12 minute read
Double Sesion 6 & 7
12:30-13:30
13:30-14:30
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.
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!
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?
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.
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.
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.
MARC FRANKEL
Title: Leadership Seminar Continuation of Preconference
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.
Coffee break
14:00-16:30
double workshop session 6 & 7
Chiangmai
Ballroom 2
Sukhotai
Myanmar 1
Indonesia 1
Malaysia 1
Boardroom
Brunei 1, 2
JOSEPH GAGNON
Title: Proactively Addressing Student Behavior Problems in International Schools Many teachers in many international schools are faced with challenging student behaviors. Issues of concern include problems with student attention and organization, compliance with school and class rules, and motivation. This session will highlight positive and proactive strategies within the context of a multi-tiered behavior system (i.e., primary, secondary, tertiary interventions). The focus will be on behavioral and cognitive strategies that teachers can immediately implement in their classroom, including such topics as routines, effective reinforcement, guidelines for using time-out, transition strategies, contingency contracting, and problem solving. Throughout the presentation, participants will be encouraged to ask questions and discuss application of strategies.
JACK GANTOS
Title: WRITING IS ALL PERSONAL: You are what you write—from imaginative fiction to memoir. From Rotten Ralph to “Jack Henry” to “Joey Pigza” to my young adult memoir, HOLE IN MY LIFE . What do all these books have in common besides my pen, cats, characters and lots of catharsis? Join me as I circumnavigate my own world for a discussion on how the content of your life becomes the content for your literature.
DAVID GHOOGASIAN
Title: Understanding the Adolescent Brain Research is showing us that the adolescent brain, rather than being a finished product, is very much a work in progress. The old assumption that it is the same as an adult brain is being replaced with a different view. What many consider the “peculiarities” of adolescent behavior appear to have strong, underlying biological correlations. In this session, we will explore what some of these changes may be and what influence they may have.
DOUG GOODKIN
Title: Now’s The time: Jazz for all Ages One of our greatest cultural inheritances remains neglected in the world of general music because we haven’t considered how to make the complexities of jazz accessible to young children. Combining the Orff approach with a toes-up sequential development, we will learn simple jazz arrangements, with an emphasis on improvisation. Those who play band instruments should bring them to add to the ensemble.
DOUG JOHNSON
Title: Survival Skills for the Internet Information Jungle Jungles can be confusing and even dangerous to the inexperienced traveler. The sheer abundance of resources in them demand the explorer have special skills if they are going to survive and thrive. This presentation describes six Information Jungle Survival Tips for students and suggests how they can be taught.
IAN JUKES
Title: Windows on the Future Revisited: New Schools For the New World By now, most people have realized that the world is no longer the stable and predictable place that it once even just a few short years ago. There are many who say that the changes in the next 5 years will absolutely dwarf those of the last 50 years. What impact will this changing world have on education? What will learning look like? How will learning be assessed? What skills in learners and educators will be most highly valued? And how can educators design effective learning environments in a world of accelerating change? By taking a time machine 13 years into the future, this presentation explores the shift in curriculum and thinking that will be necessary to equip learners for success in the 21st century, and identifies what this signifies for education and educators. In a time when the primary focus increasingly seems to be on accountability, standards and high stakes testing, how can schools prepare students to be effective learners and educators to be more more effective teachers in a fundamentally different world than the one we grew up in?
BORIS KORSUNSKY
Title: Teaching General Problem Solving Skills in Physics and Mathematics This double-session workshop focuses on the pedagogy of teaching general problem solving strategies in the classroom setting. We will also solve (together!) some challenging problems. The workshop is based on the comprehensive ISET (Incentives, Strategies, Example, Tasks) approach developed by the presenter.
RON LANCASTER
Title: Problems and puzzles for students with an intrinsic interest in mathematics We will work through a number of wonderful mathematical problems and puzzles that can be used to challenge students who have strong abilities in mathematics. Some of the material that we will discuss can be used with a wide range of students, but the main focus will be on students who have an intrinsic interest in mathematics.
MARGARET MACLEAN
Title: Collaborative Reflection - a way to improve our work Collaborative reflection helps teachers design and refine their professional work. In this interactive session we will use s “Success Analysis” protocol to share successful practices from our classrooms. You will also be introduced to a “Tuning protocol” which can be used to improve units, lessons, assessments or other teacher work. Participants will leave with ideas and materials to use this work with their colleagues in their own schools.
Indonesia 1
Myanmar 2
Ballroom 1
Disco Room
Philippines
Ballroom 2
Myanmar 1
Ballroom 3
Sukhotai / Pimai
CLAYTON LEWIS
Title: J.F. Rischard’s High Noon and the implications for education What is the relationship between J.F. Rischard’s twenty issues and what is being taught in our schools? International schools profess to be focused upon global citizenship and responsibility. However, their curricula are often narrow and culturally biased at the expense of a global perspective, particularly in the secondary years. Young people have difficulty making a connection between what they study and what they encounter daily in the media. A new paradigm must bridge the past with the present in order that students are better prepared for the future. The OECD states clearly through its PISA study that students should focus upon social problem-solving rather than just discrete subjects, and develop core competencies for the 21st Century. International schools are ideally suited to lead such an initiative, working in close cooperation with universities, the College Board, the IBO, Cambridge International Examinations, and other such agencies.
ROSEBETH MARCOU
Title: Social Cognition: Acting right, talking right and being right There are a range of elements of social cognition which impact not only the peer relationships of a child, but also their learning and academic understanding. The socially ineffective child misreads, misinterprets and responds based upon these misunderstandings. Classroom teachers and counselors who understand these variations can develop effective strategies to help the child learn to ‘think socially’ and become more adept at acting, talking and being ‘right’ in a social sense.
BARBARA PARKER
Title: Assessing Standards through a Menu of Choices Participants will design a menu based upon and/or integrating reading, writing, science process skills, or social studies standards. A general introduction to menu design will be followed by participants working in small groups or individually to design their own menu to be used in their classroom.
DIANE PAYTER
Title: Classroom Grading and Record Keeping in a Standards-Based System This session will focus on how to create systems of grading, record keeping, and reporting that allow schools and districts to use assessment data from classroom teachers to track student progress on specific learning goals and standards. The session will address: - The weaknesses of current systems of classroom assessment and grading - Why a system of classroom assessment should be topic-based - How to design and score classroom assessments that are topic-based and estimate students’ true scores on topics at the end of a grading period in a variety of ways - How to translate topic scores into traditional grades - Why a classroom-based assessment system can alleviate the need for large scale assessments as the primary measures of student achievement.
JANE POLLOCK
Title: One Teacher at a Time: Instruction Participants will: Learn the nine research-based instructional strategies that have the highest probability of enhancing student achievement, Understand different types of knowledge, procedural and declarative, and how they are learned differently and should be taught differently, Learn to match the instructional strategies with the different kinds of knowledge, Learn to sequence instructional strategies in lesson planning
BARRIE JO PRICE / ANNA MCFADDEN
Title: MP3s and Podcasts Go to School! This will be a demonstration of MP3s and Pod Casts, showing some of the things other teachers and schools have made. These tools will be introduced, but the assumption is that most people are familiar with MP3s, so the emphasis will be on how to use them for instructional purposes. Pod casting will be demonstrated and issues considered such as copyright, equipment needed and instructional applications. The outcomes from this session will be knowledge of what these tools are and how they work, exposure to how these are being used by teachers and students for instruction and knowledge of the basic equipment needed. There will be a ‘door prize’ of an MP3 player and other instructional items!
Title: THE BLOGS ARE COMING! This workshop will begin with a basic introduction to the idea of blogs, including a showcasing of a wide range of types of blogs. Then instructional blogs and blogs from teachers will be shared. The issues associated with blogging as an instructional tool will be discussed and examples shared from classes and schools. The last part of the workshop participants will go to the computers and log into an instructional site that’s a companion piece to the workshop. From there, participants will review blogs and set up their own blog. Outcomes will include knowledge of how a blog works, a listing of the characteristics of an instructional blog, and experience in setting up a blog. The content can be generalized to how to help students set up blogs and use them in instruction.
STEVE SOBONYA (Session 7)
Title: Biomechinics: Evaluation and Application for Performance and Fitness Learn simple methods of evaluation of the human body in terms of muscle balance, flexibility, function, strength, stability, balance, and force production. Learn how to apply this biomechanical information for enhanced physical fitness and sports performance in all planes of movement.
Rattanakosin
Ayuthaya 1, 2
Myanmar 3
Malaysia 2
Chiangmai 1
Thonburi 1, 2
Indonesia 2
CATHIE SUMMERFORD (Session 6)
Title: Action-Packed Classrooms Ready, set, action! Fire-up, jump-start and get those behinds “Moving across the Content Standards” to some way-cool academic tunes. Teaching Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies and Health f”Out of their seats” for kinesthetic learners to anchor core concepts through multiple modalities. When children are engaged in the learning process, scores go up while discipline problems go down. Don’t miss out on this incredible research-based 1 1/2 hour experience.
TOM WOOD
Title: The use of ICT within the Art Room We will look at the uses of digital photography and Photoshop and it’s applications in the classroom and how it is integrated into the more traditional media of drawing, painting and printmaking.
