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Session B-3: Operation Paperclip And The Rise Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Diane Haleas, Matthew Miller Mar 2016

Session B-3: Operation Paperclip And The Rise Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Diane Haleas, Matthew Miller

Professional Learning Day

On November 26, 1944 Dutch-American particle physicist Samual Goudsmit and his fellow members of the secret Operation Alsos carefully scoured the private papers of Nazi scientists, uncovering startling information on the extent of Nazi biological weapons experiments. Operation Alsos would give rise to Operation Paperclip – the U.S. government’s effort to bring over 1,600 German and Nazi scientists, doctors, engineers, and technologists to the United States. Also recruited were Nazi war criminals whose scientific prowess seemed to override the U.S. government’s moral qualms. The period from November, 1944 – May, 1945 changed the world as the U.S. government began to …

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Session B-4: Who Freed The Slaves? Emancipation And The Sources Of Social Change, David Heineman Mar 2016

Session B-4: Who Freed The Slaves? Emancipation And The Sources Of Social Change, David Heineman

Professional Learning Day

Abraham Lincoln argued that all knew slavery was “somehow the cause of the war”. And every student knows that one of the most significant outcomes of the Civil War was the abolition of slavery. But how did this happen? Who actually freed the slaves? In this session, we’ll model a lesson that teachers can use, rooted in historical thinking and primary sources that helps students engage in authentic historical inquiry about a turning point in our nation’s past.

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Session B-2: Why World War I? Being Intelligent About The Causes, Lee Eysturlid Mar 2016

Session B-2: Why World War I? Being Intelligent About The Causes, Lee Eysturlid

Professional Learning Day

This presentation will guide attendees through the complicated and often misrepresented ideas that have formed around understanding why it is that World War I started the way that it did. The focus will be mostly on the military and technological elements. Participants will be ready to teach the topic when they leave, and it suits US and World History teachers (and middle school).

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Session B-1: Messing With The “Rise Of The West”, John Horton Mar 2016

Session B-1: Messing With The “Rise Of The West”, John Horton

Professional Learning Day

This session will present strategies and lesson plans for World History teachers who want their students to learn how to interrogate the idea that modern European hegemony began in 1492. Was the Renaissance the Renaissance? Does modernity or early modernity have origins in Song China, Abbasid Baghdad, and Mongolian Asia? Does the era of western hegemony begin with the Opium Wars and the repression of the Sepoy Rebellion? We will examine these and other questions in a session that will question some of the basic assumptions about we teach world or global history courses.

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Session A-4: It’S A Wrap, Lindsey Herlehy, David Hernandez Mar 2016

Session A-4: It’S A Wrap, Lindsey Herlehy, David Hernandez

Professional Learning Day

Investigate the concepts of surface area, measurement, ratio and proportion through a visual and kinesthetic mathematical investigation. Participants will be presented with the challenge of calculating how many sheets of toilet paper it would take to wrap one of their group members using a limited selection of tools. This session will provide teachers with a wonderful hands-on, minds-on activity that could easily be implemented into any classroom!

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Session A-3: The Box Problem – An Introduction, Ruth Dover Mar 2016

Session A-3: The Box Problem – An Introduction, Ruth Dover

Professional Learning Day

Create some simple boxes with paper and scissors. Then we'll measure the height, area of the base, and the volume. Find formulas, find regressions, and graph the functions. It's a simple activity to engage students and combine many different aspects of mathematics.

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Session A-1: Teaching Fields In Introductory Physics, Peter Dong Mar 2016

Session A-1: Teaching Fields In Introductory Physics, Peter Dong

Professional Learning Day

The concept of a field is integral to all areas of contemporary physics - perhaps as fundamental a concept as energy. Fields are mentioned in several NGSS standards and essential to understand physics at an advanced level. However, fields are not difficult and can be taught in an introductory course with minimal math. Students who understand the basic concept early should have less difficulty understanding electric and magnetic fields in later classes. I will discuss our implementation of a fields unit in our introductory physics course and give examples of simple labs and exercises to help students understand this basic …

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Session C-4: Design Your School’S New Innovation Space, Britta W. Mckenna, Lawrence Bergie Mar 2016

Session C-4: Design Your School’S New Innovation Space, Britta W. Mckenna, Lawrence Bergie

Professional Learning Day

Schools are rethinking learning spaces, turning outdated computer labs and tired libraries into vibrant innovation spaces. Maker spaces, collaboration areas and technology hubs that connect applied learning to the real world are emerging. See plans for IMSA's new innovation hub, called IN2, (opening fall 2016) learn how it was designed, and tour IN1 (the prototype of IN2) in a former computer lab. Learners are guided through a design thinking process to reimagine a current space at your school. Participants should come with photos of their potential space/s and room dimensions ready to create a prototype of their new space.

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Session C-5: Biotech Basics, Elizabeth Martinez, Emily Hood Ferrin Mar 2016

Session C-5: Biotech Basics, Elizabeth Martinez, Emily Hood Ferrin

Professional Learning Day

The field of biotechnology is rapidly expanding. What is biotech? What are the applications? How is biotech studied? These topics will be explored as participants engage in hands-on lessons developed at an appropriate level for middle school students. Activities may be used to introduce students to the world of biotech.

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Session C-3: Engineering With Reinforced Concrete, Patrick Young Mar 2016

Session C-3: Engineering With Reinforced Concrete, Patrick Young

Professional Learning Day

Does your school need a shelter? Whether your students are concerned about tornadoes, sharknadoes, or a zombie apocalypse, reinforced concrete is the answer! Learn about the history and chemistry of concrete. Make your own. Design a test to evaluate the strength of your concrete, based on anticipated threat (the natural or unnatural disaster of your choice). Conduct that test using small, preformed slabs. Making and breaking concrete is easy and fun, but wear your play-clothes. You will get dirty.

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Session C-2: “It Is Easy As Pi”, Christine L. Moskalik, Carmela Jones Mar 2016

Session C-2: “It Is Easy As Pi”, Christine L. Moskalik, Carmela Jones

Professional Learning Day

Participants will work together using pi to try to open an ancient chest filled with treasure!! The chest is protected by a passcode that can only be determined through the activities within the lesson. Enjoy a progressive exposure to pi through this two-part lesson (total 110 minutes) offering a FUN storyline within the context of geometry and circles. With "pi-day" right around the corner, this hands-on, fun, inquiry-based lesson is sure to be a hit with your budding mathematicians.

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Session C-1: Ecosystem Disruption: Using Lab And Real-World Examples To Bring Changes In Earth’S Ecosystems To Life, Crystal Randall, Sarah O'Leary-Driscoll, Sowmya Anjur, Don Dosch Mar 2016

Session C-1: Ecosystem Disruption: Using Lab And Real-World Examples To Bring Changes In Earth’S Ecosystems To Life, Crystal Randall, Sarah O'Leary-Driscoll, Sowmya Anjur, Don Dosch

Professional Learning Day

The magnitude of the changes occurring in Earth’s ecosystems seems difficult to tackle in the classroom and lab. Here we explore ways to demonstrate the changes in the Earth’s water and carbon cycles in the lab and bring them to life in real-world ecosystems in the classroom.

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Teaching And Learning Insights Mar 2016

Teaching And Learning Insights

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

No abstract provided.

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From The Student Perspective: Reflections On Seven Core Principles Of Facilitating Faculty-Student Partnerships Within An Educational Initiative, Margaret Powers Mar 2016

From The Student Perspective: Reflections On Seven Core Principles Of Facilitating Faculty-Student Partnerships Within An Educational Initiative, Margaret Powers

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Let’S Scrum: How Scrum Methodology Encourages Students To View Themselves As Collaborators, Rebecca Pope-Ruark, Michelle Eichel, Sarah Talbott, Kasey Thornton Mar 2016

Let’S Scrum: How Scrum Methodology Encourages Students To View Themselves As Collaborators, Rebecca Pope-Ruark, Michelle Eichel, Sarah Talbott, Kasey Thornton

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Radical Equality: A Dialogue On Building A Partnership – And A Program – Through A Cross-Campus Collaboration, Meredith Goldsmith, Nicole Gervasio Mar 2016

Radical Equality: A Dialogue On Building A Partnership – And A Program – Through A Cross-Campus Collaboration, Meredith Goldsmith, Nicole Gervasio

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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A Semester In The Life: Reflections Of A Faculty Member, Theresa Tensuan Mar 2016

A Semester In The Life: Reflections Of A Faculty Member, Theresa Tensuan

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Introduction: Teaching And Learning Relationships, Alison Cook-Sather, Anna Chiles Mar 2016

Introduction: Teaching And Learning Relationships, Alison Cook-Sather, Anna Chiles

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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From The Advisory Board: The Heart And Art Of Collegial Conversations, Carmen Werder, Shanyese Trujillo Mar 2016

From The Advisory Board: The Heart And Art Of Collegial Conversations, Carmen Werder, Shanyese Trujillo

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Session A-1: The New Illinois Civics Curriculum: Perils And Pitfalls, Claiborne A. Skinner Jr., Eric Smith Mar 2016

Session A-1: The New Illinois Civics Curriculum: Perils And Pitfalls, Claiborne A. Skinner Jr., Eric Smith

Professional Learning Day

The Illinois Legislature will require all Illinois students to complete one semester in civics in order graduate beginning with students entering next academic year. IMSA adopted a combined one-semester civics/American history curriculum this year that can serve as a critical study in how to achieve the goals the state hopes to achieve. Rather than wrestle with the issue of American History vs. American Government curriculum, we are attempting to present a History of American Government, exploring the origins of our political institutions beginning in the Dark Ages and how these have evolved to meet the needs of the times. We …

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Session A-2: She Fought For The Fatherland: Gender, War And Memory In The Soviet Union Subject: History, Kitty Lam Mar 2016

Session A-2: She Fought For The Fatherland: Gender, War And Memory In The Soviet Union Subject: History, Kitty Lam

Professional Learning Day

John Keegan once wrote, “Warfare is…the one human activity…from which women have always and everywhere stood apart. Women…do not fight…and they never in any military sense, fight men” (John Keegan, A History of Warfare, 76). Yet in the Second World War, an estimated 120,000 Soviet women served in combat roles. This presentation uses photographs of women in combat and images of Soviet war monuments and to help students reconsider wartime division of gender roles. It also prompts students to examine how women’s contributions to war were commemorated in a country that supposedly championed gender equality.

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Assessing Sense Of Place And Geo-Literacy Indicators As Learning Outcomes Of An International Teacher Professional Development Program, Nancee Hunter Mar 2016

Assessing Sense Of Place And Geo-Literacy Indicators As Learning Outcomes Of An International Teacher Professional Development Program, Nancee Hunter

Dissertations and Theses

This research explores the multifaceted benefits that accrue from learning within an international, experiential context. It uses a qualitative, case study approach employing pre and post surveys, in-situ observations, and semi-structured photo-elicitation interviews to analyze the Center for Geography Education in Oregon’s (C-GEO) 2013 Overseas Teacher Institute--a professional development program that took 11 teachers to Russia, Mongolia, and China for a total of 17 days (plus two additional travel days) to learn about the cultural and physical geography of each place. The focus of the research is two-fold and examines processes involved in gaining, synthesizing and applying 1) a sense …

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Teaching And Learning Insights Mar 2016

Teaching And Learning Insights

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

No abstract provided.

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Disrupting Traditional Student-Faculty Roles, 140 Characters At A Time, Howard Glasser, Maggie Powers Mar 2016

Disrupting Traditional Student-Faculty Roles, 140 Characters At A Time, Howard Glasser, Maggie Powers

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Meditations On A "Taut But Happy" Class, Bret Mulligan Mar 2016

Meditations On A "Taut But Happy" Class, Bret Mulligan

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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A Semester In The Life: Reflections Of A Faculty Member, Theresa Tensuan Mar 2016

A Semester In The Life: Reflections Of A Faculty Member, Theresa Tensuan

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

No abstract provided.

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Introduction: Enacting A Pedagogy Of Mutual Engagement, Alison Cook-Sather, Sarah Brown Mar 2016

Introduction: Enacting A Pedagogy Of Mutual Engagement, Alison Cook-Sather, Sarah Brown

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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From The Advisory Board: Monet Moments And The Necessity Of Productive Disruption, Peter Felten Mar 2016

From The Advisory Board: Monet Moments And The Necessity Of Productive Disruption, Peter Felten

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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The Effect Of New Literacies And Technology On Student Engagement And Transforming The Literacy Block, Allison M. Schlupp Mar 2016

The Effect Of New Literacies And Technology On Student Engagement And Transforming The Literacy Block, Allison M. Schlupp

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this investigation was to investigate, track, and measure the effect of technology and new literacies on student engagement and the language arts block. Data was kept over a four-week period and tracked through student interviews, informal observations, and student work samples. Throughout the study, students showed growth in their ability to interact with technology and one another through the repeated use of technology and the use of new literacies. Data also showed increased student engagement through the independent work time of the literacy block.

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Aged 539 Teacher Internship Program Highland Ffa, Lindsay Rebecca Walsh Devaurs Mar 2016

Aged 539 Teacher Internship Program Highland Ffa, Lindsay Rebecca Walsh Devaurs

Agricultural Education: Graduate Internship Reports

This internship and project report includes validation documents required in meeting the quality criteria for secondary-level programs of instruction in agriculture. The documents are concurrently used for the Agriculture Incentive Grant review process at Highland High School conducted by representatives of the California Department of Education. The supporting material includes information to receive state and local funding, outline the goals and objectives of the program, along with an overview of Highland High School, the agriculture program and the community.

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