8 minute read
Session 8
KIPPER BLAKELEY / AMM NISANAT CHIRDKIATISAK
Title: Adopting a Village Program designed by Population & Community Development Association (PDA) to eradicate poverty.
KAREN BOYES
Title: Creating An Effective Learning Environment Discover many simple ways to set up an effective learning environment including the importance of using music, temperature, setting and time of day. You’ll also explore the social and psychological environment and how these have long lasting impact on the learning ability of your students.
JUDY FREEMAN - Title: Books Kids Will Sit Still For (Part 1) 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, book talks, 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.
SANDRA HAHN
Title: Visible Thinking Enabling Understanding through Visible Thinking in schools and classrooms. To quote David Perkins (Harvard Graduate School):“Today we need to educate in ways that not only inform people but equip them with knowledge, attitudes, and thinking and learning skills that make them nimbly adaptable in the worlds of the future. We need to educate not just for the known but the unknown.”
CLAY HENSLEY
Title: Tools for International Schools: How Can the College Board Better Connect Your Students to College Success? This interactive session will provide a forum for EARCOS educators to advise the College Board on how to better support the work of their schools. We will also update you on new educational initiatives of the College Board. Join us for an overview of PSAT/NMSQT and the wealth of valuable resources and reporting offered through the program, including College QuickStart, Score Report Plus, MyRoad, the Summary of Answers and Skills Report (S.O.A.S.), AP Potential, Student Search Service (S.S.S.), Destination College, and more. Discuss lessons learned from the recently revised SAT. We will look at how universities and schools have responded to the changes and also review research to examine the effects of the changes. Learn about expanding -- and free -- online services for both students and teachers. There will be ample opportunities for questions and discussion. 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.
DOUG JOHNSON - Title: E-books, E-Learning, E-Gads! The practical e-book, already here in many forms, will have a significant impact on our schools, libraries, and our profession. Learn what a real e-book might contain, based on current products and trends along with strategies for staying relevant as a physical presence in our schools and students’ lives. For warned is for armed!
IAN JUKES
Title: From Gutenberg to Gates to Google and Beyond: .EDU meets .COM As Gutenberg’s printing press ignited the Renaissance, computers, the Internet, networking and now Google are igniting the Digital Renaissance. Emerging technologies will have a profound effect on the near and distant future of education. Fundamental change will happen whether schools, as learning institutions, embrace it or not because kids, teachers and parents will be using digital tools and accessing the Internet from home, at night, and outside of the purview of the school. They, rather than our traditions and traditional assumptions about learning and assessment will ultimately influence the direction of schools and learning. What happens when the people outside of education who are building information infrastructures start effectively leveraging the immense power of new technologies to deliver instructional opportunities to the YouTube and MySpace generation? What will education look like as we make a major shift in the who, what, when, where, why and how of teaching and learning which will be a direct result of the emergence of the Internet of a full-fledged commercial medium? And where is Google taking us?
BORIS KORSUNSKY
Title: Physics for Math Teachers I will present several basic physics concepts (velocity, acceleration, Newton’s laws, relative motion, etc.) and methods (dimensional analysis, basics of measurement and data analysis) that are relevant to teaching mathematics. The discussion will focus on “real-life applications” of seemingly abstract mathematical concepts. No prior knowledge of physics is assumed!
RON LANCASTER
Title: The Mathematical Lens We may not realize it, but we all encounter mathematics as we go about our lives. To see the mathematics it helps to put on a pair of mathematical glasses and to view the world through this new perspective. We will discuss how teachers and students can record these occurrences of math by taking photos and how these images can then be used as the basis of interesting and engaging mathematical questions.
Ballroom 2
Ballroom 3
Brunei 1, 2
Myanmar 3
Boardroom
Philippines
Ballroom 1
Myanmar 1
Rattanakosin
10:30-12:00
12:00-12:30
ROSEBETH MARCOU
Title: The Quirky Child in the International School Classroom An Overview Labeled or not, diagnosed or just plain quirky, there are children whose thinking sensory and socializing style sets them apart from their peers. In this workshop the elements of quirkiness and some understandings of why children behave as they do will be the focus.
IAN MCCUAIG
Title: Basic Improvisation and Ostinato creation using simple rhythms This session will focus on creating rhythms and learning to improvise on a variety of percussion instruments. We will learn basic rhythms (Quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes, Quarter rest). The goal of the session is to have a group rhythm experience while creating an original composition. The group will perform at the gala event on Saturday evening. No previous music experience or musical knowledge necessary! (Limited to 20 participants only)
JORGE NELSON / ANDREW KERR
Title: mLearning: Keeping up with the Millennial Learner Today’s students are never far from learning tools. Not just their laptop or handheld computers, but their iPods, mobile phones, too! How can a school harness this technology savvy knowledge of the student for teaching and learning? This session will give practical examples on how to utilize technology for learning with the Millennial student.
JANE POLLOCK
Title: One Teacher at a Time: Assessment and Grading The participant will; learn about research on the importance of feedback (verbal, written, reports) in the learning process, learn the importance of criterion-based scoring, or “scoring to benchmarks”, learn various ways to organize grade books, electronic or paper, learn the critical role of scoring student effort, learn how to use various assessment methods (observation, tests, essays, self-assessment), learn about scoring devices (points, percentages, letters, rubrics) learn about academic and non-academic criteria (such as reasoning, communication, and self-regulation)
BARRIE JO PRICE / ANNA MCFADDEN
Title: 1:1 Computing: So What Do I Do Now in Class as the Teacher? All of the students in your classes, grade 6-12, have laptops, as required by the school. 1:1 computing has come to your classroom. Now you have to answer the question, so what do I do now in class as the teacher? Questions usually arise such as, “How do I get them to quit fooling with the laptops when I am lecture?” and “How do I know precisely where they are going on the Internet?” This session will look at both student and teacher behaviors as impacted by the availability of laptops and constant Internet access in the classroom; it will conclude with suggestions related to engaged learning and practical examples from existing 1:1 classrooms.
RUSSELL ROBINSON
Title: Jazz Style and Improvisation for Choirs Dr. Robinson presents a unique and stimulating way of getting singers to improvise in a short amount of time. From students to veteran teachers who have never improvised, through simple scales, motives and scat syllables, everyone will be improvising and more importantly having fun while doing it in a short amount of time. This session utilizes three teaching pieces Let’s Sing Some Jazz, We’re Singin’ the Blues for You!, and Jazzin’ it Up, and Jazzin’ it Down! by Dr. Robinson. Complimentary teaching materials and music will be provided for all participants. This clinic will feature Dr. Robinson’s teaching video/DVD by the same title which assists teachers and students with this topic.
OSCAR SOULE
Title: Current Critical Environmental Issues Today’s global environmental issues are important classroom subjects. They are also being played out at the local level. This presentation will look at links between the global and local levels by bringing urban ecology into the classroom. Topics of “scale”, “engagement”, and “audience” will be discussed. Emphasis will also be placed on tracking changes in issue importance and identification of sources of information on issues.
TOM WOOD
Title: Sketchbooks – some ideas on their use (part 1) I will show a range of sketchbooks both from students and my own, we will discuss their uses and do a short workshop. This will last 90 minutes and I will do this workshop twice on two different days.
LAURA EVERETT / BARBARA KALIS / DIANE MONGNO / OLGA STEKLOVA
Title: “ESL Strategies FOR THE MAINSTREAM CLASSROOM” Striving to educate second language learners in the mainstream more effectively at International School Bangkok, the K-12 ESL team has created a teacher in-service program with a vision of building a school culture of mindfulness for second language learners. The workshop will focus on the session that promotes the use of various interactive strategies for building vocabulary, extending reading experiences, supporting academic writing and monitoring oral comprehension.
Lunch break compliments of earcos
