friday schedule friday, March 30, 2007
Room
workshop session 5 - continued
12:30-13:30
MARK SWARSTAD Title: Random Acts - Raising Awareness, Self- Esteem and Community Involvement Target Audience: Middle School-High School We will use counselor brain power to design random acts of kindness groups, discuss the benefits of these groups and then compare them to random acts- a middle school group at SAS.
Chiangmai
NAT AND JEN WHITMAN Title: Tell a Tale or Two: Storytelling in the Classroom Target Audience: K-8 Storytelling is a powerful tool for instruction. Come and learn strategies for incorporating oral storytelling in your classroom daily. This session will touch on current research and provide ideas for using storytelling across the curriculum. You will learn two short folktales to use with your class right away. This is an active workshop—be prepared to move around and play with story!
Ballroom 2
IVY WONG / RUTH WATSON Title: Dual Language Learning and Teaching and It Can be Done! Target Audience: K – 8 teachers; language coordinators How does one accomplish bringing dual languages learning into full fruition when the timeframe in schools remains universally unchanged? What are the methodologies and curriculum contexts when looking into collaborative learning and teaching frameworks that impact positively on learners’ language capacity?
Sukhotai
ARIEL XIAOXIAO FU / NANCY LI JUAN DU Title: Assessment for Learning - Mandarin Target Audience: K-12 Foreign language teachers We will introduce the background theories regarding assessment for learning including its definition, its importance, key questions that should be addressed, and critical factors affecting quality classroom assessment. We will share and evaluate assessment samples from Mandarin classes to demonstrate how it operates in our school for students oral, written and conceptual understanding of the subject.
Myanmar 1
CHRIS YOUNG Title: Got Aloha? How to Boost Staff Morale on Aloha Friday ! Target Audience: All grade levels, secretaries, administrators, worldwide friends and family members Aloha Friday is a way to bring school staff together and boost their morale at the same time. Each participant will get a taste of Aloha Friday coffee and a brief history of how the Aloha Friday tradition started. Fun ‘Got Aloha?’ activities will keep the participants busy. I will conclude by sharing my own and other person’s reflections on how Aloha Friday has been a positive experience at their school and in their life.
Indonesia 1
13:30-14:30
Coffee break
14:00-16:30
double workshop session 6 & 7
25
CAROL CARTER Title: Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences: Linking Learning to Careers, Majors and Fields of Interest This interactive session will focus on how participants can help each student understand the basics of their own personality and their own learning styles. Based on the work of Mel Levine, Howard Gardner and the Kiersey Sorter, these frameworks provide students with valuable information about their strengths, weaknesses, aptitudes and interests, which can ground them academically and give them insight about professions which would be the best fits for them. We will explore how these basic areas link to real world experiences which students need to be competitive in today’s global job market: internships, coops and part-time job experiences. Many students make career decisions based on an idealistic and often unexplored career. This session will give participants the framework to help them probe, question, examine and explore the careers that are of interest while they still have time to gain the requisite experience and exposure to know whether that field is a good fit for their gifts, talents and abilities.
Malaysia 1
MARC FRANKEL Title: Leadership Seminar Continuation of Preconference
Boardroom
JUDY FREEMAN Title: ACT IT OUT: Bringing Children’s Books to Life with Storytelling, Singing, Creative Drama, and Reader’s Theater, Grades K-6 Want your students reading with comprehension, expression, fluency, and joy? Judy Freeman’s hands-on, show-andtell workshop is packed with stories to hear today and tell tomorrow, songs to sing, and surefire ways to bring children’s books to life. Learn easy storytelling techniques and practical “tricks of the trade” to get your children hanging on every word. Creative drama is wonderful for recalling the sequence of a story, interacting with story characters, and developing creativity. Reader’s Theater incorporates elements of creative drama, but with a proscribed script for children to read aloud. We’ll model ways to bring performance art to the classroom using unforgettable recent children’s books. Be sure to print out and bring your handout.
Brunei 1, 2
EARCOS Teachers’ Conference 2007 Bangkok, Thailand
