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Teacher Workshops
THURSDAY | 31 MARCH 2016 11:15-12:30
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DAVID ALLEN Music Level 1 - MS 1033 Target Audience: Middle School/ High School Authentic Assessment: Instructional Tools for Standards Based Grading in Music - Authentic assessment uses instructional tools such as self-assessment, progress monitoring, and student reflection in building evidence-based products such as digital portfolios in relation to standards based grading. Authentic assessment simultaneously ties student ownership of learning with accountability while measuring, assessing and tracking knowledge, performance, and growth. ROBERT ANDERSON Design Technology Level 4 - HS Room 4031 Target Audience: Middle School/ High School Introductory 3-D Printing - This workshop will introduce and show how we integrate 3-D printing into the design technology classroom practice. It will give a brief introduction to the technology and industry. It will highlight the technology required (hardware and software) and show how we incorporate the technology into all project-based lessons and programs. Both individual and collaborative/ group work approaches will be discussed. ALISON ARMSTRONG Music / Film Level 1 - MS 1127 Target Audience: Grades 4 – 10 Film Music: An Inquiry into How Musicians Communicate - In this interactive workshop discover how to take your students from graphic scores to rhythmic notation to notating for an ensemble using short films and percussion instruments.
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LUCY ATKINSON / KRISTIN PARTRIDGE Arts – Visual Level 1 - HS 1169 Target Audience: High School Visual Art Exploration: An Investigation of Learning Together in an Inquiry-Based Environment - During this workshop, teachers will investigate visual art exploration. How can early years students and secondary students learn together? What can they learn from each other? How do they inspire each other to make more meaning out of the their learning? We will investigate a project between these two groups to discover the importance of doing more cross-age learning by using visible thinking routines Project Zero, and Habits of Mind resources. SHANI BEN-AROYA Physical Education Level 1 - MS 1036 Target Audience: Middle School / High School Active Listening in the Classroom - Do you ever find yourself asking your students to listen, but wonder why they can’t do it? One of the basic building blocks of communication, and one of the most difficult skills to learn and practice, is effective active listening. This is an interactive workshop that explores how to be an active listener. It provides teachers with practical ways to demonstrate active listening to students so that they understand what makes an empathetic, engaged listener. It also looks at teachers as active listeners and whether we are really listening to our students in the classroom. ANDREA CAPRANICO Arts – Film Level 4 - HS Film Lab 4005 Target Audience: All Documentary Filmmaking Part Two - By close reference to his film, ‘The Undertaker’ Andrea will give an insight into the creative process and provide teachers with access to documentation from the film that can be used in classrooms. JAMES CARLIN Music Level 1 - MS 1034 Target Audience: Middle School / High School Thinking Outside The ’Bachs’ - Music for Non-Musicians - Traditional music programs in international schools face unique challenges. By offering non-traditional band or orchestra students can still receive a quality music education. In this workshop, James discusses various ideas for non-traditional music offerings, and presents the benefits he has found by offering courses like songwriting & guitar, history of rock, audio production, and percussion ensemble. SARAH CORNELIUS General Education Level 1 - MS 1035 Target Audience: K – 12 iPad Apps that Can Be Used with Any Homeroom Subject - There are many great apps available that can do many tasks, but finding which app is best for what task, takes time. I will share four of my all-time favorite apps that I regularly use in grades K-5 at my school’s one-to-one iPad setting. Show Me, Book Creator, Aurasma, and Nearpod are critical thinking apps that can be used in any grade level and in any subject area. TAMARA DAVIS Music Level 1 - HS Band Room 1128 Target Audience: Grades 6 – 12 Concert Preparation for Dummies - This workshop will provide teachers with a detailed timeline and “to-do” list of things that need to be done to prepare for a concert of any kind. Strategies for classroom time management including “backward planning” and assessments related to concert repertoire will be discussed. The goal of this workshop is to give teachers the tools they need to plan concerts with less stress and last-minute frustration. 16
EARCOS Teachers’ Conference 2016
