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ORLANDO PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Workshops are listed on the registration form and the online registration page in the following order. Mark the workshops you wish to attend.
Saturday Workshops at 2011 Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) Annual Meeting
Saturday, February 12, 2011
All-Day Workshops ($75)
1. Kagan Structures for Cooperative Learning & Active Engagement
Structures for Success
•Learn cutting-edge teaching structures to create classroom success now and forever
• Save valuable time and energy with easy-to-use structures that make lesson planning a snap
• Release the power of true cooperative learning
• Engage all your students throughout each lesson with NEW cooperative learning
Manage Your Class for Success
• Take home tried-and-true management tips that make teaching easier and more effective
• Arrange your classroom for success
• Keep students on task, and effectively manage disruptions with engaging structures
• Lessen your load, make teaching easier
Create a Caring, Cooperative Class
• Create a positive learning environment through fun and easy class-building activities
• Improve your class atmosphere and your students' liking for class and school
• Boost your students' self-esteem
• Establish a learning environment where everyone wants to be—including you
Solve Common Problems
• Learn why group work doesn’t work
• Use PIES to create powerful learning
• Create success for all by eliminating ‘hitchhiking’
• Increase learning and decrease discipline problems in your class
• Learn how to intrinsically motivate your students to succeed without resorting to group grades
Form Effective Teams
• Form successful teams in 4 easy steps
• Improve student relations and classroom culture with cooperative teams
• Overcome potential resistance with teambuilding
• Take home sure-fire tips to make teams click
•Make working together fun and successful
Improve Test Scores
• Boost your students’ test scores
• Use simple, easy-to-learn structures in your class to create active involvement like never before
• Take advantage of the power of cooperative learning
• Make learning stick with powerful review structures
• Reach your hard-to-reach students
• See results!
All Participants Receive
• Kagan Cooperative Learning Book
• Kagan Cooperative Learning Course Materials
2. The Regal Swan® Living Science Program at Orange Lake Resort Orlando
Swan veterinary medical, research and educational staff will be on site to provide a unique learning experience to utilize research based knowledge for classroom education. Workshop participants will:
• Participate in active veterinary medical exams of swans.
• Learn how to teach the practical aspects of science, math and reading based upon swan research.
• Receive professional development
• Work with the Dean of Alligator Wrestling, Tim Williams from Gatorland, Florida. Tim has been featured on David Letterman with Jack Hannah, National Geographic, CNN, FOX News, BBC and many other wildlife related news and featured programs. Tim also serves as The Regal Swan Foundation’s Predator Specialist.
• Receiveworkshop materials ready for the immediate use in the classroom setting (K-Adult).
• Receive certificate of participation
• Science, math and reading activity content will include DNA sequencing, electron microscopy, micro-chipping, parasitology, predation, hematology and veterinary medicine.
Registration includes workshop materials, DVD, certificate of participation, breakfast, lunch and transportation to and from Caribe Royale Hotel.
All participants will handle swans and alligators and should be appropriately dressed for active participation (jeans, etc., t-shirts, tennis shoes). Participants may be asked to walk short distances. Space is limited to the first 60 participants. Deadline for registration for this Pre-Conference Workshop is January 15, 2011.
3. Assessment and Accountability in the NCATE System
Participants will learn techniques for integrating assessment and accountability that will meet the needs of institutions seeking NCATE Accreditation.
Margie Crutchfield, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
Half-Day Workshop ($40)
4. Developing Digital Literacy Skills for 21st Century Classrooms Using a Variety of Web 2.0 Tools
Come and explore the concept of Web 2.0 and the great tools that are provided for teachers and their 21st century classrooms. Participants will explore the concept of TPaCK (Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge) as a framework for the preparation of teacher education candidates.
Further, workshop participants will explore a variety of free Web 2.0 tools, set up their free accounts and collaborate on line with other workshop participants. Specific tools that will be addressed include a new computational knowledge engine/search tools caled Wolfram Alpha, Picnik - a tool to edit digital images, Google Docs forms ffor creating on-line tests and research surveys, SeaMonkey for creating websites, wikis, Google Docs spreadsheets, documents and presentations, social-bookmarking and Facebook for social networking.
David McCarthy, University of Minnesota-Duluth
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