SESSION 2
Priscilla Bailey
Biography: Priscilla has taught ESL students in the US and Hong Kong throughout her teaching career. Serving as the literacy coordinator for International Christian School in Hong Kong, she presented workshops and trainings for elementary, middle, and high school faculty using participant engagement and research driven strategies. In addition to presenting at ICS, Priscilla has been invited to present at Hong Kong Baptist University on differentiated learning strategies. A lifelong learner, she has completed her Master’s degree in 2008 with an emphasis in language arts and TESL methods.
Target Audience: Appropriate for grades K-12 teachers in all subject areas
Topic: Researched based vocabulary strategies
Title: Teaching Vocabulary Using Best Practice Strategies
Description: Through the use of research based strategies, participants will have an opportunity to try hands on activities that demonstrate how the brain assimilates new vocabulary words into prior schema. Emphasis is placed on how students learn vocabulary, activities to reinforce learning (based on research), and the process and skills to learn words in context.
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Jason Bennett
Biography: Jason Bennett is celebrating his tenth year of music teaching and currently teaches band and music technology courses at AIS-Hong Kong. He earned a BME from Indiana State University in 2000 and a MEd from the University of Central Florida in 2007. Through the years, Mr. Bennett has directed ensembles and classes including marching bands, concert bands, jazz bands/combos, choir, instrumental chamber ensembles, world music, music history, music theory, and music technology.
Target Audience: Educators and administrators with any level of musical ability. Prior musical knowledge is not required.
Topic: Music Integration
Title: Unleashing a Giant: Integrating Music into Your School Community
Description: Music, a powerful medium that can bring about emotional and cognitive responses, has existed in every community known to man. This workshop will explore ways to make music experiences accessible to the school community, and not solely the music classroom, by providing real life examples of interdisciplinary and whole-school music projects that have enhanced student learning. Although the examples presented were designed for high school students, the concepts presented will apply to all levels of learning. Be prepared to have fun and make a little music of your own!
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Althea Besa
Biography: Althea has taught at three different international schools for a total of 21 years. She has given numerous teacher workshops over the years on Writing to Learn, Portfolios and Archetypal Mythology. Last year she presented an EARCOS workshop on Transpersonal Intelligence, focusing on how to help students become more critically contemplative learners. At present she is teaching both IB English and IB Philosophy at the United World College of South East Asia.
Target Audience: IB, High School English teachers
Topic: IB English A1 & A2, High School English/Literature
Title: Using the Learning Log in the IB English Classroom
Description: This workshop introduces the Learning Log as a focused learning/thinking tool for literary analysis. I will offer strategies that help students improve fluency and higher order thinking, as well as acquire skills for the written Commentary. Additional focus will be placed on using the Log to enhance student reflection and transpersonal intelligence. While specific strategies will be linked to the IB Lang A1 syllabus, all of them can be modified to suit younger students.
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Stefanie Bradley
Biography: Stefanie Bradley comes from a long line of Global Nomads. She was born & brought up in Asia, attending international schools throughout her childhood. Having experienced many transitions herself, she is interested in making these as positive for others as possible. She continues to live internationally and has worked in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. She currently teaches in Bangkok.
Target Audience: Anyone working in education
Topic: Transitions
Title: Transitions – Moving & transitioning from school to school
Description: Transitions from one school to another or even from one grade to another, can be a stressful time for students and teachers. I would like to discuss some of the issues and how we, as an educating community, can lessen that stress and make it a positive experience. Whether you’re a music teacher, math teacher, administrator, counselor or homeroom teacher, you can have a positive influence. Come share your ideas.
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Cheryl Brown/Brooke Fezler
Biography: Cheryl Brown has been teaching in international schools for ten years with five years experience in counseling. She has been a co-lead on the international initiative for international school counselors. Additionally, she has experience in working with NGOs, multi-national and government-related organizations around the world, including managing policies in an accreditation agency to improve and maintain standards and quality of educational programs. Cheryl is currently a High School Counselor at Shanghai American School (Puxi). Brooke Fezler has been a school counselor internationally for five years. For her Masters she wrote “Need for school counselor evaluations in an era of educational accountability”. Brooke has been an advocate for comprehensive school counseling programs in the schools in which she works and has coordinated a school-wide movement towards implementation of a comprehensive school counseling program in her current school setting. Brooke currently works at Lincoln, The American International School in Buenos Aires.
Target Audience: K-12 Counselors
Topic: School Counseling
Title: Work session on Developing An International Model for School Counselor (Part 1)
Description: To create international standards for school counseling programs we need your input. Come to this working session where we will spend time reviewing the ASCA Model and editing its contents to better meet the needs of our international schools.
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Don Chamber
Biography: The presenter has taught chemistry and AP chemistry at the American School in Japan for 20 years. He writes for ROBOT magazine and this year will introduce the first VEX robot competition to Japan. He has thoroughly researched robotics and has his finger on the pulse with regard to the philosophy, vision, technology as well as the community building emphasis of robotics. He has a passion for promoting STEM through robotics.
Target Audience: K-13
Topic: Robotics...Encompassing all that modern education is about.
Title: Exciting trends in robotics education
Description: This workshop is an overview of robotics education with examples of competitions, curricula and professional development opportunities. Robots will be demonstrated including ROVs , microrobots, VEX robots, Lego, Parallax, as well as others. There will be a bipedal robot as well as a bipedal robot’s best friend ( yes…the latest in robotic dogs). Participants will operate the robots themselves and will have all they need to begin a robotics program at their schools.
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Jason Luke Cuthbert
Biography: Jason Cuthberth is a Athletic Director and Head of PE at Surabaya International School. He has taught physical education to grade K-12 and been an athletic director for 8 years. He is an avid fitness enthusiast and keep up to date on speed and strenght training. He has played college sports and most recently played semi-pro football in Canada the last two summers.
Target Audience: Middle School/High School, PE teachers
Topic: Physical Education
Title: Circuit Training Teaching Safe, Easy, Effective and Fun Weight Training
Description: PE teachers will be instructed how to correctly set up and teach effective circuit training programs. These programs are easy, safe, inexpensive and highly effective in giving PE students great workouts that help improve overall physical fitness.
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Kevin Desmond
Biography: Kevin Desmond is currently in his 15th year as an educator. He has taught at all levels, Grades 1-8, as a classroom teacher, a computer teacher, and as an ESOL and Spanish Bilingual Teacher. Kevin began his teaching career at the Colombus School in Medellin, Colombia. He has taught in California, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. He currently teaches grades 4 and 5 ESOL at the Shanghai American School.
Target Audience: K-5; PC users (not a Mac based workshop)
Topic: Online Speech, Voice Recording, Tech, ESOL
Title: Voicethread: Share Student Speech Online
Description: Learn how to use Voicethread, an online tool for sharing your students' voice recordings around images. We will create teacher prompted voicethreads as well as learn how to have students post their speaking samples online for all to see.
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Dawn Dinwiddie
Biography: Dawn is originally from Chicago, Illinois. She has a Bachelor in Psychology, a degree in Comprehensive Nutrition and her Master of Elementary Education. Having lived in Singapore for three years and Hong Kong for eleven, she is quite familiar with Asia and its diverse people. Currently, she is teaching third grade at Carmel School of Hong Kong, where she has recently helped design and implement a successful school-wide behavior management program.
Target Audience: All Grade Levels, All Subjects
Topic: Behavior Management
Title: Is It Friday Yet? Successful Behavior Management
Description: If you can’t wait for Friday, chances are you are frustrated with behavior, whether it is the serious actions of one student, or general misbehaviors of a few. This workshop will provide opportunities to examine true cases and brainstorm strategies for improving behavior. A variety of techniques will be presented to help expand proper student conduct and manners outside the classroom, as Dawn shares how to design and implement a successful school-wide behavior management program.
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Jin Shin Ekin
Biography: JinShin Ekin is currently in her 5th year of teaching HS visual arts including the IB and AP program at the American International School of Guangzhou, China. Originally from Seoul, Korea and educated in Australia, she began her first international teaching at the AIS of Mogadishu, Somalia. Since then she has taught at the AISD Bangladesh, ISPP Cambodia and China. Her teaching experience includes visual arts from Kindergarten through to grade 12, PYP, AP and IB art.
Target Audience: IB Visual Art and AP Studio Art teachers
Topic: Visual Art unit design
Title: Art and Power: An Understanding by Design Art Unit
Description: This workshop will introduce Art and Power, an Advanced Placement / International Baccalaureate Art unit designed by the presenter using the Understanding by Design (UbD) framework. The presenter will demonstrate how the unit design addresses core concepts and artistic processes that open up further art investigation possibilities for AP and IB student learners. Come prepared to participate in learning activities from the unit. Examples of students' work will be shown and electronic copies of unit will be available.
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Mary Fish
Biography: Mary Fish teaches Middle School English at the International School of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo, Japan. She has also taught English and Social Studies in Kuwait and Northern Canada. In 2007, she attended the Columbia Teacher’s College Reading and Writing Summer Institutes, which inspired her to dramatically alter the way she approached the teaching of English. Last year at EARCOS, Mary presented on how she uses her own writing to inspire her students during Writing Workshop.
Target Audience: Upper Elementary/Middle School
Topic: English Language Arts – Word Study
Title: Word Study that Works
Description: Word Study is an important part of a balanced literacy curriculum. This workshop will present a differentiated approach to using Word Study in the English/Language Arts classroom. Participants will learn how Word Study can be incorporated in to both the day-to-day operation of the classroom and the year as a whole. Participants will also receive a sample Word Study template. This is a practical, realistic workshop that you can implement on Monday morning.
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Marian Gillett
Biography: Marian Gillett is a high school physical education teacher at Seoul Foreign School
Target Audience: High School PE teacher
Topic: High School Physical Education
Title: Eclipse Ball - A Fast Paced Racket Game
Description: Eclipes Ball is designed to have the team play of volleyball, the spontaneity of badminton and the excitement of tennis. Rules are designed with fun and action in mind. Come dressed ready to play.
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Peter Giordano
Biography: Peter Giordano has worked in every kind of library from the Library of Congress to a small middle school library. He as also taught English from every level from graduate school to middle school. The focus of his research is transaction theory as applied to reluctant and struggling readers.
Target Audience: Middle School and High School English/Language Arts
Topic: Book talks, book selection, independent reading, information literacy
Title: Integrating Literacy techniques into Book Talks
Description: Book talks can be enlivened and improved by using the same techniques we use in our English classes to motivate reading and book selection. Protocols like anticipation guides and tea parties can help motivate even the most reluctant readers and encourage students to challenge themselves with new books and new genres.
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Ann Gould
Biography: Ann Gould has taught PE, Health and Dance in International Schools for the past 23 years. Originally from California, she has taught in California, Egypt, India, Cairo, Singapore, Lima and now China. Ann tries to incorporate the creative, non-competitive elements of dance into her PE classes at the Middle School and High School levels. She holds a Bachelors degree in Dance from UCLA, a Masters Degree in Dance from Ohio State University, and earned her PE teaching credential from San Francisco State University.
Target Audience: Hot Dancing in the Gym – Grades 6 - 12
Topic: PHE Workshop – Dance – at ISM
Title: Hot Dancing in the Gym – Grades 6-12
Description: Students love a change in the PE routine, and including an MYP Movement Composition unit allows students to be creative and have fun in a different way. You will learn how to set up the unit, learn some simple movement phrases to teach and demonstrate, and then you will receive the assignment and assessment rubrics to go with it. I will show some sample projects on DVD of my own students.
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Julie Heinsman
Biography: Julie Heinsman is a TCK, is married to a TCK and has raised two children who are TCKs. A US citizen raised in Taiwan, Julie is now working at the school she calls home. She has been a High School counselor and teacher at Morrison Academy in Taiwan since 2000. Please don’t ask her, “Where are you from.”
Target Audience: High School teacher
Topic: Third Culture Kid (TCK) Issues
Title: TCKs: Benefits, Challenges, Tears and Hope
Description: Our students are people of many cultures. They have passports for one country, live in another, and may be educated by yet another. This workshop will discuss the characteristics of Third Culture Kids (TCKs), the benefits they enjoy and the struggles they encounter. We will also take a look at some practical tools your school can use to prepare your students for their next move.
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Eleonor Jaranova
Biography: Eleonora Jaranova teaches PE, is Aquatics Coordinator and is head coach of the Hanoi Hammerheads swim team at UNIS-Hanoi school. Eleonora is a former swimmer on the Latvian National Team and a national record holder. She has worked as an age-group coach in Latvia, as head coach of the Neptunes Swimming Club in Malta and as PE teacher and swimming coach in three international schools.
Target Audience: Elementary and/or Middle/High School
Topic: Teaching Breaststroke
Title: Teaching Breaststroke from Beginner to Advanced Swimmers
Description: This workshop will introduce to PE teachers different ideas and skills to teach breaststroke from beginner to advanced swimmers. It will include a progression of carefully selected drills and activities which participants will be able to practice on dry land and in the water. You will learn hints how to correct the most common mistakes in breaststroke technique. A variety of swimming equipment will be used during the session.
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Mark Johnson
Biography: Mark Johnson is a Humanities Teacher and the English Instructional Facilitator at Concordia International School Shanghai. Additionally, Mark is the Affiliate Coordinator for the National History Day Asian Region. Mark has extensive experience implementing the National History Day program at schools in the United States, and was instrumental in broadening the program to include international schools.
Target Audience: High School
Topic: High School (9-12) English, History, Drama, Film, Tech
Title: Implementing the National History Day Project into the High School Curriculum
Description: The goal of this workshop is to demonstrate how the National History Day program can be successfully implemented into school curriculum, increasing student performance as well as enhancing collaboration and interaction amongst teachers of various disciplines.
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Georgina Martignago
Biography: A committed, motivated and experience international educator, Georgina Martignago completed her Bachelor of Art Education at COFA UNSW, Sydney where she majored in ceramics and printmaking. Georgina has taught Visual Arts internationally for 19 years teaching IB Diploma, MYP, IGCSE and PYP students in the Australia, England, China and Malaysia. At present she is completing the final semester of her M Ed at Hong Kong University where her research has focused on teaching gifted and talented art students. Currently she teaches Visual Art at Chinese International School, Hong Kong. Recently she was recognized by the IBO for her examining consistency, resulting in an invitation to attend a Diploma assessment standardization meeting in Los Angeles as well as conduct online mentoring for examiners and fulfill team leader responsibilities.
Target Audience: Visual Art teachers who currently teach, are new to or are interested in teaching IB Topic: Visual Arts
Topic: Art
Title: Curriculum/Thematic Approaches to IB Diploma
Description: This session will provide teachers with a range of practical examples to demonstrate ways of pacing the first and second year of the VA Diploma course and the type work and volume expected. The session will provide various ways to start the course, encourage media exploration and experimentation, develop a theme, build independence among students and ways to increase the depth and breadth required in both the IWB and Studio components.
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Shirley Penland/ Lisa Maren Thompson/ Becca Barniskis
Biography: Shirley Penland is the secondary curriculum coordinator and the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program coordinator at Taejon Christian International School in Daejeon, South Korea. She has experienced a variety of unique and insightful opportunities while teaching students and collaborating with inspiring colleagues in the United States, Malaysia, and South Korea. Having spent twenty-two years in Asia, Shirley appreciates the joys and challenges of designing learning experiences through the lens of a variety of cultures and perspectives. Lisa Maren Thompson is the Middle Years Program Visual Art Teacher at Taejon Christian International School in Daejeon, South Korea. Prior to this position, Ms. Thompson served as an artist in resident and arts education consultant for the Perpich Center for Arts Education and Arts for Academic Achievement in Minnesota, USA. Becca Barniskis is a poet, teaching artist, freelance writer and consultant in arts education, as well as a founding member of the Center for Artful Collaboration in Minnesota, USA.
Target Audience: K-12 Teachers, Arts Teachers
Topic: Videoconferencing, Collaboration, Arts
Title: Artful Collaboration: Crossing Cultural and Technological Border
Description: Explore what it takes to collaborate successfully across multiple technological platforms and cultural borders with educators, artists, and learners around the world. In this session, participants will learn about the successes and challenges of this (virtual) international collaboration in arts integration between a poet in the USA and a classroom of 6th grade art students in South Korea. Come learn and share your own experience in international collaboration.
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Nathalie Peres
Biography: Nathalie Peres is a Parisian who has lived in Yangon for 10 years. She started her career as a French educator for French companies and French school in Myanmar in 2001. Since 2006, she has been enthusiastically teaching elementary French at the International School Yangon, in Myanmar. She has taught in the middle school, and she currently also teaches ballet, modern dance and yoga at ISY.
Target Audience: Elementary to Middle School
Topic: Having Fun During Foreign Language Class
Title: How to use games while teaching Foreign Language
Description: Children have a great capacity to enjoy themselves. When they are enjoying themselves, they are usually absorbed by the activity and want to continue with it. If the teacher motivates them, they will learn fast. Here are some fun games for learning Foreign Languages that will make your students’ learning more pleasant.
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Cesar Reyes
Biography: Cesar Reyes heads the MS Art Department at Taipei American School. He has taught both middle and upper school students in Taiwan and New York. He also teaches ceramics at Teachers College, Columbia University in their graduate program and is working on exhibiting his architectural sculpture.
Target Audience: For Art Educators but also those interested in media
Topic: Art Education and Technology
Title: Art Education in the Age of New Media
Description: New Media offers the artist (and art student) an opportunity to embrace and challenge the way we look at the space around us, how we control information for the viewer, and imagination within a digital context. How does that translate to the world of art education? We will look at 5 ways: Animation, Installation, Video, Interactive and Online Art. Pros and Cons of implementing each will be discussed.
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David Rynerson
Biography: David Rynerson has taught high school English in New England, Beijing, and is now high school English department head at the American School in Japan. His pedagogy is largely based on experience in the New Hampshire Writing Program, where he was influenced by Tom Newkirk, Tom Romano and Don Murray, among others.
Target Audience: Middle and High School, appropriate to any class using writing to think
Topic: Metacognition- Thinking through writing and interacting
Title: Tools for Reflection: Metacognitive Thinking and Learning
Description: Why are students’ reflections of their own writing, thinking and learning sometimes put off until they write college application essays? This workshop will explore students’ use of metacognition to individualize and empower their own learning. We will consider metacommentary as an integral step in response and revision processes. We will go on to discuss the use of students’ setting literacy goals and periodically reflecting on their own growth, habits of mind which can inform a lifetime of learning.
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Somporn Sae Hym
Biography: Mrs. Somporn Sae Hym was born in Bangkok, Thailand. She finished her Bachelor degree in Elementary Education in Singapore and Master degree in Teaching English As A Second Language in Australia. She is presently teaching grade 6 Math at Ekamai International School, Bangkok. She has created 2 levels of “Funny Vocabulary” and 2 levels of “Funny Occupation” game cards for students who want to improve their language skill. They are sold at the school snack bar where part of the proceeds go to charity and some of the game cards give away to under privileged students in the upcountry. Lately, she has created the Spinning Numbers to enhance students learning in Mathematics where she will share with the delegates at ETC 2010 in Manila. Mrs. Somporn has been teaching various subjects for more than 25 years in the elementary level.
Target Audience: Elementary or Intermediate Level. Also open to anyone interested to motivate or challenge students with numbers.
Topic: Mathematics (Elementary or Intermediate Level)
Title: Spinning with Numbers
Description: Since the spinning board is big and bulky to carry along for this workshop, I will get participation from the audiences to replace numbers that are spun by the spinning board.
Level 1 : Ask any 4 audiences to randomly select a different number from 1 -10.
Use only one different mathematical operation, except subtraction to form the lowest positive integer. Example: 9, 5, 4, 2
Smallest: (9 x 2) ÷ (5 + 4 ) = 2
Note: There are 209 possibilities for this level.
Level 2: Ask 5 audiences to randomly select a different number from 1 – 10.
Use every different mathematical operation to form the lowest positive integer.
Example: 9, 5, 4, 2, 10
Smallest: {[( 10 x 4) ÷5 ] +2 } – 9 = 1
Note: There are 250 possibilities for this level
Challenge: Provide 5 different numbers from 1 - 10
Use every different mathematical operation to form a number zero.
Example: 9, 5, 4, 2, 1
Zero: 2 – [( 5 x 4 ) ÷( 9 + 1 )] = 0
Note: There are less than 60 possibilities for this level
Remark: It is interesting to note that non mathematical inclined students or teachers can perform better than those who are good in Math. This is one good way to encourage, motivate, and challenge student(s) to think individually or work in group.
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Anna Sudra/Melanie Wilson
Biography: Ann Sudra- is currently the secondary visual arts teacher at ISU teaching both IB MYP and DP programs. She holds a bachelor from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a masters in Art Education from Harard Graduate School of Education. Melanie Wilson- teaches MYP and DP business management and has lived in mOngolia for nine years. She holds BS in International Public Administration and MS in Education.
Target Audience: High School teacher
Topic: Mixed Media Self Portrait: Visual Art & Technology
Title: Mixed Medas Self Portrait, Interdisciplinary Work in Visual Art and Technology
Description: The following workshop is a presentation of an interdiciplinary unit from ISU Mongolia. The unit addresses prevalent questions in both fields such as; How can technology be used as a tool for creative work? How can technology help me express myself? Student worked with both emerging and traditional media to create mixed media-self-portraits that expressed themselves. In our wokshop we will be sharing student work showing both the process(photos, blogs, sketchbook pages) and well as the finished product(portrait and presentations).
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Andrew Tatam
Biography: I have been teaching for 14 Years after completing my BEd in Physical Adventure Education. I have taught at Our Lady of Sion Junior School (4 years), Sir James Henderson British School of Milan (3 years), The ABC International School, Vietnam where I was Director of Physical Education (3 years) and finally I moved to Thailand where I currently work as Head of Primary Physical Education at Bangkok Patana School.
Target Audience: PE Teachers who teach from 11 and under
Topic: Warm Up Games and Activities for Primary Physical Education
Title: Warm Up Games and Activities for Primary Physical Education
Description: I have split a host of activities and games into 3 categories of Cardio Vascular / Chase / Spatial Awareness Games, Movement / Dexterity / Shape Games and Skill specific based games and activities. Many of them could easily cross over different sections and all are adaptable to your specific teaching environment and children. I will provide a handout of many games and activities and practically work through a few examples in each category.
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Brian Taylor
Biography: After working as a Chemical Engineer Brian moved into education and has been teaching Science for eleven years in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. As Head of Science at Bangkok Patana School he is leading the department in using OneNote as the medium of pedagogy and is providing training for colleagues from all faculty areas across the school in preparation for a one laptop per student program.
Target Audience: Any teachers with basic ICT skills
Topic: Learning and Teaching with Microsoft Office OneNote
Title: Learning and Teaching with Microsoft Office OneNote
Description: OneNote is simply a digital filing cabinet. Brian will show you how this powerful piece of software can be integrated into your planning, teaching and student learning. Teacher tips on how to gather and organize text, pictures, digital handwriting, audio and video recordings and live sharing of resources with students will be shared.
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Fang Wang
Biography: Wang Fang has been an IB Chinese A teacher for ten years. During these ten years she worked in various school settings including a local Chinese government school and international schools. She has gained abundant experiences in developing the IB Mother Tongue Programme. As an experienced and professional IB trainer, Fang has run many successful IB regional workshops. Since 2005, she has worked as a moderator for MYP Chinese A and has been working with the IB Online Curriculum Centre as an Online Faculty Member for Chinese A since 2003. Fang holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chinese Literature and a Master’s degree in Bilingual Education.
Target Audience: Chinese Literature Teachers Grades 6-12
Topic: Teaching Chinese Literature
Title: Teaching Chinese Literature in an International School
Description: This workshop will define the features of teaching Chinese Literature in an international school. Participants will be provided with hands-on good practices that focus on the fundamental structures of designing a Chinese Literature course in both middle school and high school. Successful class activities will also be shared in audio and visual forms in order to give all the participants a full image of literature teaching.
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East Asia Regional Council of
Overseas Schools (EARCOS)
Brentville Subdivision, Barangay Mamplasan, Biñan, Laguna,
4024 Philippines
Phone: +63 (49) 511-5993/5994 | Fax: +63 (49) 511-4694
