 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 in the 2009-2010 school year!
Aug 4 Connecticut World Affairs Council Workshop, Hartford, CN, presentation, Diane Midness
Oct 23 International Education Resource Conference, Chicago, Illinois - Presentation, Elena Turczeniuk
Oct 22-24 Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Chicago, Illinois - Presentation, Jennifer Geist
Nov 12 National Science Teachers Association Regional Conference, Miami, FL, workshops, Miami Country Day School, Rowena Gerber
Feb 24-26 North Carolina Social Studies Conference Conference, Greensboro, NC, Exhibit, Diane Midness
Mar 11-12 Tennessee Council for the Social Studies Conference Conference, Memphis, TN, Exhibit, Presentation, Chris Hockert
Apr 6-8 National Catholic Education Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Presentation, Miranda Galbraith
Jun 27-30 ISTE 2010, Denver, CO, Global Galleriers, Ed Gragert, Lisa Jobson, Diane Midness, Farah Kamal from Pakistan and Mali Bickley and Jim Carleton from Canada.
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