SDCTE Annual Spring
Conference
Mark your
calendars! SDCTE has reserved
Cedar Shore for the 2004 Spring Conference:
March 26-27, 2004
Spring
2003 Conference
"Celebrating the Classroom
Teacher," the 2003 SDCTE Spring Conference, began at 9:00 AM on
Friday, March 28. Highlights included:
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Roundtable Discussions (Friday,
10:15-11:50)
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Teaching in the Block |
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Preparing for College English |
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Getting Students Published |
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Comments on the
Revised SD Language Arts Standards |
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Preparing Students for
Standardized Testing |
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Implications of "No Child
Left Behind" |
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Lunch, featuring Tim Duggan's Shakespeare
Set to Music (Friday, 12:00-1:30) |
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Twelve Breakout Sessions
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"Learning with the Lewis
and Clark Journals" by Tom Gasque (1:40-2:40 Friday) |
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"Top Ten Reasons for
Reading Literature" by Sharon Olbertson (1:40-2:40 Friday) |
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"What's New in Young
Adult Literature? Titles, Resources, and Classroom Ideas"
by Lisa A Hazlett (2:50-3:50 Friday) |
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"The Great Questions
Strategy" by Marian Reed (2:50-3:50 Friday) |
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"Technical Writing: An
Integral Component" by LeeAnn Overbay (4:00-5:30 Friday) |
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"Rhetorical Analogies:
Teaching Language with Art" by Dan Weinstein (4:00-5:00
Friday) |
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"Strategies for Success:
Getting Ready for College English at SDSM&T" by Jo Lee
and Al Boysen (8:30-9:30 Saturday) |
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"Breathing New Life into
Old Texts: Shakespeare in the Classroom" by Tim Duggan (8:30-9:30
Saturday) |
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"Surviving and Thriving
Your First Years of Teaching" by Jennifer Mueller
(9:40-10:40 Saturday) |
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"A Tale of Two Projects:
Encouraging Student Research" by John Laflin (9:40-10:40
Saturday) |
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"Integrating the WWW into
the English Classroom" by Patricia Schulze and Darcy Randle
(10:50-11:50 Saturday) |
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"Making Every Teacher a
Reading and Writing Teacher" by Nancy Moose (10:50-11:50
Saturday) |
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Awards Banquet featuring SD author Jean
Patrick (6:30 Friday) |
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DWP
Writing Marathon (1:00-4:30 Saturday) |
Registration for both days 2as $70 for
members, $95 for non-members, and $50 for students. Registration included
both the Friday lunch and the Friday Awards Banquet.
Jean Patrick Scheduled was Featured
Speaker at Spring Conference 2003
Jean
Patrick was the featured speaker at the 2003 Spring
Conference. Patrick, who lives in Mitchell, is the author of The
Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth. This children's book is about
Jackie Mitchell, a 17-year-old pitcher who struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou
Gehrig in a 1931 exhibition game.

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About the 2002 Spring Conference