SESSION 6
FRIDAY | 27 MARCH 2015 13:45 - 15:15
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JILL BROMENSCHENKEL ELL MS MEETING ROOM 6 Digital Tools and Language Learning - How can student-driven exploration, critical thinking, and digital communication via ipad apps and web tools impact language development? We’ll explore apps and digital tools for each stage of language acquisition, as well as real academic interaction, rehearsal, expression, and collaboration that fosters language growth. Participants will also experience support apps EAL students can access to drive and their own language learning and create products for academic communication. KIRSTEN DURWARD General Education PS FUNCTION ROOM 4 Engaging Students in Assessment for Learning - Interested in strategies to support self-directed learning among your students? Looking for simple ideas to transform your classroom community and give you clear feedback on how and when students are learning? We’ll briefly review the research basis, touch on the seven strategies of Assessment for Learning, and explore practical ways of engaging all students in learning while getting clear feedback on understanding. MATTHEW GLOVER Literacy (Writing/Reading) PS FUNCTION ROOM 10 Increasing Energy and Motivation for All Writers - How do teachers invite young children to write? How can teachers match entry points into writing with children so that energy for writing is maximized? These questions are related to issues of motivation for writing. Participants will examine five possible entry points that, when matched with individual children, tap into their motivation to write. Through the use of numerous authentic writing samples, this session will also provide teachers with invitations and strategies that nurture children’s disposition towards writing.
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DOUG GOODKIN Early Childhood Education PS FUNCTION ROOM 8 Dance and Movement in the Preschool Years - Young children need to move. This workshop will show how you can combine movement with the thinking mind and the social intelligence through play, party games, folk dances, and movement exploration. Come prepared to move and be moved! ANN HELMUS SENIA / Open to All PS FUNCTION ROOM 6 The Art of Assessment - A comprehensive neuropsychological assessment is a powerful tool for understanding a student’s learning style; specifically, what is the student’s potential and whether there are issues that are undermining the student’s ability to meet his or her full potential. In order to determine the student’s profile of strengths and weaknesses, the evaluator must carefully integrate strands of information from the student’s history, clinical observations, and performance on standardized tests. Once the student’s profile has been delineated, then recommendations can be made for supporting the student by building on strengths in order to circumvent or remediate weaknesses.The process of neuropsychological assessment will be explained and contrasted with psycho-educational evaluation. Cross-cultural issues in neuropsychological assessment will also be introduced. NAOMI KELLY / CATH MELLOR Counseling (for all delegates) MS MEETING ROOM 2 “Coping with Worries,” A Parent and Child Anxiety Group - Participants will be introduced to a seven week program for primary aged students and their parents who are experiencing high levels of anxiety and distress. This workshop will introduce, evaluate, and explore the complexities of transferring an anxiety group program for children and parents, devised for an external agency, into a school context. ROBIN MONTGOMERY Technology MS MEETING ROOM 3 21st Century Reading and Writing: Transmedia Storytelling - Get started transforming reading and writing in your classroom with Transmedia Storytelling. Find out what it is, see samples, learn about tools, and start to plan a transformative transmedia reading and writing experience for your students today. KAY ODDONE Technology MS MEETING ROOM 10 Making Sense of Makerspaces: Creating Space for Invention & Imagination - Access to new tools and technology allows students to invent and create in ways never before possible. This workshop will explain what a makerspace is, how to develop one and give practical guidance for those wishing to bring Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) alive in their classrooms and libraries. GREG O’CONNOR SENIA / Open to All PS FUNCTION ROOM 7 Essential iPad Apps to Support Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Their Engagement and Access to Learning. - This workshop will provide an overview of frequently used apps to support the personalized interventions and teaching strategies that have been found to be effective in ensuring the inclusion of students with ASD in schools, and beyond. The apps to be overviewed will support the areas of communication, curriculum access, social skills, and positive behaviour. Workshop takeaways for participants will include an understanding of how the iPad can be used to support children with ASD in the classroom, practical activities that support communication, social learning and positive behaviour, and a list of apps to support students with ASD.
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