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Session 1
KAREN BOYES
Title: Anchoring For Success Making learning meaningful is essential for teaching success. Learn how to create unforgettable lessons by making information novel and creating contrast. You’ll see how emotions affect learning and how to develop a simple yet highly effective discipline system. You’ll also be stunned by the power of your own brain!
CAROL CARTER
Title: Coaching Skills and the Habits of Mind: Motivation for Every Student 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. In addition to helping with whatever role attendees play with students, this session promises to be one of the most meaningful and fulfilling sessions for their own personal development.
NAOMI FUNAHASHI / STEFANIE LAMB / RYLAN SEKIGUCHI
Title: Along the Silk Road This interactive workshop will present methods and materials for teaching about various aspects of the Silk Road. Participants will engage in several activities from the newly revised SPICE curriculum unit, Along the Silk Road, which was recently developed in a partnership with the Silk Road Project. This workshop is appropriate for both middle and high school Social Studies teachers, and participants will receive complimentary curriculum from SPICE.
JACK GANTOS
Title: Writing Picture Books: READ A CLASSIC-WRITE A CLASSIC. From “Wild Things” to “Rotten Ralph” All good writing begins with good reading, so let’s take a look at classic picture books and find out not only what makes a good book a classic, but also how to teach, organize and write the future classics.
DAVID GHOOGASIAN
Title: Teaching and Learning in the Era of the Brain 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.)
ROGER GREENAWAY
Title: Three exercises for developing students’ questioning skills Developing students’ questioning skills arouses curiosity, sustains motivation and develops key learning skills; and the questions students ask indicate their progress. With your help, I will demonstrate three ways of generating and managing student questions: Visitor Technique, Press Conference and Simultaneous Surveys. Discussion will assist application to your subject area.
DOUG JOHNSON
Title: The Sane Teacher’s Guide to Technology Integration Never been a technology “geek” or “guru?” Still rather think of a mouse as something that eats cheese than rolls around on your desk? Yet as a conscientious teacher, you KNOW your students should be practicing technology and information literacy skills. This workshop explores how good teaching practices and the content area curriculum can be enhanced through the judicious use of technology “upgrades” that support best practice. Examples of real student technology enhanced projects are given.
IAN JUKES
Title: Living on the Future Edge: Thinking About Tomorrow Today (Part 1 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.
Rattanakosin
Brunei 1
Pimai
Myanmar 2
Ballroom 3
Indonesia 2
Philippines 1, 2
Ballroom 1
BORIS KORSUNSKY
Title: Using Multiple-Choice Questions: Learning and Teaching, Assessment, Educational Research Well-constructed multiple-choice questions can be used to identify student misconceptions; they can be used for “justin-time” assessment of student knowledge and its development and also in educational research. We will discuss effective ways of selecting and using multiple-choice questions in the classroom.
RON LANCASTER
Title: Mozart’s Dice Game and other beautiful connections between probability, music, art and drama In 1787 Mozart developed a method for composing music that involved cutting and pasting pre-written measures of music with the order determined by the outcomes of the rolls of a pair of dice. As you will see and hear, Mozart’s version always produces a very sweet sound in spite of the random elements. We will also discuss how other artists such as the painter Ellsworth Kelly, the playwright Helen Juvonen and the film maker Antonin Svoboda have made use of probability in their works. Dice will be provided so that you too can roll and rock.
MARGARET MACLEAN
Title: Using Protocols to Deal With Teaching Dilemmas Would you like to collaborate effectively with your colleagues, but never seem to have the time? Would you like to learn how to tap into the expertise of fellow teachers? Participants will experience protocols they can use to create an effective learning community. Participants will learn how protocol use can provide an in depth conversation in a tight time frame and be used to solve the dilemmas all classroom teachers face. This session will be interactive.
ROSEBETH MARCOU
Title: Attention Deficits- Understanding the Nature and Neurology Attention problems are among the most common of developmental variations in all ages of students. There is more to the issue of paying attention that just staying on task for long enough, and having accurate tools for describing the nature of attention problems often leads to understanding and effective remediation. In this workshop the nature and neurology of attention issues will be clarified.
DIANE PAYNTER
Title: Building Academic Vocabulary Vocabulary instruction can have a profound effect on students‚ comprehension of academic content. The more they understand academic terms related to the subject area they are studying, the easier it is for them to understand information they hear or read. This session will focus on: - The role of vocabulary in building background knowledge - How to create a list of academic vocabulary terms - A six-step process for teaching these terms, including strategies for each of the steps
BARRIE JO PRICE / ANNA MCFADDEN
Title: Computer-Mediated Collaboration: Tools and Applications The session will begin with a brief overview of the technological tools that are available to teachers and students in today’s mobile and connected society, including email, list servs, chats, discussion boards, shared directories, wikis and such. These tools will be reviewed in the context of the iKids, building on keynote sessions that describe today’s connected youth. Examples will be given in terms of how these might be used in the classroom and beyond, including classrooms with 1:1 computing and those ‘less wired’ environments in which teachers know students have these tools available outside of school.
JEAN FRANCOIS RISCHARD
Title: Q and A session on keynote
RUSSELL ROBINSON
Title: Songwriting in the Classroom: Students Writing Songs to Reinforce Learning in the Classroom (Part 1 - Learning the Basics and Applications) These workshops are for all teachers, not just music teachers! Minimal (to no) music knowledge is required. (Just desire!) It is a fact that we remember what we sing and we remember songs more than we remember words or facts. (How do you remember the alphabet?) Music brings the concepts to life. In these back-to-back workshops, all teachers will learn how to write a song. More importantly, teaching students to write songs will reinforce any learning concepts that are being taught in the classroom. The workshops will be based on Dr. Robinson’s book, Songwriting Made Easy! Yes, anyone can write a song. Just like your students, you will have fun writing and performing your own songs!
STEVE SOBONYA
Title: Youth Fitness: Evaluation, Standards, and Age Appropriate Paths to Results. Learn ideas for Youth Fitness in terms of fitness testing, and age appropriate exercise prescription. Learn to create your own fitness standards that are superior to the NORMS: that is: conditioning, speed, acceleration, endurance, change of direction, core strength, core function, flexibility, balance, hand-eye coordination and much more.
