SESSION 5
Teacher Workshops
FRIDAY | 1 APRIL 2016 11:30-12:30
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KEITH ALLERTON Arts – Drama Level 1 - Fine Arts Theater Target Audience: All levels Drama — Drama Games/ Warm Ups for Any Class - Keith will teach ten different drama/ warm-up games that can be used in any classroom. Each activity can be done for as little as five minutes. They are great to improve classroom focus and teamwork. NICKY BOURGEOIS / BETH DRESSLER General Education Level 2 - MS 2026 Target Audience: K – 12 Conceptual Co-Teaching Relationships - The presenters will demonstrate the elements required to implement conceptual coteaching and give examples of how it works. Nicky and Beth will explain how they foster a conceptually-based teaching and learning environment that maintains the integrity of concepts, while causing learning outcomes to materialize as the consequence. In addition, they will share examples of intentional teaching that still maintains the integrity of the written curriculum. CHRIS AND NEL CAPADONA General Education Level 2 - MS Media Center Target Audience: K – 12 Powerful Peer Observations — Tapping into the Elective Teacher Experience - Calling all music, physical education, fine art teachers, and their administrators! Have you wanted to start a non-evaluative observation system and do not know where to start? Participants in this workshop will be given practical and ready-to-use resources to begin a teachers-observing-teachers protocol. Specific techniques will be explored, including pre/post conferencing, non-evaluative data collection, and scheduling. Special emphasis will be given to our elective/specials teachers and the unique insight they provide the process.
SESSION 5
ANDREA CHRISTEN General Education Level 1 - Drama Room 1149 Target Audience: Middle School Using Debate in the Classroom - Being able to communicate clearly and with evidences is a key skill for students across the world. This workshop will present ideas on how to integrate debate into 5th through 12th grade classrooms through different approaches and styles. Ideas applicable to a range of subject areas will be shared, and listening skills and using evidence to support claims will be highlighted. MARY COLLINS Arts – Visual Level 1 - MS 1034 Target Audience: Elementary School Visual Arts in the Primary School: Integration and Collaboration - Single-subject teachers sometimes find it challenging to make authentic connections to the central idea within a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry. This workshop will show how visual art projects in the primary school can be integrated with homeroom learning, helping students to develop their understanding of the central idea. Through careful selection of concepts and effective collaboration among the arts teachers (e.g. visual arts, music) and homeroom teachers, coherence in student learning can be promoted. AMY DIENER Arts – Visual Level 1 - MS 1033 Target Audience: All Mindful Mandalas: Research, Studio Investigation, and Reflections - This mandala will be divided into three parts. The first part will include a presentation about the research of mindfulness and mandalas, famous artist that explore mandalas, and examples of student creations.The second part will be a studio investigation of either nature or mandala drawing creations.The third part will be a reflection period divided by grade levels discussing how teachers may include mandala lessons in their art program. JESSE DONNELLY / JO VEALE Design Technology Level 4 - HS Room 4031 Target Audience: Middle School/ High School Design Thinking — Freeware and the Design Cycle - How is design thinking applied in the design cycle? Open sourced software in the classroom is used to implement truly international learning networks based on design thinking skills. Current student-led projects will be presented to demonstrate global design thinking based on the framework of the IB design cycle. LEANNE FULCHER Arts – Drama Level 1 - Little Theater Target Audience: Middle School/ High School Status Is More Than Just a Facebook Update - Relationships are at the core of most young people’s lives, so the concept of “status” or relative social position is an easy one to introduce. Teach your students how status can be a fun tool in their characterization toolbox. Take part in a status war and fight for high and low status. Use status as a stimulus for improvisation and mask work. This hands-on workshop will provide a week’s worth of activities that can be “scaffolded” to all levels of drama or be used as activities to stimulate advisory discussions about relationships and how we treat others. MICHAEL GANUS Music – Band Level 1 - MS 1127 Target Audience: All Warm-up and Tuning from the Inside Out - This workshop will present ideas to instrumental music teachers on improved intonation through warm-up and ear-training exercises. The goal would be to help students produce quality sounds and improve the overall intonation of any ensemble. 28
EARCOS Teachers’ Conference 2016
