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Margaret Stockwell
Anchor Education
Consulting
Conferences
Testing
Resource Libraries
Seminars
Book
Resource Centres, Consultants and Libraries ◦ Chiang Mai, Thailand
◦ Penang, Malaysia
◦ Phnom Penh, Cambodia
◦ Shanghai, China
◦ Urumqi, China
◦ New Delhi, India
◦ Manila, Philippines
Membership
Our core business is to run conferences for expatriate families, providing services in -
•Educational testing and evaluation. •Educational consultancy for parents on issues such as - •Educational planning •Special Educational Needs •Resources for home-based education. •"Third culture" profile training for teachers and parents.
Well Being
Issues for Third Culture Kids
Transitions
Time for Home School?
Ideas for Pre School Curriculum
Helping when Learning Becomes Difficult
Resources and ideas for teaching Maths
High School and College Preparation / Transcripts
Supplementing the Curriculum (Art and PE)
Writing IEP’s
Designing Assignments (to encourage creative thinking)
0830-0900 Registration
0900 - 0915 Introduction Introduction Introduction
0915- 1030
Understanding TCKs and
implications for parents
Living in a non-Western
Culture
Re-entry and Life-time
issues for TCKs 1030 -1100 BREAK BREAK BREAK
1100-1215
• Understanding Your Child’s
Learning Style
Ministry and Home
Schooling: Getting It All
Done
• Teaching Kindergarten
through Third Grade at
Home: A Practical
Approach (Part 2)
Creative writing for
beginners
• Doing High School
Transcripts and Preparing for
College Entrance and
Selection
Special Needs ADD /ADHD
Preparing Students for
External Examinations
(iGCSE) 1215-1330 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
1330-1445
Issues for children – preparation
and support
Continuity and Home
Assignments
• Preparing Your Teen for
Selection, Acceptance, and
Funding for College
How to Teach the Writing
Process 1445-1600
• Things to Know and Apply
Concerning Learning a Second
Language
Teaching Kindergarten
through Third Grade at
Home: A Practical Approach
(Part 1)
Teaching to a Syllabus
(iGCSE)
Ideas for Helping You
Teach Jr. High and High
School at Home
Assessment
Writing an IEP
Plenary and Kid’s Programme
Presentation
1600-1730 Consultations Consultations
Day 1 Who Am I?
Break Moving through water
BREAK Moving through water contd
Break Strreamlined shapes(1)
LUNCH Design and make a paper Aeroplane See which plane goes the furthest
BREAK Team Games
Day 2 Who am I?
Break Read Story and / Make up play on own
/ make card puppets to use in play BREAK
Continue to make card puppets Break
Give puppet show LUNCH
Read Winnie the Pooh Story BREAK
Write/Draw a story about Winnie the Pooh in Uganda
Day 3 Who am I?
Break Streamlined shapes (2)
BREAK Air resistance
Break Air resistance project
LUNCH Air resistance project
BREAK Show parents Posters / card puppets
IOWA Test of Basic Skills (grades 3-8) Early Reading Diagnostic Assessment (grades K-2) WIAT (grades 3 and above) NARAII (for children aged 6 to 12 years) WRAT Key Stage (UK year 6) Progress tests (UK) Ravens Working Memory CTOPP Social Interaction and Social Communication Rating Scales ADD/ADHD Indicator Dyslexia/Dyscalculia Indicator
0700-0830 Learning Styles Looking at different ways children learn and how we can
adapt teaching methods to enable all children to achieve
Special Needs Learners Looking at how staff can use strategies to aid
learning
0830 - 0850
BREAK BREAK
0850 - 1020
Workshops:
1. Creative Writing Grades 4/5(6/7)
2. Early Reading Strategies
Workshops:
1.Encouraging reading with understanding
2. Assessment/evaluation and marking of
English
1020-1040
BREAK BREAK
1040-1210
Staff to evaluate their teaching styles and
adaption of their lessons for different learning
styles
Staff to evaluate their approach to special
needs within their classroom and assess
how their syllabus allow all children to
achieve
1210 - 1310
LUNCH LUNCH
1310 - 1500 Workshop
Consolidating Spelling
(divided into grades)
Workshop
Approaches to Drama and Poetry
Council of Reference ◦ Agency membership $1500 or £1000 per year
Family membership $90 per year (£60) ◦ If agency a member then $65 per year (£45)
◦ Membership page on the website (password required)
Contains articles on Education Issues and curriculum resources and website
◦ Access to an online consultant
◦ Discounted fees for testing and conferences
Conferences; Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
◦ Testing (from 6 May 2013) AE
◦ Conference (9 – 12 May 2013) AE
Kenya, Nairobi (26 – 29 August 2013) AE
Uganda, Kampala( 2 – 5 September 2013) AE
Istanbul, Turkey (4-6 October 2013) SHARE
Morocco (October 2013) AE
Mozambique, Lichinga ( 12-15 November 2013) AE
South Africa, Johannesburg (18 – 21 November 2013) AE
Changmai,
◦ Testing (21 January 2014)
◦ Conference (22 – 24 January 2014) AERC
Sopron, Hungary (23 – 28 Feb 2014) SHARE
Place
Time
Opening Exercises
Schedule
Time to Organise ◦ Ideas?
◦ Planning
◦ Filing system
Organising ◦ Colour coding system for each child
◦ File to save work
◦ Set of bookmarks
Reward Chart
Managing Interruptions
Activity Box
Parents as Teachers? Personality differences
Husband and wife share responsibilities
Utilising talents
Using others around you
Dealing with Different Grade levels
Support
Pace
Children with Special Needs
Margaret Stockwell
Anchor Education