Are you interested in seeing how teachers implement Word Inquiry in their classrooms?
Join the first-ever wordtorque online conference and see how Word Inquiry educators develop their students’ orthographic understanding, knowledge and skills. Pick up tips to get started or to further refine your practice.
USD $100 per participant (charged as HKD$780)
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USD $100 per participant (charged as HKD$780)
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You’ll get to hear from 50 teachers and tutors around the world as they talk you through the practical application of Word Inquiry:
Investigation Insights
- Presenters will take you through an inquiry on a specific topic such as investigating a word family or exploring a suffixing convention
- 20-30 minute sessions
- A teacher resource handout you can use with your students
- The opportunity to join a Q&A about the presentation
Ready, Set, Go!
- Presenters will explain how they establish the use of tools, processes and routines needed to get going with Word Inquiry.
- 20-30 minute sessions
- A teacher resource handout you can use with your students
- The opportunity to join a Q&A about the presentation
Quick Consolidations
- Presenters will show you one game or activity they use to consolidate student learning
- 5 - 10 minute sessions
- Some activities will have a handout - others you just watch to learn the game
Conference Format:
- 50 video presentations ranging from 5 - 30 minutes in length
- Practical content made by teachers for teachers
- Hosted on the interactive Whova conference app and website
- View on-demand for a month
- Live 15 minute Q&A session to discuss the ins and outs of the longer presentations - an optional extra
When:
March 21 - April 17, 2022: Participants have on-demand access to all presentations for 4 weeks
Saturday April 2: Live Q&A sessions via Zoom, giving you the opportunity to chat with the presenters of the longer sessions
Cost:
Option 1: Individual Conference Participant Registration
USD $100 per participant (charged as HKD$780)
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Option 2: Institutional Discount Participant Registration (for 10 or more participants)
USD $80 per participant (charged as HKD$625 per participant)
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$100 for well over 10 hours of content!
Word Inquiry combines the teaching of foundational spelling and decoding skills while strengthening vocabulary and building students’ critical thinking.
Word Inquiry in Action is a wordtorque conference of pre-recorded video sessions presented by teachers who are currently implementing Word Inquiry in their classrooms. There will also be the opportunity to join some live Zoom Q&A session with the presenters.
- You will receive a log-in code before the March 21st opening, along with instructions regarding how to access all the sessions in your own time zone.
- You can also chat with other conference participants and presenters via the Whova app.
- Fit your Professional Learning into your busy lives - schedule your own learning with videos conveniently accessible for 4 weeks.
- Receive a personalized certificate of attendance.
- Pick up tips to get started or to further refine your practice.
Examples of Presentations:
Investigation Inquiries - diving into investigations on specific topics
- Are all letters in a word pronounced?
- How can we build Math vocabulary through Word Inquiry?
- How do you study high frequency words?
- How do we know which words are related?
Ready, Set, Go! - learning about how to set yourself up for success
- Becoming Word Detectives
- Tools and Processes for Determining Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences
- What could your week of Word Inquiry look like?
- Differentiating Word Inquiry with Learning Support students
Quick Consolidations
- The Structure Game
- Word cards for Word Sorts
- Roll a Suffix Game
- Analyzing and Tap-spelling Bases
- Word Tennis
Educators presenting at this conference include professionals working at the following schools from around the world:
- United Nations International School, Vietnam
- NIST International School, Thailand
- International School Bangkok, Thailand
- Bangkok Patana School, Thailand
- Hong Kong Academy, Hong Kong
- Renaissance College Hong Kong
- Kingston International School, Hong Kong
- Western Academy of Beijing, China
- International School Manila, Philippines
- Jakarta Intercultural School, Indonesia
- United World College of South East Asia, East Campus, Singapore
- Luanda International School, Angola
- International Community School Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Dresden International School, Germany
- American School of Warsaw, Poland
- Holy Trinity School, ACT Australia
- Torrens Primary School, ACT Australia
- Waimea Heights Public School, TAS Australia
- Arawang Primary School, ACT Australia
- The Nueva School, California USA
- Wildwood School, California USA
- Fenton Public Schools, Michigan USA
There are also a number of presentations by tutors who work with small groups or individual students.