SESSION 9

SESSION 9 Teacher Workshops SATURDAY | 31 March 2012

BARBARA BOYER / TIM BOYER Room: PHILIPPINES ROOM I

Target Audience: Grade 2 to HS Strand: Library Title: Book Trailers: Using Cool Tech Tools To Liven Up Literature Ever wait in the theatre for your movie to start and you get jazzed about the new movies coming out? Move that excitement to books. Join us to see some fun book trailers and learn how to do and use them with your students. Popcorn provided!

JUNKO CANCEMI Room: THE STUDY ROOM

Target Audience: Pre-K to elementary Strand: Literacy Title: The Reggio Approach and the ‘Hundred Languages of Children’ Part 1: The concept of the ‘hundred languages’ within the context of international schools: (1)The Reggio Approach; (2)The ‘symbolic’ and ‘poetic’ languages; (3) The meaning of ‘aesthetic dimensions’ in learning and education. Part 2: Hands-on Session: group 1: Interweaving the languages of mathematics and architecture; group 2: Interweaving science and art through observational drawing; group 3: Interweaving the language of music and verbal narration to express a story. Part 3: Sharing ideas

RACHEL CAROLINE BROOKER / JACOB IVAN GRAY Room: VIETNAM ROOM

Target Audience: MS/HS counselors, administrators, and teachers Strand: Counseling Title: Advisory Programs: Is It Possible at Your School? Creating advisory programs can be overwhelming. Come learn how Shekou International School created and implemented a full-fledged MS/HS advisory program focusing on guidance, service, reflective learning, and school unity. groups will brainstorm how to overcome potential challenges and begin to formulate a plan for a successful advisory program in your school.

BRENDA DARLING Room: MYANMAR I

Target Audience: MS/HS mathematics and science Strand: Mathematics (also Science) Title: Why Do Students Resist Graphing? Whether our students are weak, strong, or average in mathematical ability they share one thing in common: they groan when they must pull out graph paper and use it to solve a problem. What is the deal with graphing? Why do students dislike it so much? Why do they fail to consider graphing as a problem-solving approach, even when it provides a simpler or easier path to a solution? This presentation will uncover the reasons why students struggle with graphing in the math (and by extension science) classroom and the surprisingly simple strategies teachers can employ to strengthen students’ graphing skills.

MICHAEL FOx Room: THE GARDEN GALLERY

Target Audience: Grade 6-12, English/LA, humanities and social studies teachers Strand: Literacy Title: Managing The Marking Mountain: Leveraging Technology To Better Assess Writing Assessing student writing is one of the biggest challenges and time management issues teachers face. Assigning essays means marking essays, and marking essays means late nights writing volumes of comments on with unclear impact on performance. This workshop is designed to offer some tools and techniques to both increase the impact of comments on improving student performance as well as streamlining and reducing the marking burden on teachers.

PAUL HENDERSON Room: BALLROOM III

Target Audience: Dept., program, team leaders Strand: General Title: Team Self-Appraisal as Team Supervision Department, program, and team leaders will learn how to set team standards, will learn self-appraisal models, and will learn how to supervise themselves. Participants will consider how much teamwork matters how teamwork can make a difference.

RACHEL HUNTER Room: MYANMAR II

Target Audience: Gr. 1-6, mainstream teachers, ESL, and special needs Strand: Special Needs / ESL Title: Repeated Readings: Intervention for Mainstream, Special Needs, and ESL Providing quality fluency instruction and intervention for a classroom of diverse readers is a challenge for many teachers. This workshop will focus on repeated readings as a fluency program suitable for a variety of educational settings. Incorporating key reading components, peer assisted learning strategies, and progress monitoring allows for teachers to meet the needs of students with and without disabilities. Participants will walk away with strategies for adapting a repeated readings program to fit the needs of their students.

SUSAN ISLASCOx / RITU JAVA Room: MALAYSIA ROOM

Target Audience: MS/HS teachers, particularly teachers in learning support/special needs Title: Maximizing Student Potential Through Technology Strand: Special Needs If your job involves supporting middle/high school students who struggle with reading, writing, organizing, or paying attention, this workshop is for you! We offer technology tools and strategies to help your students maximize their potential. You will carry back a bag of techniques that we have hand-picked, researched, and tested out as viable options to suit a wide spectrum of learning issues. Most of these technologies are readily available and affordable.

SESSION 9 Teacher Workshops SATURDAY | 31 March 2012

KEVIN JOHNSON Room: THE VALLEY ROOM I

Target Audience: Grade 2 to grade 12: any teacher including ESL, math, science and modern language Strand: ESL Title: Books into Board Games Books into Board games provides a proven technique to transfer any text content into a board game, enjoyable to students and supportive of EFL instruction. Research supports the use of educational game formats that, by providing a fun vehicle for the delivery of content, contribute to student emotional engagement, enhance the classroom community, nurture risk-taking, and motivate students. The chance element allows any student to win the game regardless of his/her level of language proficiency.

ANN KREMBS Room: PHILIPPINES ROOM II

Target Audience: Librarians K-12 Strand: Library Title: iPadding Along in the Library Many school libraries are deciding which e-reader to adopt for their patrons. iPads, with capacities beyond serving as an e-reader, are a viable choice. This workshop session will focus on three areas of iPad usage in a school library: management and circulation, purchasing of apps and ebooks, and integration of apps. iPads are an excellent resource that kids love to create, learn, and read from. For more information about this workshop, please visit http://ipaddingalonginthelibrary.wikispaces.com/.

MARK LOMBARDO Room: PEPPINO LEVEL 3

Target Audience: Grades 6 and 10 Strand: Digital Literacy Title: Doing It All: Integrating Inquiry and Technology on School Expeditions In this workshop, a project in which students research and produce documentaries about places they visit on school expeditions will be presented. Teachers will walk away with strategies for stimulating student inquiry, structuring, and producing investigative short films using iMovie as well as scaffolding techniques for supporting students with developing language skills and learning needs.

DAVID LYON / DARCY WOOD Room: CHAO PHRAYA ROOM

Target Audience: Potentially, could be any grade level or any subject area. Better for grades 3-12 Strand: Digital Literacy Title: Using Animation in Any Classroom: Breathing Life into Learning This workshop will look at the reasons to use animation in the classroom, the possible ways to incorporate animation into a project or subject area, and the various free resources that are available for teachers and students.

ALICIA MESSING / SONYA YONG Room: SINGAPORE ROOM

Target Audience: Grades 2 - 6 Strand: Mathematics Title: Step-by Step Model Math In this workshop you will learn how to create models that represent math problems using a step-by-step method that is easy to teach and learn. Model math, a component of Singapore math, teaches students another strategy that creates a clear, visual representation of the problem. It can be used to supplement any program you are currently using in your classroom or school and will readily become your new bag-of-tricks for math story problem instruction!

SHARON MOORE Room: THE VALLEY ROOM II

Target Audience: Elementary Strand: Literacy Title: Using Multiple Resources to Make Differentiation Manageable in Literacy This workshop will present ways in which to use a variety of literacy resources to develop strong readers and writers. It will specifically address how to support readers and writers at all levels of competency and English language. Included will be examples of how to differentiate using a single text or set of texts and how to teach similar concepts with students using different texts.

MELANIE SHAFAAT Room: INDONESIA ROOM

Target Audience: All Strand: Special Needs Title: Transitioning through the Grades: Stepping Stones to Success This presentation explores transition planning for students receiving learning support services. It provides all stakeholders with practical information and planning strategies beginning when they enter school and move through the grades and culminating with planning for life after graduation. This is an on- going process that requires collaboration, and the cooperation of classroom teachers, administrators, the student, and the family to strengthen all students’ educational achievement and holistic development.

SESSION 9 Teacher Workshops SATURDAY | 31 March 2012

PASCALE THOMAS / TORIE LEINBACH Room: BRUNEI ROOM I

Target Audience: MS/HS counselors, teachers, and administrators Strand: Counseling Title: WEB & LINK CREW: Creative, Fun, and Energetic transition Programs (WEB (MS) and LINK (HS) are transition programs offered at RIS connecting incoming 6th and 9th graders with student leaders in 8th, 11th & 12th grades. The goal is to decrease bullying, build school community, promote inclusion, and aid in the transition to middle and high school. RIS is the first school outside of North America to implement both programs. This workshop will review how to get trained as a coordinator and introduce creative, fun, and engaging activities.

BRENDAN PATRICK WESTHOFF Room: SALATHIP-C

Target Audience: MS/HS teachers Strand: Modern Language Title: A Truly Immersion Classroom at Any Level: the How and Why Immersion is a highly effective means of teaching a foreign language. Creating an immersion environment in the classroom can be quite challenging, especially at the beginner level. I will demonstrate how to implement an immersion class from day one in a beginning level course and how to maintain it from the beginner to intermediate to advanced classes.

DOUGLAS WILLIAMSON Room: BRUNEI ROOM II

Target Audience: K-12 Strand: Counseling Title: Changing Families: What Teachers Should Know about Children and Divorce Divorce and/or separation can be traumatic for kids and complicated by living overseas—where will I live? Is it my fault? Is my family the only one? Combining video, lecture, and activity, this presentation will present an overview of divorce’s impact on children and offer strategies for teachers.

TIM zITUR Room: MYANMAR III

Target Audience: MS/HS Strand: Math Title: The Flipped Classroom: Tools and Strategies to Get You Started In this workshop, participants will learn how to create their own video lesson; learn about the flipped classroom (turning lectures into video homework and homework into classwork); some examples of in-class polling and on-line homework; and come away with tools to start with a flipped class. The examples will be math based, but a teacher can adapt for most subject areas.