2008 Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies and International Education Conference
"Planning for Our World:
Our Dreams and Our Actions "Monday & Tuesday, March 31-April 1, 2008
Madison Marriott West Hotel
1313 John Q. Hammonds Drive
Middleton, WI 53562
(608) 831-2000
2004 Conference:
Teaching and Curriculum for a Global SocietyMarch 12-13, 2004
Pyle Center - 702 Langdon Street
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Friday, March 12
Workshops - Pyle Center
9:30-4:30
The Arab World & Islam: Curriculum and Teaching Strategies - Audrey Shabbas, Executive Director, Arab World and Islamic Resources
A little understood world region, the Arab World, and misunderstood world faith, Islam, will be explored through hands-on materials that can be used immediately in the classroom. Model lesson plans are built around knowledge for understanding; application of critical thinking skills; outcome-based and exhibition. The Arab World Studies Notebook contains fifty lesson plans, and A Medieval Banquet in the Alhambra Palace is the across-the-curriculum piece you've been looking for to culminate your study of the entire middle ages. "Guests" come from the whole of the eastern hemisphere. Hands-on and hand-outs.
9:30-12:30
Teacher to Teacher: Reshaping Instruction through Japanese Lesson Study: Gary Appel, Learning Point Associates (formerly NCREL)
Have you heard of Lesson Study, but you're not quite sure what it's all about? Lesson Study serves as the core of professional development in Japan. Focused on teachers' actual instructional dilemmas, Lesson Study offers a collaborative, job-embedded approach to professional growth. With attention to uncovering student understanding and thinking, teachers work together to plan, teach, observe, refine and reteach a lesson on a concept that is difficult to teach or hard for students to understand. Using small and large group activities, readings and Japanese video, we'll examine Lesson Study and its application to American schools.
1:30-4:30
Globalization of Trade: Is it a good thing? - James Grunloh, Professor of Economics, and Director of the Center for Economics Education, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Professor Grunloh will discuss who benefits and who loses from trade and tariffs. These topics will be addressed in this pre-conference seminar through the use of three classroom simulations taken from the Focus: International Economics volume of lessons developed by the National Council on Economic Education. An international auction will show how exchange rates are set and how they influence the terms of trade. In addition, participants will take part in a mock negotiation between all parties who might be affected by a tariff designed to restrict trade.
1:30-4:30
Asian Performing Arts as Windows to the World - R. Anderson Sutton, Assistant Professor, School of Music and David Furumoto, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Drama. The Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Center for East Asian Studies will present a joint workshop focusing on performing arts of Japan, Korea and Indonesia and linkages to curriculum as windows to the worlds of East and Southeast Asia. Prof. R Anderson Sutton (School of Music, UW-Madison) and Prof. David Furumoto (Theatre & Drama, UW-Madison) will do a joint-presentation, detailing curriculum linkages between the performing arts and other core subjects such as history/social studies.
1:30-4:30
Teacher to Teacher: Sharing Experiences via a Live Video Conference between Wisconsin and Guadeloupe in French - Professor Francois Tochon, Curriculum & Instruction/French & Italian, UW-Madison and Patrick Picot, Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres de Guadeloupe
What are the challenges for teachers of English in Guadeloupe and for teachers of French in Wisconsin? How does curriculum and instruction in English and French compare in Guadeloupe and Wisconsin? What are work lives and professional status of teachers in Wisconsin and Guadeloupe? What is the impact of vouchers, church-province/state linkages, provincial/state standards, and high stakes testing in Wisconsin and Guadeloupe? What is the potential for future video-conferencing and student and teacher exchanges between Guadeloupe and Wisconsin? These and other questions you want to ask teachers in Guadeloupe will be the focus of this video-conference. There will also be training in using video-conferencing for teaching and international connections.
1:30-4:30
Teacher to Teacher: Sharing Experiences via a Live Video Conference between Wisconsin and Argentina in Spanish-Jane Thompson, Teacher, Janesville Public Schools and President, Friends of International Education; and Dr. Hugo Olmos, Professor and United Nations Consultant; and Professor Daniel Lucero, Colegio San Ramon and Liceo Aeronautico Militar, Rosario, Argentina
International Education: Key for World Peace - The world characterized by globalization, interdependence, conflicts, terrorism, polarization of powers and riches, the deterioration of the environment - all require an urgent need to produce concrete works via the tools of education and culture that contribute to the demand of peace. Dialog with professors and students in Argentina who are working to promote cultural exchanges to erase barriers. What are the challenges for teachers in Argentina and Wisconsin?
Friday Evening Program
Alumni Lounge/Pyle Center
4:30-5:30 Registration, Reception, Refreshments, and Buffet
5:30-6:00 Welcome and Introductions
Mary McEniry, President, Wisconsin Chapter of the Fulbright AssociationRemarks
Gilles Bousquet, Dean, International Studies and Director, The International Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison
W. Charles Read, Dean, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
6:00-6:30 Wisconsin International Education Awards
Elizabeth Burmaster, State Superintendent of Public Instruction
6:30-7:30 Keynote: The Storyteller: Making the World One
Harold Scheub, Evjue-Bascom Professor of
Humanities, African Languages and Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor Scheub has taught and conducted research in eastern and southern Africa, and has authored several books including The Tongue Is Fire, Secret Fire Story, A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller, and The Poem in the Story. Professor Scheub as spent ten years in Africa including four year-long trips when he walked six thousand miles, collecting oral stories, poetry, and history which he now shares with his students in courses and seminars.
7:30-9:30 Networking Dinners – Meet with colleagues and share your interests at a nearby ethnic restaurant.
Saturday, March 13
Pyle Center
8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:45
Keynote: The Intimidating Teaching Task: Re-appropriating Recent History of Post-Soviet Latvia - Valters Nollendorfs, Emeritus Professor of German, UW-Madison and Director of the Occupation Museum, Latvia
Latvia suffered heavily during WWII and was occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from 1940 to 1991. War deaths, Soviet deportations to the Gulag, the Nazi Holocaust, mass escapes to the West, and collaboration and accommodation with occupying powers, and re-writing history left not only a population void but also took a heavy demographic, social, economic, political, cultural and moral toll. The Occupation Museum is dedicated to re-appropriating Latvian history through the development of curriculum and teaching materials for use in primary and secondary schools.
9:45-10:00 Break
10:00-11:10 Concurrent Sessions (70 Minutes Each)
• The Role of Language in the Classroom
Pyle Center Room 111Margaret R. Hawkins, Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Lynn L. Legler, Kindergarten Teacher, Franklin Elementary School, Madison, Wisconsin
As societies around the world become more heterogeneous, teachers find multiple cultures, languages, and dialects represented in their classrooms. Often the languages students bring to school are not the language of schooling- the ways in which students must speak and perform in order to be academically successful. In this session a Kindergarten teacher and a University faculty member share their collaborative research into the language and literacies of school and those of students. There will be discussion on how to promote access to school curriculum and content for diverse learners at all grade levels.
• Sin Fronteras: Bridges to the Caribbean
Pyle Center Room 213Willlie Ney, Sin Fronteras Coordinator, LACIS, UW-Madison; and Brenda Baker, Sin Fronteras Co-Coordinator, Madison Children's Museum; and Martha Vasquez and Tenia Jenkins, Teachers, Malcolm Shabazz High School, Madison
Sin Fronteras is an academic year-long (September 2003-May 2004) multi-dimensional humanities and arts project in the Madison community focused on the histories, peoples, cultures and arts of the Caribbean so that American students learn they are part of the Americas, a region of diverse and distinctive histories and cultures, including increasingly diverse Madison/Wisconsin communities. This session will discuss the projects and lesson plans developed by the participating teachers throughout the course of the year and the organizers of the project who will share their challenges and triumphs.
• Krocodiles, Koalas and Kangaroos?: Becoming Scientifically Literate about Australia
Pyle Center Room 225Simon Lindsay, Catholic Education Commission of Victoria, Australia
The international community has a wild and wonderful view of Australia and its wildlife. Images abound of kangaroos in our backyards, fighting off crocodiles, and koala bears sitting happily on our verandas. But what is the real state of affairs “down under”? The misconceptions about Australian wildlife remind us as teachers that students have strong prior views about scientific concepts. Students do not come to our classrooms as “blank slates” – instead possessing already established views formed through prior experience, upbringing, and television shows such as ‘Crocodile Dundee’ and ‘The Crocodile Hunter’. Whilst these prior views may be incorrect, they are extremely valuable in the learning process, particularly in obtaining high levels of student engagement with the material to be learned. This session investigates the alternative conceptions surrounding Australian wildlife in the context of producing globally scientifically literate citizens. It models the tools teachers can use in identifying and utilising students prior views to enhance student learning. Comprehensive teaching materials and resources will be supplied.
• Iraq: Before and After 9-11
Pyle Center Room 309Uli Schamiloglu, Professor Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Chair, Central Asian Studies Program, UW-Madison
The civilization of Iraq has a long history going back to the 5th millennium BC. This presentation will highlight a few of the contributions of the ancient states of Sumer and Babylon to world civilization. Then during the Islamic period, the city of Baghdad became the center for the preservation of Greek philosophy and science in Arabic translation. This heritage formed the basis of the national myths used in the creation of the modern Iraqi state that was carved from the Ottoman Empire and provided the historical context for Iraq during the Cold War and after 9-11.
• NCLB and International Education in the United States for the 21st Century: Lessons Learned from England
Pyle Center Room 112Rosalynn Kiefer, Director of Curriculum, Fox Point-Bayside Schools and Board Member of WASCD, and Joan Naomi Steiner, Director of Instructional Services, Brown Deer School District and Board Member of WASCD.
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act requires that local school districts ensure that all students will be proficient in math and reading by 2014 with incremental gains at least every three years. With teachers and administrators focusing on math and reading for NCLB, how will we find time for international education? This session will focus on lessons learned from England’s large scale reform efforts and how to embed international education into the curriculum.
• 21st Century African Youth Movement: People and Resources - Rebuilding A Community in Africa!
Pyle Center Room 220Nikki Staab, Director of Information, 21st Century African Youth Movement, Inc.; and Dennis C. Glover, Vice President, International Steering Committee Coordinator & Chairman, GLaSE
The 21st Century African Youth Movement is working on a major project in the town of Mattru Jong in Sierra Leone, West Africa to provide supplementary education to the people through the Global Learning and Sharing Endeavor Program. This program is a university-based student program initiated by the AYM to bring people and resources together to address social issues in Africa. Part of this program will entail a Youth Business Initiative focused on generating local resources to match resources from other sources.
11:10-11:20 Break
11:20-12:30 Concurrent Sessions (70 Minutes Each)
• Demonstrating Diversity through Francophone African Cultural Activities
Pyle Center Room 225Barbara Rusterholz, French, UW-La Crosse, Jennifer Bolen, French, Holmen Middle School, Holmen, Wisconsin, and Claudine Clark, French, East High School, Madison, Wisconsin
Come and visit West Africa! French teachers who filmed the video/DVD Passeport a l’Afrique Francophone will show clips of the newly-released video and demonstrate activities which teach about the richness and diversity of Francophone cultures in West Africa. Participants will learn aspects of everyday life in Benin, West Africa, through participatory exercises.
• Storytelling as Universal Curriculum: Fulbright Scholars Share their Stories
Pyle Center Room 112Roberta Felker, Superintendent, Wisconsin Heights School District
Storytelling is as old as humankind, and its ability to illuminate the common corners of the lives and hearts of people from all over the world is unparalleled. This session features storytelling by several Fulbright scholars and a conversation about how storytelling can become fertile ground for creative interactions among and between students and school staff.
• The Cultural Horizons of North America: An Award-Winning Multi-Media Multicultural Project
Pyle Center Room 213Presenters: Kori Oberle, Project Director, Wisconsin Educational Communications Board; and Alex Zacarias, Cultural Horizons Producer; and Willie Ney, Assistant Director, Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, UW-Madison
This session will involve a brief overview of Cultural Horizons of North America, one of the most successful instructional television programs ever developed by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board and produced by the Wisconsin Public Television. One of its principal components is the internationalization of the local culture as a foundational element in this process.
The Cultural Horizons series has won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Childrens Programming, as well as the 2003 Wilbur Schramm Award of Excellence and the National Educational Telecommunication Association Judges Award for Instructional Innovation. An interactive CD-ROM and a teacher guide support the use of this television series in fourth through eighth grade classrooms in the United States and beyond. The Web site for the project can be found at: http://www.ecb.org/culturalna/index.htm
• The Living Arts of South India: Incorporating Traditional Arts in the Classroom
Pyle Center Room 309Sandra Kowalczyk, Patrick Marsh Middle School, Sun Prairie; Marjie Fendt, Kindergarten, Appleton School District; and Rachel Weiss, Outreach Coordinator, Center for South Asia, UW-Madison
Join the project director and two Wisconsin teachers who spent 5-weeks in the southern India state of Tamilnadu, on a Fulbright Hays Group Projects Abroad. They will share the importance of various traditional arts: Kolam (symmetrical rice flour designs), Kalamkari (resist dying process) and Shadow Puppetry, and discuss unique ways of incorporating the use of artistic traditions from India into your classroom. Art, social studies and language arts/reading teachers will be interested in these lessons that really grabbed the students' interest and were a wonderful way to include the study of India in hands-on activities! Come be immersed in some popular South Indian motifs and try your hand at a simulated Indian folk art. Curriculum materials, resource information, and future travel opportunities will also be discussed.
• Peace Studies Curriculum in a Global Society
Pyle Center Room 111Krisztina Tihanyi, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University and Ithaca College, New York
We often hear that the world is becoming smaller, turning into a global village. By definition then, we are all becoming global villagers, and it is increasingly important that we learn about other members of our interconnected community. This is true in particular because, in addition to its positive effects, the global village is also bringing about the conflict of values, interests, etc. In this workshop, we will talk about why incorporating “global” studies and peace studies into the curriculum are important and present useful resources and strategies for teachers wishing to do so.
• Turkey at the Crossroads: Turkish Education and the European Union
Pyle Center Room 220
Ibrahim Duyar, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Arkansas-Little Rock
The presentation will offer a brief history of Turkey and a discussion of Turkish education including its structure and organization, governance and politics, and curriculum and instruction. The organizing theme will be the changes and progress in harmonizing Turkish education to the educational policies and practices of the European Union.
12:30-12:45 Break
12:45-2:15
Lunch & Keynote: Challenges of Teaching
International Studies in an Era of Globalization
Sangeeta Kamat, Assistant Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Professor Kamat will challenge common beliefs about development and argue for alternative strategies to improve human conditions. Her scholarly and practical work on grass roots development, on state and civil society, and on the cultural politics of globalization has been inspired by community based organizations in India. She has worked with the urban slums of Bombay in non-formal education programs related to health and other social issues for women and youth. These experiences and interests will be brought to bear on teaching international studies in an era of globalization.
2:15-2:30 Break
2:30-3:45 Concurrent Sessions (75 Minutes Each)
• Hmong at Heart: Exhibiting Culture by Engaging Communities
Pyle Center Room 213Brenda Baker,Director of Exhibits, Madison Children’s Museum and Dr. Hardin L.K. Coleman, UW School of Education, Department of Counseling Psychology
An important component of the new Hmong at Heart exhibit at Madison Children's Museum was the creation of a “Developmental Profile”- a review and analysis of the latest research on developmentally appropriate practices for cultural learning experiences. The profile, developed by Dr. Hardin Coleman of the University of Wisconsin’s School of Education, provided an outline to help guide exhibit development and project evaluation. Join Dr. Coleman and Brenda Baker of the Madison Children's Museum to learn more about the profile, its development and its implementation at the Museum. A tour of the new exhibit is available to conference attendees immediately following the session.Read about the exhibit in the Wisconsin State Journal.
Museum Tour:
Join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of the new Hmong at Heart exhibit at Madison Children's Museum. Museum staff and numerous community partners that helped create the exhibit will be present.Follow Up Session with Keynoter Valters Nollendorfs
Pyle Center Room 320Follow Up Session with Keynoter Sangeeta Kamat
Pyle Center Room 2202:30-3:45 Roundtables (3 tables in 75 minutes)
Pyle Center Room 309 and 313Roundtable Format. The roundtable session will be held in one room with as many tables as there are presenters. The total time will be 75 minutes with participants changing tables every 25 minutes. The roundtable presenters will discuss their topic for 10-15 minutes then allow questions and answers for the remaining 10-15 minutes. At the end of 25 minutes the roundtable will end and participants will move to another roundtable of their choice. The venue and roundtable format will customarily not allow for the use of electronic media.
• East Meets West in Math Education: Singapore Math
Nora Flood, Head of School, Madison Country Day School; and Ray Tenebruso, Math Instructor, Madison Country Day School
Since the 1995 Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), a growing number of US educators are looking to the leading nation in TIMSS, Singapore, for a solution. If students from that nation score so high, why not adopt the way they do math? In the wake of TIMSS, over 200 schools and districts in the U.S. have taken on Singapore¹s math curriculum. What is the draw? ³Singapore Math² as it is called, emphasizes skill development and builds foundations for higher learning, as well as ³mathematical intuition², a higher-level skill that allows a student to visualize and construct a solution to a problem. This session will relate the results and findings from the 1999 TIMSS-Repeat and anecdotal evidence from the seven years during which Madison Country Day School has used the Singapore program.
• An Inside Look into Russian Economics Education: A Cooperative Education Exchange Program (CEEP)
Michele Vinje, Economics and History Teacher, D.C. Everest High School
A group of 12 educators from across the United States studied Russian economic education in St. Petersburg and Moscow in 2003. This session will explore the state of Russian economic education and the Russia of today compared to the former Soviet Union. Information will be provided about the CEEP/NCEE programs. There will also be a sharing of ideas of how to apply what was learned to the American classroom. Illustrations, pictures and reflections on Leningrad of 1989 with St. Petersburg of 2003.
• Making the Grade with the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program
Joyce Griese, IB Coordinator, Pre-IB English teacher, Wausau East High School; and Mike Fischer, IB Psychology teacher, former IB Coordinator, Wausau East High School; and Laura Place, IB Spanish teacher, Assistant Spanish examiner for IB, Wausau East High School
Learn about how the IB program functions side-by-side at Wausau East High School with the regular high school curriculum and is an alternative to Advanced Placement (AP) programs. Wausau East High School is celebrating its 25th anniversary as an IB school and is the 10th oldest IB school in the USA. Being a comprehensive full-service public high school, Wausau East's diverse population benefits from an IB program that is self-selective, successful, and enjoys community support.
• Peru for Spanish Teachers: An Immersion Experience
Richard Muirhead – Director of International Studies, Mount Mary College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Teresa Glowacki – Program participant, Spanish Teacher, Greendale H.S.
During the summer of 2003, Mount Mary College provided an immersion/travel experience in Peru for Spanish teachers. Program objectives were to refresh teachers’ language skills, introduce them to Peruvian reality, and guide them to prepare culturally rich language units to use in their classrooms. Family stays, service work in low income communities, and visits to Peru’s rich archeological sites were critical components of the program.
• Third Culture Kids – “If I’m home, why am I feeling so lousy?”
Marc F. Ott, U.S. Director of Economic Development of Leysin, Switzerland, and Leysin American School
These are the words of teenagers about their return from overseas to their passport countries. This round table discussion addresses the topic of Third Culture Kids or TCKs: young people who have spent significant period of time in one or more cultures other than their own. We will talk about their challenges returning “home.” What makes them unique? Why do they have problems moving “home” and how can they be helped?
• Rotary Exchanges and Scholarships for Teachers and Students
Andrew Seaborg, Wisconsin Rotary Clubs, Chair of Rotary Group Study Exchange Committee
Last year, two Wisconsin teachers spent an all-expenses-paid month in Japan learning first hand about Kumon math instruction. In 2004, another exchange goes to Norway. You know Rotary for the 8,000 high school youth exchange students it sends abroad every year. Learn how teachers aged 25-40 can participate in professional exchange programs and help make the world a smaller, friendlier place. Andrew has benefited from a Rotary student exchange, and he was the GSE team leader to Japan in 2003.
• Derek Ralph, Edgewood High School, Madison
The evolution of the national curriculum in English state (public) schools will be discussed from the first national curriculum published in 1988. The core subjects, English, science, and mathematics and their key place in the curriculum of all schools and their time allocation will be investigated. The role of the other national curriculum subjects, a foreign language, humanities and technology will be looked at. What happens at key stage five, the changing fortunes of A-level exams, and the major importance attached to external examinations will be highlighted.
• Friends of International Education: Wisconsin’s Network to the World
Judith Freund, Past-President of Friends of International Education; and Jane Thompson, Spanish Teacher at Parker High School, Janesville, Wisconsin, and the new President of the Friends of International Education, Inc.
The Friends of International Education, Inc., creates a network of educators in Wisconsin who are working in their schools, districts, and communities to integrate international education into the curriculum. The Friends organization supports the efforts of teachers working to add an international dimension to their classroom by providing the opportunity to meet with other globally minded teachers at conferences, meeting, and the internet. This roundtable will invite educators to discuss practical ways to create and sustain support for international education by sharing what works, what hasn't worked and how to move forward.
• Teaching in American International Schools Abroad
Shirley Droese, Teacher in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan, and Thailand, Ph.D. Student in Educational Administration, UW, and Conference Coordinator
Are you ready for an adventure in another country? Do you love teaching? Are you interested in working with people and children from all over the world? This session will orient you to the network of American international schools overseas and share experiences from twenty years’ work in those schools. Information about the recruiting agencies who hire teachers and administrators for those schools will also be provided.
• What Use is a Language? A Model Cross Disciplinary Approach Integrating Chinese Language and Environmental Science.
Natasha Pierce, James Madison Memorial High School plus Chinese language students; and Christine Merritt, Center for East Asian Studies, UW-Madison
How best can students utilize their language skills in the real world? A model 5 year program integrating hands-on environmental science and Chinese language is being implemented in Madison schools in collaboration with UW-Madison. Partnerships have been made with the International Crane Foundation, the Nature Conservancy in China and support from the Madison West Rotary. Students are in communication with Chinese students, and this project will involve several study tours to China. It is anticipated that US-China student-to-student connections plus hands-on field work in the US and China will open many doors to students’ future life decisions and impact perspectives of different cultures on both sides of the world. Hand-outs will be available with lesson plans to demonstrate how to internationalize the curriculum on China in social studies, language arts, art, music, literature, and other subject areas.
• Teachers' Experience with Inclusion in the Czech Republic
Alenka Halova-Weinhold, Waisman Center, UW-Madison
Children with cognitive disabilities in the Czech Republic had traditionally been excluded from the education programs of regular schools.After the revolution of 1989, some students with disabilities were gradually integrated. The experiences of teachers with the inclusive policies and practices in the Czech Republic and the experiences of five children will be discussed.
4:15-5:30 Special: Tour of the “Hmong at Heart” Exhibit and Babcock Hall Ice Cream Social at the Madison Children’s Museum by Brenda Baker, Director of Exhibits
Contacts for additional information:
Shirley Droese, 608-263-7880; smdroese@wisc.edu
Dean Bowles, Professor Emeritus, 608-263-7880 bdbowles@education.wisc.edu
at the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, UW-MadisonSponsors for the International Education Conference include:
