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Pre-Conference Saturday Workshops
The following workshops will be offered on Saturday, February 18, 2006. Workshops 1 and 2 are full day (note times), Workshops 3, 4, 5, 6 and 11 are morning, and Workshops 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 are afternoon. (Note: Workshops 11 and 12 have just been added; they are included in online registration forms but not on the registration forms mailed out. If you are interested in attending one of these workshops and have already sent your registration in, contact ATE headquarters at 703-620-3110 or send an email to dritchey@ate1.org.)
1. Assessment and Accountability in the NCATE System. Full-day, 9-4 ($75.00). Donna M. Gollnick, Senior Vice President, and Margie Crutchfield, Associate Vice President for Program Reviews (NCATE).
NCATE requires candidate assessment data at program and unit levels as evidence that standards are being met. Assessments that are providing the data for meeting the standards will be presented with strategies for engaging colleagues in the design of assessments and collection of data to improve programs and candidate performance.
2. Practical Tools for Student Teaching Supervisors and Mentors. Special Time-8:00-5:00 ($75.00). Donna M. Post, SIU-Carbondale.
The workshop focus: 1)Understanding/Responding to the biorhythms of student teaching; 2) port at preconference; 3) Data collection tools; 4) Data interpretation; 5) Meaningful data; 6) Post-observation conferencing; 7) Skills for cooperating and student teachers; 8) Grades/Final evaluations; 9) Feedback; 10) Marginal student teachers.
3. Assessing Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions for Success in Teaching: Working with Struggling Teacher Candidates. Morning (9-12) ($40.00). Ann Larson and Gina Schack, University of Louisville.
This interactive workshop addresses issues surrounding preservice teacher quality for candidates. NCATE, research-based tools, and case scenarios will provide structure for discussion.
4. Understanding Attitudes and Influencing Behavior: Working with Students, Parents, and Community. Morning (9-12) ($40.00). Brandt W. Pryor, Texas A&M, and Caroline Pryor, SIU-Edwardsville.
Participants will determine how to understand the attitudes and behaviors of constituencies and apply a model of attitude formation and behavioral decision-making to study and influence the beliefs that underlie the attitudes. Participants will receive a copy of the presenter's book.
5. Teach Me, I Dare You: Interactive Teaching Strategies. Morning (9-12) ($40.00). Cynthia J. Hutchinson, UCF and Lynda Delius, Sweetwater Episcopal School.
Participants will explore a variety of teaching strategies and analyze how each can be modified or incorporated into their teaching.
6. Technology and Observing Student teachers: Objective, Efficient, and Easy. Morning (9-12) ($40.00). John Tenney, Flowing Thought LLC.
Participants will use research-based tools, create their own tools, and build collaboration and student reflection through objective data gathering observations. Computers will be provided or participants may bring their own.
7. Helping Preservice Teachers Write a Philosophy Statement and Respond in Job Interviews. Afternoon (1-4) ($40.00). Caroline Pryor, SIU-Edwardsville.
A five-step program: 1) Philosophical approaches to teaching; 2) Personal approaches to teaching; 3) Philosophical approaches of classroom practices; 4) Writing a philosophy of education; 5) Using philosophy in job interview.
8. Academic Writing. Afternoon (1-4) ($40.00). Tom Buttery, Austin Peay State University, and Ken Henson, The Citadel.
This workshop focuses on manuscript preparation, research styles, effective correspondence with editors of journals, and time requirements.
9. Creating Portfolios-Institutional to Personalized. Afternoon (1-4) ($40.00). Shanti Gangadharan, ClientSolv Technologies.
This workshop focuses upon the creation of the following portfolios: Institutional; Team-based; Program; Departmental; Course-based: and Individual. Focus will be on the features and elements of each and attendees will receive feedback as they create each type of portfolio.
10. Hip-Hop and Storytelling. Afternoon (1-4) ($40.00). Melvin Peters, Eastern Michigan University.
This workshops focuses on the use of research data and dramatic presentation to demonstrate the use of Hip-Hop and storytelling in the classroom.
11. Explore the World of Digital Cameras and Digital Imaging
Morning (9-12) ($40.00). David McCarthy, Professor University of Minnesota - Duluth, and Kathryn Smith, Professor Minnesota State University - Bemidji
Explore the wide range of applications in which digital cameras can be used to enhance teaching and learning. Participants will learn to use digital cameras and transfer images to a computer; add music and captions to create an animated photo album; incorporate pictures into PowerPoint, Word and databases; insert images into business cards; create iron-on images for T-shirts; make calendars; and build slide shows that can be e-mailed. Bring your own digital camera, if you have one.
12. PowerPoint . . . A to Z Unleash the power of Microsoft PowerPoint
Afternoon (1-4) ($40.00). David McCarthy, Professor University of Minnesota - Duluth
Come and discover both the basic skills of this software tool along with the more powerful features that are a part of this powerful presentation tool. Discover additional PowerPoint templates on-line, how to incorporate sound files and movies. Further, learn how to create hyperlinks to web sites, other PowerPoint slides and to other files (ex. Spreadsheet). Finally learn how to custom animate various items within this software tool and how to turn it into a QuickTime movie that could be incorporated into one's webpage.
Special Workshop: Earth-Moon Mysteries
Afternoon, 1:00-4:00
Presented by NASA. Why are the Earth and Moon so different? Join us for presentations and hands-on activities for the classroom. We will investigate their formation and the processes that affect their surfaces, including volcanism, tectonics, impacts, and erosion. We will also examine rotation, revolution, lunar phases, and eclipses. This workshop includes a Native American storytelling component.
Audience: 4th-6th grade teachers
Georgia standards addressed:
S4E2. Students will model the position and motion of the earth in the solar system and will explain the role of relative position and motion in determining sequence of the phases of the moon.
S5E1. Students will identify surface features of the Earth caused by constructive and destructive processes.
S6E2. Students will understand the effects of the relative positions of the earth, moon and sun.
S6E5. Students will investigate the scientific view of how the earth’s surface is formed. (NOTE: There is no charge for this workshop, intended for classroom teachers. If you would like to attend, click here to send and email to ATE indicating your wish to attend.)
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