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Individual fee per webinar: 10€
When signing in to the webinar on Zoom, participants will be invited to rename themselves with first and last name if their full name is not apparent on their account.
Individual fee per webinar: 10€
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11 January 2021 from 6-7:15 PM
Conceptual Learning and Teaching for Understanding
This interactive workshop will explore the big ideas of conceptual learning and teaching for understanding. We will unpack the idea of what concepts actually are and examples of how best to connect students to these abstract ideas. In addition, we will explore the reasons for teaching for understanding, and consider what evidence of understanding might look like in our classrooms.
The workshop will make use of some theoretical models and showcase examples from primary school students (6-11 year olds). However, the ideas of conceptual learning and teaching for understanding can apply to younger and older students.
Sean Walker is currently a Grade 2 teacher at the International School of Paris, France, having previously worked in London and Atlanta, Georgia. Sean has held positions of responsibility such as curriculum coordinator and deputy principal alongside being a classroom teacher for the past 25 years. Sean is a workshop leader for the PYP (Primary Years Programme) and is a certified Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Leader (trained by Dr Lynn Erickson and Dr Lois Lanning). Sean is passionate about inspiring students to think deeply about ideas and be curious about the world around them.
Take a look at @SeanPYPParis on Twitter to gain a sense of Sean’s approach.
ELSA France is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Planning Conceptually to Teach for Understanding with Sean Walker
Time: Jan 11, 2021 06:00-7:15 PM Paris
Add the session to your cart, make your payment then please return to this page to register in advance for this meeting using the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckce2gqDMqGtI4p4Tnc7kB-Fo1Se0Ur9Iv
Conceptual Learning and Teaching for Understanding
This interactive workshop will explore the big ideas of conceptual learning and teaching for understanding. We will unpack the idea of what concepts actually are and examples of how best to connect students to these abstract ideas. In addition, we will explore the reasons for teaching for understanding, and consider what evidence of understanding might look like in our classrooms.
The workshop will make use of some theoretical models and showcase examples from primary school students (6-11 year olds). However, the ideas of conceptual learning and teaching for understanding can apply to younger and older students.
Sean Walker is currently a Grade 2 teacher at the International School of Paris, France, having previously worked in London and Atlanta, Georgia. Sean has held positions of responsibility such as curriculum coordinator and deputy principal alongside being a classroom teacher for the past 25 years. Sean is a workshop leader for the PYP (Primary Years Programme) and is a certified Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Leader (trained by Dr Lynn Erickson and Dr Lois Lanning). Sean is passionate about inspiring students to think deeply about ideas and be curious about the world around them.
Take a look at @SeanPYPParis on Twitter to gain a sense of Sean’s approach.
ELSA France is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Planning Conceptually to Teach for Understanding with Sean Walker
Time: Jan 11, 2021 06:00-7:15 PM Paris
Add the session to your cart, make your payment then please return to this page to register in advance for this meeting using the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckce2gqDMqGtI4p4Tnc7kB-Fo1Se0Ur9Iv
19 January 2021 from 6-7:15 PM
Every Lesson Can Be A Vocabulary Lesson
Ruth Le Mounier - Ecole Jeanine Manuel Paris
Most of us are teaching in contexts where children arrive with highly varied language backgrounds. Supporting language learning--from understanding directions to reading content or literature--is a real challenge in large part due to variations in vocabulary level. In this session, we will explore how focusing on vocabulary can help students and teachers face and surpass these challenges. Teachers will leave the session with concrete, active ideas for successfully teaching vocabulary explicitly, but also ideas for scaffolding vocabulary throughout the day so that children feel supported when tackling non-vocabulary tasks. We will use our time to look at, adapt, and share techniques and materials for levelling the vocabulary playing field in the classroom throughout the school day. This session will show techniques that can apply to all ages, but are especially aimed at mid to upper primary and early middle school.
Ruth Le Mounier has taught in elementary education for fourteen years. She has a Master’s of Education degree from George Mason University, where her focus was on bilingualism, English language learning, and teaching in international contexts. Her current position as a fourth grade class teacher in a dual language program is allowing her to explore her teaching passions: differentiation and wellbeing for both students and teachers.
Add the session to your cart, make your payment then please return to this page to register in advance for this meeting using the link below:
:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvfuqgqzktGtPjLz90OMuRJLcTVrQYeXw_
Every Lesson Can Be A Vocabulary Lesson
Ruth Le Mounier - Ecole Jeanine Manuel Paris
Most of us are teaching in contexts where children arrive with highly varied language backgrounds. Supporting language learning--from understanding directions to reading content or literature--is a real challenge in large part due to variations in vocabulary level. In this session, we will explore how focusing on vocabulary can help students and teachers face and surpass these challenges. Teachers will leave the session with concrete, active ideas for successfully teaching vocabulary explicitly, but also ideas for scaffolding vocabulary throughout the day so that children feel supported when tackling non-vocabulary tasks. We will use our time to look at, adapt, and share techniques and materials for levelling the vocabulary playing field in the classroom throughout the school day. This session will show techniques that can apply to all ages, but are especially aimed at mid to upper primary and early middle school.
Ruth Le Mounier has taught in elementary education for fourteen years. She has a Master’s of Education degree from George Mason University, where her focus was on bilingualism, English language learning, and teaching in international contexts. Her current position as a fourth grade class teacher in a dual language program is allowing her to explore her teaching passions: differentiation and wellbeing for both students and teachers.
Add the session to your cart, make your payment then please return to this page to register in advance for this meeting using the link below:
:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvfuqgqzktGtPjLz90OMuRJLcTVrQYeXw_
25 January 2021 from 6-7:15 PM
How To Create A Human Library
Steph Corso & Assil Charara - International School of Paris
A human library is, in this instance, a collection of parent and staff volunteers who agree to share their knowledge and expertise with students.
We created a human library with breathing books at the International School of Paris and implemented it during the 2019-20 academic year.
The human library creators studied, using action research, the impact of calling upon authentic expertise to spark inquiry. The study focused on inquiry in the PYP Exhibition and the Grade 10 Personal Project.
This webinar will lead you through a case study that can help you build your own human library. Learn from our mistakes and success in order to start sparking deeper inquiry in your own learning environments.
Some questions we'll answer in the case study and during the webinar:
Add the session to your cart, make your payment then please return to this page to register in advance for this meeting using the link below::https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrde2qrjksGNTL6FgFrHtRuqqdYYLut-6p
How To Create A Human Library
Steph Corso & Assil Charara - International School of Paris
A human library is, in this instance, a collection of parent and staff volunteers who agree to share their knowledge and expertise with students.
We created a human library with breathing books at the International School of Paris and implemented it during the 2019-20 academic year.
The human library creators studied, using action research, the impact of calling upon authentic expertise to spark inquiry. The study focused on inquiry in the PYP Exhibition and the Grade 10 Personal Project.
This webinar will lead you through a case study that can help you build your own human library. Learn from our mistakes and success in order to start sparking deeper inquiry in your own learning environments.
Some questions we'll answer in the case study and during the webinar:
- How do we co-construct knowledge as a learning community? And how do we ensure all learners have access to this knowledge?
- How do we strengthen the link between home and school?
- How do we ensure a continuum of research skills across programmes?
Add the session to your cart, make your payment then please return to this page to register in advance for this meeting using the link below::https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrde2qrjksGNTL6FgFrHtRuqqdYYLut-6p
