SESSION 9

SESSION 9 Teacher Workshops SATuRDAY | 30 MARCH 2013

12:45-1:45 NOMER ADONA Strand: Visual Arts R407

Target Audience: Middle and high school How to Integrate Trimble Sketchup in Visual Arts Intuitive, fun, and free for anyone to use! Let your students model anything they can imagine! Decorate a room. Invent a new piece of furniture. Model a city for Google Earth. There’s no limit to what your students can create with SketchUp. Come and find out how to use this amazing online tool in your classroom. SketchUp is a new virtual 3D, augmented reality 21st century learning tool that will engage your students’ curiosity.

MATT ASHWORTH Strand: Music E122

Target Audience: General music – elementary/ middle school Inquiry and Host Culture Music This workshop will investigate issues surrounding inquiry into host culture music for general music teachers in international schools, such as performance, transmission, possible roles of non-host culture teachers, and host-culture experts, and ways of inquiring into the cultural background in which music exists.

BECKI BISHOP Strand: Physical Education Spinning Room H015B

Target Audience: All levels Get Spinning! A new challenge for Your PE Curriculum (Repeat) 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)

JuLIE DAVIDSON / MALLIKA RAMDAS / SHRuTI TEWARI Strand: HS Counseling P203 Target Audience: Counselors and teachers The uWC Movement and the Role of the College Counselor An explanation of the background and mission of the UWC Movement will be followed by a discussion of the 12 UWC colleges and how they differ from one another. The role of UWC college counselors in promoting the UWC ethos will be explored, including the challenges faced. There will then be an explanation of the role of the Davis UWC scholarship scheme in providing university pathways for graduates. A question and answer session will follow.

TIM de GEER Strand: Visual Arts M179 Target Audience: Grades 4-12 drama and/or any teacher interested in integrating film making into the curriculum or as an after school activity Student Made Films – A School Wide, Cross Curricular Project This workshop will focus on the interdisciplinary skills of film making such as idea generating, storyboarding, screenplay writing, camera composition, exploring global/world/social issues through film, and creating a school film festival.

ANDREW DORN Strand: Global Issues H204

Target Audience: HS teachers Can We Reach the Future We Want if We’re M.I.A.? The recent United Nations Rio+20 conference was focused on the theme ‘The future we want.’ But how do we reach the sustainable peaceful future we want if we are not acting in ways to reach it? This workshop will look at why schools should add more action on important global issues into the curricular and extra-curricular program and offer examples and strategies to assist with this.

LAuRA FITZGERALD Strand: Physical Education Dance Studio H041

Target Audience: MS/HS PE teachers, teachers interested in arts integration Dance Choreography: Improvisation and Collaboration using Technology This workshop makes improvisation and choreography approachable to all teachers. The first part will focus on motivating student interest and exploration. Participants will practice the components of mood, projection, levels, energy, direction, expression, and timing. The second part of the workshop covers collaboration using technology. We will learn the brainstorming process by choosing a global theme, applying the components of dance to the process, and the process of collaboration with students from different cultures.

KEN FORDE Strand: Physical Education M172

Target Audience: Grades 6-10 Technology for Learning, Assessment, and Reflection in PE The possible uses of technology in PE have increased in unimaginable ways. Affordable iOS Apps and cloud servers can both provide the basis for using technology to support student learning, ensure timely and authentic feedback as well as allowing students to engage in meaningful reflection. This workshop will use a practical format to engage learners in the possibilities presented by the technology now at our disposal and encourage the development of further possibilities.

SESSION 9 Teacher Workshops SATuRDAY | 30 MARCH 2013

12:45-1:45 ANTHONY GILES Strand: Vocal Music M250

Target Audience: K-12 Discover the Voice in You In this workshop we will explore the idea that a successful vocal music program can be built at any school by focusing on the individual singer within the group. Using a dynamic teaching model, participants will sing through a packet of pre-selected vocal repertoire aimed at developing tone, intonation, and expressive singing in young people. We will discuss the importance of a fun and safe learning environment for taking risks in music and how to use vocal games and literature to promote a positive singing culture at your school.

JuLIE HEINSMAN Strand: Counseling P202

Target Audience: All levels TCK - The Spiritual Side Sometimes being a third culture kid is just not easy. Constant losses, cultural ambiguity, and identity confusion are just a few of the challenges a TCK may face. This specialized workshop will take a look at some strategies for hope in spiritual terms. The presentation will be given from a Christian world view, but all faiths and points of view are welcome.

CISSY LI / IRENE Gu Strand: Chinese Language Wittenberg H316, H318

Target Audience: CSL/CFL at any grade Level Creating student-engagement in Chinese-learning classroom Explore out ways to turn your Chinese classroom into a vibrant student-centered and student-focused learning environment; how to develop students’ Chinese-learning positive attitude; how to use limited Chinese teaching time efficiently with educational technology such as Google doc, Google apps and Moodle etc; how to engage students through effective teaching strategies and help them become independent learners. There will be some simple things you can do in your class to incorporate mastery ideas.

JOAN LuETH Strand: Visual Arts R401

Target Audience: Upper ES, mostly MS/HS using Art for Deeper understanding Be inspired to use art images to introduce a concept or to further explain a model used in your classroom. This session introduces a variety of methods for engaging students in the topic at hand using visual images as the vehicle for deeper understanding. Use masterworks as well as readily accessible images for making artful connections to your subject content. No prior art knowledge or experience is necessary.

PADDY LYONS Strand: General Education P232

Target Audience: High school (mainly grades 11-12) Creating a Successful, Dynamic Alternative Programme at a Small School You can’t fit a square peg in a hexagonal hole. This makes it difficult for small schools to meet the needs of all our students. At BIS, we have developed an academy programme – BISA – to offer individualised learning to students who find other programmes either too restrictive or too academically challenging. Using BISA as an example, this session aims to equip participants with the tools and imagination to develop their own solutions at their own schools.

KEVIN MANSELL Strand: Technology Luther Hall H216, H217

Target Audience: All grades and subjects The State of the Art Teaching Augmented Reality is moving fast from fad to future. Ways in which Augmented Reality has been used in education today are given with hands-on experience with iPads and computers. In a comprehensive review , a teacher who regularly enhances student learning with AR offers advice from direct experience. All grades are considered and a range of subjects are covered with up-to-the minute ideas and analysis. Some 30 apps or programs are recommended in a hand-out which includes ‘ready-to-go’ markers.

ELISAuS PANGIRAJ Strand: Drama Theater R101

Target Audience: Grades 9 to 12 drama, theatre arts, and language arts Text to Performance: Five Steps to Analyzing Non-dramatic Text and Devising Performance It is a challenge to articulate, with certainty, the thought and creative process involved in the act of transforming a non-dramatic text into a performance. However, it is certainly possible to establish a set of guidelines that can help students accomplish satisfactory results in their attempts to devise performances. The workshop looks at a nine-step paradigm that can work as a strategy/supporting tool for students involved in the process of devising theatre based on non-dramatic texts.

NATHALIE PERES Strand: Physical Education Activity Center (HS LL)

Target Audience: All adults who need to relax their bodies Practical Pilates The audience will experience various Pilates routine on different parts of the body that seek to build flexibility, strength, endurance, and coordination without adding muscle bulk. In addition, Pilates increases blood circulation, helps sculpt the body, and strengthens abdomen muscles. The audience will leave the workshop possessing better posture and a healthy and relaxed body and mind.

SESSION 9 Teacher Workshops SATuRDAY | 30 MARCH 2013

12:45-1:45 JALEEA PRICE Strand: Dance M173

Target Audience: MS/HS fine & performing arts; English Composition across the Arts: Analytical Commonalities This workshop will highlight common academic language used in analysis of “composition” in poetry, music, dance, and visual arts. After establishing this common vocabulary, we will use these tools to analyze a sample of collaborative arts compositions, and practice critical-sensory thinking skills that easily integrate into the classroom.

NIGEL REID Strand: General Education P233 Target Audience: Middle and high school teachers in English/language A, language arts, humanities, in the IB MYP and DP Research-based Tasks and the Technology-mediated Curriculum When technology mediates the curriculum, it changes the knowledge landscape as well as making traditional assessment tasks, such as the infamous instruction to ‘research something but please don’t use Wikipedia.’ In this workshop we explore what a laptop environment means for learning in middle and high school years—how the learning process and knowledge landscape are fundamentally different, how we can teach using laptops to aid the process, and how to create real research tasks which don’t result in a glorified ‘copy and paste job.’

JOHN RINKER Strand: Technology H205

Target Audience: Upper primary, middle school, secondary Edmodo: Fostering Independent Learning and Collaboration In/Out of the Classroom Edmodo is a powerful, web-based, social learning tool that has been described as ‘Facebook for the Classroom.’ In this workshop I will demonstrate how to set up and effectively use Edmodo to encourage students to be both accountable and independent in their learning, and how to collaborate with others in a virtual environment. In addition, we will explore Edmodo as a platform for good digital citizenship.

LARA RONALDS Strand: Technology H206

Target Audience: K-5 iPads are Elementary: ACROSS the Curriculum To explain how student learning and visual literacy are the foundation for using the iPads; to show the value of integrating the iPad across the curriculum to support ESOL, visual arts, generalist subjects, Chinese, science, and PE; to demonstrate the practical use of the iPad in these different curriculum areas; and to inspire others to explore and utilize technology that allows students to create products that demonstrate their learning and their skill development.

MICHELLE WISE Room: M178 Strand: Visual Arts Target Audience: Middle and high school art and technology teachers Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal Teaching visual arts in the digital age raises many issues regarding ethical behavior as it pertains to copyright laws and expression. Artists have always borrowed or used elements of others’ work, and contemporary artists often make new art from old by appropriating and reworking existing artworks. This workshop will present a case study of how students are introduced to the concept of ‘fair use’ and use it to measure the quality or legality of their appropriations. Student examples will be shared.