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Wisconsin Association for Middle
Level Education
Annual Conference, Learning Labs, October 14, 2010
Team
Building FUNdamentals for Your Classroom (resources)
Shawn
Becker, Badger Middle School, West Bend
Team
building should be FUN. This
Learning Lab will present a wide variety of proven team-building
activities. You will be introduced
to activities you can use to improve communication, cooperation,
problem-solving, trust, and mutual respect in your classrooms or groups. You will directly experience the unique
interactive activities. You
deserve to have some FUN too, so be good to yourself and attend this
workshop. You will laugh, play,
and leave with activities you can use everyday.
Themes: Teaming, Advisory, Health and Wellness
Standards: T2, 5, 10, A1, P5
Learning
in the 21st Century (resources)
Nick White,
The Professional Group
Promethean
Interactive whiteboards bring images and sounds front and center to change the
way students see education.
Dynamic software creates an atmosphere of inspiration and learning by
bringing the interactive classroom to life. Intelligent tools keep students active, engaged, and on
task. Teachers can share insights,
knowledge, and lessons on Promethean Planet – the world’s largest online
teacher community.
Themes: Technology, Multi-media, Curriculum,
Differentiated Instruction
Standards: T4, 6, P2
Don’t
Slow Me Down with That Calculator (resources)
Cliff
Petrak, Brother Rice HS, Chicago, IL
Learn to
master a multitude of little-known, super-efficient computational shortcuts and
strategies involving addition, subtraction, fractions, squaring, and
multiplication. Don’t allow those “slow”
calculators or even those slow, old-fashioned algorithm methods hold you or
your students back from far more speedy results. It’s time we realize just how slow these methods are and how
we can leave these relics in the dust with the use of speed/mental math
techniques.
Themes: Technology, Curriculum,
Differentiated Instruction, Multi-Media
Standards: T4,
6, P2
| Building
a Writing Community (resources)
Norah Olig
and Aileen Koenigs, New Holstein Middle School
This
interactive Learning Lab is designed for teachers to understand the process of
developing a program to teach the craft of writing. During the 2008-09 school year, New Holstein Middle School
staff implemented a research-based writing initiative to engage students and
improve their writing skills. Participants will examine current practice in
their own districts and will leave with the tools needed to help with students become
better writers.
Themes: Literacy, Language Arts, Assessment,
Differentiation
Standards: T4, T7, A2, P2
Social
Injustice: History/English
Interactive Movie Unit
John Schad,
Kohler Middle School
Would you
like to heighten your students’ awareness of past social injustices that have
occurred? Would you like to create
a realization that there are still many injustices going on today? This interdisciplinary unit will take a
look at what lasting results have occurred because of historical and current
events, and what actions have or have not been taken in response to them. Your students will examine how each of
us makes choices throughout our daily lives and how we each have an individual
responsibility to be mindful of the way these choices affect others. Topics covered include: Trail of Tears, Japanese-American
Internment Camps, Holocaust, slavery, stereotyping, and more.
Themes: Curriculum, Early Adolescent
Development, Literacy, Language Arts
Standards: T1, 4, 5, A6, P2, 3
What’s
the 411 on DIL?
Mike
Scoville, Lauren Mittermann, and Sueann Moroney,, Gibraltar School, Fish Creek
Differentiated
Instruction through Co-Teaching helped Gibraltar Area Schools focus on closing
the achievement gap in a rather unique way. We are a small, rural school district in northern Door
County, Wisconsin. One physical
facility houses Gibraltar Elementary School (PK-5), Gibraltar Middle School (6-8),
and Gibraltar High School (9-12) with 600 students. Learn how a committed group of teachers collaboratively
created a one-of-a-kind differentiated program exclusively tailored to meet the
needs of their middle school students.
Come experience our hands-on program as we share our journey. You are invited to take a seat in our
classroom!
Themes: Curriculum, Early Adolescent
Development, Differentiation
Standards: T3, 8, A7, P2, 5
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