saturday Schedule saturday, March 31, 2007 12:30-13:30
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workshop session 9 - continued BREEN O’REILLY Title: Interpreting Evidence: Critical Thinking for Students Target Audience: Grades 6 to 12 An entertaining multi-media presentation on the processes our students go through in examining and interpreting evidence to gain knowledge. Material covered includes film, photography, music, advertising, and the media. There will be a focus on how meaning is dependent on context and perception.
Malaysia 2
PERRY AND ANDREA BARLIEN Title: Choosing to Succeed. Target Audience: English and Humanities Teachers Grades 7-10 Do you want to differentiate for your students? Find out how to produce interdisciplinary, differentiated Choice Grids that allow students to choose the type of, and sequence of, activities that best meet their skill and ability levels. Participants will see how to create 9 Grid units using a variety of commonly used activities and how easy it will be to use their own. Methodology is based on Bloom’s Taxonomy and Gardiner’s Multiple Intelligences.
Rattanakosin 1
DARREN HEIL Title: Countertop Chemistry Target Audience: Grades 1 – 12: Science Teachers Not all science is done by men wearing white coats and working in laboratories. You can investigate some pretty interesting stuff without requiring a laboratory or expensive laboratory equipment or dangerous chemicals. In this workshop, you will perform and analyze an experiment and learn about many other experiments that encourage hands-on learning in science. The activities came from teacher training workshops that have been offered by The Science House, North Carolina State University since 1992.
Indonesia 1
STEFANIE BRADLEY Title: Easing the Stress of Moving Transitions Target Audience: All There is a huge population of migrant children in the international school system. How can we as teachers, administrators, counselors, librarians, & parents make the transitions for these global nomads less stressful?
Rattanakosin 2
workshop session 10
13:45-15:15
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KAREN BOYES Title: Catering for Reflective and Impulsive Students and other Learner Types Ever looked out upon your students and wondered if anything is actually going on in their minds? In this session we’ll investigate practical ways to recognize and cater for different learner types within your classroom.
Ballroom 3
JUDY FREEMAN Title: Books Kids Will Sit Still For, Part 2 In Judy Freeman’s fast-paced show-and-tell workshop, get a handle on some of the past year’s best new children’s books. Judy will share innovative and practical ways to use these titles for curricular connections, thematic tie-ins, literature-based learning, reading aloud, and just plain fun! It’s a quick literature blast for teachers and librarians who want: * lively, concise, honest evaluations of new books every teacher and librarian should know * hands-on demonstrations of read-alouds, booktalks, and a host of kid-tested literature-based activities, techniques, and ideas to use immediately with your teachers and children * a fast tour though the school curriculum of new and fabulous books that will get children reading, writing, and responding to literature * a comprehensive handout, including an annotated booklist
Brunei 1, 2
JOSEPH GAGNON Title: Math Instruction for Secondary Students with Learning and Behavioral Difficulties Success is in mathematics is critical for students to access many educational and occupational opportunities. However, secondary students with learning and behavioral difficulties often experience problems with basic skills, higher-level concepts, and problem solving. This session will focus on research-based approaches to secondary math instruction including: (a) real world application and technology; (b) student grouping; (c) graduated instructional sequence; (d) graphic organizers; (e) strategy instruction; and (f) instructional adaptations. Participants will be provided specific definitions, examples, ideas for implementation, and information on the recommended frequency of use. Handouts will include teacher-friendly publications for each topic.
Indonesia 1
DOUG GOODKIN Title: Sound Ideas- Activities for Percussion Circle Children-and adults- love percussion instruments. Following the framework of multiple intelligences, this workshop will highlight at least seven different ways in which children of all ages can create exciting music in a circle of percussion instruments. Using speech, song, body percussion, math, graphic notation, movement and drama as doorways into the world of improvisation and composition, we will create intricate pieces from simple ideas and materials.
Disco Room
EARCOS Teachers’ Conference 2007 Bangkok, Thailand
