SESSION 10 SATURDAY | 31 March 2012
13:30-15:00
Julie Adams Room: THE STUDY ROOM Strand: Literacy Title: Effective Content Writing Strategies to Boost Student Comprehension This session will equip you with a set of step-by-step strategies for scaffolding the writing process to your students across all content areas. Examples will be shared for engaging ELL students in the following areas: effective topic sentences, brainstorming, “scaffolded” paragraph structures, MLA citation, and peer-editing. Kim Cofino Room: MALAYSIA ROOM Strand: Digital Literacy Title: Connecting Your Community A blogging portal is a great way to help make the learning environment in your classroom or school transparent to all stakeholders while connecting the whole community. This presentation will share the vision and implementation process, as well as concrete examples from Yokohama International School’s successful blogging portal, The Learning Hub.
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Brett Dillingham Room: PEPPINO LEVEL 3 Strand: Literacy Title: Found Poetry: Performance Literacy across Content Areas Learn to teach students to write a content focused poem (science, history, social studies) and then “perform” their writing—which teaches their peers the content in an interesting and contextual framework. This process includes oral language development, writing, reading for meaning, content integration, self assessment, assessment of others’ work, and lessons the teacher chooses on grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Nicholas Jackiw Room: CHAO PHRAYA ROOM Strand: Math Title: The Geometer’s Sketchpad Advanced Workshop: Introduction to Iteration In this final Sketchpad workshop, we’ll move beyond basics to explore Sketchpad’s powerful iteration capabilities. We’ll use numeric and geometric iterations to build various growth models, sequences, and series; Fibonacci series and their graphs; and fractals. While the curricular focus will be at the secondary level, iterative techniques are applicable across mathematics. Some Sketchpad experience recommended. Steven Layne Room: THE GARDEN GALLERY Strand: Literacy Title: Using Children’s / Young Adult Books To Excite Young Writers Teachers are always in need of a good response to kids who say, “I can’t think of anything to write about.” After this energizing presentation, you’ll have several great answers! Join award-winning author Steven Layne as he uses a wide range of children’s picture books and novels to introduce five key arenas from which authors draw story ideas. Discover how easily this information translates into practice in any K-12 classroom where literacy development is a top priority. It’s time to get your students’ pencils moving with excitement! Maggie Moon Room: THE VALLEY ROOM II Strand: Literacy Title: Conferring and Note-taking—Finding an Effective System for Gathering, Managing, and Analyzing a Body of Evidence The backbone of a strong writing workshop is a teacher’s ability to quickly assess and document student growth, and link that to instruction for the individual writer, as well as whole class instruction. This workshop will go through the basics of how to best document students’ growth as writers while conferring. Building and using a conferring notebook, and also having a toolkit attached to it to support writers, is an excellent way to make sure this is done effectively, and teachers will have a close-up look at a system for doing just that. Jason Ohler Room: BALLROOM III Strand: Digital Literacy Title: New Media in the Classroom—from Tools to Assessment to Social Media (Repeat) Following from the keynote, Jason demonstrates practical tools and processes for implementing new media narrative projects in classroom activities in exciting, creative ways. He addresses a number of topics, including media assessment, media grammar, and the role of research-based digital stories and media development in the curriculum. This presentation is based on Jason’s book, Digital Storytelling in the Classroom (Corwin Press, 2007). Donna Kalmbach Phillips Room:VIETNAM ROOM Strand: General / Action Research Title: Teacher Action Research: Data Analysis, Interpretation, & Publication “I’ve gathered the data: now what?” This interactive workshop introduces participants to principles and strategies for ongoing data analysis and final data interpretation that they can apply to their own teacher action research projects. The presentation will include strategies and avenues for publication of final action research projects. Nathan Schelble Room: MYANMAR II & III Title: Teenage Sleep Deprivation Strand: Counseling Generation Y is often times counting more pokes and points instead of sheep and focusing more on screens, grades, and peers instead of getting the shuteye they desperately need. This workshop will help counselors/educators learn about the importance of sleep and how one can help students find balance and get more zzzz’s. 42
EARCOS Teachers’ Conference 2012
