PRECONFERENCES TUESDAY | MARCH 28, 2017
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08:30 - 16:30 SUE HARVEY
MS Meeting Room II AP Calculus AB and BC (combined) This two-day AP Calculus AB and BC (Combined) workshop is designed to help teachers explore the topics and scope of the AP Calculus courses, as outlined in the new Curriculum Framework. Teachers will develop an awareness of the conceptual understandings and skills students need for success on the AP exam, and how the Mathematical Practices for AP Calculus develop students’ ability to reason, form connections, and communicate understanding. In addition, the workshop will explore how concepts are threaded across the four Big Ideas as set forth in the Curriculum Framework, and examine implications for instruction. Participants will have ample opportunity to discuss and share teaching strategies, classroom experiences and challenges, approaches to problem solving, and common student mistakes. BC-only topics will be embedded alongside AB topics throughout the workshop as time and interest permit.
PRECONFERENCES
JOSEPH GREENAWALT MS Meeting Room I AP Computer Science Principles This two-day workshop will provide an overview of the AP Computer Science Principles course and assessments. Designed to be equivalent to a first semester college course in computing, the AP Computer Science Principles course equips students to discern and communicate computer science impacts on their society, culture and the world, and to collaboratively create computational artifacts. Participants will learn about the course and its assessment. They will also learn strategies designed to support success in the course of a diverse group of students. The core concepts of the course, its computational practices and big ideas, and three forms of student assessment will be addressed as participants experience Computer Science Principles lessons. Participants will receive a USB thumb drive with all necessary handouts, a printed copy of the AP Computer Science Course and Exam Description and a printed Workshop Handbook.
08:30 - 16:30 DAN MAGIE
MS Meeting Room V Service Learning - IB Category 3 Workshop Today’s complex issues allow for diverse ways for students to respond in a principled way with relevance, creativity, rigour and empathy. Action, central to the MYP programme and the IB mission, focuses on learning by doing and experiencing, a key component in constructivist models of education. In this workshop, participants move from a narrower understanding of community and service into a wider, more inclusive view of action as community engagement, as well as an authentic context for learning and achievement in school. Participants will explore the meaning of service learning and gain insight into how to plan engaging, developmentally appropriate service activities that are grounded in relevant global contexts. They will inquire into how responsible action, tightly connected with sustained inquiry and critical reflection, will develop the kinds of attributes described by the IB learner profile that are essential for success in future academic pursuits and adult life.
08:30 - 16:30
SHANNON CALDERON, GORDON GATES & WALT GMELCH International School Leadership Program (USF/WSU)
10:00 - 10:30 MORNING TEA / COFFEE BREAK 12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH 14:30 - 15:00 AFTERNOON TEA / COFFEE BREAK
MS Meeting Room VII
PS Foyer of Function Room II and IV & MS Meeting Room VII PS Café Boleh Restaurant PS Foyer of Function Room II and IV & MS Meeting Room VII
PRECONFERENCES WEDNESDAY | MARCH 29, 2017 08:30 - 16:30
SUE HARVEY AP Calculus AB and BC (combined)
MS Meeting Room II
JOSEPH GREENAWALT AP Computer Science Principles
MS Meeting Room I
JAY ATWOOD PS Function Room X ETC Google Virtual Reality (VR) Academy - A full day of hands-on exploration of Virtual and Augmented Reality and discussion of its impact in EARCOS classroom environments. ETC attendees receive their VR kit: one book around VR and classroom management, an adventure backpack, one free voucher to take the Level 1 Certification Exam and a Cardboard Viewer. Attendees will join the VR Community on Google Plus and leave with not only hands-on knowledge of these tools but a formulated stance on how this connects to EARCOS curriculum and learners and are ready to be leaders in this movement back at their schools.
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EARCOS Teachers’ Conference 2017
