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PETER BOONSHAFT Music – Strings Level 1 - HS Band Room 1128 How We Teach Is As Important As What We Teach: Ways To Energize Your Rehearsals - Participants will learn simple techniques to energize and focus teaching. Peter will offer specific techniques to solve everyday concerns. A practical look will be taken at what, why, and how we can teach to achieve better results faster, easier, and more efficiently.This session will be useful for teachers and conductors of any level and type of ensemble. ASHLEY CASEY Physical Education Level 1 - HS Gym Using the Teaching-Games-for-Understanding Approach - Using the concept of “fantasy games” this session explores ways in which we can begin to embed tactical creativity and game awareness to young people by looking at the wider aspects of game play. Skills, when taught in isolation, lose the cooperative and competitive elements that lie at their heart. By exploring ‘real life’ scenarios and challenging young people to think divergently we prepare them for the game rather than preparing them to provide a rehearsed response to a new situation. ALEC COUROS Technology Level 2 - MS Media Center Computer Lab Understanding Digital Citizenship (Part II) - Issues such as cyber bullying, ‘sexting’, and student access to inappropriate content are important areas of understanding for teachers, administrators, children, adolescents, and parents. In this session, participants will be presented with many of the important issues that face our schools in an era where access to information is ubiquitous, and digital messages are easily spread.Through a balance of information-sharing and questioning, participants will come to better understand such issues through a positive framework, one that moves toward the intentional development of learner digital identities.
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KEVIN DAVY Counseling Level 1 - MS 1036 Freshman Seminar-HS Transition Support - This workshop provides an overview of the freshman seminar program ran at International School Bangkok. The program includes 20-plus diverse classroom sessions aimed at supporting students to achieve a healthy transition to high school life. This session will also afford time for professionals to share best practices and creative ideas in relation to this important transition. ANDY DUTTON Physical Education Level 1 - ES Gym SuperGym: Designing a Remedial Motor Skill Program for Your School - This presentation focuses on the motor remedial therapy program, which is being used at United Nations International School (UNIS) Hanoi. The program involved a motor skill screening for all students in the school in kindergarten 1 and kindergarten 2, which is based on the established Dutch system. Selected students are then involved in a 10-week program aimed at filling the gaps in their motor skill development. TERRY GOETZ Arts – Dance Level 3 - Dance Room BrainDance - Collaborative Variations - BrainDance with partners is an efficient way to warm up and lay the foundation for a collaborative atmosphere. Leading, following, and compromise are skills that can be refined through the balance of repetition and novelty which the BrainDance provides. The BrainDance gives us visual, cognitive, social-emotional, and kinesthetic feedback. Experience BrainDance variations done with partners, trios, and small groups. We’ll end by creating a collaboratively choreographed BrainDance. The BrainDance is a framework for establishing self-awareness, trust, and cooperation. We create an environment where people feel empowered as individuals and safe in a group setting. With this environment established people are more open to risk taking, leading to more creative and exciting collaborations. DAVID GRAN / ROLF BECKER Arts – Film Level 4 - HS Film Lab 4005 Music for Film for Tone Deaf Teachers - One of the IB film requirements that have caused great distress to students and teachers alike is the requirement that students use original music in their films. For teachers with no musical background or training, it has been a daunting task to find creative ways to help their students include their own original music, and often requires the alternate skill of learning to be the music department for help effectively. In this workshop, Rolf and David will discuss and explore how some very simple approaches and understanding of music can transform a student’s project. JENNIFER HARTLEY Arts – Drama Level 1 - AMR 1110 Body Language — Understanding Others and Ourselves - Learn how to read body language signs and gestures. Easy and fun, you will learn how to read our non-verbal body language, the unconscious cues we all send and receive. Believe it or not, we are saying so much more about ourselves than we realise, or perhaps even want to. DINAH HELGESON Music – Choral Level 1 - Orchestra Room 1115 Innovative Warm Ups for Choir — Creative Concepts that Improve Choral Sound - Part II - Our Body, our Vocal Cathedral, Our Stained Glass Windows. Our voices are connected and free, and now we begin the process of truly listening to our choirs. Our singers are our mirrors to what is happening in our rehearsals.
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EARCOS Teachers’ Conference 2016
