SESSION 2

THURSDAY | 31 MARCH 2016 ROOM

11:15-12:30 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.

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.

THURSDAY | 31 MARCH 2016 ROOM

11:15-12:30 BRUCE DOIG

Design Technology Level 1 - MS 1188

Target Audience: Middle School/ High School Google Sites, e-Sketchbooks, and Design - This workshop will walk participants through the rationale of an e-sketchbook, setting up an e-sketchbook model, creating the template to share with students, and having students set up their sketchbook for use in design from MYP years 1 to 5 (and DP if desired). Participants are welcome to bring their laptops to put their learning into practice!

JOHN EVERETT Counseling Level 1 - HS Faculty Lounge 1093

Target Audience: All Using Improvisational Theater to Enhance Social Emotional Learning - This interactive workshop will use improvisational theatre exercises and activity processing techniques to provide participants with the skills and confidence they need to help the children they work with develop skills of self awareness, self management, social awareness, and relationship skills. Participants do not need to have any previous improvisational acting experience.

ELLA HEALY Physical Education Level 1 - MS Faculty Lounge

Target Audience: All levels Looking at the Student-Athlete through the Lens of Community Service in Aquatics - The presentation will focus on service learning programs (specifically the success of the Swim For Life program at United Nations International School [UNIS] Hanoi) and explore the authentic connections made between various programs in which students are involved — physical education, service learning, and sports. Swim for Life addresses community needs for swimming and water safety. Vietnamese children from under-privileged families, including the disabled, homeless and local school children, have benefited from our direct-service program. The presentation will focus on: student success in service programs connecting PE, service, and sports; specialized training for students, and real world applications.

GRACE HUDKINS Arts – Drama Level 1 - Little Theater

Target Audience: Elementary School Elementary Drama Integration - This workshop is a great introduction to integrating drama into your homeroom teaching practice. Strategies range from quick and easy to implement to deeper, more unit-based ideas. Please bring your curriculum, as we will discuss how you can use drama to enhance student understanding in your existing units. No background in drama, “Thespian for life” . . . No problem . . . all are welcome and there is something for everyone!

REBECCA JARDIN Arts – Visual Level 1 - HS 1166

Target Audience: Middle School/ High School Creative Uses with ipads for all Subjects - Explore exciting ways to create and reflect with a variety of iPad apps in any classroom. Examples of how to capture student understanding by combining text and photography will be offered. Rebecca will show that incorporating apps into the classroom is not about replacing traditional media, but enhancing what we do. Participants will be exposed to a variety of manipulation and reflection of relevant iPad apps. Tangible samples and resources from the classroom will be shared with participants. Participants can bring their own iPads with Wordfoto, Superimpose, MovieFX, Pic Collage and LifeCards downloaded

JEFFERSON LIPSKY Technology Level 2 - MS 2030

Target Audience: All Best Practices for Teaching Video Production, Filmmaking, or Broadcast Journalism - Learn tips and tutorials on how students can make high quality videos. Learn about which low-cost or high-end filming equipment to get your hands on and how to help kids use it effectively. You will learn how to guide your students through planning, filming, and editing. You will view examples of excellent student work. Participants will research how to start their own media program. You will be able to grab some sample curriculum maps, lesson plans, rubrics, etc.

HANNAH NORTHCOTT Arts – Drama Level 1 - Drama Room 1149

Target Audience K – 12 The World is a Stage: Drama Exercises in the Classroom - This is an interactive and collaborative workshops that will share dramatic tools that teachers can utilize for a variety of purpose from team building to teaching literacy, numeracy, and speaking skills. The workshop will also feature short high quality video clips of students leading drama exercise that teachers can use as warm-up to prepare for classroom presentations and performances.

ANNIE PHILIP Arts - Drama Level 1 - Fine Arts Theater

Target Audience: Grades 6 – 12 Cultivating Empathy in the Drama Classroom - Since playing the role of Widow Twankey in Aladdin, Annie has maintained a passion for drama and theatre. Annie has over 20 years of experience teaching and working with young people in a range of settings—at summer play schemes; in refugee camps; in language schools; and in secondary schools in Europe and Asia. Annie firmly believes that drama is a powerful tool for self-development and change; and, she is grateful for every opportunity to ‘collaborate’ and ‘create’ with people from all over the world.

THURSDAY | 31 MARCH 2016 ROOM

11:15-12:30 RESHAM PREMCHAND / TOYOKO MILLER Art Level 1 - Art Room 1186

Target Audience: All ART-inculating Understanding: Integrating a Creative Literacy in the PYP - Through collaboration, visual arts is used as a tool to allow students to develop and articulate conceptual understanding. The PYP learners have become more motivated to inquire, deepen their understanding, and have generated more authentic connections across the curriculum. In this practical session, Resham and Toyoko share a case study, exploring how they integrated visual arts into curriculum, while facilitating creativity and growth of the students and the teachers.

JALEEA PRICE Arts – Dance Level 3 - HS 3051

Target Audience: Middle School/ High School Movement Learning & Assessment with Digital Tools - Movement is often a subjective and ephemeral way of learning. How can we view and ‘judge’ it fairly? Using digital tools, educators in this workshop will discuss rubrics for sport and arts movement content. We’ll apply common language for movement learning to both grades-based and standards-based assessment models. Bring a lesson/unit to work with.

MICHAEL SHARP Arts – Drama Level 1 - AMR 1110

Target Audience: Middle School Using Improvisation and Theatre Sports to Develop Creative Confidence - Participants in this workshop will discover the power of improvisation and experience a variety of improvisation activities and games that can be taken back to the classroom straight away to help develop creative and critical thinkers. The workshop will be practical, physical, and require active participation. The workshop will also look at student engagement data in a theatre sports curriculum class and how outside influences can impact the work we do in improvisation and also how improvisation can have an impact on other areas of learning.

EDWIN TANNER Music Level 1- ES Music Room 1164

Target Audience: Elementary School Primary Music in a Dual Language Context: English and Chinese - In this session, Dr. Tanner shares his expansive experience, research, and teaching materials that support a dual-language program. Participants will: * Learn a variety of Chinese and bilingual songs of traditional and original origin. * Learn the movements to songs in conjunction with percussion and Orff instruments. * Develop a wider understanding of integrating dual language studies into the music program, with an emphasis on Chinese and English.

SEAN THOMPSON Technology Level 4 - HS Room 4032

Target Audience: K – 12 Visual Literacy Bootcamp: When Technology Shifts, It Bends the Culture! - Visual communication is a fundamental part of the digitalage. Teachers need to create more effective pieces of visual communication from posters to full presentations and to enable students (any age) to do likewise. The session aims to increase deeper student learning and metacognitive reflection. Sean will show how to employ critical thinking skills and interaction with content through the development of effective pieces of visual communication. This session will raise awareness of basic design principles and skill development to this end.

LUCY THOMPSON / LINDA BOSWELL General Education Level 2 - MS 2026

Target Audience: K – 12 Embrace the Math in Your Special - It’s Worth It! - How is math valuable to athletes, artists, and musicians? Could you inspire your students to be a persona of many accomplishments like the great thinkers and doers of the Renaissance? You can engage students, drawing on complex bodies of knowledge to develop abilities in all areas of accomplishment, e.g., intellectual, artistic, social, and physical. Knowing math practices and big ideas will allow you to enhance student learning throughout valuable connections, improving problem solving, and more.

ANNE WENSTROM Technology/Physical Education Level 2 - MS Media Center Computer Lab

Target Audience: All levels Google Apps + iPads: Enhancing Student Learning in PE! - IIn this session we will look at how using Apple iPad apps and Google apps for education will enhance student learning in physical education. The workflow of this session will take participants through the creative ways to utilize information technology for formative assessments, tracking student progress and managing student data in PE. Participants will leave with a greater understanding of how traditional PE activities and technology are combined to create a positive mixture of discovery and critical thinking while staying active in class.

12:30-13:45 LUNCH

Level 1 Canteen & Plaza Level MS Courtyard