SESSION 9 Teacher Workshops SATURDAY | 30 MARCH 2013 ROOM 12:45-1:45
NOMER ADONA Strand:Visual Arts R407 Target Audience: Middle and high school How to Integrate Trimble SketchUp in Visual Arts Intuitive, fun, and free for anyone to use! Let your students model anything they can imagine! Decorate a room. Invent a new piece of furniture. Model a city for Google Earth. There’s no limit to what your students can create with SketchUp. Come and find out how to use this amazing online tool in your classroom. SketchUp is a new virtual 3D, augmented reality 21st century learning tool that will engage your students’ curiosity. Matt Ashworth Strand: Music E122 Target Audience: General music – elementary/ middle school Inquiry and Host Culture Music This workshop will investigate issues surrounding inquiry into host culture music for general music teachers in international schools, such as performance, transmission, possible roles of non-host culture teachers, and host-culture experts, and ways of inquiring into the cultural background in which music exists. Becki Bishop Strand: Physical Education Spinning Room H015B Target Audience: All levels Get Spinning! A new challenge for Your PE Curriculum (Repeat) This workshop will introduce physical educators to the rapidly growing fitness craze of spinning. Participants will be strapped into heart rate monitors while cycling through a themed workout that emphasizes various components of fitness, introduces ideas for cooperative learning, and shares ways to bring creativity to the PE classroom using i-movie. (Limited to 20 participants)
TIM de GEER Strand:Visual Arts M179 Target Audience: Grades 4-12 drama and/or any teacher interested in integrating film making into the curriculum or as an after school activity Student Made Films – A School Wide, Cross Curricular Project This workshop will focus on the interdisciplinary skills of film making such as idea generating, storyboarding, screenplay writing, camera composition, exploring global/world/social issues through film, and creating a school film festival. Andrew Dorn Strand: Global Issues H204 Target Audience: HS teachers Can We Reach the Future We Want if We’re M.I.A.? The recent United Nations Rio+20 conference was focused on the theme ‘The future we want.’ But how do we reach the sustainable peaceful future we want if we are not acting in ways to reach it? This workshop will look at why schools should add more action on important global issues into the curricular and extra-curricular program and offer examples and strategies to assist with this. Laura Fitzgerald Strand: Physical Education Dance Studio H041 Target Audience: MS/HS PE teachers, teachers interested in arts integration Dance Choreography: Improvisation and Collaboration Using Technology This workshop makes improvisation and choreography approachable to all teachers. The first part will focus on motivating student interest and exploration. Participants will practice the components of mood, projection, levels, energy, direction, expression, and timing. The second part of the workshop covers collaboration using technology. We will learn the brainstorming process by choosing a global theme, applying the components of dance to the process, and the process of collaboration with students from different cultures. Ken Forde Strand: Physical Education M172 Target Audience: Grades 6-10 Technology for Learning, Assessment, and Reflection in PE The possible uses of technology in PE have increased in unimaginable ways. Affordable iOS Apps and cloud servers can both provide the basis for using technology to support student learning, ensure timely and authentic feedback as well as allowing students to engage in meaningful reflection. This workshop will use a practical format to engage learners in the possibilities presented by the technology now at our disposal and encourage the development of further possibilities.
Moving Minds, Moving Bodies
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Julie Davidson / Mallika Ramdas / Shruti Tewari Strand: HS Counseling P203 Target Audience: Counselors and teachers The UWC Movement and the Role of the College Counselor An explanation of the background and mission of the UWC Movement will be followed by a discussion of the 12 UWC colleges and how they differ from one another. The role of UWC college counselors in promoting the UWC ethos will be explored, including the challenges faced. There will then be an explanation of the role of the Davis UWC scholarship scheme in providing university pathways for graduates. A question and answer session will follow.
