SESSION 7

SESSION 7 FRIDAY | 30 March 2012

JULIE ADAMS Room: THE STUDY ROOM

Strand: ESL Title: Pre-During-Post Content Literacy Strategies for ELLs Learn research-based strategies that teach your students the skills they need to be successful across all content areas. This session will equip you with powerful skills-based instructional practices that you will employ immediately in your classes. Whether you teach math, English, ELLs or gifted students, this is one session you don’t want to miss!

LORI BOLL / STEPHEN SHORE Room: BALLROOM III

Strand: Special Needs Title: Senses and Sensibilities: An Inside View on Sensory Issues Many persons on the autistic spectrum experience sensory stimuli with such variation that it can either cause extreme discomfort, or on the other hand, be undetectable, and/or be so distorted as to be useless. All of these situations can be overwhelming, and at times, dangerous. Dr. Shore will give “the inside view” and help the audience experience what sensory integration issues feel like for individuals. Lori Boll will share her experiences as a parent and teacher of children with severe sensory integration issues, and share strategies to help these individuals in the classroom and school setting. This is an interactive workshop, so come prepared to experience the senses.

CATHRY BERGER KAYE Room: PEPPINO LEVEL 3

Strand: General / Service Learning Title: Going Blue: Meeting Environmental Challenges with Service Learning Whatever we do, adding “blue” to being “green” matters. Let’s dive into the latest environment and water-related issues with a process that is all about critical thinking and formative questions. This is an action packed workshop, modeling how to engage youth in investigation, action research, and solution building. go Blue!

TIM BURNS Sponsored by The COLLEGE BOARD

Room: INDONESIA ROOM

Strand: Counseling Title: The Amazing Brain Offered to students and parents in dozens of international schools around the world, this workshop combines two presentations, one designed with students in mind, the other for parents. The presentation includes a dozen Brain gain tips that can be immediately applied to improve and enhance brain function. These companion presentations accompany the staff workshop and help spread the amazing brain “news you can use” to students and parents in the school community.

KIM COFINO Room: MALAYSIA ROOM

Strand: Technology Title: Digital Citizenship: The Forgotten Fundamental In our excitement to use new technology tools to enable our students to connect, collaborate, and share, we often neglect the attitudes, behaviors, and ethics that go along with online interactions. This session will highlight the essential aspects of digital citizenship and share examples of how these skills and concepts are integrated into the learning experiences of students at Yokohama International School, Japan.

BRETT DILLINGHAM Room: THE GARDEN GALLERY

Strand: Literacy Title: Culturally Responsive Literacy through Storytelling: Performance Literacy (Repeat) 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.

SANDY FURTH Room: BRUNEI ROOM I

Strand: Counseling Title: Transitioning Students with Specific Learning Issues to University Transitioning high school students to university is a challenge in and of itself. Transitioning high school students with specific learning issues adds another iron to the fire. What universities want from these students and how to get into their support program is one issue; how to work with students who are well qualified for university with additional issues (i.e. Aspergers, ADHD) adds more complex details to a student’s profile. This workshop will explain a variety of options and programs to help these students transition to higher education.

DAVID GRANT Room: THE VALLEY ROOM I

Strand: Digital Literacy Title: What Did Students Learn from Making This? In this workshop, we will look at a variety of student products—pamphlets, movies, websites, books, performances, etc.—and explore the connections between products and learning. We will discuss strategies for getting the most learning out of products, review the workflow for making sophisticated mixed-media products with whole classrooms or grade level groups of students, and consider how products provide, and do not provide, opportunities for assessment of key learnings. * Please download all materials prior to attending this workshop at http://staff.portlandschools.org/grantd/earcos12/

SESSION 7 FRIDAY | 30 March 2012

NICHOLAS JACKIW Room: CHAO PHRAYA ROOM

Strand: Math Title: The Geometer’s Sketchpad Workshop: Non-Euclidean Geometry In this workshop we’ll develop basic ideas of non-Euclidean geometriy by suspending Euclid’s 5th postulate, and we’ll pursue them to some satisfying early results. While we’ll use Sketchpad heavily, our focus here will be less on the tool than on the advanced mathematical topic, which Sketchpad makes accessible and engaging at a non-advanced (early secondary) learning level.

NANCY JOHNSON Room: SINGAPORE ROOM

Strand: Literacy Title: Nurturing Curiosity and Wonder: Nonfiction in the Middle/High School Classroom The wealth of engaging, well-written nonfiction literature for middle and high school readers has exploded in the past ten years. This workshop introduces the place of nonfiction in the secondary curriculum, how to involve students with books that nurture curiosity and wonder (such as through literature circles), and discovering resources for selecting award-winning nonfiction.

LORI LANGER DE RAMIREz Room: BRUNEI ROOM II

Strand: Modern Language & ESL Title: Empowering Language Learners with Tools from the Web This session will present web tools to language educators. We will discuss the uses of blogs, wikis, podcasts, VoiceThread, YouTube and Facebook, Twitter, and social bookmarking sites like Delicious. The session will provide language educators with an overview of different tools available, briefly explain how they work, and discuss a rationale for their use in teaching languages. The workshop will situate web-based technologies within the framework of differentiated instruction and 21st century learning skills. The central purpose of the workshop is to de-mystify these tools and show how they can be used in teaching and assessing language learners.

EULA EWING MONROE Room: MYANMAR II & III

Strand: Math Title: Thinking Mathematically: Developing the Vocabulary Many years ago Vygotsky wrote, “The relation between thought and word is a living process; thought is born through words.” The role of language in the development of mathematics concepts is the focus of this session, with an emphasis on using familiar literacy strategies for developing the vocabulary of mathematics.

ERICSON PEREz Room: MYANMAR I

Strand: Special Needs Title: Inclusion with No Special Education Support—Can it Work? What can you do if you teach students with special education needs or other learning challenges, and your school has limited to no special education support? Participants will work with a practical and systematic team approach in order to build capacity to provide students much needed classroom support.

DONNA KALMBACH PHILLIPS Room: VIETNAM ROOM

Strand: General Title: Trustworthy Teacher Action Research What makes a teacher action research project ‘good’? This interactive workshop is designed to introduce criteria for creating and implementing trustworthy action research projects. Participants will analyze the role of triangulation and self-reflexivity; consider the selection of appropriate data collection strategies; and explore the importance of critical colleagues and collaboration.

PEGGY SHARP Room: PHILIPPINES ROOM I & II

Strand: Library Title: New Books for Grades 6-8 and How to Use Them in Your Program Learn of some of the best new books for middle grade 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.

EARCOS Future Conferences

We are pleased to announce the 43rd Leadership Conference 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on November 1-4, 2012.

We are pleased to announce the 11th EARCOS Teachers’ Conference 2013 at Concordia International School, Shanghai, China, on March 28-30, 2013.