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SATURDAY | 28 MARCH 2015 09:45 - 11:15
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JILL BROMENSCHENKEL ELL MS MEETING ROOM 6 Learn with Me: Social Learning and Language Acquisition - Language, learning, and cultural interactions often take place and thrive in social contexts... on and offline. How can we help language learners (and all students) tap into the power of social media and face-toface interactions to gather information, increase language skills, and participate in their own learning communities? We’ll explore social learning and social media strategies for classroom communication, co-creation, self-assessment, and connections to foster language and content area skills. We’ll also overview how we can use available social media tools to engage our school families as integral players in the learning community. KATHY CASSIDY Early Childhood Education HIBISCUS (Pacific First Floor) Twitter for Teachers - Thousands of teachers around the world are turning to Twitter to share and to improve their craft. Is it for you? Let’s find out. We’ll talk about the who, what, when, where, and why of Twitter for educators. Participants: Bringing your own laptop or iPad is suggested. KATE GARDNER / JOSEPH HILL Counseling (for all delegates) MS MEETING ROOM 2 Positive Education: Practical Tools to Help Students Flourish - Our positive education workshop is designed to help educators develop tools to encourage students to become self-guided learners.Through engaging discussion and activities, participants will explore key concepts shown to help students flourish. Inspired by the works of Drs. Martin Seligman and Jane Nelson (among others), participants will get a holistic perspective of what “positive education” could look like from a theoretical and practical point of view.
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MATTHEW GLOVER Literacy (Writing/Reading) PS FUNCTION ROOM 8 Designing Responsive Units of Study in Writing Workshop - Skillful teachers design sequences of instruction based on the needs of their students. In this session participants will learn a practical strategy for creating a unit of study. By starting with a stack of mentor texts and then projecting how a unit could unfold, participants will be better prepared to make responsive decisions for the writers they work with each day. DOUG JOHNSON Library MS MEETING ROOM 5 A Novel Plan to Develop an E-book Collection - Many traditional print publishers are reluctant to provide e-books to libraries for circulation. Students and staff are using a wide variety of personal devices to read e-content. Yet the demand for e-content is growing. Here’s a pragmatic approach to developing an e-book collection in your school that takes these challenges into consideration. https:// dougjohnson.wikispaces.com/Novelebookplan LORI LANGER DE RAMIREZ Modern Languages PS FUNCTION ROOM 10 TCKs in the Language Classroom—Validating Plurilingualism and Pluriculturalism - In the language classroom, where culture is explored on a daily basis, third culture kids bring a wealth of information to the language learning task. Participants in this session will explore a variety of standards-based activities that have language goals while providing TCKs with windows and mirrors through which to view their own complex identities. SHELLY MALDONADO / MAR MARANAN Counseling (for all delegates) MS MEETING ROOM 1 How to Use the 5 Love Languages to Work with Students and Parents - Each of your students expresses and receives love best through one of the five different communication styles. In order to be a more effective educator, you can learn to speak the right love language of students. Using Gary Chapman’s, The 5 Love Languages, participants will discover their own love language and learn to identify the love language of their students.This workshop will help participants communicate more effectively and make stronger connections with students and families. If you need more ideas for how to reach difficult or struggling students, this workshop is for you. LORRAINE McMULLEN General Education PS FUNCTION ROOM 9 Designing a Visual Definition of International Mindedness - This hands-on interactive workshop will take participants through an authentic design process, in order to develop a visual definition of international-mindedness and demonstrate how visualization provides an entry point for a school community to construct and share experience and understanding. Participants will be encouraged to contribute and share ideas of international-mindedness and how to embed it in their school culture. MICHELE MOSKOWITZ / JAIME WILDE Counseling (for all delegates) MS MEETING ROOM 3 Assisting the Adolescent through the Sea of Relationships (without capsizing) - This hands-on workshop shows strategies to assist students in taking responsibility and action for effectively navigating relationships with peers. The strategies include eclectic approaches incorporating the use of theory, props, role-play, and mindfulness.
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