SESSION 5

SESSION 5 Teacher Workshops FRIDAY | 30 March 2012

ADELA ALGUNO Room: BALLROOM III

Target Audience: Elementary class teachers as well as MHS subject teachers Strand: General Title: Human Movement in the General Classroom This workshop aims to share opportunity for the attendees to explore human movement activities as a potential teaching tool in the general classroom in math, social studies, science and English. The program will include power point presentations, workshop activity, and group work to encourage interaction of participants during the workshop. Pictures, videos, and interviews from students and teachers of actual classes integrating movement activities from early education to high school from Cebu International School will also be shown. The workshop will bring the participants a meaningful experience of performing some movement activities themselves modeled from the presenter and as well as in their own small groups during the group work activity.

GRACE CHENG / JENNY SOHN Room: BRUNEI ROOM I

Target Audience: HS counselors (academic/personal/college), English teachers - grades 9-12, school administrators Strand: Counseling Title: Who Are You? College Essays in 500 Words or Less US admissions officers use essays to gain a sense of who an applicant is behind grades, scores, extracurricular titles, and awards. “Be interesting,” implores one admissions dean. “You want the reader to put an essay down after reading, and say ‘This is someone I would like to see here.’” This presentation will feature tips and strategies designed to help counselors and English teachers work with college-bound students in writing effective and reflective application essays.

DAVID COLLETT / BRANDON HOOVER Room: PEPPINO LEVEL 3

Target Audience: K-12 Strand: Digital Literacy Title: Dynamism: Dispositional Learning through IT Five years from now, the IT content schools teach will be obsolete. The 21st century world is technologically infused and constantly evolving. How can we ensure students are part of this evolution? Why do technology tools and software often define the curriculum? If we want students to be creative, innovative, investigative, and progressive learners, we need to shift our focus to dispositional learning. Tomorrow is more than what you know; it’s who you are.

KEEGAN COMBS Room: THE STUDY ROOM

Target Audience: Grade 4-12 English and content-area teachers Strand: Literacy Title: The Most Important 5 Minutes: Frontloading Strategies Do you want your students to be interested and engaged? To read and learn with a purpose? Do they struggle with background knowledge? This workshop will present strategies to introduce content in interactive, meaningful ways. In 5 minutes of planning and 5 minutes of class time, you can help students make connections, build background, generate interest in a topic, and read with a purpose. This workshop is interactive and collaborative.

TANYA DERKASH / CLARE MICHELSEN Room: INDONESIA ROOM

Target Audience: PYP/MYP/DP and administrators Strand: Special Needs Title: Inclusion at Nanjing International School – What Does it Include? What does it mean to include students with special needs? We will describe the process of building an inclusion program in an international school in China with 600+ students, highlight the strengths of the program, and show how 1:1 learning, pull-out and in-class models of support are implemented. Approaches to developing individualized programs and shared testimonies will highlight the benefits and challenges for all students and teachers in an inclusive classroom.

JESUS GAMEz Room: THE VALLEY ROOM I

Target Audience: Grade levels 9-12 Strand: Languages Title: Using Movies in a Language Class The workshop takes the concept that learning a new language means getting involved with a new culture, demonstrates how the culture is represented by cinema ,and then gives participants ideas on how learning a new language opens the horizons to deeper understandings of cultures. This workshop will cover the following: (1) How to make a movie effective in a language class; (2) Different approaches when showing a movie; (3) Choosing genres.

TIMOTHY GARTz Room: BRUNEI ROOM II

Target Audience: HS counselors / administrators Strand: Counseling Title: A Counselor’s Mission: Securing a Bright Future for our International Students In this workshop, best practice methods of an international school counselor will be presented in their two primary roles that help secure a bright future for any international student. 1). Focus on university guidance and sesources developed at AIS for students to become university ready; 2). Focus on our holistic guidance program that works collaboratively in helping students develop their talents and moral character that is so essential to a successful future. By attending this presentation administrators and counselors will be exposed to powerful tools, resources and pathways to help students across the EARCOS region prepare to be successful contributors on the world stage.

SESSION 5 Teacher Workshops FRIDAY | 30 March 2012

LYNETTE GRYPP / FORREST BRINKER / SHIRLEY TAYLOR Room: SINGAPORE ROOM

Target Audience: MS/HS mathematics teachers Strand: Mathematics Title: Construction Site Geometry: Engaging Students in Meaningful Geometry Applications The Construction Site geometry project provides middle and high school geometry teachers with a creative year-end synthesis of learning integrating trigonometry, similarity, area, and volume. Teachers who attend this workshop will leave with a project lesson plan with specific requirements and grading rubrics, as well as an understanding of how the project can be put into motion in their own classroom.

JULIE HEINSMAN Room: VIETNAM ROOM

Target Audience: All grades - counselors Strand: Counseling Title: Grief: The International Student’s Ever Present Companion As international students, our children are confronted with a large amount of loss. Grief is the normal process of reacting to loss. This workshop will discuss how grief affects the lives of international students as we look at foundational facts of Third Culture Kid grief, symptoms, warning signs, and ways to help.

LINC JACKSON / BEN SHERIDAN Room: THE GARDEN GALLERY

Target Audience: Ages 3 - 7 Strand: Literacy Title: Integrating Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction in the Early Years Specifically aimed for early years, the focus is on strategies for making the very most of technology tools available in most schools to enhance the literacy goals of young students. In addition to some traditional technology successes, specific strategies will include using hardware such as Interactive White Boards, iPods, iPads, webcams, and laptops, and Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, Wikis, Web pages, and the cool interactive web sites.

CARRIE LEVNO Room: MALAYSIA ROOM

Target Audience: K-12 students / teachers / parents Strand: Special Needs / Counseling Title: Equality versus Fairness Workshop participants will engage in fun and interactive activities to differentiate between and identify examples of what is fair and equal, in relation to students with learning difficulties. This will serve to explain why providing students with learning difficulties accommodations is fair. School community policies or programs that promote fairness will also be identified and explained so participants will walk away with simple, yet practical ways to promote fairness for their students.

KATHERINE MCDERMOTT Room: MYANMAR I

Target Audience: High school mathematics. MYP math teachers Strand: Mathematics Title: Origami: A multi-faceted Tool for the Math Classroom Origami is both an ancient art form and the basis of a new discipline that combines origami and mathematics to solve a variety of engineering problems. Unit Origami, which is a type of construction origami, is a great tool for introducing origami to students of all ages. This presentation will introduce the field of origami engineering, the basics of folding origami “units,” and some of the math that can be taught with it.

GENEVIEVE MURPHY Room: CHAO PHRAYA ROOM

Target Audience: K-12 Strand: Digital Literacy Title: Know My World: Making Global Connections through Digital Literacy Know My World will host an interactive digital literacy workshop where participants will create on-site project ideas that they can continue to foster after completion. During the workshop they will acquire cross cultural resources and digital media skills that will enable them to implement literacy through global connections. The culmination of this workshop will leave participants with an established exchange connection, lesson plan ideas, and resources to utilize in their classroom.

DARCY REEDE-CARON Room: THE VALLEY ROOM II

Target Audience: Librarians, elementary teachers, reading teachers, English/language arts teachers Strand: Literacy Title: Assessing Information Literacy Skills for Targeted Instruction Providing instruction in information literacy is a necessity in today’s libraries and classrooms, but most schools lack a defined IL curriculum or time to teach it. Using the online assessment TRAILS (Tools for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills) with students provides valuable feedback for planning targeted instruction. Participants will learn to use assessment reports to create a variety of learning opportunities that prepare students to select, evaluate, and use information appropriately and effectively.

JOHANNA SCHOOLEY Room: PHILIPPINES ROOM I

Target Audience: Elementary school Title: The Research Toolkit: Teaching Students to Understand and Use It Strand: Library This session describes “tools” that should be an integral part of your school’s “Research Toolkit” and some “tricks” that will help you to teach your school community the benefit of using age appropriate books, periodicals, and databases as places to look for information answers other than beginning with Google. The Language of Learning 27

SESSION 5 Teacher Workshops FRIDAY | 30 March 2012

DOUGLAS THOMPSON Room: MYANMAR III

Target Audience: Grades 3-10 math teachers and administrators for all levels Strand: Math Title: Driving Differentiation Differently Use students’ data to drive instruction in your classroom. Challenge each student at his/her own level while simultaneously promoting the development of the class as a whole. Through this prescriptive approach, students develop an awareness of their learning and take pride in their growth.

STEPHANIE WALLIS Room: PHILIPPINES ROOM II

Target Audience: Grades 4-12 Strand: Library Title: Teen Advisory Groups and Mother-Daughter Book Clubs In this workshop Stephanie will give an example of how she has organized the Teen Advisory group (TAg) in her library, and delegates could exchange ideas for how it could work in other schools. She will also present how NIST runs its Mother-Daughter Book Clubs.

ALExIS WIGGINS Room: MYANMAR II Target Audience: MS/HS teachers, all disciplines; administrators; elementary teachers more than welcome to attend, as info can be subsequently adapted. Strand: General Title: Harkness Method: The Best Class You Never Taught In this workshop, learn about a unique type of class discussion called Harkness Method that will revolutionize your class. Students learn complete selfsufficiency by facilitating, debriefing, and self-assessing their contributions to high-level, inquiry-based discussions, whether the subject is English or geometry.

12:30-13:45 LUNCH at the BALLROOM and ANGELINI