SESSION 1

SESSION 1 THURSDAY | 29 March 2012

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!

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!

SESSION 1 THURSDAY | 29 March 2012

MAGGIE MOON Room: THE GARDEN GALLERY

Strand: Literacy Title: How to Plan out the Best Possible Mini-Lessons: Make Your Teaching Stick & Make Good Use of Your Time To Keep It Mini! One of the main aspects to a strong reading or writing workshop is the daily mini-lesson. As many teachers know, it is often too easy to try to wing minilessons, or somehow find that 20 minutes have passed and the lesson isn’t over! In this workshop, teachers will examine the importance of pacing a good mini-lesson and will consider the various ways to keep a mini-lesson actually mini. Each part of a mini-lesson will be looked at closely, and teachers will have the opportunity to revisit past lessons and dream up how to turn them into a string of mini-lessons. Participants will also plan out mini-lessons by breaking down a specific teaching point into steps.

EULA EWING MONROE Room: MYANMAR II & III

Strand: Math Title: A Baker’s Dozen: 13 Ways NOT to Discourage Mathematical Discussion Do some of your teaching approaches and strategies inadvertently discourage rather than encourage meaning mathematical discussion? This session identifies common teacher behaviors and other factors within the classroom that discourage students from engaging in the discourse of mathematics. In each case, adjustments are suggested to offer a more positive alternative.

DONNA KALMBACH PHILLIPS Room: VIETNAM ROOM

Strand: General Ed/ Action Research Title: Teacher Action Research: An Overview This interactive workshop is designed to answer the question, “What is teacher action research?” Attendees will define action research, understand the usefulness of action research to classroom teachers, and gain a broad perspective of how action research is implemented.

ANNA SUGARMAN Room: BRUNEI ROOM I

Strand: Special Needs/ Gifted Title: Identifying and Maximizing Talent Working definitions of giftedness will provide a foundation for this presentation which will highlight characteristics of high ability students and explain how they can be facilitators for or distractors of learning. Participants will explore practical applications and options in the international schools to maximize learning and aptitude development.

PEGGY SHARP Room: PHILIPPINES ROOM I & II

Strand: Library Title: New Books for Grades K-2 and How to Use Them in Your Program Learn of some of the best new books for younger students and specific strategies for using them to motivate reading and promote learning. Ideas presented are highly practical ready-to-use-tomorrow strategies for all areas of your program that are appropriate for the new books as well as for your old favorites.

STEPHEN SHORE Room: SINGAPORE ROOM

Strand: Special Needs Title: Understanding the “Hidden Curriculum” for Learners on the Autism Spectrum and Related Conditions When is it appropriate to talk in class? How does one act when hanging out with friends, in school, or in the library? Is there a way to reckon with the fact that the “lunch hour” at work is only 30 minutes? Most people automatically know the answers to these questions and many like them through observations of social interaction. This presentation examines Power Cards, Social Stories by Carol gray, emotional thermometers and mnemonic devices such as Stop, Observe, Deliberate, and Act and other strategies for providing practical solutions to the vexing problem of teaching appropriate social interaction to people on the autism spectrum in appropriate social interactions.

JOE STUCKER / PAUL WOOD Room: THE VALLEY ROOM II

Strand: General Title: A Perfect Match—International School Recruitment from the School’s Perspective “If a school has great teachers, it is a great school.” (Whitaker, 2004). International school recruitment has become virtually a year-round process. Both recruiters and schools need to take advantage of all available resources to ensure the best possible match. This interactive workshop provides participants with insight into the recruitment process from the school’s perspective and offers practical suggestions for how teachers and aspiring administrators can optimize their chances of being hired by the right school. It will also consider the roles in the process of the initial application, resume, email communications, Skype/telephone interviews, the recruitment fairs, and professional networks such as LinkedIn.

JEFF UTECHT Room: MALAYSIA ROOM

Strand: Digital Literacy Title: Google Apps in the Classroom This session will focus on using Google Apps in the classroom with students 3rd - 12th grade. This free educational service encompasses a powerful set of tools that is revolutionizing education. Combining these tools with other free google products like google Maps and google Earth only enhances the learning for students. We will go hands-on with real lessons being used in classrooms right now as we discuss how Google Apps changes the learning environment. From science notebooks, to collaborative notes and classroom newspapers, we’ll get our hands dirty with what these powerful tools have to offer. Participants will need a Google account.