Reflect on
your own personal beliefs about learning and discover why it is
important for teachers to examine and re-examine the learning process.
Workshop
2—Intellectual Development
with Eleanor
Duckworth
Share ways
to elicit, accept, and build on students' ideas, and discover the
connection between student ideas and intellectual development.
Workshop
3—Conceptual Thinking
with Joseph
D. Novak
Consider how
students learn by assimilating new concepts into their already existing
frameworks.
Workshop
4—Inquiry
with Hubert
Dyasi
Explore why
inquiry learning is essential in mathematics and science, and develop
several strategies for inquiry-based teaching.
Workshop
5—Idea-Making
with Constance
Kamii
Investigate
how facilitating the construction of students' own mathematical
ideas has a positive effect on learning.
Workshop
6—The Mind's Intelligences
with Howard
Gardner
Review Gardner's "Theory of Multiple Intelligences" and
learn how to create learning environments that support the full
spectrum of students' intelligences and abilities.
Workshop
7—Design, Construction, and Technology
with Mitchel
Resnick
Examine the
effects of technology on learning when students design and develop
tools to support their own inquiries.
Workshop
8—The
International Picture
with William
H. Schmidt
Analyze differences
in curricula, textbooks, and teaching practices around the world,
and discuss how these differences affect student learning in mathematics
and science.
