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