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THURSDAY | 30 MARCH 2017
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CARLA ABRAMS Counseling PS Function Room II A Look At Narrative Therapy Ideas Narrative therapy is a respectful, non-blaming approach to counselling which centres people as the experts in their own lives. Our lives are multi-storied - commonly when people see a counselor it is because a particular “problem” story has become dominant. The narrative practitioner views problems as separate from people as it assumes people have skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will help them shift their relationship with the problem story. Narrative counseling offers a way to change stories by moving from “problem” stories to alternative and preferred stories of action and identity. In this workshop you will explore and practice ideas that shape the narrative ways of working. PAUL ANDERSEN Science PS Function Room IX Play and Learn Paul Andersen turned his science class into a videogame four years ago. Students played the game with avatars, accrued points through challenges, and tracked their current levels on a classroom leaderboard. In this workshop Paul will explain what worked, what didn’t, and how his classroom evolved over time.
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JESSICA BALLI AND PATRICK CALLAHAN Math PS Function Room VI Writing and Mathematics: It Can be Done! Mathematics is more than solving equations, calculating averages, and converting fractions to decimals. It is a subject that can encourage argumentation, model the real world, and allow students to communicate their thinking and reasoning. When we balance our approach to mathematics with procedural fluency, conceptual understanding, and applications, we make room for writing in mathematics. In this session we will share strategies for students to write mathematical arguments, revise their writing to encourage a growth mind-set, and provide feedback to each other to promote a culture of learning from their peers, not just the teacher. WAKA BROWN Social Studies MS Meeting Room I Divided Memories: Comparing History Textbooks The Divided Memories project was begun at Stanford University in 2007 to compare prevalent history textbooks from five Pacific Rim societies: China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. In this session, we will explore Stanford’s Divided Memories project and demonstrate its associated curricular materials and classroom activities. LYNNE COLEMAN General Education PS Ballroom I Assessment: Putting Learning Into Action that is Useful Making and doing in the real world involves learning, experimenting and trying out new learning to see what works best. It is iterative and generative. It can be be academically rigorous. Formative assessment works similarly - at least it should. And it can if the summative assessment allows for several right ways to meet a real-world challenge. Participants will construct a summative assessment with formative assessments that lead to the summative assessment. CRAIG GABLER Science PS Function Room I Understanding the 3 Dimensions of the Next Generation Science Standards Participants will gain an overview of the structure of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and how to leverage these standards for improved student engagement and conceptual understanding. Participants will in and analyze a science learning activity to identify the 3 Dimensions of NGSS and how these apply to best practices in science instruction. TIM GERRISH OBE Counseling MS Meeting Room V Child Safeguarding - What You Need To Know Identify the different types of child abuse and the effects these have on children’s lives. - Recognise signs and symptoms. - What makes a safer school Identify the key steps that you can take to protect children in your school - Consider some of the online vulnerabilities children might face when using modern technology. JOSEPH GREENAWALT Computer Science MS - First Floor - Orchid Room Impact of Computing This interactive session will provide an overview of the content and assessments of the AP Computer Science Principles (CSP) course and assessments. The AP Computer Science Principles course is designed to be equivalent to a first-semester introductory college computing course. In this course, students will develop computational thinking vital for success across all disciplines, such as using computational tools to analyze and study data and working with large data sets to analyze, visualize, and draw conclusions from trends. In the session, participants will experience a variety of activities to illustrate the course contents and address essential questions of computer science. Participants will examine sample performance tasks and discuss how the performance tasks accomplish the course goals and how they are assessed and how they promote student understanding of the impact of computing. JULIE HARRIS-STERN All Disciplines, Secondary with Humanities Lesson Demonstrations MS - First Floor - Rose Garden Room Inquiry-Based Humanities Lesson Demonstration for High School Come and experience what an inquiry-based humanities classroom feels like - one that fosters deep, conceptual understanding and builds the type of thinking and big ideas that allow students to transfer their learning to new, complex situations.
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EARCOS Teachers’ Conference 2017
