SESSION 8

SATURDAY | 28 MARCH 2015 ROOM

09:45 - 11:15 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.

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.

SATURDAY | 28 MARCH 2015 ROOM

09:45 - 11:15 GREG O’CONNOR SENIA / Open to All PS FUNCTION ROOM 7 Reducing Cognitive Load and Helping Students Learn through the Use of Technology Tools - Many students have difficulty being organized, not being distracted by the ever present technology, planning and coping with various study and research requirements presented to them, and managing the multiple demands placed on them in learning environments. In this workshop we will delve into the range of technology tools, those that can help students learn and those that can support teachers to modify and redefine their instruction, to reduce cognitive load. Workshop takeaways for participants: an understanding of the impact of cognitive load on the learning of students with diverse learning needs (the presentation will use the work of John Hattie and others* to underpin the evidence basis of the workshop), and a list of technology tools to help reduce cognitive load. Hattie, J., & Yates, G. C. (2013). Visible learning and the science of how we learn. Routledge. Chicago.

JOEL PRESTI SAT PS FUNCTION ROOM 4 A Great Global Conversation: The Redesigned SAT and What It Means for EARCOS Schools - Get comprehensive background and updates on the changes afoot for the big test. Representatives from the College Board will tell the story behind the SAT Redesign and discuss implications of these changes on international admissions. Also addressed will be how international educators can help prepare students and school communities for these changes in this global benchmark. We will discuss the collaboration with Khan Academy to provide free, world-class preparation for students around the globe. This session will be interactive and will integrate questions and feedback from the audience.

BONNIE SINGER SENIA / Open to All PACIFIC BALLROOM 1 Seeing is Understanding: Visual Strategies for Supporting Reading Comprehension - This workshop will explore how spatial processing influences listening and reading comprehension. Three strategies will be introduced that are designed to help students construct visual representations of their knowledge before, during, and after reading. We will model and illustrate how these strategies are used with both narrative and expository texts.

JAMES STRONGE Assessment PACIFIC BALLROOM 2 & 3 Classroom-based Assessment: Tools and Techniques Effective Teachers Use to Improve Student Success - How important is classroom assessment in monitoring and improving student achievement? This workshop addresses three levels of classroom assessment that can and should be used to better focus instructional planning and delivery on student improvement: 1) pre-assessment, 2) ongoing assessment, and 3) post-assessment. The workshop uses research-based processes and practices to sharpen teacher/administrator skills on how to build and use solid classroom assessment.

PAUL SWANSON General Education PS FUNCTION ROOM 1 21st Century Problems - This workshop is focused on the generation of authentic, 21st century problems and how they can be used to take your teaching to the next level. We’ll look at both playing and role-playing, at community service learning, and at global informational collaborations and innovative ways of connecting them to every subject area.

JEFF UTECHT Technology MS MEETING ROOM 4 Students as Creators and Contributors - New web tools have changed the way we interact with the web. In an old web world we used the Internet to gather information, to find answers, and absorb information. There was not an easy way for the average person to contribute to this landscape of knowledge. As the 21st century is upon us so is a new web. The new web, otherwise known as the read/write web, allows us not only to easily find information, but allows us to be creators and contributors to this new wealth of knowledge. As education has been slow to adapt to these new tools, our students have taken them to heart and are using them to create content viewed the world over. Sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, and others allow our students to create information. Our students no longer want to sit in a classroom and be told information. They want to create it, share it, and contribute to the growing knowledge base on the web.

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