This breakout details a variety of astronomy related activities useful for teachers who wish to encourage students to appreciate and experience Gods handiwork. There will also be a quick sky tour along with a brief discussion of distant starlight in a created universe. Presented from the perspective of an amateur astronomer with 40+ years of considering the heavens.

In elementary grades, it is easy to overlook the fictional elements of story. We tend to focus only on the important skills of comprehension and word building. This breakout is designed to aid your reading class by expanding your teaching strategies in emphasizing the fictional elements of a story. You will participate with some hands-on activities that will give you ideas to implement in the reading class with any reading curriculum.

High school history class can offer the student a deeper understanding of the human condition across the ages. Engage with my reflections on teaching high school history as it relates to content scope and instruction. I have taught high school history at Terre Hill Mennonite High School for five years.

As teachers, we can either accentuate our students learning and behavior needs or we can support and empower them to rise above their challenges. This breakout will explore a rationale for classroom accommodations, including when and how to appropriately implement them. Specific accommodations for common student challenges will be discussed from the perspective of an elementary teacher of 20 students.

Every successful teacher has personal and private habits and practices. These may vary but they stand behind and before success in the classroom. Important questions to be explored are: What are these habits and practices? How can one adopt, internalize, and make such habits and practices a part of daily life?

The metonymic adage the pen is mightier than the sword is rarely true without some purposeful effort. How can we make our writing and the writing of our students more effective? This session will be geared toward middle school and high school teachers, and presented from the perspective of 34 years in a high school English classroom. Ideas from the participants are welcome.

How do you love the child who constantly pushes the boundaries and does not mesh into your ideal for a smoothly-functioning classroom? The goal of this breakout is to inspire and renew our love for, commitment to, and understanding of the challenging student. Led from the perspective of a 3rd grade teacher with 20 students, this breakout will focus on the needs of elementary teachers.

Because of current parenting trends, fresh attention is needed to encourage parents to ensure their children are getting the solid social, emotional, physical, intellectual, and spiritual foundation they need in preparation for first grade. Lacking that foundation, students are ill-equipped to learn, and teachers cannot do in a few weeks in the classroom what should have been done over the last six years. This breakout provides lower grade teachers and principals with information and recommendat

Johnny shows no physical signs of developmental delay, but early trauma has a part to play in the missing pieces of his development. In Part 2, we want to discuss how we as teachers can help trauma children grow in their ability to cope with life and learn all they can in our classrooms. Although not the only ones affected, foster and adopted children likely experienced trauma in their early life.

A broad overview of geological deposits and processes forming the landscapes of Pennsylvania and surrounding areas, explained in context of the Genesis flood. For middle-to upper-grade teachers who wish to connect earth sciences to the students local landforms from a biblical framework. Presented by an avocational geologist with 20+ years pursuing geological interests.

Love the Lord with your all. Love your neighbor as yourself. These commands capture the essence of godly living. How do we nurture love for God and neighbor in the classroom?