Tuesday, November 6, 2007 Session 8 13:45-15:00
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PRUE ANDERSON/ JOHN LINDSEY -- Interpreting School-Level Student Assessment Data How can school-level student assessment data be used to guide policy decisions and monitor progress? What kinds of data do schools need and what conclusions is it reasonable to draw? The International Schools’ Assessment school reports will be used to illustrate ways schools might interpret and track their student performance data.
ECC II
JASON ATKINS -- Serving the Expatriate Community by Understanding Third Culture Kids We have all heard the term Third Culture Kid, but do we really understand what it means? What are the four experiences common to families living abroad? What are the two major challenges for children growing up overseas? How do these and other realities change the way we serve our students?
Selangor
JIM HAUSMAN / MEDARD GABEL -- “Be the World” Aboard A Gym-Sized Full-Planet Map of Spaceship Earth (Part 1) WorldDay “Be the World” participants play out an Earth history timeline and a roll call of present-day humanity on a gymnasiumsize distortion-free flat map of planet Earth. Through activities and thought experiments, profound perceptual shifts re-enliven forgotten senses– of scale, dimension, perspective, balance, belonging, engagement, and empowerment. Participants store “in their bones” newfound experiential sensations of the scales of time and space, the robustness of life, the incredible improbabilities creating the current condition, the dense interconnectedness of simple factors that emerge as complex systems, and an awareness that, like the 40,000 generations that have preceded ours, individual actors can and do make huge, often undreamed, differences.
Kedah
DAVID GOETZ -- Functional / Dynamic Fitness Training and the Impact on Student Fitness Recent reports on the alarming rate of increasing obesity in children have raised health concerns and forced physical educators to take a new perspective at how personal fitness is taught. This workshop will look at the recent trend towards functional training over traditional warm-up and exercise practices as a way of more effectively influencing the fitness levels of today’s students. Insights gained by participants in this workshop may influence how administrators staff their physical and health education departments and coaching staff.
Negeri Sembilan
MAYA NELSON -- School Within A School – A Unique Special Education Model (Repeat) Overseas international and American schools have struggled with the ability to meet the needs of students with learning differences. Over the last decade, the numbers of students with learning needs have increased worldwide. The School Within A School (SWS) was implemented into the Taipei American School in 2005 after extensive research into special education models in the United States. This workshop will include information about the research, development, implementation phase, and current outcomes when considering the inclusion of students with special needs using this type of a model. Information regarding the planning process, admissions criteria, teacher implications, and teaching methodology will also be discussed.
Lemon Garden Terrace
KENNETH PAYNTER -- Technology Work-Alike – A Chance to Discuss Ongoing and Emerging Issues Educational technology folks seem to always value the opportunity to simply get together and share what is going on. This session is definitely geared for “tech talk,” but of course school administrators are welcome to listen in on what are the issues of the day in this ever-evolving cultural landscape.
Pahang
KENNY PEAVY -- Teaching as if the Earth Matters Do they care? What should schools and teachers be doing to motivate students to care about the environment? Kenny will present data collected during his action research project that demonstrates the most effective strategies for implementing environmental education at your school.
Sarawak
JOSH RECKORD / BILL KENTTA -- Meeting Make Over- Through Putting Sizzle in Your Meetings Build your Organizational Capacity Why accept the same old meetings—make people look forward to your school meetings and even ask for more of them. Meetings offer the opportunity to be pivotal to your organization building capacity, so why not take the challenge of leading the best meetings people have ever been a part of.
Kelantan
CHRIS ROOSE -- Emergency Response Planning This seminar is designed to review the concepts behind emergency operation planning and assist in the preparation for that emergency. Discussion will center on the organization of the emergency response efforts.
Perak
DENNIS SALE -- Creative Teaching: What it is and How to do it This workshop demonstrates a unique and practical approach for developing creative teaching competence, derived from extensive research with teaching professionals in a wide range of subject areas and contexts. The approach is fully calibrated to established research in human learning and offers diverse ways for teaching professionals to design creative strategies best suited to their personal teaching styles.
Johore
EARCOS Administrators’ Conference 2007
