Thursday Schedule thursday, March 29, 2007 10:30-12:00
Room
workshop session 1 - continued BARBARA SOULE Title: The Role of the Environment in Infectious Diseases The effects of natural and man-made changes in the environment influence the development and transmission of infectious diseases. Water quality, waste management, seasonal and long term climate changes and animal life cycles will be related to emerging infections, epidemics, illness and death in populations. Diseases such as avian influenza, SARs, cholera, schistosomiasis and drug resistance will be discussed. Participants will have the opportunity to see how this information can be translated to the classroom.
Myanmar 3
PAUL WHITE Title: Using Multimedia to enhance Teaching and Learning Students of the digital generation respond much better to multimedia than simple text based resources. The research has shown that because of multimedia stimulation, young people’s brains are literally wired differently. This session will look at first why and then how to produce multimedia resources incorporating video and sound to enhance teaching and learning.
Brunei 2
12:00-13:15
job-a-like Session - Box lunch compliments of earcos
13:30 - 14:30
workshop session 2
See page 57 for the room assignments
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JANE ALTEMEN Title: Teaching Scientific Process Skills as Discrete Critical Thinking Skills Target Audience: Teachers of Grades 3 to 8 There is an assumption that students pick up scientific process skills in the course of doing labs on science topics. This workshop disagrees with this assumption and contends that each skill of that process needs to be introduced and developed as a discrete critical thinking skill. As well, many of these thinking skills can be honed in very young students, without using any traditional science topics. provided is a compilation of 50 activities which enable students to gain an enduring understanding of each critical thinking skill of the scientific process.
Malaysia 2
SHELDON BRADSHAW Title: Breaking the Poster Paradigm: Sharing the Learning with Student Multimedia Target Audience: 3-12 Is creating a poster the best way for the Digital Natives in your class to share their learning? Expand their audience and the power of their message through a digital medium! This session will show you how your students can easily integrate text, audio, photo and video to create a rich, meaningful product. Examples will be given using Apple’s iLife software although the concepts are cross-platform.
Brunei 2
DAVID CAROLLO Title: The Matrix – An approach to enhance student learning and motivation. Target Audience: Focus on Middle School - can be modified for upper elementary and high school. This workshop will focus on an instructional approach that motivates students and encourages self-directed learning. Coined “The Matrix,” this approach is structured using the Layered Curriculum model that encourages complex thinking and holds students highly accountable for their learning. It is developed using the Understanding by Design (UbD) process and enhanced using Differentiated Instruction. Students of different abilities, interests, or learning needs experience equally appropriate ways to absorb, develop, and present skills and knowledge.
Sukhothai
MARILYN DAY / IMOGEN ROSENDORFF Title: Synthetic phonics: the answer to literacy intervention for early learners? Target Audience: Kindergarten/Grade 1 level An international agreement on the teaching of literacy is something of a rarity. Today the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia concur in certain elements of the teaching of reading in the form of synthetic, systematic phonics. We intend to deliver a practical workshop, citing theory and research data, which demonstrates the ‘new’ way of teaching the ‘old’ phonetical route to all early readers and writers.
Brunei 1
JULIE DEAN / LINDA HAYAKAWA Title: Information Literacy and the I-Search Idol Target Audience: 7-10 In the age of bogus web sites and anonymous blogs, information literacy has become an essential skill for 21st century citizens. This workshop focuses on how librarians and English departments can work together to create an in-depth information literacy project based on Ken MacCrorie’s I-Search Paper. This updated version of the project includes an Authenticating Resources lesson plan, a Database Scavenger Hunt, an I-Search Pathfinder, and metacognitive exercises, as well as step by step directions on how to organize and write a major research paper. Multiple grading tools and fun party ideas included!
Philippines
TRICIA FRIEDMAN Title: Radio GooGoo Radio GaGa. Linking MYP Subjects with Radio Theatre Target Audience: Grades 9-11 Teacher will create their own radio theather performance, investing the “Googoo Gaagaa“ sensation of reinforcing student learner across the curriculum. The hour will be full of hands on exposure to this methodology for reaching
Thonburi
EARCOS Teachers’ Conference 2007 Bangkok, Thailand
