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Session 10
12:30-13:30
13:45-15:15
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
Malaysia 2
Rattanakosin 1
Indonesia 1
Rattanakosin 2
workshop session 10
Ballroom 3
Brunei 1, 2
Indonesia 1
Disco Room
saturday, March 31, 2007 13:45-15:15 workshop session 10 - continued
PAUL GRAINGER
Title: Integrating Literature and Language in the English Language Learning Classroom Join us as the presenter demonstrates how to effectively prepare students for study in the content areas through the use of literature. Special attention will be paid to motivational factors and building students’ background knowledge prior to delving into a literary selection.
ROGER GREENAWAY
Title: Developing Appreciation, Empathy and Group Decision-Making Skills How to create healthy dynamics when students work in groups. Appreciative Competition ensures appreciation of everyone’s ideas and it stimulates creative solutions. Deciding Line becomes more challenging as the group grows. The Empathy Test helps students to appreciate other points of view. Versatile exercises for exploring different views and ideas.
MICHAEL HAYNES / DAVID BROWN
Title: Teaching Environmental Protection the EcoBoat Way The EcoBoat Project is dedicated to the notion that teenagers -- both students from Vietnamese high schools on the fringes of Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, and students from international secondary schools throughout East Asia -- can be motivated to join in the search for solutions to the greatest dilemma of the 21st century: reconciling economic growth and environmental protection. In multi-day trips on Ha Long Bay’s jade-green waters, Fauna and Flora International (FFI) staff deliver a hands-on encounter with spectacular scenery, friendly people and serious environmental protection challenges. We try to send the kids home thoughtful. In this workshop, we show how the EcoBoat team uses handson experience of a spectacular natural setting and human impacts to create a context for animated discussion of how communities can manage development and protection. The kids who join us on the EcoBoat see below the surface, literally. They learn that environmental issues are complex and that answers lie in recognizing the various interests at play and in getting all the important actors engaged in solving the problems. The conceptual frame and methods we use on the EcoBoat are not site-specific; they can be adapted to frame the development vs. protection dilemma in any Asian country, make vivid the consequences of doing nothing, and fill students with a sense of their own capability to change minds and community behavior.
IAN JUKES
Title: Beyond TTWWADI (That’s the Way We’ve Always Done It) It’s amazing how we can embrace doing things the way they have always been done without examining where the original decisions came from. We just accept a pre-existing mind-set because it’s the path of least resistance. For example, the mind-set for the structure of our schools is based on decisions that were made in the days of the horse, buggy, kerosene lamp, factory floor, and production line. It’s a system in which most students are still released for 3 months each summer so that they can harvest the crops based on some European agricultural cycle. This is classic TTWWADI (That’s The Way We’ve Always Done It). Accepting this preexisting mind-set of what schools look like is easy because they haven’t changed that much in a long time. Most educators embrace the entrenched ideas about schools and learning without thinking. However, the world is no longer the stable and predictable place it once was. Technology is fueling an engine of change that is making the world a moving target. What is startling is that the rate of change is picking up speed with each passing day. Radical new developments in technology are having increasingly profound implications for life as we know it. In this environment of change, it is critical that we begin to question the rationale behind TTWWADI in our schools.
DEREK LUEBBE / JAY ATWOOD
Title: simCEO Simulation Created by an EARCOS administrator and teachers, simCEO is the web’s only online simulation where students 1) create their own business, 2) research each other‚s companies, 3) buy/sell shares (which influence the individual share prices), and 4) do all of this while reacting to teacher-input news. Easily integrate almost any classroom content. Engaging and flexible, this will surely spark some very real enthusiasm in students. As a teacher, let it take them wherever you want. Lesson plans worksheets, tutorials, quizzes, connected to standards, and more. This simulation is free for all attendees to take back to their school. Suitable for grades 4-12. This session will be aim to be interactive. Laptops are encouraged but not mandatory.
MARGARET MACLEAN
Title: Learning Collaboratively from Texts In this session you will understand ways to connect text based protocols to book study. We will explore several text based protocols. For example: The 4 A’s, The Tea Party, Text Rendering and Save the Last Word for Me, The protocols can be used with colleagues to discuss relevant articles or book excerpts and can be adapted for use with students. This session will be interactive, we will practice several protocols and participants will leave with the skills and materials they need to try this work in other settings.
P. ROLAND MAIQUEZ / M. CECILIA NAZARENO
Title: Read, Write, and Blog: Literacy in the Information Age “Thousand join the blogging revolution each week. Experience how teachers and student are using Information age tools to transform reading and writing for all students.“
