SESSION 6 FRIDAY | 30 March 2012
13:45-15:15
Jill Bromenschenkel Room: THE STUDY ROOM Strand: ESL Title: Collaboration & Co-teaching: Tools and Strategies for Working Together Those who work together... have greater success! We’ll overview the three strands of effective professional collaboration: collaborative planning, collaborative instruction (co-teaching), and collaborative communication. We’ll overview tools for collaboration that extend beyond “moving the geography” of an ELL specialist. Whether mainstream/content-area teachers or ESL specialists, participants will gather tools and take-away strategies to increasingly support students’ language and content learning through a collaborative curricular approach. Sampling of topics addressed: roles and goals of each collaborator, models for co-teaching, interactive structures to infuse language development into classroom content, social media and communication tools, and selfassessments.
SESSION 6
Faye Brownlie Room: MYANMAR I Strand: Literacy Title: It’s All About Thinking: Active Learning Strategies to Deepen Understanding Our goal is to create independent, thoughtful, self-directed learners. What does this look like in daily classroom work? We will examine powerful practices that deeply engage learners with the content of the curriculum-open-ended strategies, collaboration, inquiry, assessment for learning, backwards design. Lead the learning with a focus on thinking! Tim Burns Sponsored by The COLLEGE BOARD Room: INDONESIA ROOM Strand: Counseling Title: IT’S ABOUT BALANCE: Stress-Hardiness, Resilience, and Well-Being for Teachers (and Students, Too!) Are you finding it harder to keep up with the increasing challenges of being an educator? In truth, most of us—and our students—are these days. And while there are no simplistic answers, there are many practical things that you can do to enhance your “stress-hardiness.” The good news is this: small changes, specifically applied, have been shown to produce positive results in stress reduction, health improvement, and enhanced overall well-being. From a synthesis of research in a variety of fields come key principles and useful techniques that will certainly help bring about a calmer, more energized, and balanced approach to living and learning. The workshop addresses theory, recent research and—most importantly—practical and effective tools with which to make it applicable. You’ll benefit in both your personal life and in the professional setting, learn many techniques for immediate use, and have an enjoyable time in the process. Jonas Edman / HyoJung Jang / Rylan Sekiguchi Room: PEPPINO LEVEL 3 Strand: General / SPICE Title: North Korea, South Korea, and Inter-Korean Relations This session will introduce secondary school teachers to activities and resources from the SPICE curriculum units “Uncovering North Korea” and “Inter-Korean Relations: Rivalry, Reconciliation, and Reunification.” Participants will engage in interactive activities. Extensive curriculum resources will be distributed. David Grant Room: THE VALLEY ROOM I Strand: Digital Literacy Title: The Fast Way to Technical Competence with iMovie—So You and Your Students Can Spend Time on Content Video production is a fantastic way to create engagement in the classroom—that is until production challenges get in the way of teaching and learning. In this workshop, we will look at a series of strategies and tutorials that I use in my classroom to create student competency in just a few lessons. (Examples of years of students work can be seen at http://king.portlandschools.org/files/tv ) Then it’s on to the important stuff: literacy, content, and great story telling. To fully participate, please bring your own Apple laptop with the content for this class already downloaded and the most current version of iMovie. The download content is available at http://staff.portlandschools.org/grantd/earcos12/ Doug Johnson Room: PHILIPPINES ROOM I & II Strand: Library Title: Rules of Engagement: Using Technologies to Motivate Rather Than Distract Are personally owned devices—laptops, netbooks, smartphones, and tablets—distracting your students? Or are you using them to motivate and engage? Learn some simple rules that help you make the most of these devices that are increasingly common in the classroom. This presentation/discussion: Examines the difference between entertainment and engagement; Describes five strategies for dealing with “distractive” technologies in the classroom; Gives concrete examples of how personally owned devices can be used to both enhance traditional educational practices and to completely restructure learning. Nancy Johnson Room: MYANMAR II & III Strand: Literacy Title: Poetry’s Pleasures: Reading It, Writing It, Teaching It, Loving It This workshop explores how to design a poetry unit of study that invites intermediate through high school students to read and enjoy the language of poetry, discover topics for poetry writing, craft poetry in a variety of forms/formats, and discover the wondrous literature and poetry partnerships available to inspire reading and writing poetry. James Kett Room: CHAO PHRAYA ROOM Title: Effective Use of Technology: Part I Strand: Math Technology should be used as a facilitator of teaching and learning. Using technology effectively inspires students and makes teaching more enjoyable. In this interactive workshop, you will experience how technology should be used in teaching statistics.Topics covered include: 1-variable statistics, linear regression, probability distributions, sampling distributions, and The Central Limit Theorem. 30
EARCOS Teachers’ Conference 2012
