Please note the NEW LOCATION for the 2007 ETEA Convention, October 25-26, 2007
11237 Kingston Pike
Knoxville, TN 37922
Directions
to Farragut High School (Knox County, Tennessee):
From I-40 Westbound, take
the Campbell Station Road exit (Exit # 373) and turn left onto Campbell
Station Road. Go approximately 1.5 miles to the intersection with
Kingston Pike and turn left onto Kingston Pike. At the second
traffic light, turn left onto West End Avenue. At the four-way stop,
turn left. This will lead you to a circle drive in front of the
school.
From
I-40 Eastbound, take
the Campbell Station Road exit (Exit # 373) and turn right onto
Campbell Station Road. Then follow the same directions as
listed above.
ETEA website: www.discoveret.org/etea
Thursday, October 25, 2007
3:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Over 50 exhibitors will be conducting demonstrations, exhibiting new texts, and showcasing new software and hardware. Come and learn more about exciting, new materials you can use in your classroom.
4:30pm – 5:45 pm
Science in Tennessee
(Presiding:
Gale Stanley, Representative for Tennessee Science Teachers’
Organizations)
Learn about the science teacher organizations in Tennessee.
These organizations provide professional development for teachers, as
well as conferences and materials to help teach the Tennessee science
standards. Many of these experiences and materials are free,
and some even provide
stipends. Representatives from Tennessee Science Teachers
Association (TSTA), Tennessee Environmental Education Association
(TEEA), TEST, TWRA, and Tennessee Educators of Aquatic and Marine
Sciences (TEAMS) will be present to discuss opportunities they provide.
Find out how Biology in a Box, Project Learning Tree, Project Wild, and
Project WET can assist you with free materials for use in your
standards-based classroom. Door prizes will be
awarded. Register to win a DVD player for your
classroom.
4:45pm – 5:45pm
Volunteer Voices: The Growth of Democracy in Tennessee
(Presenter: Nancy Kemp)
In conjunction with the East Tennessee Historical Society, UT, state-wide libraries, archives, and museums, the product of this project is a website allowing free online access to primary sources for Tennessee Social studies and History teachers. Volunteer Voices is a statewide digitization program that provides online access to sources that document Tennessee’s rich history and culture. This program involves the collaborative efforts of Tennessee archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and schools. The initial Volunteer Voices digitization project, “The Growth of Democracy in Tennessee,” will build a collection of 10,000 historically significant photographs, letters, artifacts, and other items from across the state. This project is funded by a three-year grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
4:45pm – 5:45pm
RETIREMENT ISSUES/WORKSHOP ON TCRS RETIREMENT
(Presenter: Mark L. Wakefield, TCRS-Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System)
Come to this session and learn about issues connected to your retirement! Guidance for employees anticipating retirement will be provided, and topics covered will include
requirements for retirement, payment plans available, eligibility for continuation of medical insurance, and the Medicare supplement. Learn how you can become
involved in developing plans for increasing your retirement benefits.
4:55pm – 5:55pm FEATURED KEYNOTE SPEAKER
ENERGIZE YOUR
CLASSROOM WITH THE
LITERACY CONNECTION
(Presenter:
Kim Sullivan;
It is of extreme importance to make a literacy connection
with
students of all ages. Students must be introduced to amazing
novels such as
Love, Ruby Lavender, or Dancing in Cadillac Light
in order to connect with various authors and characters. As a
connection is established,
students will be begging to read additional stories written by the same
author. In addition, students will be active participants in
activities
that correspond with the novel studies. Energize any classroom or
novel study with activities that move students past simple
comprehension and
into the much sought-after higher order skills. Participants will
receive a student generated reading list, a packet to implement a family
history project, and materials to establish and continue student-led
conferences.
5:00pm – 5:50pm
METACOGNITIVE
(Presenter: Jama Mosher, King’s Academy)
Come to this session and learn about some new strategies you can use to make your high school students more proficient readers! These strategies include: schema, sensory images, questions, inferences, determining importance, synthesizing, and monitoring for comprehension/fix-up strategies. Jama Mosher will introduce you to some hands-on, real world applications that focus on how high school teachers do NOT need to forsake content to teach reading. She will give you some great ideas on how to explicitly teach your students to read and think about the text that you must assign to cover your content and to teach your students strategies that will help them most in the subject area you teach.
Friday, October 26, 2007
8:30am – 2:00pm Special Workshop
Literacy Connections: Pre-K and Early Childhood: The ABCs of Learning Strategies Pre-registration suggested. On-site spaces available.
(Keynote Speaker: Wendy Horne, Early Childhood Consultant)
The Pre-K and Early Childhood workshop is designed for enthusiastic advocates for student-centered classrooms that focus on the development of literacy skills. This workshop will provide participants with the “Best of the Best” teaching/learning strategies that can be implemented in early childhood programs. The goal of this session is to encourage and enhance characteristics which lead to improved teaching and learning within the entire early childhood community. Suggestions and hands-on activities will be presented by practicing classroom teachers who work with early literacy. The presenters’ hands-on activities will provide you with great ideas you can use in your own classroom.
8:30am – l:00pm
Over 50 exhibitors will be conducting demonstrations, exhibiting new texts, and showcasing new software and hardware. Come chat with exhibitors and learn more about exciting, new materials you can use in your classroom.
8:30am – 9:30 am
VENDOR/EXHIBITOR FAIR COFFEE BREAK
(Sponsored by Exhibitors and ETEA)
Happy 104th Birthday to ETEA! Come to the coffee break and visit the exhibits. Visit with your colleagues, have coffee, and visit the vendors and exhibitors.
8:30 am – 9:25 am
Agecroft Manor
(Presenter:
Dr. David Peterson, Morehead State University)
We will visit a Tudor manor house to
see and hear how the British landed gentry lived. Using color slides we
will see Agecroft Manor and marvel at the lifestyle practiced over
hundreds of years. We will also hear how this treasure ended up in
Richmond, Virginia where it stands today. Focus will be on the
lifestyle afforded and why some chose to make the trip to America to
settle the new British colonies.
8:30am – 9:25am
Volunteer Voices: The Growth of Democracy in Tennessee
(Presenter: Nancy Kemp)
In conjunction with the East Tennessee Historical Society, UT, state-wide libraries, archives, and museums, the product of this project is a website allowing free online access to primary sources for Tennessee Social studies and History teachers. Volunteer Voices is a statewide digitization program that provides online access to sources that document Tennessee’s rich history and culture. This program involves the collaborative efforts of Tennessee archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and schools. The initial Volunteer Voices digitization project, “The Growth of Democracy in Tennessee,” will build a collection of 10,000 historically significant photographs, letters, artifacts, and other items from across the state. This project is funded by a three-year grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
8:30am - 9:20am
From Illness to Wellness: Understanding Self-Injury and Emotional Health
(Presenter: Catherine Zook-Bell, Ph.D.)
9:30am - 10:20am
From Illness to Wellness: Partnering with Families of Children with Mental Health Needs
(Presenter: Wendy Besmann, B.A.)
9:30am - 10:25am
“Elementary Math Strategies That Work: Tried and True Hands-On Activities”
Are you looking for engaging and motivating ways to introduce math strategies which increase student achievement in the elementary mathematics curriculum? Do you need high interest math strategies to serve as powerful models for building motivation in students who struggle? Come to this session and get creative ideas that can be used in group and independent settings. Join us for a hands-on, interactive workshop showcasing some of the most successful, easy, inexpensive and fun ways to get your elementary students excited about learning math.
9:30am – 10:25 am
Science in Tennessee
(Presiding:
Gale Stanley, Representative for Tennessee Science Teachers’
Organizations)
Learn about the science teacher organizations in Tennessee.
These organizations provide professional development for teachers, as
well as conferences and materials to help teach the Tennessee science
standards. Many of these experiences and materials are free, and some
even provide stipends. Representatives from Tennessee Science Teachers
Association (TSTA), Tennessee Environmental Education Association
(TEEA), TEST, TWRA, and Tennessee Educators of Aquatic and Marine
Sciences (TEAMS) will be present to discuss opportunities they provide.
Find out how Biology in a Box, Project Learning Tree, Project Wild, and
Project WET can assist you with free materials for use in your
standards-based classroom. Door prizes will be
awarded. Register to win a DVD player for your
classroom.
9:30 am – 10:25 am
Henricus
(Presenter: Dr. David Peterson, Morehead State University)
Come learn about the second successful British settlement in what would
become America. Using slides we will see this settlement, its
fortifications, dwellings, etc. We will learn about the first hospital,
first use of private land ownership, and see how these and other ideas
would guarantee more people would come to the New World. Teaching
materials will be reviewed.
9:30am – 10:25am
Using the
(Presenter:
Lisa Oakley)
9:30am – 10:25am
Web 2.0: Emerging Technology You
Can Use in Your Class
Today!
(Presenter: Audrey J. Williams)
10:30am - 11:20am
From Illness to Wellness: Making the Most of
Your Self-Care Kit
(Presenter: Margaret Leslie, M.S., CHTP/I, LMT)
10:30 am – 11:30 am
My
Old Kentucky Home "Federal Hill"
(Presenter: Dr. David
Peterson, Morehead State University)
We will visit the home of John Rowan, friend of Stephen Foster, whose home inspired the song “My Old Kentucky Home.” We will also listen to other Foster hits and discuss using music as a tool for teaching History. Handouts provided.
10:30 am – 11:30 am
Project CENTS, Conservation Education Now for Tennessee Students
(Presenter: Tami Coleman Coordinator,
Project CENTS, TN State Dept. of Ed.)
Project CENTS, Conservation Education
Now for Tennessee Students is
a partnership between the Tennessee Department of Environment and
Conservation and the Tennessee Department of Education.
Experience a sample lesson and find out about free
environmental education workshops for educators in Project Learning
Tree, Project WILD and Project WET.
10:30am – 11:30am
RETIREMENT ISSUES/WORKSHOP ON TCRS RETIREMENT
(Presenter: TCRS-Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System)
Come to this session and learn about issues connected to your retirement! Guidance for employees anticipating retirement will be provided, and topics covered will include requirements for retirement, payment plans available, eligibility for continuation of medical insurance, and the Medicare supplement. Learn how you can become
involved in developing plans for increasing your retirement benefits.
10:30am – 11:30am
Upper-Level
Elementary
& Middle School Math Strategies That Work: Tried and True Hands-On
Activities
(Presenter:
Mary Barto;
Are you looking for engaging and motivating ways to introduce math strategies which increase student achievement in the upper elementary and middle school mathematics curriculum? Do you need high interest math strategies to serve as powerful models for building motivation in students who struggle? Come to this session and get creative ideas that can be used in group and independent settings. Join us for a hands-on, interactive workshop showcasing some of the most successful, easy, inexpensive and fun ways to get your upper elementary and middle school students excited about learning math.
10:30am –
11:30am
METACOGNITIVE
(Presenter: Jama Mosher, King’s Academy)
Come to this session and learn about some new strategies you can use to make your high school students more proficient readers! These strategies include: schema, sensory images, questions, inferences, determining importance, synthesizing, and monitoring for comprehension/fix-up strategies. Jama Mosher will introduce you to some hands-on, real world applications that focus on how high school teachers do NOT need to forsake content to teach reading. She will give you some great ideas on how to explicitly teach your students to read and think about the text that you must assign to cover your content and to teach your students strategies that will help them most in the subject area you teach.
11:30am – 12:30am FEATURED KEYNOTE SPEAKER (Light Refreshments Served)
ENERGIZE YOUR
CLASSROOM WITH THE
LITERACY CONNECTION
(Presenter:
Kim Sullivan;
It is of extreme importance to make a literacy connection
with
students of all ages. Students must be introduced to amazing
novels such as
Love, Ruby Lavender, or Dancing in Cadillac Light
in order to connect with various authors and characters. As a
connection is established,
students will be begging to read additional stories written by the same
author. In addition, students will be active participants in
activities
that correspond with the novel studies. Energize any classroom or
novel study with activities that move students past simple
comprehension and
into the much sought-after higher order skills. Participants will
receive a student generated reading list, a packet to implement a family
history project, and materials to establish and continue student-led
conferences.
12:30pm –
1:30pm
METACOGNITIVE
(Presenter: Jama Mosher, King’s Academy)
Come to this session and learn about some new strategies you can use to make your high school students more proficient readers! These strategies include: schema, sensory images, questions, inferences, determining importance, synthesizing, and monitoring for comprehension/fix-up strategies. Jama Mosher will introduce you to some hands-on, real world applications that focus on how high school teachers do NOT need to forsake content to teach reading. She will give you some great ideas on how to explicitly teach your students to read and think about the text that you must assign to cover your content and to teach your students strategies that will help them most in the subject area you teach.
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Upper-Level
Elementary
& Middle School Math Strategies That Work: Tried and True Hands-On
Activities
(Presenter:
Mary Barto;
Are you looking for engaging and motivating ways to introduce math strategies which increase student achievement in the upper elementary and middle school mathematics curriculum? Do you need high interest math strategies to serve as powerful models for building motivation in students who struggle? Come to this session and get creative ideas that can be used in group and independent settings. Join us for a hands-on, interactive workshop showcasing some of the most successful, easy, inexpensive and fun ways to get your upper elementary and middle school students excited about learning math.