SESSION 2

SESSION 2 Teacher Workshops THuRSDAY | 28 MARCH 2013

1:45-2:45 SuPANIKA ACKERMAN Strand: General Education P232

Target Audience: Pre-K to 12th grade, emphasis on elementary/primary years utilizing Families to Support Student Learners Understand how families and home life affect student learners, from a cultural, linguistic, and historic standpoint. Discover new ways to include families as part of the teaching team to support students.

JASON BENNETT Strand: Music H203

Target Audience: 9-12 educators and administrators African Rhythms — The ultimate Whole-School ubD Experience “African Rhythms: A Journey through America,” a whole-school charity concert, was presented at AIS-Hong Kong in February 2011. The concept was conceived by music teacher Jason Bennett as a way to better understand the impact of Sub-Saharan African music on 20th century American music. This large-scale creative endeavor will be analyzed through the prism of UbD. What worked? What didn’t? Can other learning opportunities of this size be implemented successfully at the high school level?

JILL CARTER / JuSTIN HANSEN Strand: Visual Arts R403

Target Audience: Art K-12 and grade level teachers JIS Legacy Mosaic Project Celebrates Our VALuES for 60 Years The JIS Legacy Mosaic project was a 6-month ceramic tile project celebrating our 60th anniversary at JIS and making a visual statement on all four JIS campuses. The project presented a unique challenge of having hundreds of students developing a clear understanding of what we believe as a school. This presentation will showcase how to teach for understanding values by participating in an art making session using a cube. We will also discuss using VALUES in Goal Making and using the Looking for Learning protocol for reflection on the session that can be used in any classroom.

BONNIE COLES Strand: Physical Education PC Ford Gym

Target Audience: Grades 6-12 PE teachers ultimate Frisbee Ultimate Frisbee is spreading throughout the entire world. It is a great cardio workout and requires strategic thinking. I will cover proper technique and variations for throwing forehand and back hand, proper positioning on defense for the mark and on the cutters and some offensive strategies.

SIMONE COuRSO / LOLITA SCHMALENBERG Strand: Counseling (K-12) P204 Target Audience: All counselors K-12 understanding Sisterhood: a Social Group Series for Girls It is difficult for girls to understand who they are and how to live if they are constantly receiving biased and often damaging messages from the media and from society. Lolita and Simone offered to girls in grades 6 and 7 an avenue to explore with them what it means to be a girl in the 21st century. Through various activities they helped them understand more about themselves and others and encouraged them to take a critical look at their everyday world and rise above it. Lastly it gave them the tools to communicate their needs in respectful and assertive ways. In this workshop we will discuss this experience, its strengths and limitations, and will gather participants’ ideas about other possibilities for empowering young girls.

DEBBIE MCDOWELL Strand: HS Counseling P203

Target Audience: Counselors 9-12 Naviance users update Calling all Naviance users! We want to use this guidance tool for our international students in the most efficient way. Some counselors have tricks of the trade in the use of Naviance – you might have others. Come to this session to not only hone your own skills but also to contribute ideas/practices that you currently use with Naviance. We will also have updates on Naviance and what changes we can expect in the future.

ADAM FRASER Strand: Drama Green Room R110

Target Audience: Suitable for teachers of all grade levels ‘Mantel of the Expert’— Accessible Application of ‘Teacher in Role’ Engaging, accessible, and fun. Participants will move quickly through timed activities, forming groups, presenting tableaux, solving social concerns through collaborative role play, and wrapping someone up in newspaper. Through a sample lesson on social justice we will briefly introduce and link dramatic activities from the following practitioners: Dr. Spencer Kagan’s team building, Augusto Boal’s Image theatre, Dorothy Heathcoat’s Mantle of the Expert and teacher in role.

CODY GIFFORD / MELODY GIFFORD Strand: Music H206

Target Audience: Music grades 5-12 Literacy Strategies in the Music Program This workshop presents strategies for improving literacy skills in music classes. With quick and engaging writing tasks, reflection exercises, and vocabulary activities, students show their thinking and practice writing to learn. The students’ artifacts provide valuable feedback for improving instruction, a variety of assessment tools, and evidence for reporting. The sessions will include a digital forum for participants to share ideas and resources.

SESSION 2 Teacher Workshops THuRSDAY | 28 MARCH 2013

1:45-2:45 SHARON GREEN / ALEx STEWART Strand: General Education P233 Target Audience: Middle school Supporting Academic, Organizational and Emotional Needs in the General Education Classroom As middle school becomes increasingly more demanding, teachers and students alike need to rethink instructional strategies and the learning that follows. In essence, they must become partners in the process. During this workshop, participants will learn strategies to help students be successful in the regular education classroom. Particular areas of focus include: developing students’ metacognition, helping students organize and prioritize, refining study habits, and improving time management.

KATHLEEN KAMPA Strand: Music Dance Studio H041

Target Audience: Kindergarten – grade 3 Add Some M & M’s—Music and Movement–-to Your Classroom Teaching Discover effective ways to link music and movement with topics common to the kindergarten and elementary curricula These are not “thematic links,” but links that effectively teach concepts through music and movement. These activities support both classroom content and the music/dance curriculum. Some topics include: letters and shapes, animals, biomes, such as the rainforest, and the human body.

ELLEN LEVENHAGEN Strand: Visual Arts Pottery Studio P134

Target Audience: Secondary art teachers Shipwrecked—Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds Over 60,000 ceramic works from The Belitung shipwreck were discovered in 1998 off the coast of Indonesia. There is much to learn from artwork which came from many different parts of China. The pieces were being transported to ports through out the Abbasid empire where a profound exchange of ideas and materials occurred as early as 600 CE. Participants will be introduced to the Belitung treasures as well as get a brief introduction to the ceramics throughout significant dynasties in China. They will also use similar techniques to decorate a ceramic form provided. The work will be glazed at Concordia so participants can take their treasures home.

TOM MCLEAN Strand: Global Issues Luther Hall H216, H217

Target Audience: Cross divisional Involving Your Community in Sustaining and Safeguarding Your Environment This workshop will demonstrate how a student-led environmental initiative evolved into a school-wide goal addressed by the entire community from ES students to the board of governors and led to measurable improvements in the school community’s environmental impact, societal awareness and involvement, economic efficiency, and individual well being. http://sustainability.ism-online.org/

ROBERT MITCHELL Strand: Physical Education MS Gym

Target Audience: Grades 9-12 Long Term Athlete Development and Sports Performance The presentation will cover the topics of youth program development from the “grass roots” level all the way up through high school sports. The main focus of the talk will be to stress the need for skill acquisition and development with regards to biological age and physiological readiness. Athlete strength training and monitoring will be the second half of the discussion. It will cover the concepts of periodization, overload, specificity, and variation as it pertains to high school athletics.

HANNAH NORTHCOTT Strand: Drama Theater R101

Target Audience: K-12 teachers Drama Playshop: A Teacher’s Dramatic Toolbox This interactive and collaborative workshop will provide educators a set of dramatic tools that teachers can use in the classroom for a variety of purposes from team building to teaching literacy, numeracy, and speaking skills through the embodiment of text and the concretizing of ideas through physical movement. Brain-based education, Meyerhold’s Biomechanics and Ann Bogart’s Viewpoints served as inspiration for this workshop.

AMANDA OTTEWELL / DAVID NAVIS Strand: Physical Education H205 Target Audience: MS and HS Cyber P.E.: using Technology to Motivate Students’ Love for Fitness How does technology motivate students in PE to perfomr at a higher, more consistent level? This worshop will demostrate how technology is used to build digital native’s intrinsic motivation and passion to create a lifelong love for fitness. Numerous students exemplars, resources, and apps will show how tech and PE inspires students to achive their fitness goals.

PAIGE PRESCOTT Strand: Technology H305

Target Audience: Middle school and high school teachers Enhancing Student Research Skills with Social Bookmarking Help students get beyond superficial research (Google topic, copy then paste) and into using social bookmarking tools such as Diigo. Learn how to make your own Diigo group where you can curate a collection of useful sites, highlight online, make sticky notes, and tag websites using keywords. This all can be shared between you and your students, your colleagues, and academic interest groups.

SESSION 2 Teacher Workshops THuRSDAY | 28 MARCH 2013

1:45-2:45 BRIAN REVERMAN Strand: Visual Arts R407

Target Audience: Middle and high school art teachers Spray Paint, Gunpowder, and the Grandmother—Shifting Student Writing from Description to Analysis - A particularly effective strategy to help students move their thinking and writing about art from description to analysis is Form+Theme+Context (FTC). In this workshop participants will learn about the FTC approach and examine how it is integrated into the high school art curriculum at the International School of Beijing. Specific instructional and assessment vehicles, including the use of Voicethread and “flipping the classroom” will be explained and examples of results featured.

DEREK SELANDER / BEN ROBERTACCIO Strand: ES Counseling P202

Target Audience: ES counselors Elementary School Counseling Case Study Workshop - This workshop is intended to provide an opportunity for counselors to explore, examine, and collaborate on specific real life counseling case studies. Counselors will explore approaches to counseling scenarios provided by workshop participants. Participants collectively examine specific cases, generate feedback, and gain general knowledge. The facilitator will research the case ahead of time and will provide background information on the identified issue. Participants will be asked to examine their own biases and approach to the presenting issue.

REBECCA SENTGEORGE Strand: Visual Arts R401

Target Audience: Grade 3-12 Purposeful Doodling—a Low Stress Entry into Art Making - Art educators and others interested in doodling may benefit from this hands-on workshop. Doodling is generally not taken seriously, but is a way to instill confidence and create patterns that can be adapted into works of art. A side benefit is that doodling has been proven to focus attention and increase memory recall by an average of 28%. Try your hand at several strategies for creating elaborate doodled patterns and view student art from K-12.

JOE SERGI Strand: Technology H306

Target Audience: Pre-K - grade 2 “Pad up! using Touch Technology in the Early Years” - This workshop will present a fresh, hands on, and practical approach to the use of touch technology in the early years classroom (K-2). It will provide insight and present experiences to stimulate discussions and scenarios where the audience can go away with something that they can apply directly into their lessons, feedback to schools and their teams, or conduct further PD if applicable. Time for networking and sharing of best practice will be included.

JOSHuA STERNLICHT Strand: Visual Art P234

Target Audience: HS/MS basic level of film/video experience suggested using Film to Elicit Response & Integrating Filmmaking into the Classroom - This workshop is intended to familiarize teachers with film language and to explore different strategies of incorporating filmmaking into classrooms. By using film to elicit a response, students can be exposed to multiple perspectives and gain empathy and self-knowledge. Through the filmmaking process learning is inherent— involving brainstorming, collaboration, communication, planning, implementation, critique, and reflection. The latter half of the workshop will focus on the practicalities of integrating a filmmaking unit into the classroom.

JENNY WINKELMAN / CYNDI CAMPBELL Strand: Performing Arts M173 Target Audience: K-8 music, dance, drama or performing arts teachers, language arts teachers, Chinese teachers Journey to the West: How a Chinese Classic Transformed a Music Program - “Journey to the West” provides a wonderful medium for exploring local culture and art forms. This workshop outlines how the ES PA program at ISBeijing develops the music, drama, and movement skills from both Western and Eastern traditions. A semester’s work culminates in a musical drama in which all students are involved; developing scripts, Peking Opera aspects, Chinese folksongs/music, drama techniques, choreography. All students are on stage for the entire performance as actors and musicians.

ASHLEY Wu Strand: Chinese Language H204 Target Audience: MS/HS Chinese language teachers Assessment with Student Portfolios This workshop will give you practical ideas on how to make student portfolio assessment happen in class. The presenter will take you through some of the features of building student portfolio assessments. She divides portfolios into three stages: structure, collection, and reflection. Detailed examples are given with emphasis on how rubrics and student-led conferences can be used to involve students in their own learning.

LISA ZHONG / FRANCES ZHANG Strand: Chinese Language Wittenberg H316, H318 Target Auidience: K-12 Effective TPR & TPRS in Classroom Total Physical Response (TPR) and Teaching Proficiency through Reading & Storytelling (TPRS) are known as two of the most effective methods for teaching language to all ages from novice to advanced. We will share with you how to use these two strategies to design a story cycle with a series of lesson plans, which address listening, speaking, reading, writing, and assessment activities as well.

2:45-3:15 TEA / COFFEE BREAK at the PHOENIX COMMONS & CAFE / ELEMENTARY COMMONS