SESSION 2

SESSION 2 Teacher Workshops THURSDAY | 29 March 2012

KAREN CARMEN Room: THE VALLEY ROOM I

Target Audience: Grades 5-12 Strand: Literacy Title: How To Stage a Successful Poetry Slam For anyone who’s ever “worried about the future of literature in a media-mad, electronic rock ‘n’ roll era”! Come explore how to captivate audiences of all ages and cultures with the competitive art of performance poetry and become equipped with tips and tools to make your own slam happen!

TOM COLE Room: VIETNAM ROOM

Target Audience: ES/MS teachers and counselors Strand: Special Needs Title: Understanding Learning Differences in International Schools A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, and this is particularly true with learning disabilities. We will cover some of the most common language related learning disabilities, describe how they are diagnosed, and discuss strategies that may be used in the classroom. A major component of this workshop will help the attendees to experience the challenges the students with these disorders face on a daily basis.

CATH CORBO / LORETO KEARY Room: BALLROOM III

Target Audience: ES, homeroom and language teachers Strand: ESL Title: Oral Language Strategies to Support English Language Development. It is essential in an international classroom that teachers support English language development by planning for the use of oral language strategies that are inclusive of second language learners. This workshop will provide practical examples of oral language activities for elementary homeroom and language teachers to integrate across the curriculum through a fun and active approach.

SHAUNA COVELL Room: THE VALLEY ROOM II

Target Audience: Elementary classroom teachers and literacy specialists Strand: Literacy Title: The Daily 5: For Teachers by Teachers Ever wonder how to “fit it all in?” The Daily 5 might be the answer for you. In this presentation, you will learn about an organizational method for the reading/language arts block called the Daily 5. You will see firsthand what it is and the benefits of using it in your classroom. You will also watch video clips that demonstrate how to launch the Daily 5 and kids in action! There will be large and small group components, and an independent block for you to brainstorm how it might work in your classroom and time to ask specific questions. I look forward to sharing my passion for the Daily 5 with interested and curious elementary school educators.

ELAINE EASTWOOD / AMINA LACOUR Room: INDONESIA ROOM

Target Audience: Pre-K–1st grade Strand: General Title: Making the Most of Data with Young Learners Does the thought of data make you cringe? Find out how to integrate the collection and use of data with young learners in meaningful ways. Learn to develop data centers, data folders, and documentation boards and make them a part of the student learning process. Learners become self-directed and motivated when data is visible and accessible. Participants will reflect, share, and acquire practical ways of using data effectively to improve student learning.

TARA ETHRIDGE Room: PHILIPPINES ROOM I

Target Audience: K-12 librarians Strand: Library Title: Making the Most out of Your Destiny Catalog Embedding Youtube videos, adding student digital book reviews, social networking about books—all these are possible (and so fun!) using your current Destiny library catalog. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to utilize your Destiny catalog to its fullest potential, creating a central place for students to gather virtually to share their love of books and to share their digital work.

ANNE FERRARA / STEPHANIE PASSAMONTE Room: BRUNEI ROOM I

Target Audience: MS/HS counselors Strand: Counseling Title: Intentional Interactions: Delivering Systematic, Comprehensive Guidance Seminars to all Students This workshop will take a look at how to reach all students through creating, delivering, and assessing a comprehensive guidance seminar program. Attendees will walk away with tips to strengthen and/or create their own comprehensive guidance classes. Questions to be answered: How did we find the time? How did we advocate for such a significant shift in the daily schedule? What are the strengths and challenges of our current curriculum?

PAT KOzYRA / RACHEL PERKS Room: SINGAPORE ROOM

Target Audience: All Grade Levels Strand: Special Needs Title: Just Who Are the Gifted? Participants will learn common characteristics of gifted children and will be given checklists and methods to help identify a gifted student in the classroom. (Two in every one hundred.) A bonus feature of this dynamic workshop is the multitude of fantastic ideas and strategies that can be used to help meet the needs of the gifted child. Remember: ‘If you don’t kiss all the frogs, you won’t know who the prince or princess will be!’

SESSION 2 Teacher Workshops THURSDAY | 29 March 2012

GRIFFIN LOYNES / CINDER MERRITT Room: THE GARDEN GALLERY

Target Audience: MS/HS teachers Strand: Literacy Title: Text Type Literacy: Mini-lessons for Language and Literature Vertical Integration With the new IB A1 language and literature course, there is vital need to vertically integrate skills of the course into earlier English classes. This workshop will present mini-lesssons for different text type literacy activities, focusing on cinema, graphic strips, and political propaganda. The activities are geared towards inclusion in existing pre-IB English units, allowing students early exposure to the new curricular skills. The workshop aims to provide practical material for the classroom.

SCOTT MILLER Room: THE STUDY ROOM

Target Audience: Grades 3-12 teachers Strand: Literacy Title: Enhancing Vocabulary Instruction Looking for new ways to introduce, practice, review, or assess vocabulary? If so, this session is designed for you. Participants will experience a plethora of vocabulary strategies which can be used in their classroom as soon as desired. Discover some new ways to help students learn and apply their knowledge or vocabulary.

JOHN RINKER Room: MYANMAR II Target Audience: Grades 4-10 but easily with ideas and provocative aspects it could be for all grades, including teachers and students. Strand: General Title: The Google Earth Tour Challenge : A Game-based Project The google Earth Tour Challenge provides a game-based project for integrating google Earth into a variety of curricular areas. The game-based design motivates students to complete successive levels of the game while ensuring a rich content base for the product. In the end, students create an authentic and durable learning tool.

DAVID RYNNE Room: PEPPINO LEVEL 3

Target Audience: Appropriate for ES/MS/Sec teachers, all subject areas and specializations Strand: Digital Literacy Title: Let There Be Life! Integrating Claymation into Classroom Practice Students need direct support to become thoroughly media literate in today’s media intensive world. Integrating Stop Motion Animation into student learning tasks enables many cooperative and collaborative learning opportunities as well as developing time management awareness, responsibility, and problem solving strategies. This hands-on workshop will: Discuss media literacy, view examples of animations, create and publish a simple animation, discuss curricular uses of this technique, classroom management strategies, and some of the resources available. (Bring a laptop if possible.)

SARAH SUTTER Room: CHAO PHRAYA ROOM

Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators Strand: Digital Literacy Title: Building your Professional Learning Network How do you move forward when you don’t know what you don’t know? Create a learning network that uses online communities and resources to bring a steady stream of information to your online “door.” Participate with teachers in webinars, or join communities of educators sharing ideas and resources. How do you find them? How do you join in? Come find out how to get started and tap into the growing global online community of educators and create your own custom tailored professional learning network.

ROY TOMLINSON Room: MYANMAR I

Target Audience: HS Math Teachers Strand: Math Title: Linear Regression and Modeling using Excel and the Graphing Calculator Teachers will come out of the workshop with an understanding of the use of Excel to plot linear regression and best fitting lines using real world data. Using these models, we’ll apply formulas to plot residuals and determine best fitting models. Re-expression of data using the spreadsheet will also be discussed. Bring laptops to work on the computer during the session.

MICHELLE VOGEL / MONNA MCDIARMID Room: BRUNEI ROOM II

Target Audience: MS/HS counselors and teachers (grades 6-12) Strand: Counseling Title: What is Beautiful? Talking with Teenagers about Body Image During the 2010-2011 school year, counselors and teachers at NIST identified body image as a serious issue for our middle and high school students. We threw ourselves into the creation of an educational program that had, at its foundation, our own experiences with body image and disordered eating. We hoped that students would respect and benefit from our honesty and vulnerability. This programming led to a campaign called “What is beautiful?” and resulted in a short film and photo exhibit.

SESSION 2 Teacher Workshops THURSDAY | 29 March 2012

EVAN WEINBERG Room: MYANMAR III

Target Audience: MS/HS mathematics teachers Strand: Math Title: Using Geogebra to Promote Active Mathematics Learning and Skill Development Students must do mathematical tasks and get correct feedback to learn to think mathematically. geogebra, an open source and community supported software program, offers many tools for students to see multiple representations of functions, model the world around them, and get feedback on the math work they do by hand. This workshop will focus on applying geogebra both as an exploratory tool and to help students develop their skills for when the computer is not available.

NANCY WOODWARD Room: PHILIPPINES ROOM II

Target Audience: Librarians, grades 6-12 Strand: Library Title: Let’s Talk Books—Back to Basics for MS and HS Librarians Literacy and connecting students with good books is still a core value for school librarians. Ideas about good books, selection resources, and how to promote books will be shared. Come prepared to share some of your ideas.

GREG zOLKOWSKI Room: MALAYSIA ROOM

Target Audience: K-2 teachers and special needs support staff Strand: Special Needs Title: Early Literacy Intervention: Are Gains Sustained? What Works? A five-year longitudinal study, conducted by the presenter, addresses the question “can gains in reading made by students while in intervention be maintained in years after they have stopped receiving support?” The presentation will highlight the RTI model/ intervention principles used at our school, the assessment and data gathering process, and instructional features that could be applied by specialists or classroom teachers.

14:45-15:15 COFFEE BREAK at the Meeting Room Foyer

Sponsored by DYMO/Mimio Interactive Teaching Technologies

Help support their education

This year, proceeds from the Charity Raffle and Silent Auction will go to After the Wave (afterthewave.org).

After the Wave is a Thailand based non-profit foundation established after the 2004 tsunami, and run by a network of educational professionals, volunteers, and community leaders. We work through the R35 school in Khao Lak to improve the lives of children who continue to suffer years after the tsunami hit.

Please visit the Charity Raffle and Silent Auction display, buy your raffle tickets, and bid on auction items