Lee Mun Wah Delivers Keynote Address at 2011 Spring Symposium
Lee Mun Wah, Guest Speaker
Approximately 200 New Jersey teachers and Monmouth University School of Education students attended the Spring Symposium. Lee Mun Wah, director of StirFry Seminars and Consulting, San Francisco, California, diversity trainer and film maker, spoke about What's Missing from Our Classrooms. The participants paired themselves and were instructed to really look at each other and discuss themselves, then ask each other questions. The point - to acknowledge differences in each other and discuss them openly.
Author Dan Gutman
Dan Gutman, guest author, entertained the audience with his recollections on becoming an author of children’s books. Many of his books were purchased from the Border’s book fair, and Dan was available to sign them.
Participants learned a variety of teaching techniques using current technology in the following workshops targeting preschool to Grade 12:
Pieces of the Puzzle: Strategies for Teaching Children with Autism
Teaching Nonfiction Strategies using T.H.I.E.V.E.S Approach (Title, Headings, Introduction, Every First Sentence, Visuals, End, Summary)
The Math Teacher Who Did Not Teach
How Fun Is That? Expanding Students’ Subject Matter Understanding
I’m Fat: Using Group Activities to Combat Body Image Issues
Draw, Scribble & Write Letters in the Preschool Inclusion Classroom
How to Use WEB 2.0 Tools to Help Create Student Online Learning Communities
ESL and Bilingual Educational Strategies for Mainstream Teachers
Chris Dudick conducts a workshop titled Teaching Social Skills with Art and Technology
Some of the comments written about the symposium included:
“I really enjoyed this symposium. I feel I learned so much about the teaching field and now have wonderful tools to use in my future.”
“Always a pleasure!”
“Having already attended a few literacy symposiums in past semesters, I must say that I found this spring 2011 symposium to be the best, the most interesting, and the most influential.”
