 Hands-on, face-to-face workshops are led by iEARN Trainers with years of experience, who work with participants to design workshops that meet their particular needs and interests. [Click HERE to download a .pdf describing iEARN Professional Development offerings]
The primary focus of any iEARN workshop is on
- Developing project-based curricula that integrate national educational standards and integrate 21st century learning skills;
- Addressing how specific technology-based project work meets the curriculum and classroom teaching needs of each participating member;
- Building the skills needed to engage in collaborative activities, such as peer review, team-building, joining regional and international learning communities, computer access scheduling;
- Identifying and introducing connective technologies that are appropriate for the technology situation of the participating educators, such as secure WWW-based forums, global exchanges of art, photographs and other graphic images, videoconferencing, and chatting in a safe environment;
- Creating specific international links with individual educators in other countries with whom to work on age-appropriate online collaborative projects; and
- Exploring after school and student club options for online project-based learning
An iEARN workshop will enable to participants return to their schools with
- skills and resources to begin and initiate a collaborative online projects,
- print and cd-rom resources,
- a local and international support network,
- on-going technical and staff development assistance from iEARN staff, and
- an online community of colleagues worldwide
Follow-up "Master Teacher" Seminars delve deeply into curriculum integration and development, giving participants "Resource Toolkits" to use to draw upon their experience and knowledge, and feed the collective learning back to the larger community and local community. The Seminars combine print materials, as well as website and CD-ROM resources. Seminar participants align project work with local and national educational standards. Participants are given tools to access student learning in the context of collaborative project work. This may include the Teaching for Understanding Model developed out of the Education with New Technologies (ENT) Center at Harvard or the Buck Institute for Education Guide to Standards-Focused Project Based Learning.
 For more information about scheduling an iEARN workshop, please contact us at: phone: 212-870-2693 or by e-mail workshop@us.iearn.org
Professional Development Resources
Workshop web pages:
Look for iEARN staff and presenters at the following conferences in the 2009-2010 school year by clicking here
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