2005 Fall "Best Practice" Institute remind

The Participants: Photo Gallery

Pre-arrival orientation: Indonesia Thailand

First Week
Activities at the East-West Center: Photo Gallery Projects

Second Week
School visits across the United States:

Metropolitan Learning Center, Connecticut: Itinerary PhotoGallery
Woodstock Union High School, Vermont: Itinerary Photo Gallery
East Canton Elementary School, Ohio Itinerary Photo Gallery
Maine West High School, Illinois: Itinerary Photo Gallery
Olympic High School, North Carolina: Itinerary Photo Gallery
Scarsdale High School, New York: Itinerary Photo Gallery

Third Week
Activities at the East-West Center: Photo Gallery Projects

Participant comments

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Indo Teachers in East Canton Ohio

Writen by: Senny Alwasilah
East Canton is a small town. The people in this area like to say that the place is more than a village then a town. We were the first "visitors" coming from the other side of the world so why they were interested in knowing more about us. We were just like "celebrities" for them. We visited east canton elementary school and students like to stay close to us. they gave us hugs every single minutes and any time they accidentaly meet us along the corridor. They love us and in return we love them as well. we learn somehing new living with American family which is litle different from our "rule" in our family life. Being in Ohio is being celebrities.

Southeast Asian teachers visited WUHSMS

WUHSMS was happy to host four teachers from Southeast Asia sponsored by trhe East-West Center in Hawaii. The teachers observed classes and engaged in conversation and cultural exchange with students and faculty. Pictured above our guests enjoy an early Thanksgiving dinner with members of our school community.
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SE Asian Teachers Visit Scarsdale

Five teachers from Southeast Asia -- three from Thailand and two from Indonesia -- visited the Scarsdale schools as part of an exchange program sponsored by the East-West Center of the Asia Pacific Education Program. They visited classes and met for lively discussions with teachers and students.

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source: http://www.scarsdaleschools.k12.ny.us/

New York adventures

On Thursday, Oct 13, 2005, We'd got the chance to explore New York. We started from Scarsdale Railway Station to the main center of New York. At there we also met Khun Namji. Then we took the subway to WTC station, seeing the place that used to be the place for WTC and memorendum arts for the victims. After that we went to Natural and Space Musuem. There is a lot of new things for student sources. The principal was the our guidant,John and Gwen and Ann Mary. We had a big pizza opposite the musuem. At last we went to explore Time Square before back to Scarsdale, a lovely place of us.

3rd day in Scarsdale

This is the third day in scarsdale. The first day that we arrived here Gwen picked us from the JFK airport. We have stayed with very nice families in Scarsdale.

The second day we attended SUPERINTEDENT's CONFERENCE DAY, that every teacher in Scarsdale area attended. Actually, We had short presentations about school in Thailand and Indonesia.

Today, We have observed the classes since the 2nd period until 8th period. Nice!!!

What idea that you respond from this poem?

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Judi Roger gave the idea in small group

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Jigsaw: Small Group Investigations/Presentations of Best Practice Topics

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Judy Rogers presented 'Jigsaw: Small Group Investigations/Presentations of Best Practice Topics' to the participants. She started with the Shakespeare-Hamlet "What a piece of work is man! noble in reason. How infinite in faculties inform and moving, how to express and admirable in action, how like an angel." then small groups discussion and let the participant groups presentation. It was a nice day!! but we were fasting so it quite tired in that day.

KWL- Best practice learning

WEEK ONE
Monday (10/3)
first day presentation from the class

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Judi gave the idea how KWL using in the classroom

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David and Anny pay attention

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Wipa pays attention to the lesson

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Welcome/Introductions
- Intro to participating schools
- Program goals/intended outcomes
- Program logistics/resources

Community-building Activity
teaching/learning in diverse classrooms

Best Practices
- Define
- Identify “K” – What we Know
about “Best Practices” and report
out to construct KWL
K W L

Group Investigations
Inquiry
- Identify “W” – What we Want to
Learn about “Best Practice”
teaching
K W L

Process
- Identify important questions based
on individual inventories
- Refine selections/choices for study
- Breakout into small groups by

selections
Small Group Investigations of Best Practice Topics (jigsaw)

Focus Questions
1) What learning outcomes do we want
our students to achieve?
2) What ‘best practice” examples would
help achieve our teaching objectives?
3) How can these examples be applied
in my own teaching/classroom?
Inquiry Group Presentations of Selected topics

KWL workshop

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School in Indo-Thai presentation

Preecha presented Islamic School in Thailand, espicially in Bagkok

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Deddy presented Bandung and their school

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Namji Steinemann, Director, AsiaPacificEd Program of East-West Center

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The second day after the session Jigsaw. Namji Steinemann, Director, AsiaPacificEd Program of East-West Center invited the techer in Indonesia and Thailand presenting their communities and school.

Know more each others Southern Thailand,West Java and Mainland of USA

the 2nd day activities in the program. The teachers studied American School Culture, The basic information about the school that they will visit and they have got chance to present their school and region, they come from, Southern Thailand and West Jawa of Indonesia
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2005 Fall "Best Practice" Institute (September 30-October 20, 2005)

original pageThirty-five teachers from U.S., Thailand and Indonesia convened at the East-West Center on September 30, 2005 to participate in AsiaPacificEd's 2005 Fall "Best Practice" Institute.

The 3-week Institute introduced participants to "best practice" instructional strategies aimed at helping learners in heterogeneous classrooms develop and apply literacy, critical thinking, global awareness, and media literacy skills.

Participants from Indonesia and Thailand are teachers from schools with large Muslim student populations, and U.S. participants are representatives of schools that will host the Indonesian and Thai teachers during their school visits.

The Fall 2005 "Best Practice" Institute is part of the East-West Center's Initiative on Islam in Asia, which aims to promote better understanding of Islam in the Asia Pacific region and to improve communication between the region's Islamic communities and the United States.