thursday schedule Thursday, March 29, 2007
Room
workshop session 3
15:00-16:30
CAROL CARTER Title: Coaching Skills and the Habits of Mind: Motivation for Every Student (Part II) Coaching skills have been popular in corporate America for the last twenty years. Recently, this powerful tool has made its way into the educational arena. Since all of learning is based on emotion, the skill of coaching allows the teacher, tutor, advisor, counselor or parent to artfully ask the questions which can lead students to their own best answers. In this highly interactive session, Carol Carter will link coaching skills to Art Costa’s Habits of Mind. Each attendee will explore not only the basics of coaching, but also how to apply coaching to help students manage themselves more effectively by taking responsibility for their choices and developing the requisite discipline to be successful in college, career and life. We will explore all aspects of coaching and really dig deeply into inquiry and powerful questions. These techniques can be used one-on-one, as well as with a group of students or professionals.
Brunei 1
KELLI CROOKS Title: Expanding Educational Journeys Throughout the International Community People to People Student Leader Programs provides the opportunity to expand educational journeys throughout the international community. Learn how you as an educator can help your students gain an edge in the college admissions race. Join us for a brief presentation and video about the People to People Student Leader Programs, and how both you and your students can become involved in this life shaping opportunity. We look forward to seeing you there.
Myanmar 3
DAVID GHOOGASIAN Title: Teaching and Learning in the Era of the Brain (part 2) Teachers will gain a better understanding of how the brain learns and how to use this information in a classroom learning environment. They will walk away with a better understanding of the brain and learning and several practical teaching strategies that take advantage of how the brain learns best. (This is a condensed version of the pre-conference session).
Ballroom 3
DOUG GOODKIN Title: Musica Poetica-Orff Schulwerk and Literacy Orff Schulwerk is well known for its use of speech, rhymes and poetry as a starting point for musical development. This workshop will explore precisely how language can benefit musical intelligence and how the Orff approach can support and enliven any literacy program.
Disco Room
ROGER GREENAWAY Title: Three exercises for generating participation in discussions How can you change the normal pattern of participation once habits have formed? Learn how to create new social geometries to facilitate participation. In ‘Turntable’ students change places to explore different viewpoints; in ‘Horseshoe’ the starting point is a silent statement; in ‘Talking Knot’ the normal pecking order is changed.
Indonesia 2
CLAY HENSLEY Title: Advanced Placement Program (AP) and International Schools: Connecting Your Students to College Success and Opportunity This interactive session will provide a forum for educators to advise the AP Program on how to better support the work of educators at EARCOS schools. We will also update you on AP’s World Language Initiative, including AP Chinese & Japanese; on the AP Course Audit; on AP international university recognition efforts; on the AP International Diploma; and on expanded AP professional development opportunities. The College Board is a non-for-profit membership association with a hundred-year heritage and a leader in connecting students worldwide to college success.
Boardroom
SHANE HILL Title: Mathletics – What’s the Hype? Mathletics is quickly becoming a worldwide phenomenon. In less than 18 months more than 650 million mathematics questions have been correctly answered by students across the globe. Mathletics has been widely embraced by over a thousand schools from Australia, USA, UK, and international schools in Asia and Europe. This session will highlight the key aspects of Mathletics and analyse the improvement in results that are evident.
Myanmar 1
IAN JUKES Title: Living on the Future Edge: Thinking About Tomorrow Today (Part 2 of two part session) In a world where change is the constant you can’t trust your eyes because what you see will replaced tomorrow. You think your eyes are showing you reality, in fact, they are showing you history. The only way to see the reality of a world on the move is to look for global trends. By carefully examining the significance of several global exponential trends, this presentation profoundly challenges your fundamental assumptions about the world we live and the future that awaits us.
Ballroom 1
MATT MACINNIS Title: Technology-enabled Collaboration in the Modern Classroom How can simple technology features, such as online chat, turn a one-way teacher-led class into a multifaceted and dynamic collaborative learning environment? While there are challenges surrounding behavior management, intelligent use of selected technologies can make the learning process more interesting to students than the alternatives. And proper use of these technologies is what leads to an environment that’s natural for our digitally enabled students.
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EARCOS Teachers’ Conference 2007 Bangkok, Thailand
Rattanakosin
