SESSION 9 Teacher Workshops SATURDAY | 31 March 2012
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Barbara Boyer / Tim Boyer Room: PHILIPPINES ROOM I Target Audience: Grade 2 to HS Strand: Library Title: Book Trailers: Using Cool Tech Tools To Liven Up Literature Ever wait in the theatre for your movie to start and you get jazzed about the new movies coming out? Move that excitement to books. Join us to see some fun book trailers and learn how to do and use them with your students. Popcorn provided! Junko Cancemi Room: THE STUDY ROOM Target Audience: Pre-K to elementary Strand: Literacy Title: The Reggio Approach and the ‘Hundred Languages of Children’ Part 1: The concept of the ‘hundred languages’ within the context of international schools: (1)The Reggio Approach; (2)The ‘symbolic’ and ‘poetic’ languages; (3) The meaning of ‘aesthetic dimensions’ in learning and education. Part 2: Hands-on Session: Group 1: Interweaving the languages of mathematics and architecture; Group 2: Interweaving science and art through observational drawing; Group 3: Interweaving the language of music and verbal narration to express a story. Part 3: Sharing ideas
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Rachel Caroline Brooker / Jacob Ivan Gray Room:VIETNAM ROOM Target Audience: MS/HS counselors, administrators, and teachers Strand: Counseling Title: Advisory Programs: Is It Possible at Your School? Creating advisory programs can be overwhelming. Come learn how Shekou International School created and implemented a full-fledged MS/HS advisory program focusing on guidance, service, reflective learning, and school unity. Groups will brainstorm how to overcome potential challenges and begin to formulate a plan for a successful advisory program in your school. Brenda Darling Room: MYANMAR I Target Audience: MS/HS mathematics and science Strand: Mathematics (also Science) Title: Why Do Students Resist Graphing? Whether our students are weak, strong, or average in mathematical ability they share one thing in common: they groan when they must pull out graph paper and use it to solve a problem. What is the deal with graphing? Why do students dislike it so much? Why do they fail to consider graphing as a problem-solving approach, even when it provides a simpler or easier path to a solution? This presentation will uncover the reasons why students struggle with graphing in the math (and by extension science) classroom and the surprisingly simple strategies teachers can employ to strengthen students’ graphing skills. Michael Fox Room: THE GARDEN GALLERY Target Audience: Grade 6-12, English/LA, humanities and social studies teachers Strand: Literacy Title: Managing The Marking Mountain: Leveraging Technology To Better Assess Writing Assessing student writing is one of the biggest challenges and time management issues teachers face. Assigning essays means marking essays, and marking essays means late nights writing volumes of comments on with unclear impact on performance. This workshop is designed to offer some tools and techniques to both increase the impact of comments on improving student performance as well as streamlining and reducing the marking burden on teachers. Paul Henderson Room: BALLROOM III Target Audience: Dept., program, team leaders Strand: General Title: Team Self-Appraisal as Team Supervision Department, program, and team leaders will learn how to set team standards, will learn self-appraisal models, and will learn how to supervise themselves. Participants will consider how much teamwork matters how teamwork can make a difference. Rachel Hunter Room: MYANMAR II Target Audience: Gr. 1-6, mainstream teachers, ESL, and special needs Strand: Special Needs / ESL Title: Repeated Readings: Intervention for Mainstream, Special Needs, and ESL Providing quality fluency instruction and intervention for a classroom of diverse readers is a challenge for many teachers. This workshop will focus on repeated readings as a fluency program suitable for a variety of educational settings. Incorporating key reading components, peer assisted learning strategies, and progress monitoring allows for teachers to meet the needs of students with and without disabilities. Participants will walk away with strategies for adapting a repeated readings program to fit the needs of their students. Susan Islascox / Ritu Java Room: MALAYSIA ROOM Target Audience: MS/HS teachers, particularly teachers in learning support/special needs Title: Maximizing Student Potential Through Technology Strand: Special Needs If your job involves supporting middle/high school students who struggle with reading, writing, organizing, or paying attention, this workshop is for you! We offer technology tools and strategies to help your students maximize their potential. You will carry back a bag of techniques that we have hand-picked, researched, and tested out as viable options to suit a wide spectrum of learning issues. Most of these technologies are readily available and affordable. 38
EARCOS Teachers’ Conference 2012
