A.P.P.L.E.
Summer - 2012
MemoriesBuilding an Educational Community in our Schools
June 25 - 29 and July 2 - 5ADMINISTRATION STRAND
Developing an understanding of the relationship that exists between MEANINGFUL PERFORMANCE PLANNING, EFFECTIVE APPRAISALS and future CONFLICT RESOLUTION is one of the key points of focus for this year’s administration strand. The use of case studies, individual and group exercises along with open discussions will provide the participants with effective models for use within their respective organizations.
Performance evaluations identify a continuum of performance levels. INSTRUCTIONAL COACHING can provide support for improvement and change at any of these levels. This strand will provide directors with information on how to design an instructional coaching program and how to support it within the building. It delves into who should be a coach, how to build intensive learning teams and what kind of communication needs to be supported. It is based on the work done by Jim Knight at Kansas University with support from Michael Fullan.
Dr. Kristin Ross and Ed Topar will facilitate the administration strand again this year.
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY and EDUCATIONNeuropsychology: The Unique Teenage Brain
This is an introductory to intermediate course for classroom teachers, special education teachers, and counselors and school psychologists.
The brain is the most important organ of the body. The brain develops as the child grows and there are optimum ages for growth in specific areas of the brain and their corresponding functions. Participants will study the basic parts of the brain, their functions, and how that affects behavior. Emphasis will be on the teenage brain, the development of the frontal lobe functions, and resultant teenage cognitive and social/emotional behavior. Participants will learn brain-based strategies for working with adolescents.
Primary lecturers: Jackie M. Allen, MFT, NCC, Ed.D., Associate Professor and Chair- School Psychology Program, College of Education and Organizational Leadership, University of La Verne; Leslie Young, Ed.D., Associate Professor and Chair- Child Life Program, College of Education and Organizational Leadership, University of La Verne in La Verne, California
Education: Understanding how Traumatic Experiences can Impact Children’s and Teen’s Overall Cognitive, Social, Emotional, Physical and Behavioral Development therefore Affecting Their Ability to Learn.
This is a basic, introductory course for classroom teachers, special education teachers and other school personnel. What should we expect from children who have experienced a traumatic event in their lives and does it affect their cognitive learning ability. It is important for teachers to have an understanding of how illness, hospitalization, medicines, divorce, stressors, lack of self-esteem can affect the whole child/teen and hi/her ability to learn in the classroom. It is important to a child’s/ learning for teachers to be trained on how to understand how medical condition and traumatic events can affect the students’ cognitive ability.
Leslie Anne Young, Ed.D. CCLS, M.S. Tenured Associate Professor, Child Life Masters Program Chairperson and Full Time Professor, Department of Advanced Studies in Education and Human Development, College of Education and Organized Leadership, University of La Verne.
Special Education
This strand will provide both didactic and experiential educational opportunities to students in a university classroom. The curriculum will include a history of the treatment of persons with disabilities, present educational and residential treatment practices, and international policies supporting persons with disabilities. If possible, the sessions will include conversations with individuals with disabilities in Lithuania and their families, and visits to places where individuals with disabilities are educated and reside. Sessions will also include an orientation to international policies and to integrate those with disabilities into the mainstream of society and the research supporting those efforts.
My hope is to work with a university to try and establish a Disabilities Studies program. I could teach some of the topics, though it would be very helpful to have discussion groups with teachers at the University to explore this, and review the European Union position on disabilities, and research that has come out of the disabilities rights movement here in the US. That is a first fundamental step in establishing a framework for integration, apart from classroom teaching of special education for children...it touches the entirety of the person of all ages and their full integration into their communities.
There are many Disabilities Studies programs throughout the US today, and this track is sometimes included in Special Ed, and sometimes included in the Social Work strands as an entire Major, or as a minor area of specialization.
Dr. Anita Yuskauska
Technical Director for HCBS Quality Science
ScienceBest Practices: The Art and Science of Teaching in the Biology Classroom
For science teachers, especially in biology and chemistry, who wish to develop and use examples of best practices in science education techniques?
Educational best practices for effective instruction, as espoused by Robert Marzano, require students to demonstrate and practice the scientific method as well as challenge them to learn scientific knowledge. Best practices of science education will be considered, including inquiry and research, real-life situations, problem solving and issue-based learning. Classroom techniques, which may be applied to other fields of science, such as wait times, questioning, using analogies, simulations and role playing, brainstorming, graphical organizers, and share/pair discussion of a common text will be used.
Lecturer: John J. Trimble, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, Saint Francis University, Loretto, Pennsylvania. Dr. Trimble was a U.S. State Department-funded Fulbright Scholar at Vilnius Pedagogical University from January to July 2011. Dr. Trimble has taught Microbiology, Cell and Molecular Biology, Human Biology, Evolution and several different 1st year Colloquium courses on topics including AIDS, Aging, Risk-taking, Discrimination, and the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project.
Technology
"Lit Trips” is a Google manipulation of Google Earth. In any class (when a novel or biography is used in class - this works across curriculum) a lit trip can be built to illustrate the journey, be it global or around the village, of the characters or events. The teacher can build the trip with background info, illustrations, discussion questions, etc. or the students can build it as a project. It can be very simple for younger students or more complicated as students are able to interpret more kinds of information.
NOTE* Google Earth will need to be loaded onto computers but not necessarily at onset of presentation. Building process is not done in Google Earth.Sue Kohfeldt, Fulbright Scholar
2 EFL strands: for beginners and for advanced students
in the process of being organized.
University Component
June 25 – June 29
at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas and Šiauliai UniversitySchool Psychology
Dr. Jackie M. Allen and dr. Leslie Anne YoungSpecial Education Policy
Dr. Anita Yuskauskas
