SESSION 1 THURSDAY | 29 March 2012
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Julie Adams Room: THE STUDY ROOM Strand: ESL Title: What Every Educator Should Know about Content Area Literacy & Effective Instruction Learn the latest research regarding content area literacy, how to end the 4th grade slump and achievement gap, and utilize effective instructional practices to promote student engagement and comprehension across all content areas. Cathryn Berger Kaye Room: PEPPINO LEVEL 3 Strand: General Ed/ Service Learning Title: The Time is Now for Service Learning: Engaging, Relevant, Real Service learning—a powerful teaching strategy—creates a conducive environment for developing transferable skills and knowledge, high engagement, and relevance benefitting teachers as well as students. Transform community service into service learning with the Five Stages of Service Learning, literature connections—fiction and nonfiction, and adding purpose to process. Highly interactive! Tim Burns Sponsored by The COLLEGE BOARD Room: INDONESIA ROOM Strand: Counseling Title: THREE BRAINS ARE BETTER THAN ONE: Integrating Brain, Body, and Heart Intelligences for Engaged Learning Looking for a workshop experience that pulls together recent and relevant findings about the learning brain, while integrating intriguing discoveries about the role of the so called “second brain” (the gut or body-brain) and the “intelligence of the heart” in learning and well-being? If so, this is the institute for you. This informative, interactive workshop blends research and practical application within a framework of brain-based childhood development, showing why and—most importantly to educators—how to put these important findings into practice. Such an integrated approach to teaching and learning results in threat-free, enjoyable learning. Join us for an exploration of the engaged brains!
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Cathy Davidson Room: BALLROOM III Strand: Digital Literacy Title: How We Measure This workshop introduces the history of the kinds and forms of measurement that dominate twentieth-century educational practices, K-20. Alison Davis Room: BRUNEI ROOM II Strand: Literacy Title: Minds-On + Hands-On = Thinking Readers There are many skills and strategies which thinking readers use—before, during, and after reading. These minds-on strategies need to be taught to students in a systematic and explicit way so they have deep understanding of everything they read. There are multiple opportunities in a teaching day for teachers and librarians to model minds-on strategies—and the in-head cognitive processing—with both narrative and factual texts. Hands-on strategies can be modeled with digital or enlarged text, guided reading text or independent reading books to produce the construction of meaning. So minds-on reading + hands-on strategies = deep comprehension. Brett Dillingham Room: MYANMAR I Strand: Literacy Title: Culturally Responsive Literacy through Storytelling: Performance Literacy Culturally responsive literacy is rich, rewarding, and consistent with the values of students’ cultures and focuses on improving academic learning. In this workshop we will engage in activities that have a strong theory/evidence base. Performance literacy storytelling activities encourage and facilitate children’s oral and written language development, increase listening and reading comprehension, and inspire a love of reading and writing. These processes build on constructivist learning principles with the learner as an active participant in the process. David Grant Room: THE VALLEY ROOM I Strand: Digital Literacy Title: Teaching Students to Shoot Like Pros Students at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, shoot and produce documentary video of learning expeditions at every grade level, on every team. In this hands on workshop, participants will explore how students can master simple but powerful videography conventions. Participants will leave with new knowledge of how to shoot great video, as well as with a ready-to-use lesson for teaching students how to shoot like pros in their classrooms. Please bring a phone or camera that shoots video and a wire for uploading NicHOLAS Jackiw Room: CHAO PHRAYA ROOM Strand: Math Title: The Geometer’s Sketchpad Introductory Workshop: Tessellations and Tilings Participants will meet and learn the basic operations of The Geometer’s Sketchpad, the most widely-used school mathematics software, in the context of exploring regular tessellations of the plane via regular polygons.This hands-on workshop is for mathematics teachers at all grade levels, and is recommended for users new-or relatively new-to Dynamic Geometry technology. Bring your laptop!
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EARCOS Teachers’ Conference 2012
