to the new program and network that has been launched to support and link users of these materials.
Workshop 3 - Title: How to Build a Pyramid: A Hands-On Express Training on How to Run a
Description: The ISIS Pyramid, one of the Accelerator tools, is an extraordinarily versatile process for teaching, planning, team-building, and creating consensus on strategic action for sustainability. Pyramid has been used by many institutions throughout East Asia (and around the world), ranging from agencies of government in Singapore, to companies in Indonesia, to school systems in Thailand. The process is fun, fast, and very engaging. When used for teaching, it results in deepened understanding of every phase in the sustainable development process. When used for planning, it speeds up the process of generating new, powerful ideas for change, and developing a consensus agreement on action. This "Pyramid Express" workshop will run participants quickly through the entire process.
Workshop 4 - Title: Journey Into the Amoeba: Harnessing the Power of Innovation Diffusion to Accelerate Change
Description: The ISIS Amoeba workshop involves a highly interactive role-playing game that is built on the principles of innovation theory, supplemented by the AtKisson Group's many years of practical work with cultural change and transformation processes in a sustainable development context. The "Amoeba Game" -- which models how actual innovations do or do not spread in any cultural group, which also provides participants with planning tools for increasing their chances for success -- has been played hundreds of times around the world in dozens of countries, and is especially useful to people who aspire to be more effective "Change Agents" within the systems where they live and work.
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PHOEBE BARASH
Workshop 1 - Title: Title: An Introductory Look at Conflict Management: Building Relationships (Part 1) Download Handout
Description: Educators face a variety of conflicts on a daily basis. The purpose of this workshop is to build upon skills that each participant already possesses. Building on skills already in the ‘toolbox’, opening up communication and adding new tools each individual will be challenged to confront conflict creatively. Focus will be on building a common language around conflict resolution, basic conflict management skills , conflict triggers, skills needed to facilitate difficult meetings, building and improving relationships. This will be accomplished introduction to basic conflict theory, role plays, collaborative problem solving.
Workshop 2 - Title: An Introductory Look at Conflict Management: Building Relationships (Part 2) Download Handout
Description: Educators face a variety of conflicts on a daily basis. The purpose of this workshop is to build upon skills that each participant already possesses. Building on skills already in the ‘toolbox’, opening up communication and adding new tools each individual will be challenged to confront conflict creatively. Focus will be on building a common language around conflict resolution, basic conflict management skills , conflict triggers, skills needed to facilitate difficult meetings, building and improving relationships. This will be accomplished introduction to basic conflict theory, role plays, collaborative problem solving.
Workshop 3 - Title: THE NEW TEACHER: Implications for Learning in Building Relationships Download Handout
Description:New year; teachers set the goal of building classroom communities through relationships. For a new conflict can happen, the goal gets derailed. New teacher attrition can be related to lack of pre-service in classroom management, conflict and behavior management. This workshop introduces strategies useful with new teachers in building community classrooms; maximizing the teaching/ learning environment.
Workshop 4 - Title: The Respectful School: Intervening When Faced with Incidents of Bullying Download Handout
Description: Research confirms: adult presence, the most important deterrent to bullying. Intervening isn’t always comfortable. It takes empathy, courage, comfort with language. A short introduction of educator’s legal responsibilities in the US will act as a framework. Participants will look at: what to do, words to use. The workshop includes small group discussion and role plays.
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CHIP BARDER
Workshop 1 - Title: Teaching Colleagues’ Children/Working with Colleagues Who Teach My Child
Description: There are inherent challenges when faculty and their own children are in the same school. This workshop is designed to deal with this sometimes emotionally sensitive issue in an open and practical way. The hoped for outcome is that participants will leave with a range of strategies to effectively confront these challenges.
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STEPHEN BUCHMANN
Workshop 1 - Title: Visualizing Rainforest Insects and Flowers: Digital Photography
Description: Students will learn to find camouflaged rainforest insects on the grounds of the conference hotel and a local nature reserve. Dr. Buchmann will help us appreciate them, find flowers and other interesting subjects to observe and photograph. We will go “tiny game hunting” with our eyes and digital cameras. Dr. Buchmann will present introductory material on using any digital camera to take macro (close up photographs) of insects, flowers and other small found objects. He will distribute handouts on this subject. In the second half of this one day pre-conference Workshop, the participants will explore the grounds and gardens of the conference hotel, and explore a local nature reserve. We will look for diverse but often hidden (camouflaged) Insects rainforest insects and other arthropods to observe and photograph. Dr. Buchmann is an expert on pollinators, especially bees. We will put out honey baits and see what types of stingless bees (Trigona spp.) arrive at the baits. Using many types of digital cameras we will explore the art of digital photography. Advice will be given on making fine art giclee prints from digital files using modern inkjet printers (e.g. Epson printers).
Workshop 2 - Title: Digital Photography & Insect Natural History
Description: Students will learn to find camouflaged rainforest insects on the grounds of the conference hotel and a local nature reserve. Dr. Buchmann will help us appreciate them, find flowers and other interesting subjects to observe and photograph. We will go “tiny game hunting” with our eyes and digital cameras.
Workshop 3 - Title: Digital Print-making: Exploring Inkjet Printing
Description: Dr. Buchmann is a scientist and photographer. He will guide us through acquiring digital images with a camera or flatbed scanner and then turning those images into fine art (giclee) prints.
Workshop 4 - Title: Digital Print-making: Exploring Inkjet Printing (Repeat of #3)
Description: Dr. Buchmann is a scientist and photographer. He will guide us through acquiring digital images with a camera or flatbed scanner and then turning those images into fine art (giclee) prints.
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SUSAN CANNON
Workshop 1 - Title: Title: Service Learning for the Greater Good, with Incentives from China, 2008 DOWNLOAD HANDOUT
Description:This presentation reviews aspects of physical disability in connection to two major Chinese events in 2008, the challenges of the Sichuan earthquake and the celebration of the Paralympics. It offers examples of student service-learning projects in international schools that often benefit not only disabled people but also the community as a whole. Images and discussion are used to support the presentation, and participants are encouraged to draw up plans to implement in their own schools.
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ALEX CLIFTON
Workshop 1 - Title: The Teacher Director
Description: Frequently as teachers we are asked to direct students in performance work of some kind. This could be a class production, an assembly, or a presentation for a special occasion at school. Alex will work with you as teachers to develop a ‘tool box’ of skills that will enable you to assume this role with confidence. A range of performance techniques and staging ideas will be covered, in addition to exploring the role of the director. No previous drama experience is needed and this workshop will cover all age ranges of students.
Workshop 2 - Title: Working with Text
Description: Whether you are working with Jane Eyre, Hamlet, Le Chateau de ma Mere, or a primary source document from World War 1 this workshop will be of interest and relevance to you. The aim is simply to introduce effective and challenging approaches to unlock text work in the classroom.
Workshop 3 - Title: Drama, Theatre and the Ensemble Process (I)
Description: The first of two workshops on this topic, you will be introduced to ISTA’s ensemble approach to learning. Through a range of drama activities, that stress communication, affirmation and cooperation, strategies are explored which satisfy the needs of a range of learning styles and create a nourishing classroom learning climate.
Workshop 4 - Title: Ensemble Building (II)
Description: The second part of our workshop looking at creating a healthy ensemble in every classroom. Activities such as 'Teacher-in-Role', Simulations and Role Playing will also be explored in the context of teaching tools.
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CLAY HENSLEY
Workshop 1 - Title: Title: Establishing and Enhancing your School’s AP Program
Description: This session will provide an overview of how to begin administering AP at a school and ideas and resources to enhance and further develop an existing program. We will share resources available for teachers, AP Coordinators and administrators. Come share best practices and questions about AP program administration, policies and initiatives with educators at other schools.
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CATHERINE FUNK
Workshop 1 - Title: Is Administration for you?
Description: The shortage of top calibre teachers interested in international schools has been a topic of much concern of late. However the same is true of the administrative pool. Our EARCOS schools need strong administrators. Where better to find them but from our current teacher leaders? This workshop will be a blatant plea for teachers to consider administration and provide helpful strategies for making that switch if it is for you.
Workshop 2 - Title: The Role of the Team Leader
Description: A principal who tries to do it all is making a big mistake. Shared leadership is what makes a school hum. It cannot be successful without strong teacher leaders. This workshop will focus on the role of the team leader and give practical suggestions for ways to make teams make a difference for students.
Workshop 3 - Title: Ten Symptoms of Dysfunctional Teams
Description: Teaming requires more than people of good will and time. This workshop will help participants identify what can hinder effective teaming and analyze why they happen and how to prevent them from occurring.
Workshop 4 - Title: Ten Symptoms of Dysfunctional Teams (Repeat of Workshop 3)
Description: Teaming requires more than people of good will and time. This workshop will help participants identify what can hinder effective teaming and analyze why they happen and how to prevent them from occurring.
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STEPHANIE HERDRICH / ERIN KENT
Workshop 1 - Title: Targeting Instruction to Meet Students’ Needs: The Use of Strategy Lessons in the Reading Workshop DOWNLOAD HANDOUT
Description:
Strategy lessons are small group mini-lessons that teach to readers’ individual needs. These intensely focused conferences are taught to flexibly grouped students based on identified reading needs. Lessons can be geared toward gaps in students’ skills or strategies or to push students from one reading level to the next. An added benefit to this teaching method is reaching more students with highly individuated instruction everyday.
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ROBERT HULSE
Workshop 1 - Title: Global Climate Change: Framing the Debate for Future Global Leaders
Description: With the intent of informing and provoking both a personal and professional response, this presentation will explore how educators can understand the global climate change picture in order to better educate our future leaders. Using Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" as a template for framing a debate in which a variety of voices are heard, participants can expect to gain an appreciation for both the IPCC reports that form the foundation for "consensus" as well as the perspectives of those who disagree with the IPCC.
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CHRIS JANSEN DOWNLOAD HANDOUT | More in .ZIP format
Workshop 1 - Title: Debriefing Progressions to develop students interpersonal skills
Description: This session is designed for those who are using experiential and adventure based approaches in their teaching and are wanting to expand and develop their repertoire of techniques to process and debrief experiences enabling participants to reflect on their experiences and to learn from them. Participants will experience a practical progression of activities and debriefing techniques, focusing on using the experiential learning cycle to guide the facilitation of a debrief. The session will also explore the selection of facilitation focus topics and establishing facilitation flow.
Workshop 2 - Title: Adventure Based Learning in Physical Education – ‘Bag of Tricks’
Description: This session will give involves a 'quick-fire' tour through a large number of innovative new Adventure Based Learning activities as well as variations on old favourites with a view to re-energising participants and adding some variety to their Physical Education delivery. More details of the above sessions can be found at the following website www.panz.org.nz
Workshop 3 - Title: Situational leadership for developing group culture.
Description: Situational Leadership for developing group culture. Have you ever been faced with a group where you being to despair at their attitudes and actions and wonder it is possible to work with them? Felt like you were watching a herd of stampeding cattle and wondered if it was wise to be standing in front of them?? Ever been part of a group where over time they transform into a close knit, supportive and enthusiastic team making significant changes in their lives??? Does this happen randomly or can we actively catalyse this process? We have found the development of a positive group culture to be a challenging and yet crucial component of our work, and that when this group state is achieved most of the other outcomes we are working on begin to occur quite naturally and powerfully.
Workshop 4 - Title: Exploring Education for Sustainability in Training Outdoor Educators
Description: This session outlines the transformation that has occurred at the University of Canterbury College of Education over the last 2 years as a result of challenges emerging from a Outdoor and Environmental Education consultation process. This transformation in policy and practices has been in the area of Education for Sustainability and this article explores the repositioning of the programme philosophy and then examples of the implementation of this philosophy both at the University and also in the schools that graduates have subsequently been employed in. More details of the above sessions can be found at the following website www.panz.org.nz
Workshop 5 - Title: Challenging Adolescents – Hunting for that elusive Win-Win!
Description: "Why does it seem that adult-adolescent interactions so often present as conflict...What would happen if I chose to step back from my 'right' to correct their obnoxious behaviour? What would a win-win look like? How can self awareness help me work towards this? Who is driving the bus? Won't they perceive my reaction as soft and then escalate.... What changes am I searching for in these young people?" More details of some of the above sessions can be found at the following website www.panz.org.nz
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LINDA KIISK
Workshop 1 - Title: Space, Culture and Learning Style: A Visual Evolution
Description: This session examines the divergent styles of the brain’s architecture and how it can influence a person’s approach to sustainable design. The presenter, an artist and architect from Wyoming, outlines a history of the development of the brain and demonstrates how the visual center of the brain influences our responses to one another and the environment.
Workshop 2 - Title: Aligning Habitats with the Architecture of the Brain
Description: As a continuation of the first session on visual brain differences and sustainability, the presenter demonstrates how the architecture of our brains must be aligned with the architecture we inhabit. The implication is that the shape of our living and learning environments impacts the quality of our mental, physical and spiritual health.
Workshop 3 - Title: Greening Schools and Classrooms (Part 1)
Description: This double session introduces attendees to the concept of green schools. Case Studies of green schools in Wyoming and Colorado are compared with East Asia and are presented first half of the session. In the second half, attendees are invited to bring examples of schools in their respective regions. We will work in teams to explore ways to modify building sites, classrooms and curriculum to improve energy and environmental efficiency. (Bring site plans, floor plans and photos.)
Workshop 4 - Title: Greening Schools and Classrooms (Part 2)
Description: This double session introduces attendees to the concept of green schools. Case Studies of green schools in Wyoming and Colorado are compared with East Asia and are presented first half of the session. In the second half, attendees are invited to bring examples of schools in their respective regions. We will work in teams to explore ways to modify building sites, classrooms and curriculum to improve energy and environmental efficiency. (Bring site plans, floor plans and photos.)
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JOSEPHINE KIM
Workshop 1 - Title: Inventing the Future: Building Connections from Schools to Careers
Description: Students are not introduced to career development until after high school when it is already too late; many students graduate, still perplexed about what they should do for a career. Career development education should be infused into the educational curricula, so explicit links are made between K-12 education and careers.
Workshop 2 - Title: Distinct Culture, Unique People: Understanding Korean Students and Their Families (Part 1)
Description: The number of Korean students in international schools is increasing, and understanding how culture impacts their cognitions and behaviors is vital to appropriately servicing them. This program will seek to address facets of the Korean culture that intersects with education and places Korean youth at risk for various emotional difficulties.
Workshop 3 - Title: Distinct Culture, Unique People: Understanding Korean Students and Their Families (Part 2 or Workshop 2)
Description: The number of Korean students in international schools is increasing, and understanding how culture impacts their cognitions and behaviors is vital to appropriately servicing them. This program will seek to address facets of the Korean culture that intersects with education and places Korean youth at risk for various emotional difficulties.
Workshop 4 - Title: Facilitating Self-reflection, Development, and Growth of Teachers Who Educate Abroad
Description: Student success is a collective result of healthy families, communities, and schools. Teachers play an influential role in the lives of students, and their emotional health is displayed in everyday interactions with students. Teachers will be given an opportunity to focus on their self-development and growth through this therapeutic session.
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RON LANCASTER
Workshop 1 - Title: The sliding ladder problem, related rate problems and the art of Micah Lexier. Download Handout
Description: If we pull the bottom end of a ladder leaning against a wall by 10 cm, is it true that the top of the ladder will fall by 10 cm? This problem can be used with grades 7-12 students to learn about the Pythagorean Theorem, rates of change, equations of circles and trigonometry. The TI83/84/NSpire and Sketchpad will be used to support the activity.
Workshop 2 - Title: Using photographs and videos as a springboard for mathematical inquiry Download Handout
Description: During a trip to Kuala Lumpur in 2008, Ron Lancaster put on a pair of mathematical glasses and took photographs and videos of the mathematics that he encountered in locations that included a market, a shopping mall, KL Tower, The Petronas Towers and Eye on Malaysia. Ron will discuss how teachers can use these and other photos and videos taken anywhere in the world as the basis of interesting and engaging mathematical questions for students. These questions will enable mathematics teachers to connect the curriculum with the world in an artistic manner. The TI83/84/NSpire and Sketchpad will be used to support the activity.
Workshop 3 - Title: Using TI-Nspire to deepen students' understanding of mathematics (Part 1) Download Handout
Description: In this workshop we will take a tour of all the main features Nspire, the latest handheld calculator from Texas Instruments. We will discuss how Nspire can be used to make connections between algebra and geometry and we will also look at ways in which CAS (computer algebra system) can be used to enhance many topics from the high school curriculum.
Workshop 4 - Title: Using TI-Nspire to deepen students' understanding of mathematics (Part 2)
Description: In this workshop we will take a tour of all the main features Nspire, the latest handheld calculator from Texas Instruments. We will discuss how Nspire can be used to make connections between algebra and geometry and we will also look at ways in which CAS (computer algebra system) can be used to enhance many topics from the high school curriculum.
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JOE LEVINE
Workshop 1 - Title: Understanding and teaching the science of climate change
Description: Global warming hits the headlines daily, from the harsh reality of rising sea levels and melting glaciers to questions about the number and severity of tropical storms. Understanding the science behind headline news and politics is vital, because human activity affects global as well as local ecological processes. Learn how to inject new enthusiasm and relevance into teaching this "new ecology" with cutting-edge information and exciting on-line resources. NOTE: This talk blends pedagogical techniques, physics, chemistry, earth science, and biology into a presentation of interest to all science teachers.
Workshop 2 - Title: Why climate change matters so much to biologists ... and ecosystems
Description: This talk, building on the knowledge base presented in #1, reviews advances in global ecology, and presents the latest data on climate change and its effects on both temperate and tropical ecosystems. This presentation focuses on why biologists, in particular, are so concerned about the effects of global climate change on individual organisms and ecosystems. It also demonstrates the importance of scientific thinking in addressing issues that link science, technology, and society.
Workshop 3 - Title: Ecology and evolution of infectious disease: The ecology and evolution of host-pathogen relationships
Description: HIV, Bird flu, Mad Cow, and West Nile virus seem to have appeared out of nowhere, but their stories demonstrate that relationships between hosts and pathogens are dynamic and constantly changing - driven by ecological interactions and coevolutionary forces. This presentation introduces the role of ecology and evolution in the relationships of humans with infectious disease, and describes how our coevolutionary arms race with pathogens has shaped our history and shadows our future.
Workshop 4 - Title: Ecology and evolution of infectious disease: Recent and current case studies around the world.
Description: Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis spreads around the world, "Mad Cow" disease devastates the cattle industry, and avian flu seems to lurk in the shadows. Using both current and recent case studies, this presentation provides examples of how to use current issues in public health to demonstrate the relevance of core concepts in ecology and evolution to global society and to students' daily lives. NOTE: Both "disease" talks utilize video clips from the PBS documentary series Evolution (for which I served as Science Editor) that focus on real-world examples of pathogen-host interactions.
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WILLIAM LISHMAN
Workshop 1 - Title: Living Underground
Description: The story of human habitation the pluses and minus of earth integrated architecture.
Workshop 2 - Title: Earth Energy
Description: In 2004 the speaker traveled around the world and hosted a documentary For the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on renewable energy entitled Earth energy this 54 minute program will be shown followed by an up date and discussion.
Workshop 3 - Title: Creative Thinking in Saving Endangered Species
Description: Using the North American Whooping crane that once numbered less than twenty as an example Lishman talks about various endangered species around the world and points out how common citizens can help save endangered or threatened species through citizen science
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JOHN LIU
Workshop 1 - Title: What is Climate Change? - Participating in Post Kyoto Policy Response (Part 1)
Description: First half: Climate change has been communicated as excessive emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. This is scientifically inaccurate. This workshop discusses what various factors cause climate change focusing on the many complex synergistic systems including biodiversity, biomass, organic matter, hydrological regulation, nutrient cycling and natural carbon sequestration.
Workshop 2 - Title: What is Climate Change? - Participating in Post Kyoto Policy Response (Part 2)
Description: Second half: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is a work in progress. The Kyoto protocol cannot rebalance carbon and therefore is an inadequate response to climate change. Everyone alive today (and those yet unborn) has a stake in the outcome. What are the alternatives? How can teachers participate?
Workshop 3 - Title: Participatory Analysis of Climate Change in Ethiopia (Part 1)
Description: Ethiopia is an ancient land and among the countries on the frontline of climate change. This workshop uses video from several trips to Ethiopia for participatory analysis of what the situation in Ethiopia suggests in terms of science (biodiversity, hydrological function, desertification, fertility, climate change), policy, poverty, and disparity and why this matters to everyone on Earth.
Workshop 4 - Title: Participatory Analysis of Climate Change in Ethiopia (Part 2)
Description: Ethiopia is an ancient land and among the countries on the frontline of climate change. This workshop uses video from several trips to Ethiopia for participatory analysis of what the situation in Ethiopia suggests in terms of science (biodiversity, hydrological function, desertification, fertility, climate change), policy, poverty, and disparity and why this matters to everyone on Earth.
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ELLEN LONDON
Workshop 1 - Title: Self-esteem: Create Your International Image Using Color, Fashion and Textiles
Description:Fusion of dress for success, personal color palettes, international textile combinations and preferred apparel choices. Participants work as a group analyzing each other’s “best” colors. Discussion, powerpoint on how combined traditional and international modern textiles work to enhance apparel and color/design choices. Overview of fashion industry. Fashion show by participants.
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MAGGIE MOON
Workshop 1 - Title: Read Aloud with Accountable Talk-Thinking and Talking Deeply About Books Download Handout
Description:This workshop will show teachers how to successfully launch and sustain an important component of their daily literacy instruction, called The Interactive Read Aloud with Accountable Talk. Using the techniques of Think Aloud, Turn and Talk, and Stop and Jot, teachers will learn how to plan their Read Aloud texts, as well as ways to assess students.
Workshop 2 - Title: Book Clubs for Independent Readers Download Handout
Description:This workshop will walk teachers through the ways to form and launch student Book Clubs, from Grades 3-8, as part of a Reader’s Workshop. Teachers will also learn of the helpful Minilessons and conferences that play a large part in student success, as well as receive suggestions for great children’s literature.
Workshop 3 - Title: Writing Workshop 101 Download Handout
Description:For teachers who have dabbled in launching a Writing Workshop, this session will explain the basics of setting up a daily Writing Workshop in grades K-5. The topic of Units of Study will be looked at closely, as well as what Minilessons, conferences, and small group instruction tend to make workshops and young writers soar!
Workshop 4 - Title: Assessing Students’ Narrative Writing Skills Download Handout
Description:This workshop will provide teachers with an in depth look at Narrative Writing, and the particular Units of Study that might be executed in a Writing Workshop. Then teachers will take a close look at a tool that aids in assessing student writing along a continuum.
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MARY O'HALLORAN
Workshop 1 - Title:Preventing Childhood Eating Disorders: Ten Tips for Reducing the Risk Download Handout
Description:Body image problems and over concern with dieting affect even young children. School personnel may the first to learn that a child with an unhealthy weight preoccupation. It is far easier to prevent an eating disorder than to treat one. We will look at the ten tips and discuss ideas for spreading the prevention campaign in our schools and communities.
Workshop 2 - Title: Dealing with stress, trauma, and tragedy: Self-care is not just about you! Download Handout
Description:Developing and maintaining self-care plans are essential for school personnel and for the families and children we work with. We are each faced with events ranging from responses to the aftermath of disasters to transcending daily work and school stress. We will discuss strategies from resiliency and secondary stress research and create resiliency plans for ourselves and those we serve.
Workshop 3 - Title: Parting Ways: The role of resilience through school transitions (Part 1 of Workshop 4)
Description:The end of the school year brings significant challenges to international school communities. There is often a sense of loss as people part ways with friends who may not be returning. However there is also evidence of a significant ability to adapt, make meaning, and enhance resiliency during this process. This workshop includes an examination of various responses and adaptations to the transition process within different developmental and cultural contexts.
Workshop 4 - Title: Parting Ways: The role of resilience through school transitions (Part 2 of Workshop 3)
Description:The end of the school year brings significant challenges to international school communities. There is often a sense of loss as people part ways with friends who may not be returning. However there is also evidence of a significant ability to adapt, make meaning, and enhance resiliency during this process. This workshop includes an examination of various responses and adaptations to the transition process within different developmental and cultural contexts.
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BREEN O'REILLY / DAVID GRAN
Workshop 1 - Title: Visual Literacy
Description: Our students live in an increasingly visual world and visual literacy is the ability to get meaning from visual images. How does film create meaning? How can I best use film in my English literature class? How can my students make documentaries that can be experienced by audiences beyond the classroom? This workshop is a beginner's guide to getting started and opening your students' eyes to a whole new way of seeing.
Workshop 2 - Title: Creating a Film Culture 2: Building a Film Festival
Description: This workshop will focus on the tools and strategies needed to create a student film festival in your school or community and to support it, the development of a film culture. We will also explore avenues to connect film festivals throughout the region to generate greater exposure for student work.
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DAVID OTT
Workshop 1 - Title: Using Math Games to Differentiate Instruction-Grades 4-5-6
Description: Participants will play math games focusing on skill and concept development in the addition, multiplication, division, and fractions. Participants will also identify the variables in each game that will allow for differentiation with students’ differences in skill proficiency and conceptual understandings.
Workshop 2 - Title: Using Math Games to Differentiate Instruction-Grades 1-2-3
Description: Participants will play math games focusing on skill and concept development in number concepts, addition, subtraction, and multiplication. Participants will also identify the variables in each game that will allow for differentiation with students’ differences in skill proficiency and conceptual understandings.
Workshop 3 - Title: Building Geometric Concepts with Hands On Activities Grades 3-6 (Part 1)
Description: Participants will complete two explorations of (Grade3-6) geometric constructions and discuss the geometric skills, concepts, attributes, and mathematical connections that fall out of the experiences. This session is designed to push work in geometry beyond shape name memorization with standard, regular shapes to awareness of attributes and connections from a whole range of shapes that determine “shape club membership”. This session will also offer integration of geometric constructions with measurement and fraction study.
Workshop 4 - Title: Building Geometric Concepts with Hands On Activities Grades 3-6 (Part 2 of Workshop 3)
Description: Participants will complete two explorations of (Grade3-6) geometric constructions and discuss the geometric skills, concepts, attributes, and mathematical connections that fall out of the experiences. This session is designed to push work in geometry beyond shape name memorization with standard, regular shapes to awareness of attributes and connections from a whole range of shapes that determine “shape club membership”. This session will also offer integration of geometric constructions with measurement and fraction study.
Workshop 5 - Title: A Problem Based Instructional Strategy that Offers Differentiation and Mathematical Rigor: Developing and Using a Math Menu
Description: Participants will be presented with how a Math Menu is developed, given time to solve the problems in the menu, and then process their work from student’s point of view and evaluate the experience from a teachers’ view. The workshop is designed to demonstrate how a teacher’s choice of math problems is critical and offer resources for building a collection of math problems and a management system that will provide more opportunities for student autonomy with choices. The menu is designed to provide students, of a wide range of skill and concept development, with appropriately challenging experiences.
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POWELL, BILL/OCHAN
Workshop 1 - Title: “Assessment of Learning in the Differentiated Classroom” (Part 1) Download Handout
Description:In this interactive workshop, we will address the subject of how we evaluate student learning consistently, equitably and positively in the differentiated classroom. This will be accomplished by reviewing what aspects of the curriculum can and can’t be differentiated; and what students need to know about formative assessment. Participants will review principles of high-quality assessments.
Workshop 2 - Title: “Assessment of Learning in the Differentiated Classroom” (Part 2)
Description:In this interactive workshop, we will address the subject of how we evaluate student learning consistently, equitably and positively in the differentiated classroom. This will be accomplished by reviewing what aspects of the curriculum can and can’t be differentiated; and what students need to know about formative assessment. Participants will review principles of high-quality assessments.
Workshop 3 - Title: “Grading in the Differentiated Classroom” Download Handout
Description:“Teachers often feel conflicted about the process of grading students in a differentiated classroom. In this interactive workshop, participants will explore the various purposes behind grading student work and examine six principles which can making the process of grading more meaningful.”
Workshop 4 - Title: “Mediating Student Thinking” Download Handout
Description: “In this interactive workshop, participants will explore the conditions under which students are encouraged to think critically and creatively. Participants will examine the characteristics of mediational questions and will have an opportunity to practice strategies that foster deep student understanding.”
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VIRGINIA ROJAS
Workshop 1 - Title: Beyond Words: Vocabulary Strategies for All Students, All Teachers (Part 1) DOWNLOAD HANDOUT
Description: Vocabulary instruction must be a part of a comprehensive literacy program across all content areas if students are to have access to curricula concepts and understandings. This session will interactively model instructional strategies for teaching distinct tiers of words on order to improve academic achievement.
Workshop 2 - Title: Beyond Words: Vocabulary Strategies for All Students, All Teachers (Part 2)DOWNLOAD HANDOUT
Description: Vocabulary instruction must be a part of a comprehensive literacy program across all content areas if students are to have access to curricula concepts and understandings. This session will interactively model instructional strategies for teaching distinct tiers of words on order to improve academic achievement.
Workshop 3 - Title: Understanding by Design and Differentiation for English Language Learners DOWNLOAD HANDOUT
Description: This session applies the principles of the UbD backwards planning model and differentiation principles to classrooms with a significant number of second language or multilingual students. Specific unit examples will be provided to highlight how ESL and classroom teachers can work together to provide access to grade-level content and standards.
Workshop 4 - Title: Assessing English Language Learners with Accountability and Equity DOWNLOAD HANDOUT
Description: This session presents a framework for using standardized and classroom-based assessment to drive decision making for ESL programs and their students. Going beyond a single ESL test score is necessary to monitor language proficiency, academic literacy, and academic achievement. A step-by-step guide and specific examples will be provided for participants.
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DAVID SCHWARTZ
Workshop 1 - Title: Math Happens When Children Wonder About What They Have Read Download Handout
Description:Inspired by books, children wonder about the world. David has collected student work, especially mathematical investigations, that extend, confirm and sometimes even refute statements in his many non-fiction children’s books. Teachers can encourage the inquiries and the math, with results that are impressive, surprising, sometimes hilarious, always educational.
Workshop 2 - Title: Math Happens When Children Wonder About What They Have Read (Repeat of #1)
Description: Inspired by books, children wonder about the world. David has collected student work, especially mathematical investigations, that extend, confirm and sometimes even refute statements in his many non-fiction children’s books. Teachers can encourage the inquiries and the math, with results that are impressive, surprising, sometimes hilarious, always educational.
Workshop 3 - Title: Nature Books are a Natural: Science Literature for Mathematical Learning Download Handout
Description: Literature, science and math converge in nature books. Using impressive student work based on books he has written, David shows many ways that nature books can be used for mathematical investigations and problem-solving. In an interactive portion, participants devise and share mathematical extensions of nature books that lack obvious math connections.
Workshop 4 - Title: Million Mania: Exploring Big Numbers Across The Curriculum
Description:Big numbers are exciting and they present many active mathematical learning opportunities. By sharing student-created work inspired by How Much is a Million? and other books, David shows how big numbers can connect math with science, social studies and literacy. You’ll leave with a smile on your face and a million new ideas in your head.
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JIM SPELLICY
Workshop 1 - Title: The Nature of Tax Incidence
Description: How can price elasticity of demand be used effectively to teach students how the government levies taxes? The workshop will focus on interactive ways to make excise taxes understandable through graphing.
Workshop 2 - Title: Using Macroeconomic Principles to Talk About the Current Economic Crisis
Description: A workshop open to teachers of all disciplines intended to provide a basic understanding of the current economic crisis. Discussion will center around currency values, bailouts, government intervention, stock values and recovery periods. Active participation is encouraged as the group examines how current changes affect student and well as teacher learning.
Workshop 3 - Title: Improving AP Graphing Skills by Having Students Create Their Own Books
Description: The workshop will provide teachers with a guide on how to have students create a useful notebook all graphs possibly used on the AP examinations. The resource will be an invaluable tool when reviewing for exams.
Workshop 4 - Title: A United Korea: At What Cost?
Description: Using the reunification of Germany as a model, the workshop will examine how a student might begin evaluating the economic costs involved in reuniting the two Koreas at some time in the future.
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NANCY STUBBS / ZANNA MCKAY
Workshop 1 - Title: A New Direction in Research: Looking at international educators’ kids. (Part 1)
Description: Are International Educators’ kids different from “other” TCKs? How do IE/TCKs view themselves? How do adult children of International Educators who have become international educators view themselves? What can we learn from these groups? We will begin to answer these questions and invite you to contribute to their answers.
Workshop 2 - Title: A New Direction in Research: Looking at international educators’ kids (Part 2)
Description: Are International Educators’ kids different from “other” TCKs? How do IE/TCKs view themselves? How do adult children of International Educators who have become international educators view themselves? What can we learn from these groups? We will begin to answer these questions and invite you to contribute to their answers.
Workshop 3 - Title: A New Guide for TCK Families: Celebrating the positive.
Description: What constitutes a TCK family? How are the International Educators’ families different? Do the family role viewpoints (mother-father; parent-child; first born-later born; born abroad-taken abroad; etc.) differ? What can we learn from this special category of TCKs that can guide all TCK families?
Workshop4 - Title: A New Era: Technology Makes a Difference
Description: With the explosion of social networks like Facebook and more time-sensitive communications tools like Skype, are many of the old “truths” about TCKs (being different or alone) becoming fiction? Has their sense of home moved from a geographical location to a virtual network? Is the world really their home?
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DEDE TISONE
Handouts available at http://www.dedetisone.net
Workshop 1 - Title: Contents of the Bag: The new AERO Visual Arts Standards
Description: Session one is an introduction to the AERO Visual Arts Standards. We will unpack the standards, discuss a standards based lesson plan and create a special book that will become a reference point for all four sessions. The essential question for this session is: What do we want Students to Know?
Workshop 2 - Title: Unpacking and Repacking. Assessment from the Teacher’s Point of View
Description: Session two is about the use of formative and summative assessment tools to evaluate student work. We will work from a set of student work created in response to a standards based lesson to answer the question: How do we know that they know it?
Workshop 3 - Title: Unpacking and Repacking. Evaluation from the Student’s Point of View
Description: Session three is about Unpacking and Repacking to engage students in critiques and personal reflection. The essential questions in this session are: 1. How do we know that they know it? 2. How do we enable students to critically analyze their own work and the work of others?
Workshop 4 - Title: The End of the Trip - Unpacking the Backpack. (The Exhibition)
Description: Session four is about how to unpack the bag, display the results of the trip and make connections for our students. We will be mounting an exhibition of our work as we explore the essential question of this session: What is learned by creating a presentation portfolio and/or classroom exhibition?
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JEFF UTECHT
Workshop 1 - Title: From Communities to Networks: Learning How to Teach and Learn with the Web
Description: Creating your own community or network on the web is a powerful teaching opportunity. Understanding where people are, how communities form and how to create those connections to get you started is the key. Come learn the difference between a learning community and a learning network. Walk away understanding why creating a learning community with your students is a powerful teaching tool.
Workshop 2 - Title: Take Control of Your Own PD
Description: Did you know that the National Staff Development Council suggests that “at least 25 percent of an educator’s work time be devoted to learning and collaboration with colleagues.” Want to find your 25% time? Come discover how to learn using the largest network of thinking known to man…..the web!
Workshop 3 - Title: Digital Tools for Digital Educators
Description: 90 minutes of fast paced digital tools that every educator should know about. Bring your own suggestions of things you want to learn about. Stay after the session to go in-depth and get 1:1 help setting up your new learning tools. Laptop required!
Workshop 4 - Title: Open Tech Help Session
Description: Following the Digital Tools for Digital Educators presentation, this session is an unconference session. Come with questions, ideas, thoughts around the use of any tool in the classroom. 90 minutes to play with a cool new tool, to think about its use in the classroom, or just discuss ideas with other digital educators
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BERNADETTE VAN HOUTEN
Workshop 1 - Title: Rafa-Rafa, an experiential activity designed to increase cultural awareness.
Description: Many teachers find it valuable to introduce their students to the idea of culture and diversity using Rafa –Rafa, a simulation which focuses on the feelings, attitudes and reactions generated whenever one experiences another culture of any kind.
Workshop 2 - Title: Cultural competences for successful expatriation
Description: In this session we will consider the effects of expatriation issues such as acculturation and growing up in many cultures. We will also consider how to develop intercultural awareness and cross-cultural communication skills for living and working outside of one’s home country.
Workshop 3 - Title: Teaching diversity and attending to the diversity in our classrooms
Description: During this session we will assess opportunities and strategies that allow our students to engage with complex and ambiguous interpersonal realities, to value differences and to minimize discriminatory behaviours. We will address how we can reconcile culturally divergent views of the importance and meaning of personal and cultural “diversity”
Workshop 4 - Title: Intercultural activities for in the classroom
Description: Short and effective activities and links to access activities which can be weaved throughout the curriculum and at all levels to enhance intercultural awareness, knowledge and skills.
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JANET WEBSTER
Workshop 1 - Title: Everything You Wanted to Know About Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Description: In this introduction to Pervasive Developmental Disorders (Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome and PDD-NOS, referred to as ASD or Autism Spectrum Disorders), we look at developmental tasks (challenges all students must navigate on their journey through life) to help us recognize when an idiosyncratic way of responding indicates the likelihood of ASD.
Workshop 2 - Title: Addressing the Needs of Young Children with ASD (Pre-school to Grade 3)
Description: We examine the typical needs of young children with ASD and use case studies to look at how these can be addressed within the regular classroom. Use of a paraprofessional to assist in implementing the learning support plan and how to talk to parents are also covered.
Workshop 3 - Title: Working with Older Students with ASD (Upper Elementary and Teenagers)
Description: We look at common challenges in older students, including social interaction with peers, anxiety, and work-related difficulties that arise because of organization and time management issues (called difficulties of executive function). We’ll consider the ways teachers and parents can support these students in completing their education.
Workshop 4 - Title: Learning Challenges of Adopted Children
Description: The purpose of the session is to assist teachers to recognize that some learning and behavioral issues arise from pre-adoption trauma. This affects the cognitive, social and emotional development of adopted children and profoundly impacts brain development and, subsequently, learning.
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SHARON WYETH Download Handout
Workshop 1 - Title: Learning Math through Games
Description: Learn how to use easy-to-make games that introduce and/or enhance math concepts covered in middle school math. Students enjoy a different modality of acquiring knowledge and have fun, while simultaneously learning new skills.
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