You are invited to attend the IEW Annual Educators’ Conference and join parents and teachers from all over the globe for this inspiring day of workshops, online for free. Not only will the day provide encouragement and an opportunity to collaborate with others, but Andrew Pudewa will offer insights and a host of ideas to enhance your teaching. If you teach students with learning differences, he will also address how to provide effective instruction to help students of all abilities succeed.
Registration is now open!
Schedule
9:00 AM CT: Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader or Nonreader
As schools have made reading their new god, they believe that producing good readers will solve all their academic problems. As a result, many children—the dyslexic, the easily distracted, the auditorily challenged—are left behind in the rush to improve test scores. What schools do not know (but what many parents and teachers discover) is that reading is not simply being able to rapidly decode symbols with the eyes. With humor and insight, Andrew Pudewa shares stories and strategies for helping students who need to engage the cognitive processes of reading but who are more likely to excel through a wider variety of practical, creative, and imaginative approaches.
10:30 AM CT: Cultivating Attentiveness and Contemplation
Blaise Pascal observed that many of humanity’s problems “stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” If true in 1654, how much more is it so today in a world where all of us—young and old—suffer from screen-induced attention deficiencies and fractured concentration? Indeed, as we increasingly depend on external stimulation for diversion, our ability to reflect, remember, compare, and contemplate seems to wane. Andrew Pudewa addresses this dependence as well as practical ways we can help our students develop essential thinking skills.
1:00 PM CT: Power Tips for Improving Teaching and Learning
While we try to carefully choose and use the best curricula for our classrooms, several factors have a far greater impact on day-to-day teaching and learning than the differences in materials or methods of instruction. From schedule to diet and from exercise to environment, you can use simple lifestyle adjustments to make education less stressful, more joyful, and more effective.
2:30 PM CT: Full, Ready, and Exact: How to Become a Better Thinker
“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.”— Francis Bacon, On Studies
Because artificial intelligence is now able to instantly do extensive research, create content with sophisticated vocabulary and reliably correct grammar, and even act as a proxy for individual thought, is it less—or more—important to cultivate these distinctly human arts of language in our students today? If the latter is true, why? And, how can we do so while recognizing that our students live in a brave new information economy that will undoubtedly continue to expand its capacity to atrophy the skills it replaces? Andrew Pudewa explores the vital roles of reading, conversation, and writing as tools to foster curiosity, creativity, ethical decision-making, and meaningful interpersonal communication.
