 Hands-on, face-to-face workshops are led by iEARN Trainers with years of experience, who work with participants to design workshops that meet their particular needs and interests. [Click HERE to download a .pdf describing iEARN Professional Development offerings]
The primary focus of any iEARN workshop is on
- Developing project-based curricula that integrate national educational standards and integrate 21st century learning skills;
- Addressing how specific technology-based project work meets the curriculum and classroom teaching needs of each participating member;
- Building the skills needed to engage in collaborative activities, such as peer review, team-building, joining regional and international learning communities, computer access scheduling;
- Identifying and introducing connective technologies that are appropriate for the technology situation of the participating educators, such as secure WWW-based forums, global exchanges of art, photographs and other graphic images, videoconferencing, and chatting in a safe environment;
- Creating specific international links with individual educators in other countries with whom to work on age-appropriate online collaborative projects; and
- Exploring after school and student club options for online project-based learning
.An iEARN workshop will enable to participants return to their schools with
- skills and resources to begin and initiate a collaborative online projects,
- print and cd-rom resources,
- a local and international support network,
- on-going technical and staff development assistance from iEARN staff, and
- an online community of colleagues worldwide
Follow-up "Master Teacher" Seminars
delve deeply into curriculum integration and development, giving
participants ?Resource Toolkits? to use to draw upon their experience
and knowledge, and feed the collective learning back to the larger
community and local community. The Seminars combine print materials, as
well as website and CD-ROM resources. Seminar participants align
project work with local and national educational standards.
Participants are given tools to access student learning in the context
of collaborative project work. This may include the Teaching for
Understanding Model developed out of the Education with New Technologies (ENT) Center at
Harvard or the Buck
Institute for Education Guide to Standards-Focused Project Based
Learning.
For more information about scheduling an iEARN workshop, please
contact us at: phone: 212-870-2693 or by e-mail workshop@us.iearn.org
Professional Development Resources
Workshop web pages:
For other examples of past iEARN face-to-face workshops, click here.
Look for iEARN staff and presenters at the following conferences!
Oct 17-19 Georgia Council for the Social Studies, Athens, GA - Presentation,
Freda Goodman
Oct 27 World Peace Forum, New York, NY - Presentation,
Ed Gragert
Nov 15-16 Florida Council for Independent Schools, Miami, FL- Presentation, Workshop
Diane Midness, Rowena Gerber
Nov 17 Learning Language with Global Peers, University of Washington, Seattle, WA- Workshop,
Jennifer Geist
Dec 2 Workshops, Round Table, Exhibit
Lisa Jobson, Anindita Dutta Roy, Freda Goodman
Feb 5 Texas Computer Education Association Convention, Austen, TX - Presentation
Patty Praytor
Feb 7-9 International School Conference on International Youth Exchange, Indianapolis, IN-
Panel,
Ed Gragert
Mar 9 Tennesee Geographic Assoication Conference, Knoxville, TN - Presentation,
Chris Hockert
Apr 28- Magnet Schools of America Conference, Chattanooga,TN - Presentation,
May 1 Lisa Cobb
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