PEI Teachers' Federation

April 5, 2008 Issue #10

"EARLY CHILDHOOD BILINGUALISM: PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES"

The Canadian Council on Learning is pleased to inform you that the fifth speaker of the Minerva Lecture Series will soon be visiting Charlottetown. On Monday, April 21st, Dr. Fred Genesee will be giving a free, public talk at the Institute for Nutrisciences and Health’s lecture theatre at UPEI at 3:00 PM. The title of his lecture is “Early childhood bilingualism: Perils and possibilities”. We believe this presentation will appeal to anyone interested in issues pertaining to bilingualism in education, second language learners, immersion, and the challenges associated with accommodating the varied needs of learners from varied cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Dr. Genesee is a world-renowned scholar of bilingualism, language development and language immersion programs, a Professor of Psychology at McGill University and the author of numerous scientific research books and reports on language learning in children. We would be grateful for your assistance in circulating this message to your members, colleagues, and staff who might benefit from attending this event. Teachers, in particular, might be able to count this event toward mandated professional development requirements. The Minerva Lecture Series was created by the Canadian Council on Learning to foster discussion between Canadian learning researchers and citizens from across the country. It is a unique opportunity to understand how research can inform and affect students’ learning and the everyday work of educators across the country. It also offers participants a chance to discover why learning and education are topics that matter to everyone. For additional information on Dr. Genesee’s talk or our series in general, please visit the Minerva Lecture Series page on the Canadian Council on Learning’s website at http://www.ccl-cca.ca/minervaseries

PARLIAMENT OF CANADA - TEACHERS INSTITUTE

PARLEMENT DU CANADA - FORUM DES ENSEIGNANTES ET DES ENSEIGNANTS

PERIMETER INSTITUTE FREE PROGRAMS FOR TEACHERS

Summer Camps: The EinsteinPlus Teacher Workshop is a free one-week, intensive residential workshop for Canadian and international high school teachers that focuses on key areas of modern physics — including quantum physics, special and general relativity, and cosmology. It also incorporates sessions on innovative teaching strategies suitable for all areas of physics. Deadline for applications is April 15, 2008. Please note: Perimeter Institute will cover all expenses within Canada, including transportation, accommodations, meals, and activities.

Perimeter Explorations: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) has created a new turnkey classroom resource designed to help science teachers introduce and guide students through a variety of topics in physics. The lessons, known as Perimeter Explorations, are viewable online and are the product of collaborations between Perimeter Institute’s international researchers, outreach staff, and experienced educators. The first installment, The Mystery of Dark Matter, has been designed with both the expert and novice teacher in mind. The full kit is free to educators while quantities last and includes a 25 minute DVD, Teacher Notes and Student Worksheets. This new resource fulfills the number one request from the hundreds of educators who attend the Institute’s popular ‘EinsteinPlus Workshops on Modern Physics’ – to receive PI’s lessons in a turn-key format that teachers can use in-class. For further information contact Anne Little, alittle@perimeterinstute.ca

CALL FOR PAPERS – ORAL HISTORY FORUM
DEADLINE: 1 JULY 2008

Oral History Forum is the journal of the Canadian Oral History Association. It serves as the premier meeting place for scholars, archivists, librarians, community activists and others who use oral history in their explorations of the past and present. For its inaugural volume as an electronic journal, Oral History Forum invites the submission of scholarly articles for peer review as well as reviews, discussions, artwork and other contributions in the field of oral history and oral tradition. The online launch of this volume is planned for September 2008. Oral History Forum is international in authorship and content. We invite contributions from all disciplines and from academics, students, K-12 teachers, community historians, activists, artists, and others. Topics may include but are not limited to:

Using oral history in the classroom (K-12, college, university, adult education etc.)

Connections between oral history and oral tradition

Oral history methods

Oral history and working-class history, women’s and gender history, the history of race, ethnicity and migration, indigenous history, environmental history, folklore studies, anthropology, sociology, etc.

Art as oral history – oral history as art

In addition to peer-reviewed articles, contributions may include:

Reviews of books and other publications, museum exhibits, movies and documentaries, and plays;

Reviews of digital technologies, including recording equipment and digitization of analog recordings;

Work in progress and project reports;

Sound or aural essays/features

Annotated transcripts and audio or video recordings

Interviews, including roundtables, with oral history practitioners such as teachers who use oral history in the classroom (audio and/or transcript) - Short experience reports (e.g. descriptions of oral history teaching units or projects)

Examples of student work in oral history

Plays, fiction, poetry, and other works of art, including non-textual works of art

Deadline for submissions is 1 July 2008. Submit queries and contributions to forum@uwinnipeg.ca.

Notes for authors: Submit files in Microsoft Word or RTF document file format. Text should be double-spaced; use Times Roman 12-point font; employ italics, rather than underlining (except for URL addresses); all illustrations, figures, and tables should be placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. The text should adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. Use endnotes rather than footnotes. If submitting to the peer-reviewed section (Articles), remove the author’s name. Remove the author's name from the document's Properties, which in Microsoft Word is found in the File menu. The submissions may include audio and video files.

YOUR ENERGY - A RENEWABLE RESOURCE

Atlantic Canada Society for Bioenergetic Analysis presents: Your Energy A Renewable Resource at Work and Home with Louise Fréchette, Psychologist - Friday, April 25, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. - Mount St. Mary’s, 141 Mount Edward Road, Charlottetown, PEI. Workshop Highlights: While the number of hours in our day is fixed, your capacity to renew energy is not. High levels of energy enhance our ability to concentrate, meet deadlines, make decisions, create work/life balance and enjoy the things in life tht matter most to us. When our energy wanes, joy and satisfaction in life are hard to maintain. What are the keys to boosting energy and allowing it to flow freely? This workshop will offer a bioenergetic (body/mind) approach to energy, and present ways to increase the quality and quantity of your energy. The results will allow you to access more and more of your energy potential and to cope more efficiently with stress and challenges not only at work but also at home.

About the presenter: Louise Fréchette is an International Trainer with the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis. She is a psychologist, therapist and writer, and has presented workshops and training around the world.

For further information: http://www.isn.net/bioenergetics, e-mail: bdoyle@isn.net or 894-3244.