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Conference Session Previews
Kristina Smekens' Pesentations
25 Skills to Teach Young Writers
Target Audience: Teachers in grades K-2 & Teachers of ELLs
For those teachers who work with ELL or PK-2 students, the first priority in writing instruction should be idea development. Students need to learn ways to elaborate in pictorial writing, labeling, list writing, and early sentence writing. Kids who think in details and draw them will eventually think of details and write them. This session equips attendees with instructional strategies that target these developmental stages of writing.
9 Ways to Target Elaboration & Organization in Writing
Target Audience: Teachers in grades 3-12 session
To build writers, the emphasis needs to be on cultivating well-developed and organized ideas. Just telling students to add more details and use transition words isn’t enough. Rather, teach them ways to elaborate and then how to connect those ideas together. This session will identify essential mini-lessons that support intermediate (grades 3-5), middle (grades 6-8), and high school (grades 9-12) writers.
Dr. William Himmele has conducted over 250 keynote, featured, and professional presentations around the world. He has helped to design cognitively engaging learning experiences for conferences and institutes internationally inside and outside of the field of education. Dr. Himmele brings his combined experiences and discoveries to the table as he evaluates what the research says about how to deeply engage learners and provide readers with techniques for enhancing small and large group learning experiences. He is the co-author of the ASCD best-seller, Total Participation Techniques: Making every student an active learner. Dr. Himmele has served as an ESL teacher and a Speech Pathologist, a higher education administrator, an international consultant and a speaker on issues related to increasing student engagement and teaching English language learners in Fiji, China, Nepal, Venezuela, Chile, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, and Canada.
Dr. Himmele’ s presentation will provide easy-to-use alternatives to the “stand and deliver” approach to teaching that causes so many students to tune out—or even drop out—Total Participation Techniques presents dozens of ways to engage K–12 students in active learning and allow them to demonstrate the depth of their knowledge and understanding.