SESSION 4

FRIDAY | 1 APRIL 2016 ROOM

09:45-11:15 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.

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.

FRIDAY | 1 APRIL 2016 ROOM

09:45-11:15 KEVIN HONEYCUTT Arts – Visual Level 1 - Little Theater Creativity Is Essential - Creativity is all but extinguished in some schools and classrooms. Nobody meant for it to happen, but with our focus almost exclusively fixed on test scores, we find ourselves waging all out war on anything seen as non-essential. In these days of invention and the need for creative problem solving, it turns out those of us in education may have taken the low ground in a time of a coming flood. Join me for a discussion about the need for creativity and some ideas about bringing it into daily learning.

MARK JENKINS General Education Level 1 - Fine Arts Theater Question and Answer Session - Mark will entertain your questions about his adventures. Bring questions that you formulated during his keynote address. The audience is certain to add to the richness and relevancy of Mark’s diverse experiences. The outcomes from this session are audience participation and more stories from Mark.

TOYM IMAO Arts – Visual Level 1 - HS 1166 A Visual Art Journey through the Jeepney - The Jeepney is more than just a means of transportation. Heavily ornamented with a hodge-podge of images, colors and designs, it is also a mobile diary of its owners/ drivers. Toym will discuss how the Jeepney model fits with the collage-like visual culture in social media, and how this design mindset figures in expressions of personal narratives. The participants will be divided into groups and create a Jeepney portrait of themselves

GRAY MACKLIN / MELISSA BERG Counseling Level 1 - HS Faculty Lounge 1093 Please Be Advised: Making Advisory Meaningful for Students - This workshop is designed to help teachers leverage their personal strengths to make their advisory meetings more meaningful and memorable. There will be activities, so please bring something to write with and readiness to talk within a group.

JOAN PIPKIN Music Level 1 - Orchestra Room 1116 Position, Position, Position! - From starting the beginner to the advanced orchestral class, playing an instrument is a small motor sport. A consistent approach to technique will create expression and accuracy in orchestra, solo, and chamber performances. As teachers, we need to create a platform of learning that includes physical and psychological attitudes to enhance the learning process and create independent learners. We will explore the creative use of live and video performance models to emphasize positions and posture. Building the uniting bond to build student ownership of your performing group.

BRIAN RUSSELL Design Technology Level 4 - HS Room 4030 Simply Lighting Design Solutions - Participants will be involved in the production of a lighting product using a USB powered LED system. The techniques used can be adapted for a range of age groups and the workshop will demonstrate that this can be a creative activity.

KATHLEEN SCHULTZ / TARA HOLM Counseling Level 1 - MS Faculty Lounge The Power of Adult Influence: Practical Advice for Talking to Students about Substance Abuse - As a teacher, counselor or administrator, you are often some of the first adults to notice when something is troubling a student. One thing is certain about teen substance abuse – the power of a non-parent role model should not be underestimated. In this session, you will learn signs, symptoms, and current trends of substance use/abuse and strategies for having impactful and nonthreatening interaction with students about your concerns.

TED AND CAROLYN TEMERTZOGLOU Physical Education Level 2 - MS Gym Inquiry Based Learning in Physical Education - This workshop employs effective game pedagogy as the framework to develop students’ physical literacy. Participants will be introduced to the principles of Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) and Hellison’s Teaching Personal Social Responsibility (TPSR) model through a variety of small-sided games and inquiry based approach to learning in physical education.

>> EARCOS Special Announcement

EARCOS Weekend Workshop Grant Application is now available!

Deadline is April 2, 2016

One of the services EARCOS provides to its member schools throughout the year is the sponsorship of two-day institutes and workshops for faculty and administration. The topics for these institutes are determined according to the needs of members. EARCOS will provide reimbursement for a consultant’s airfare, honorarium for two days, and per diem for three days for lodging, meals, and incidentals (up to $3,500.00) to schools wishing to host an EARCOS weekend workshop.