Agenda

Sunday, June 18, 2000

Evening

6:00 PM

Barbeque at Larry Hinman's

• Vans will depart at 5:30 pm from the Town & Country Hotel lobby

Monday, June 19, 2000

Morning

8:30

Session 1

Welcome and outline

Case study and response—video

·        Stand where you stand (45 min.)

·        Breakfast in classroom

• Frontline: Secrets of the SAT, web resources, including transcript

• The Big Test: Sample SAT questions over the years

• Nicholas Lehman, "The Great Sorting" Atlantic Monthly, September, 1995.

• Interview with Nicholas Lehman, Atlantic Monthly, October 7, 1999.

10:30

Break

10:45

Session II

Can Ethics Be Taught?

·        PowerPoint Presentation

·        elements that can be taught

·        connections with the curriculum

Noon

Lunch

Afternoon

1:00

Session III

Teaching Strategies

·        1:00-1:45:  Developing an Ethical Dilemma (Andy McCarthy)

·        1:45-2:30 Using literature to teach ethics (Susan Kennedy)

2:45

Break

3:00-3:30

Session IV

·        Shelia Kries’s presentation

·        How to bring this back to your school community

3:30-4:30

Using the Web

• Maher computer lab

4:30

End

6:00

Dinner

Casa de Bandini
Old Town

Homework

How teachers can create opportunities for ethical discussions in the classroom.

Tuesday, June 20, 2000

Morning

7:15

Breakfast

Town & Country breakfast

8:00

Session 1

Questions on curricular connections

·        Computer lab

10:20

Break

10:40

Session II

Small group work

·        Task: develop curricular connections, resources and strategies—school groups of four

·        Group connections, including one group on academic integrity

Afternoon

Noon

Lunch

1:00

Session III

Large group planning for implementation

·        A collaborative model

2:20

Break

Aroma’s coffee house

2:40

Session IV

What you take away

4:00

End