Lab School @ Punahou: Craft of Teaching

Monday – Friday, June 24 – 28, 2013
12:30 - 4 p.m. with optional morning classroom observations
Punahou School

Join these cohort groups to explore teaching’s essential questions:

• How to balance student choice with mastering core content?
• How to develop habits of mind in support of students’ future success?
• When and how much to incorporate technology?
• What kinds of risks help students to learn to “fail forward”?
• What kinds of assessments foster learning for students?

Explore these or other questions with fellow teachers sharing the same interests.

Facilitated by Bruce Schauble, director of Punahou’s Institute for Teaching, Learning and Instructional Innovation, and Dr. Dan Mindich, director of Academy Summer School at Punahou.

Cost: $200

Special offer to encourage collaborative explorations: $100 per person for three or more teachers from the same school.

Lab School @ Punahou: Technology
The iPad and Personalized Learning

Monday – Friday, July 8 – 12, 2013
8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Punahou School

This cohort-based experience at Punahou is a powerful way to kick start plans to use iPad next school year. Spend a week engaging in a thoughtful, dynamic process of experimenting, dreaming and inventing while designing an iPad-based activity, unit or textbook to be used in the classroom next fall. Each cohort consists of educators from around the world and supported by an experienced facilitator while exploring the many avenues of personalized learning using iPads. The final project is a proposal for implementation in one’s classroom in the fall.

This experience is designed for educators with some prior experience using iPads in the classroom.

Participation in the week-long cohort event is limited to selected applicants with demonstrated experience and commitment.

Cost: $200 upon acceptance into program.

Optional Pre-Conference Workshops

In these three full-day, hands-on workshops, learn the basics of integrating the iPad into teaching, curriculum and the classroom or build on existing skills to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom.

The iPad Classroom: Consume, Curate, Create!
Moving from Consumption to Creation

Monday, July 1, 2013
9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Punahou School

For beginning to experienced users, explore how to create a 21st century classroom by moving students from consuming to curating to creating content on the iPad. Recommended: iPad with ability to add apps.

Cost: $250

The iPad in Action: Lights, Camera, Action!
Making Movies with the iPad

Tuesday, July 2, 2013
9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Punahou School

For beginning to experienced users, discover the many ways to use the iPad to explore content, tell stories and demonstrate learning using video. Recommended: iPad with ability to add apps, iMovie.

Cost: $250

Ready, Set, Publish!
Publishing Great Content Using iBooks Author and iTunes U

Wednesday, July 3, 2013
9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Punahou School

For experienced users, learn how to use iBooks Author to create textbooks with dynamic interactive content that can be read on an iPad. Discover how to create online courses, student portfolios, and much more using iTunes U. Recommended: iPad and USB cable for previewing books. Required: MacBook with free iBooks Author software.

Cost: $250

Lab School @ Punahou: Global Education

Monday – Friday, July 29 – August 2, 2013
8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Punahou School

These five full days of learning, exploring and designing globally focused curriculum gather educators together as a cohort of learners. This cohort begins by defining the essentials of global education and working together on projects to implement in their home schools. Participants will observe global education in action through intersections with Punahou’s Student Global Leadership Institute, and learn from each other as they share the work they are doing or hope to do in their schools.

Individual educators and school teams should consider this event to jumpstart a program or curriculum they are working on, or to deepen their work in making students experiences more global.

Facilitated by Emily McCarren, director of Punahou’s Wo International Center and Tedd Landgraf, technology curriculum resource teacher at Punahou.

Educators may consider combining this experience with Flat Classroom® Live!

Cost: $200