2024 ICTE Fall Conference: Full Schedule

9:15am CDT

The Power of PLAY in the ELA Classroom

Friday October 11, 2024 9:15am - 10:05am CDT

Science tells us play improves optimism, perseverance, connection, problem-solving, and emotional regulation. Play, too, can guide students to higher-level, analytic thinking. In this session, two teachers will share how we've used play in our classrooms, from those full of reticent readers and reluctant writers to the AP classroom. Students (and adults) benefit from play as an onramp to creativity. Come to play, and leave with dozens of at-the-ready play ideas to enhance the learning in your classroom!

Link to Presentation
Link to Poems

Contact Us:
Haley Moehlis: moehlish@wdmcs.org
Allison Berryhill: aberryhill@atlanticiaschools.org

Speakers

Allison Berryhill

ICTE Publications Coordinator, Atlantic High School

Please ask me to play the accordion in the club room! I will also talk about poetry, teacher-writers, what everyone is reading, the NCTE George Orwell Award, and how ICTE helps me connect to other teachers who want to do right by our students.

Haley Moehlis

Valley High School

Haley Moehlis teaches AP Literature and Composition, Advanced Creative Writing, and Film as Literature at Valley High School in West Des Moines, IA. She loves: coffee, the Oxford comma, making things, sunrises, Pilot G2.38 pens, reading, capturing daily musings in her notebook, the... Read More →

Friday October 11, 2024 9:15am - 10:05am CDT
Pioneer (Lower Level)

Reading Struggling Learners Advanced Learners Interdisciplinary Speaking/Listening