SESSION 2 Teacher Workshops THURSDAY | 29 March 2012
13:45-14:45
Griffin Loynes / Cinder Merritt Room: THE GARDEN GALLERY Target Audience: MS/HS teachers Strand: Literacy Title: Text Type Literacy: Mini-lessons for Language and Literature Vertical Integration With the new IB A1 language and literature course, there is vital need to vertically integrate skills of the course into earlier English classes.This workshop will present mini-lesssons for different text type literacy activities, focusing on cinema, graphic strips, and political propaganda. The activities are geared towards inclusion in existing pre-IB English units, allowing students early exposure to the new curricular skills. The workshop aims to provide practical material for the classroom. Scott Miller Room: THE STUDY ROOM Target Audience: Grades 3-12 teachers Strand: Literacy Title: Enhancing Vocabulary Instruction Looking for new ways to introduce, practice, review, or assess vocabulary? If so, this session is designed for you. Participants will experience a plethora of vocabulary strategies which can be used in their classroom as soon as desired. Discover some new ways to help students learn and apply their knowledge or vocabulary. John Rinker Room: MYANMAR II Target Audience: Grades 4-10 but easily with ideas and provocative aspects it could be for all grades, including teachers and students. Strand: General Title: The Google Earth Tour Challenge : A Game-based Project The Google Earth Tour Challenge provides a game-based project for integrating Google Earth into a variety of curricular areas. The game-based design motivates students to complete successive levels of the game while ensuring a rich content base for the product. In the end, students create an authentic and durable learning tool.
Sarah Sutter Room: CHAO PHRAYA ROOM Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators Strand: Digital Literacy Title: Building your Professional Learning Network How do you move forward when you don’t know what you don’t know? Create a learning network that uses online communities and resources to bring a steady stream of information to your online “door.” Participate with teachers in webinars, or join communities of educators sharing ideas and resources. How do you find them? How do you join in? Come find out how to get started and tap into the growing global online community of educators and create your own custom tailored professional learning network. Roy Tomlinson Room: MYANMAR I Target Audience: HS Math Teachers Strand: Math Title: Linear Regression and Modeling using Excel and the Graphing Calculator Teachers will come out of the workshop with an understanding of the use of Excel to plot linear regression and best fitting lines using real world data. Using these models, we’ll apply formulas to plot residuals and determine best fitting models. Re-expression of data using the spreadsheet will also be discussed. Bring laptops to work on the computer during the session. Michelle Vogel / Monna McDiarmid Room: BRUNEI ROOM II Target Audience: MS/HS counselors and teachers (grades 6-12) Strand: Counseling Title: What is Beautiful? Talking with Teenagers about Body Image During the 2010-2011 school year, counselors and teachers at NIST identified body image as a serious issue for our middle and high school students. We threw ourselves into the creation of an educational program that had, at its foundation, our own experiences with body image and disordered eating. We hoped that students would respect and benefit from our honesty and vulnerability. This programming led to a campaign called “What is beautiful?” and resulted in a short film and photo exhibit.
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David Rynne Room: PEPPINO LEVEL 3 Target Audience: Appropriate for ES/MS/Sec teachers, all subject areas and specializations Strand: Digital Literacy Title: Let There Be Life! Integrating Claymation into Classroom Practice Students need direct support to become thoroughly media literate in today’s media intensive world. Integrating Stop Motion Animation into student learning tasks enables many cooperative and collaborative learning opportunities as well as developing time management awareness, responsibility, and problem solving strategies.This hands-on workshop will: Discuss media literacy, view examples of animations, create and publish a simple animation, discuss curricular uses of this technique, classroom management strategies, and some of the resources available. (Bring a laptop if possible.)
