6 minute read
Session 5
LAURA ARNOW
Title: Every Day Counts: Critical thinking skills through calendar routines Target Audience: Primary (K-6) In 15-20 engaging minutes a day, students develop the ability to understand, explain, and debate mathematical ideas across the curriculum. Calendar time reinforces key skill areas, strengthens oral language skills and math vocabulary, enables students to explore different approaches to problem solving, facilitates mental mathematics, and develops the skill of convincing peers about one’s mathematical thinking. Although Every Day Counts is commercially available through Houghton Mifflin, the concepts and techniques presented can be implemented in classrooms with or without the commercial kit.
RUTH AUTY
Title: Theatre Sports for Anyone, In / Out of Any Ordinary Multicultural Classroom Target Audience: K-12 Timed, Competitive, Total Involvement, Exciting, Fun, Endorphin-Enhancing, Adrenaline-Pumping, Mind-Stretching, Subject/Theme/Topic/Event/Holiday Related, For Group/Class/Year Team/Whole School, Multi-Lingual, Multi-Cultural, “No Kid Left Out,” Fantasmagorically Supermendously Outrageously Exhausting Yet Exhilartingly Challenging.... Theatresports In An International School. Do Not Expect To Sit In Your Seat For This One.
MICHAEL CASTELLANI
Title: Effective uses of Mathematical Software and TI Series Calculators Target Audience: MS and HS Mathematics & Science Departments Outline ways to implement Geometry Sketchpad into the classroom for the purpose of graphing and creating various diagrams. An introduction to various software packages available, which are powerful tools for graphing functions (including Trig) and basic Calculus exercises. Outlining the basic operations and tools for the TI series calculators including common misconceptions, operations and CPU connectivity. (Participants need to bring TI series Calculator & USB)
VIVIAN WAN-FANG CHENG / BARI RABINE
Title: Electronic Portfolios: Making It Happen Target Audience: Applicable to all grade levels and all subject areas This workshop will answer the following questions about electronic portfolios: 1) What are electronic portfolios? 2) Why use them in the classroom? 3) What does an electronic portfolio look like? and 4) How can I do it? by explaining the process of having students put together an electronic portfolio. We will provide examples of guidelines and reflections used by the students and showcase examples of current students’ portfolios.
ROBERT DAVIS
Title: Art, Local Community and International School Interactions: a model at Shanghai American School Target Audience: Teachers/Administrators The purpose of this workshop is to look at ways in which international schools can work collaboratively with local schools thru the Arts. I propose to begin with the experience of shared projects between Shanghai American School and Li Min School for children of migrant workers in China.
LEAH DEWHURST / LIZA STINE
Title: Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies through Literature Target Audience: Grades 1-3 In this workshop we will explore methods of using children’s literature to teach comprehension strategies with young readers. We will base our workshop on the comprehension strategies described in Oliver and Keene’s book Mosaic of Thought. We will demonstrate and experiment with practical activities for connecting, inferring, questioning, and visualizing that can be used in the classroom. We will also lead a discussion to share experiences and ideas from all of our classrooms.
JIM FIDLER / JENNIFER MAGIEROWICZ
Title: The 4 Roles Reading Framework – a literacy/reading framework across the curriculum Target Audience: Middle School (focus) Grades 5 – 12 (suitable for) This hands-on workshop will present the 4 Roles Reading Framework. This reading framework can be used in any subject area to structure reading instruction in order to deepen content knowledge, increase critical vocabulary acquisition, and to foster critical thinking.
MARK KUCHARSKI
Title: How to improve your photography and graphic design Target Audience: All Teachers An informal workshop where teachers can ask questions and discuss issues around photography and graphic design, in order to improve their presentations or handouts. The workshop will cover topics such as photographic technique, film versus digital, image resolution, photoshop, cameras, file management, layout, typography, hierarchy of information.
Boardroom
Ayuthaya
Philippines
Pimai
Brunei 1
Ballroom 3
Myanmar 3
Singapore
SANTHA KUMAR
Title: Impact of The Mobile Lab on Classroom Practice Target Audience: K-12 Classroom Teachers The presentation is about how the mobile lab affects classroom practice. This is a product of my action research I did in my classroom during spring 2006 as a part of my masters program in educational technology of Michigan State University. This research brought out the potential benefits of using the lab in a classroom and the technical issues as well. I am going to share the benefits, issues and also what I did to overcome the issues.
MICHAEL LAMBERT
Title: How to Get Students to Think Critically Target Audience: Grades 3-8 Are your students unable to infer, evaluate, synthesize, analyze, etc. effectively? This workshop is designed to give you practical ideas on how to push your students to read-between-the-lines, make deeper connections and begin a process to “think” creatively and critically.
HAUHOUOT DIAMBRA ODI
Title: Using “Eat Right Analysis” Software to promote Healthy Eating Habits. Target Audience: Middle School to High School Addressing the national obesity epidemic should start in the classroom with proactive teachers trained to analyzing and interpreting nutrition information with the aid of nutrition software. The workshop will educators to become familiar with nutritional analysis software as a powerful tool to enhance nutritional education.
BETSY PICKERING
Title: Claymation Music Video Festival with MS Movie Maker Target Audience: Upper School: Grades 7 through 10 Participants will see how to create a claymation music video using MS Movie Maker. The Design Cycle will be used to Investigate storyboarding and claymation techniques, Plan a music video, Create the clay figure and video, and Evaluate the final product. Participants will learn to use MS Movie Maker to edit clips, upload sound and use the storyboard and timeline functions. Sample armatures, clay figures, hand outs and videos will be shared.
LEANNE RAINBOW
Title: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally Target Audience: Grades 4-10 How can we make global issues become real for young students? At this workshop, we will look at a framework that can be used to lead students through the study of and action towards a global issue. This process empowers students and leaves them with the skills necessary to analyze and address issues they may face in the future.
LARAINE MAY REASON
Title: Parents On Board Programme Target Audience: Secondary school – or grades 5 – 12 and indeed any educator who may be interested in setting up a parent programme. Parents are the key to maximizing student success. The Parent on Board Programme is a successful programme that I have been running since 1997. It is designed to empower parents to facilitate their child’s learning at home. The programme fosters a partnership with the school and encourages parents to play an active role in their child’s learning. Parents are given useful tips and a number of educational paradigms to work with at home.
KAREN ROSENBAUM / ANTHONY SHERIDAN
Title: The Explicit Teaching of English Pronunciation in the High School Target Audience: All This is a very practical workshop. Do ESL students pick up pronunciation naturally or should it be explicitly taught? How will better pronunciation skills help ESL students improve all language skills and self-confidence? Which fun activities will help students improve their pronunciation? This workshop/ presentation, developed from a six week pronunciation course at ISB for high school ESL students, will answer these questions.
ROB RUBIS / STEPHANIE WALLIS / KATHLEEN REVELLE
Title: Laptop Initiatives and the International School Library Target Audience: Librarians (aka: Media Specialists; Teacher/Librarians) All levels, but particularly Secondary School. Also, administrators and teachers involved in planning or implementing laptop initiatives. Increasingly, upper level students in international schools are being encouraged or required to use laptop computers in classes and other venues on campus. Schools may mandate that students bring their own, individually-purchased computers to campus, or that students lease specifically-configured computers from the school. Alternatively, school-owned laptops on carts may be provided for use in classrooms and other venues. As three whose schools have implemented three different laptop programs, we propose to describe briefly our varying experiences with laptop technology in the library, and then to provide a forum for our librarian colleagues to discuss the various ways in which this burgeoning technology can be managed in the school library, to best enhance student learning.
