SESSION 6

SESSION 6 FRIDAY | 30 March 2012

JILL BROMENSCHENKEL Room: THE STUDY ROOM

Strand: ESL Title: Collaboration & Co-teaching: Tools and Strategies for Working Together Those who work together... have greater success! We’ll overview the three strands of effective professional collaboration: collaborative planning, collaborative instruction (co-teaching), and collaborative communication. We’ll overview tools for collaboration that extend beyond “moving the geography” of an ELL specialist. Whether mainstream/content-area teachers or ESL specialists, participants will gather tools and take-away strategies to increasingly support students’ language and content learning through a collaborative curricular approach. Sampling of topics addressed: roles and goals of each collaborator, models for co-teaching, interactive structures to infuse language development into classroom content, social media and communication tools, and selfassessments.

FAYE BROWNLIE Room: MYANMAR I

Strand: Literacy Title: It’s All About Thinking: Active Learning Strategies to Deepen Understanding Our goal is to create independent, thoughtful, self-directed learners. What does this look like in daily classroom work? We will examine powerful practices that deeply engage learners with the content of the curriculum-open-ended strategies, collaboration, inquiry, assessment for learning, backwards design. Lead the learning with a focus on thinking!

TIM BURNS

Sponsored by The COLLEGE BOARD

Room: INDONESIA ROOM

Strand: Counseling Title: IT’S ABOUT BALANCE: Stress-Hardiness, Resilience, and Well-Being for Teachers (and Students, Too!) Are you finding it harder to keep up with the increasing challenges of being an educator? In truth, most of us—and our students—are these days. And while there are no simplistic answers, there are many practical things that you can do to enhance your “stress-hardiness.” The good news is this: small changes, specifically applied, have been shown to produce positive results in stress reduction, health improvement, and enhanced overall well-being. From a synthesis of research in a variety of fields come key principles and useful techniques that will certainly help bring about a calmer, more energized, and balanced approach to living and learning. The workshop addresses theory, recent research and—most importantly—practical and effective tools with which to make it applicable. You’ll benefit in both your personal life and in the professional setting, learn many techniques for immediate use, and have an enjoyable time in the process.

JONAS EDMAN / HYOJUNG JANG / RYLAN SEKIGUCHI Room: PEPPINO LEVEL 3

Strand: General / SPICE Title: North Korea, South Korea, and Inter-Korean Relations This session will introduce secondary school teachers to activities and resources from the SPICE curriculum units “Uncovering North Korea” and “Inter-Korean Relations: Rivalry, Reconciliation, and Reunification.” Participants will engage in interactive activities. Extensive curriculum resources will be distributed.

DAVID GRANT Room: THE VALLEY ROOM I

Strand: Digital Literacy Title: The Fast Way to Technical Competence with iMovie—So You and Your Students Can Spend Time on Content Video production is a fantastic way to create engagement in the classroom—that is until production challenges get in the way of teaching and learning. In this workshop, we will look at a series of strategies and tutorials that I use in my classroom to create student competency in just a few lessons. (Examples of years of students work can be seen at http://king.portlandschools.org/files/tv ) Then it’s on to the important stuff: literacy, content, and great story telling. To fully participate, please bring your own Apple laptop with the content for this class already downloaded and the most current version of iMovie. The download content is available at http://staff.portlandschools.org/grantd/earcos12/

DOUG JOHNSON Room: PHILIPPINES ROOM I & II

Strand: Library Title: Rules of Engagement: Using Technologies to Motivate Rather Than Distract Are personally owned devices—laptops, netbooks, smartphones, and tablets—distracting your students? Or are you using them to motivate and engage? Learn some simple rules that help you make the most of these devices that are increasingly common in the classroom. This presentation/discussion: Examines the difference between entertainment and engagement; Describes five strategies for dealing with “distractive” technologies in the classroom; gives concrete examples of how personally owned devices can be used to both enhance traditional educational practices and to completely restructure learning.

NANCY JOHNSON Room: MYANMAR II & III

Strand: Literacy Title: Poetry’s Pleasures: Reading It, Writing It, Teaching It, Loving It This workshop explores how to design a poetry unit of study that invites intermediate through high school students to read and enjoy the language of poetry, discover topics for poetry writing, craft poetry in a variety of forms/formats, and discover the wondrous literature and poetry partnerships available to inspire reading and writing poetry.

JAMES KETT Room: CHAO PHRAYA ROOM

Title: Effective Use of Technology: Part I Strand: Math Technology should be used as a facilitator of teaching and learning. Using technology effectively inspires students and makes teaching more enjoyable. In this interactive workshop, you will experience how technology should be used in teaching statistics. Topics covered include: 1-variable statistics, linear regression, probability distributions, sampling distributions, and The Central Limit Theorem.

SESSION 6 FRIDAY | 30 March 2012

LORI LANGER DE RAMIREz Room: BRUNEI ROOM II

Strand: Modern Language & ESL Title: Fantasy Trips in the Language Classroom Students learn best when they are given authentic tasks and real-world contexts. As a means of bringing the world closer to our students, we explore the concept of a “fantasy trip” in which students travel to Colombia and experience the folklore of the country through communicative activities that involve students’ five senses: sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch. Rich in culture and history, la costa colombiana provides ample opportunities for designing lessons involving food, music, and crafts. Sample activities and handouts provided.

MAGGIE MOON Room: THE GARDEN GALLERY

Strand: Literacy Title:Taking A Closer Look at Pre-K and Early Kindergarten—The Best Ways To Support Literacy Development Without Launching a Formal Reading Workshop This workshop will focus on three components of balanced literacy that pre-K and K teachers can emphasize in their classrooms—the Interactive Read Aloud, Shared Reading, and lastly Writing Time. Reading aloud to young kids and getting them to talk to each other is essential in all elementary classrooms. Teachers will learn how to set up ‘Turn and Talk Partnerships’ as a way to support oral language development. Shared reading offers early readers a clear view into the world of successful reading in action and allows students to participate when they are ready. And lastly, encouraging students to make books on their own opens up many developmental doors and offers teachers a glimpse into students’ natural literacy abilities.

BAIRBRE NI OISIN Room: VIETNAM ROOM

Strand: General/ Action Research Title: EARCOS Action Research Grant: A Catalyst for Our Professional Growth The EARCOS Action Research grant is a fantastic opportunity for us, EARCOS educators! I am hoping that this interactive workshop will help you to become familiar with action research, reflect on your own situation, brainstorm your possible action research plan, and get motivated to apply for the grant!

DENNIS SALE Room: THE VALLEY ROOM II

Strand: General Title: The Educational Use of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) The field of neurolinguistic programming (NLP) is often both misunderstood and misrepresented. In this workshop, the key applications to practical teaching and enhancing learning will be identified and demonstrated. Participants will experience the ways in which specific NLP concepts and skill applications can be used for powerful changes in student learning and behavior.

STEVEN SHORE Room: SINGAPORE ROOM

Strand: Special Needs Title: Examining and Contrasting Promising Approaches for Educating Children with Autism Noting that there has been no true comparison between educational/behavioral/developmental approaches for working with children on the autism spectrum, qualitative research was initiated to investigate Applied Behavioral Analysis, TEACCH, Daily Life Therapy, Miller Method, and DIR. Other methods such as RDI and SCERTS are also discussed. Some preliminary findings suggest that current definitions of autism are lacking and a more multi-dimensional approach is needed, the autism spectrum as currently employed is too wide to be useful, many techniques are applicable across approaches, and a general sense that people with autism have something valuable to contribute to the community as a whole.

ANNA SUGARMAN Room: BRUNEI ROOM I

Strand: Special Needs / Gifted Title: Stepping Up: Creating 21st Century Student Centered Learning Environments In the 21st century, education professionals are called upon to develop more rigorous, motivating assignments and choice in learning environments—helping to contribute to the development of increased self-directed learning and student aspirations to prepare for college and career pursuits. Workshop participants will examine innovative and current pedagogical practices to determine methods that will create a foundation for this development.

JEFF UTECHT Room: MALAYSIA ROOM

Strand: Digital Literacy Title: Getting Social with Students Let’s face it, kids are social and they want to connect! They want to connect with each other, with their teachers, with their school at large. This will be a discussion on the use of social-networking tools with student bodies to engage them in learning, foster school spirit, and just have fun! We take a look at how some schools are using social-networks to communicate with students as well as the school community at large. Come with ideas to share, questions on how to get started, and be ready to take a look at social-networks through the eyes of kids today.

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

Sponsored by FAST TRAIN PROGRAMS