SESSION 5

FRIDAY | 1 APRIL 2016 ROOM

11:30-12:30 KEITH ALLERTON Arts – Drama Level 1 - Fine Arts Theater

Target Audience: All levels Drama — Drama Games/ Warm Ups for Any Class - Keith will teach ten different drama/ warm-up games that can be used in any classroom. Each activity can be done for as little as five minutes. They are great to improve classroom focus and teamwork.

NICKY BOURGEOIS / BETH DRESSLER General Education Level 2 - MS 2026

Target Audience: K – 12 Conceptual Co-Teaching Relationships - The presenters will demonstrate the elements required to implement conceptual coteaching and give examples of how it works. Nicky and Beth will explain how they foster a conceptually-based teaching and learning environment that maintains the integrity of concepts, while causing learning outcomes to materialize as the consequence. In addition, they will share examples of intentional teaching that still maintains the integrity of the written curriculum.

CHRIS AND NEL CAPADONA General Education Level 2 - MS Media Center

Target Audience: K – 12 Powerful Peer Observations — Tapping into the Elective Teacher Experience - Calling all music, physical education, fine art teachers, and their administrators! Have you wanted to start a non-evaluative observation system and do not know where to start? Participants in this workshop will be given practical and ready-to-use resources to begin a teachers-observing-teachers protocol. Specific techniques will be explored, including pre/post conferencing, non-evaluative data collection, and scheduling. Special emphasis will be given to our elective/specials teachers and the unique insight they provide the process.

ANDREA CHRISTEN General Education Level 1 - Drama Room 1149

Target Audience: Middle School Using Debate in the Classroom - Being able to communicate clearly and with evidences is a key skill for students across the world. This workshop will present ideas on how to integrate debate into 5th through 12th grade classrooms through different approaches and styles. Ideas applicable to a range of subject areas will be shared, and listening skills and using evidence to support claims will be highlighted.

MARY COLLINS Arts – Visual Level 1 - MS 1034

Target Audience: Elementary School Visual Arts in the Primary School: Integration and Collaboration - Single-subject teachers sometimes find it challenging to make authentic connections to the central idea within a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry. This workshop will show how visual art projects in the primary school can be integrated with homeroom learning, helping students to develop their understanding of the central idea. Through careful selection of concepts and effective collaboration among the arts teachers (e.g. visual arts, music) and homeroom teachers, coherence in student learning can be promoted.

AMY DIENER Arts – Visual Level 1 - MS 1033

Target Audience: All Mindful Mandalas: Research, Studio Investigation, and Reflections - This mandala will be divided into three parts. The first part will include a presentation about the research of mindfulness and mandalas, famous artist that explore mandalas, and examples of student creations. The second part will be a studio investigation of either nature or mandala drawing creations. The third part will be a reflection period divided by grade levels discussing how teachers may include mandala lessons in their art program.

JESSE DONNELLY / JO VEALE Design Technology Level 4 - HS Room 4031

Target Audience: Middle School/ High School Design Thinking — Freeware and the Design Cycle - How is design thinking applied in the design cycle? Open sourced software in the classroom is used to implement truly international learning networks based on design thinking skills. Current student-led projects will be presented to demonstrate global design thinking based on the framework of the IB design cycle.

LEANNE FULCHER Arts – Drama Level 1 - Little Theater

Target Audience: Middle School/ High School Status Is More Than Just a Facebook Update - Relationships are at the core of most young people’s lives, so the concept of “status” or relative social position is an easy one to introduce. Teach your students how status can be a fun tool in their characterization toolbox. Take part in a status war and fight for high and low status. Use status as a stimulus for improvisation and mask work. This hands-on workshop will provide a week’s worth of activities that can be “scaffolded” to all levels of drama or be used as activities to stimulate advisory discussions about relationships and how we treat others.

MICHAEL GANUS Music – Band Level 1 - MS 1127

Target Audience: All Warm-up and Tuning from the Inside Out - This workshop will present ideas to instrumental music teachers on improved intonation through warm-up and ear-training exercises. The goal would be to help students produce quality sounds and improve the overall intonation of any ensemble.

FRIDAY | 1 APRIL 2016 ROOM

11:30-12:30 ANDREW HARNETT Technology Level 1 - MS 1035

Target Audience: K – 12 The Swinging Pendulum: Finding the Balance Between Tech & Traditional Learning - Everything in life requires balance. Digital learning is being hailed as the way of the future. As with most educational beliefs, things tend to swing in an extreme direction. From demonstrating quality of writing in traditional vs. technology methods, to the ease of doing math, music, PSPE, and science, this session will explore and present a tool that will show how to find a balance in technology when developing your classroom environment, units, and lessons.

SETH HEISEL Technology Level 1 - MS 1036

Target Audience: Elementary School Using Technology to Engage Student - Attendees will see examples of how to implement a “bring your own device” (BYOD) policy in their classrooms. We will examine how to use online word processing to allow students to write and edit collaboratively. We will also discuss some of the safety and security issues one should consider when implementing a BYOD policy.

LIEN INDIGNE / DAVE DUCHARME Physical Education Level 1 - MS Faculty Lounge

Target Audience: Middle School/ High School Increasing Fitness in PE (Challenging the Gifted, Differentiation, Readymade Workouts) - Introducing a challenging and rewarding session that will help raise fitness level in physical education through data driven research and dialogue and a complete set of international school fitness standards in which they can implement immediately. Introducing a student friendly running program that is fun and challenging and includes voice and choice with differentiated, ready-to-use fitness workouts. Participants will be introduced to a way to raise the level of students whom struggle with fitness and at the same time bring their parents on board through differentiated learning.

KATHLEEN KAMPA Arts – Dance Level 3 - Dance Room

Target Audience: Kindergarten, Elementary, English as an Additional Language Teachers Energize Your Classroom With Music and Movement - Music and movement activities can energize young learners and help all students be successful. Experience brain compatible activities that support the outcomes of inquiry-based curricula, such as PYP and music/dance programs. In this workshop you will learn simple music and movement activities that every teacher can do. These include short energizers to use throughout the school day as well as activities based on topics such as play, seas and oceans, storytelling, living things, and healthy choices.

CATHY KEMP / GRETCHEN DEPOINT Arts – Visual Level 1 - HS 1166

Target Audience: All From Private to Public (Process, Reflection, and Showcase) - Process, reflection, and showcasing work have always been the cornerstone to the visual arts classrooms. It’s these practices that need to become commonplace in every classroom regardless of content area. In this workshop, we will provide research-based reasons why/how this can be applied in all subject areas. Specifically, we will show the application of several digital tools that can be used in any classroom for: idea development, analysis, reflection (as a result of feedback), and sharing.

DEREK KENSINGER Physical Education Level 1 - HS Faculty Lounge 1093

Target Audience: K – 12 Making Goals into Gold: The Alchemy of Values - The presentation will take the following format: 1) Brief history of core values within physical education programs. 2) Discussion of how to choose which core values to emphasize in your physical education program at your school. 3) Discussion of how to use formative/summative assessments to evaluate whether the core values you have chosen for your physical education program are being met by staff and students.

KEVIN MANSELL Music Level 1 - HS Band Room 1128

Target Audience: K – 12 Adding Punch to Performance: The Punch & Judy Show - This workshop examines, and demonstrates with actual puppets, the unique performance conventions of a Punch & Judy Show: the cast; the props; the essential episodes. A brief review of history is followed by an exploration of sample scripts and lesson plans. Creative opportunities for improvisation and try-outs with Punch’s unique quips and vocalizations should add to the hilarity and suggest myriads of ideas to use back in the drama studio. The many obstacles on the way to performing a show at a school fair are painfully revisited!

JL MURDOCH Arts – Drama Level 1 - AMR 1110

Target Audience: High School Antigone: A Case Study for an Integrated Cross-Curricular Theatre Program - This presentation explores the cross-curricular collaboration of Yongsan International School of Seoul throughout the 2015 Antigone production process as a case study for a four-year cross-curricular loop designed to integrate theatre with core subjects. The purpose of this presentation is to provide drama teachers a tangible method to elevate the profile of their programs as they assist colleagues and students in making meaningful connections across English, history, and other core subjects.

FRIDAY | 1 APRIL 2016 ROOM

11:30-12:30 ANGELA OLSON General Education Level 2 - MS 2030

Target Audience: K – 12 Growth Mindset: Leveraging the Learning Edge - Is intelligence fixed? Can you make yourself smarter? More importantly, can your students make themselves smarter? Growth mindset says yes! Researcher Carol Dweck and others have shown that our beliefs about intelligence impact motivation and achievement. In this workshop, we will look at the core tenets of growth mindset, evaluate our own mindsets, see why mindset matters, and share ready-for-Monday strategies for building resilience, grit, joy, and freedom to learn in our students.

BRIAN REVERMAN Arts – Visual Level 1 - HS 1169

Target Audience: High School/ Middle School Enhancing Critical Analysis in and through the Art Program - Teaching critical analysis is vital to teaching art, but also vital to developing informed citizens. This workshop will explore an approach to teaching students to think critically about art. Tools for students and teachers will be explored, and “Art-o-matic,” a digital analysis tool, will be introduced. Student examples will be given and how all this might apply to various curricula will be discussed.

MARTIN ROBINSON Music Level 1 - MS/HS Choir Room 1115

Target Audience: All Drum Circle! - Bring your rhythmic spirit and get ready to play! This fun, interactive workshop will consist of a drum circle facilitated by the presenter followed by an introduction into how to begin facilitating drum circles in your school and community. Basic facilitator responsibilities and techniques will be covered and demonstrated. Participants will leave with an experience of a drum circle and knowledge of how to take the next steps in building facilitation skills.

STEPHEN THOMPSON Music Level 1- ES Music Room 1164

Target Audience: Elementary School Let the Words Dance Out of Your Mouth - Building phonological awareness through music. Through a song, teachers will learn strategies for teaching reading, scaffolding language for EAL learners, foreign language, physical education, and music to elementary students. This workshop is probably best suited to teachers of younger grades, EAL, foreign language, and reading. Designed for ES music teachers, early childhood through first grade classroom teachers, EAL/ESL/ELL specialists, and teachers of second language students.

SHINJIRO TSURUSHIMA Physical Education Level 2 - MS Gym

Target Audience: All levels Swing Dance for Physical Education and Dance Class - Do you want to try swing dancing? Come on in and learn some cool moves and rhythm involved in swing dance! It’s a great way to get a nice exercise and is also a great stress reliever! You do not need any dance experience to join my class! Come and have a great time!

STEPHEN VENEMA Technology Level 4 - HS Film Lab 4005

Target Audience: Middle School/ High School Engaging Students in Musical Composition Using Free Applications and a New Perspective on Stop Motion Video - This session will present a cross curricular project that integrates math, film, visual arts, and music. It can also be modified to suit many other disciplines and applications.

12:30-13:45 LUNCH

Level 1 Canteen & Plaza Level MS Courtyard

This is a ‘NO BAG CONFERENCE.’ For several years delegates have been telling us not to provide a conference bag, so this year we have responded. In lieu of bags, EARCOS will donate $1,500 dollars to Operation Smile, dedicated in providing free surgeries to repair cleft palates and other facial deformities for children around the globe.