Teachers Teaching Teachers
Special Events

Dates

November 7, 2009
in the Chapman Dining Commons

Description

Teachers Teaching Teachers:
The Conference for Teachers by Teachers

With Keynote by Daniel Willingham, author of Why Don’t Students Like School?

Continental Breakfast and Lunch included

Sessions presented by teachers from Worcester, Fitchburg, Framingham, Boston Public Schools and Eagle Hill School.

Beneficial for classroom, special education, public and private school teachers.

REGISTERING

EHS Institute alumni receive disounts on admission.  When purchasing your ticket online, please use the following codes:

2009 alumni: "09alum" (the event is free for you)
Other alumni: "pastalum" ($10 discount)

After processing your payment online, please download the registration form here to indicate your workshop choices.

For details about the workshops, view a PDF of the conference brochure here.

ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Daniel Willingham earned his B.A. from Duke University in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Harvard University in 1990. He is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1992. Until about 2000, his research focused solely on the brain basis of learning and memory. Today, all of his research concerns the application of cognitive psychology to K-12 education. He writes the “Ask the Cognitive Scientist” column for American Educator magazine, and is the author of Why Don't Students Like School? (Jossey-Bass). His writing on education has been (or is being) translated into Chinese, French, Korean, Thai, Portuguese, and Russian

Certificate of attendance will be granted upon completion of the conference.

For more information, please email Rebecca Foley Miller at rmiller@ehs1.org. 

Price

2009 EHS Institute alumni: free; other alumni: $15

Performance Schedule

Sat, Nov 7 - 8:00AM