Wednesday

8:30-9:20 am

Room 209

Session 110

Word Origins--Jim Swanson, DSU.

This workshop will focus on practical and intriguing ways to hook kids on words by exploring the processes by which words enter our language.

Roundtable: English

Wednesday

9:30-10:20 am

Room 111

Session 116

Standards in English/Language Arts Classroom--Sharon Olbertson, Beresford High School.

English standards are being developed on a state as well as national level.  We will discuss these standards: what they are, how they were arrived at, how they will/can impact local curriculum efforts, what they do NOT mean for local decision making.

Roundtable: English.

Wednesday

10:30-11:20 am

Room 109

Session 132

Bringing in the World--Sue Morrell, English/Language Arts Teacher.

The presenter will have materials and resources that are gender balanced and culturally diverse.  Session participants will join in collaborative activities that can be incorporated into class and staff meetings.

Roundtable: English.

Wednesday

1:00-1:50 pm

Room 109

Session 142

Workforce of the Future--Tech Prep Initiative--Dodie Bemis, Watertown High School.

When the class of 2000 graduates, knowledge will have doubled three times since they entered school; each graduate will be exposed to more information in one year than a person born in the early 1900's would see in an entire lifetime; hardly a job will exist that does not require computer skills and a command of technological systems.  How can we best educate and train this workforce of the future?

Roundtable: English.

Wednesday

3:00-3:50 pm

Room 111

Session 163

Directing for English Teachers--Kim Bartling, Sioux Falls O'Gorman.

This workshop will focus on basic directing for the teacher who may not have a strong theater background.  It will touch on selecting materials, scheduling, rehearsing and production techniques.

Roundtable: English.

Thursday

8:00-9:50 am

JH-Dakota A

Session 229

Empowering Students: Peer Response Groups and Portfolios--Linda Johnson, Sioux Falls.  Presider: Joy Schellar, SDEA Board Member.

How do English teachers balance a desire to empower students to find a voice and use writing in authentic ways along with answering the demands for accountability?  Workshop will address how to create a portfolio system and use peer response groups.  The project has been in place for 8 years.  Appropriate for several levels and disciplines.

Roundtable: English.

Audience: Administration and teachers.