Are you a busy teacher? Do you wonder how you can get everything done? If you are the average WELS teacher, you have a heavy workload. In this sectional, I intend to share information I have gathered from other teachers that help increase efficiency in lesson planning.

I am married to an awesome woman, Tricia, and we have four children: Grace (8), Mahreah (6), Ruby (4), and Jonah (2). My entire ministry has been as principal and upper-grade teacher at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran School of Red Wing, MN. For a few years, I also served as the director of the Senior Choir.

In 1998, I graduated from the STEP program at Martin Luther College. My additional major was choral music. Since that time, I have earned my Wisconsin teaching license, and I am currently finishing up a masters degree in instruction through MLC. In addition, I have learned from the seven student teachers with which I have been privileged to work.

During this workshop, participants will learn the basics of using the Smartboard and how it operates as a teacher's assistant. The various menus will be shown, how to import material from the internet, use of the gallery, how to enhance presentations with special features, and examples of sample lessons will be shown. No knowledge of the Smartboard will be assumed, but beginning users will also learn new techniques to enhance their teaching. Notebook 10.0 will be used.

Professor at Martin Luther College the past 24 years, prior to that taught at Fox Valley Lutheran High School for 16 years. Has taught mathematics for 44 years, and uses the Smartboard in all of his classes. This past summer he presented 5 workshops on using the Smartboard. Considers his assistant, I. M. A. Smartboard, an invaluable tool for instruction.

Have you noticed how "canned" curriculums have become? The lessons are all scripted and planned in such a way that almost anyone could teach the concepts. Unfortunately, you are teaching students who do not learn the prescribed concepts in the exact same way. You task is to reach all students by teaching the material in a variety of ways. This sectional will challenge your way of thinking about your students and classes. Take home some ideas to implement change in your class on Monday morning.

After graduating from Dr. Martin Luther College in 1995, I spent 12 years teaching students in grades 4-8. I was a principal for 2 years and athletic director for 11yrs. I received my Master's Degree from the University of St. Mary's in 2002. It was this program, which led me to discover a new way of teaching people, students and adults. Since that time I have worked to create a community environment within the classroom and school. I have done personal research on leadership and teambuilding, which I have used to develop in-service programs for schools. In the last year, I have used the same principles of learning and teambuilding concepts as a human resources manager to build a community and team in a local ophthalmology practice.

In my sectional I plan to talk with art teachers about the following topics:

1. What we do in the MVL art department.
2. A focus on developing skills in our students.
3. Suggested sources for projects.
4. Suggested reading.

I have been the art teacher at Minnesota Valley Lutheran High School since 2001. I attended Bethany Lutheran College and Minnesota State University and Gustavus Adolphus College to study studio art. The Lord has blessed me with a moderately successful career as a professional artist. The boundaries between the work in my personal studio at home and the work I do with my students gets blurred so that both can benefit from one another. I live in New Ulm with my wife and two children.

I graduated from DMLC in 1987 and have taken graduate level courses at Carthage in Kenosha, the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, and MLC. I began teaching grades 3-4 in Sturgeon Bay, WI. After three years, I accepted a call to Shoreland Lutheran High School in Somers, WI. While there I taught history and music classes and directed two choirs. In 1997 I accepted a call to Luther Prep to teach music classes, direct two choruses, and run the piano program. I ended up coaching both boys' and girls' soccer too and did stints directing the band and brass choir. After five years, I accepted my present call to serve at St. Paul's in New Ulm, MN. Here I am one of two 7-8th grade teachers, direct junior choir, and do some occasional coaching.

I have played piano since I was four, been a church organist since 4th grade, participated in church choirs since 8th grade, and directed various choirs since 1987. I really enjoy doing things that increase the intensity of church song and promoting the use of solid songs of faith.

I have two children: Anna (11th grade) and Philip (9th grade) - both study at MVL.

Outreach

Education:

MLC 2001 (Secondary History)
Cardinal Stritch 2008 (Masters in the Science of Management)

Experience:

Zion, Rhinelander, WI 1999-2000
East Fork, Whiteriver, AZ 2001-2005
Pilgrim, Minneapolis, MN 2005-Present

I served as principal of East Fork Lutheran Grade School and High School. I am now the 7th and 8th grade teacher, at Pilgrim, and also serve a Athletic Director.

The Classroom Walk-through can provide a snapshot of the classroom in action. Learn what to look for during a brief walk through a class, and discover how this process can be an efficient and effective tool for reflective practice and focused collaborative dialogue.

Kim Hartung, EdD, has served as a teacher and administrator for over two decades. She provides continued learning for teachers and educational leaders through professional development state-wide and at Hamine in their MEAd and Administrative Licensure programs.

Participants who attend this rap session will send the moderator one URL of a site that they find most useful or helpful in their work as technology coordinators. During the roundtable, the contributor will be allowed 2-5 minutes to stand up, give the BRIEF overview of the site's (or component's) function and value in a LES.

I retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1995, having served as a construction equipment operator, weather observer and forecaster, space environmental support specialist; and telephone control officer, amongst other things. I graduated from MLC and entered the teaching ministry in 2000, with a teaching assignment for grades 5-6 at Zion Ev. Lutheran, Denver, CO. I accepted the call to Crown of Life Lutheran, West St. Paul, MN, in 2005 and am presently the upper grades science, technology, and social studies teacher.

Christmas Services

What Drives Your Curriculum? How you can take the wheel....

How to build geography skills within the structure of other classes, such as reading, social studies, Bible history, etc. within the Lutheran Elementary School. Resources, ideas, techniques will be shared and participants will share what has worked in their own classrooms.

Currently teaching Physical Geography, Geography of North America, Geography of Latin America, World Regional Geography and United States Government

Carla Melendy has taught at all elementary levels during her years at Trinity, Waukesha, WI, and Atonement, Baltimore, MD. Currently, she is an education professor at Martin Luther College. She teaches elementary methods courses in mathematics and science, and she supervises student teachers in Lutheran schools in the Midwest and in public schools in Minnesota.

Be imitators of God... You are the salt...you are the light...you became imitators...you became a model...set them an example... Scripture redounds with the beauty of the gospel reality that Jesus lives in the lives of his believers. Indeed, Jesus actually says, I in them. The workshop will allow reflection and interaction on the key Biblical themes introduced in the Friday keynote, "Follow Jesus and others follow you!" Make Barnabas your middle name, and encourage each other that gospel ministry is so much more than what we do. It is who we are in Christ.

Previously, I was a parish pastor in Danube, Minnesota and in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. I served as professor of Christian Education and Old Testament at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary for 11 years before moving to New Ulm in July of 2007. My wife, Colette, is a DMLC graduate who has 12 years of teaching experience. She was assigned to Garden Homes Lutheran in Milwaukee and taught there four years until the Lord moved us to Minnesota following my graduation from the seminary. For the last eight years of my ministry at Mequon, Colette was called to teach at Siloah Lutheran, in Milwaukee.

Teaching 21st Century students is a complex, exciting privilege given to each of us in our unique teaching ministries. We will explore the vital connections necessary for effective teaching and successful student learning to take place in every classroom. We will accomplish this by delving deeply into understanding students' learning styles and then make applications to inform and enhance the way we teach them and to create the learning environment needed to support them.Breakout:Teaching to Students' Learning Styles in the Lower Elementary Follow-up. Come with your questions and concerns regarding the keynote presentation. Specific applications to teaching to students' learning styles in your primary grade classrooms will be discussed and modeled.

Creating a Classroom Community Based on research and best practice, a classroom community will be defined philosophically and practically. Instructional, managerial, and assessment strategies will be explored through effective individualistic and cooperative frameworks all leading to creating a collaborative, positive teaching and learning environment. This three hour workshop is open to anyone. It does satisfy the MN licensure renewal requirements for positive behavioral intervention strategies and accommodation, modification, and adaptation of curriculum, materials, and instruction to meet the needs of all learners. A clock hour certificate will be awarded at the conclusion of the workshop. Sign up sheet at secretary's desk.