SESSION 5 Teacher Workshops FRIDAY | 29 MARCH 2013 ROOM 11:30 - 12:30
JENNIFEr ANDerSON Strand: Music Technology Luther Hall H216, H217 Target Audience: Middle and high school, music teachers, technology coordinators To Tech or Not to Tech – Music Technology with Purpose Have you ever wondered, “Are we doing the right thing by infusing technology in the performing arts classroom?” Together we will explore tech integration strategies and activities that are purposeful for music learning. This workshop will provide examples of specific technology implementations that have been beneficial in the band classroom, enhancing the learning and music that happens in our band. Examples are applicable to other performing arts disciplines. Becki Bishop Strand: Physical Education Spining Room H015B Target Audience: All levels Get Spinning! A New Challenge for Your PE Curriculum This workshop will introduce physical educators to the rapidly growing fitness craze of spinning. Participants will be strapped into heart rate monitors while cycling through a themed workout that emphasizes various components of fitness, introduces ideas for cooperative learning, and shares ways to bring creativity to the PE classroom using i-movie. (Limited to 20 participants)
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Michael Clancy Strand: Counseling (K-12) P203 Target Audience: All school (pre-K to 12), counselors, admin Responding to Crisis in Schools: Creating an Effective Crisis Response Plan Targeted toward those involved with updating or creating crisis intervention plans at their school, this workshop will share what needs to be considered when formulating an effective crisis response plan. Traumatic events that affect a school community can range from natural disasters and civil unrest to more localized events such as the death of a student. While no two events are exactly the same, this workshop will look at the challenges and stakeholders that are common to all events and communities, and also consider responses that are appropriate for specific types of traumatic events. Each participant will leave the workshop with an action plan to put into place in their schools immediately. STEVE DODD Strand: Physical Education P234 Target Audience: HS physical education and anyone interested in using collaborative technology in the flipped classroom IB Sports Science – The Flipped Classroom Approach This will be an interactive demonstration of how the flipped classroom can be applied to IB sports science (or other science based courses). From curriculum information to student presentations, it will show how students and teachers can work collaboratively and use technology to enhance their preferred teaching and learning styles respectively. Attendees will become part of the collaborative learning process for this session. Lily Fan / Jackie Gao Strand: Chinese Language Wittenberg H316, H318 Target Audience: K-12 Chinese language The Application of Task-based Language Teaching Approach in a Chinese Classroom This presentation is designed to provide the participants with the principles and practices involved in Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) approach. Topics include the results of ten-week action research projects that focused on how to integrate the TBLT approach into two kinds of language learning classrooms where the students are respectively near-native and second language speakers of Chinese.The strategies and methods for designing different kinds of pedagogical tasks, which can be directly used in the classroom, will also be discussed and shared in the presentation. Craig Fullerton Strand: Music M173 Target Audience: Class music MS/HS The Plague and Other Catastrophes – Make Music Come Alive – Live It! Blood and guts, knights, alchemy, war, good and evil. Its what music is about; make it come alive! Encouraging students to explore music appreciation and history through experiencing and living it. I will enjoy sharing some different ways of teaching musical perception, appreciation and history through social and cultural immersion and interactive activities; to experience social and cultural influences in music, as if they were there. Your students should walk out of the classroom listening to music, and thinking, “ Wow, I can understand how this music came out of this era, and I connect it to the events of the time.” Andrew Fulo Strand: General Education H203 Target Audience: HS teachers Death by Powerepoint (Effective Use of Visual Cues in Multimedia Presentation) It’s time we rethink how we create multimedia presentations. Veering away from old presentation techniques, teachers need to utilize the power of visual/audio media and combining storytelling, to produce a blend of images, narration, evidence and interaction within the classroom.
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EARCOS Teachers’ Conference 2013
