3 minute read
Session 5
11:10-12:25
DENNIS SALE -- The ‘Thinking Curriculum’: A Practical Framework for Promoting Good Thinking (Part 2)
This workshop demonstrates the key design steps in developing a practical whole curriculum approach for promoting critical and creative thinking in any curriculum area. The framework has been developed over many years of applied research in systematically infusing thinking throughout the curriculum development cycle (e.g., learning outcomes, instructional methods, assessment, etc).
PAUL WHITE -- Taking Learning On-line: Developing An On-line Curriculum to Support Teaching and Learning
This workshop will look at how to develop an online curriculum and use it effectively to support teaching and independent learning, both in and outside the classroom.
RONALD MILES WILDER -- Overcoming Obstacles to Effective Teacher Supervision: What Schools Can Do (Part 2)
Overcoming teacher antipathy and ambivalence toward the evaluation process is essential to fulfilling the legitimate purposes of teacher evaluation: accountability and improvement of instruction. This presentation is based on findings from research on the evaluation structures of schools and qualifications of administrators in the EARCOS region in their evaluation of teachers.
JEFF UTECHT -- Beyond E-Mail – Communicating in the 21st Century (Part 2)
Many schools rely on e-mail as their main line of communication with students, parents, the community, and even among staff. The new World Wide Web, known as Web 2.0, is allowing schools to move beyond e-mail and communicate in a variety of ways. Through the use of podcasts, blogs, Google tools, and other new free web based programs, schools can communicate in more effective and relevant ways with their audience. Come learn what communicating in the 21st Century looks like. (Participants are encouraged to bring laptops)
ROLAND YOSHIDA -- Becoming Empowered by Doing Action Research
We will conclude the topics presented at the preconference workshop by developing research plans for you to implement in your schools.
Penang
Kedah
Johore
Selangor
Perak
12:30-13:45
ART COSTA - Mediating the Metacognitive: Thinking About Your Thinking
What goes on in your head when you think? Such a question invites others to talk aloud about their problem solving—a characteristic of quality thinkers. In this session participants will learn how to engage others’ minds and to conduct dialogues intended to increase awareness and skill in thinking and talking about thinking.
KEVIN DOWNING -- Adding Value to Students Through Institutional Research
This presentation will describe and demonstrate the use of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory as an institutional research tool which can be used to evidence value added to students by both curricular and co-curricular activities. It also considers the value of data from this type of institutional research in bringing about evidence-based institutional change.
JUDITH GUY & EDWARD LAWLESS -- Making it Happen – Implementing IB programmes in Asia Pacific Schools
This presentation aims to give an overview of the three IB programs—the underpinning philosophy, the implied pedagogy, and the challenges for change agents in schools. The discussion will include a perspective on the Learner Profile being adopted across all three programs and examine strategies adopted to enhance articulation between the primary years, middle years, and diploma program. Information on authorization standards and procedures for schools adopting the programs in Asia Pacific region will be available.
JOHN LITTLEFORD -- Powerful Trade Offs: The Nine Sacred Cows of Income and Expense
Relying on tuition alone may not be enough to ensure the fiscal health of international schools. Since most have a weak giving culture (if there is any charitable giving tradition at all), balancing creatively the sources of income and the demands for expense is crucial to the long term health of schools. On the income side, most schools overlook profit centers, increasingly the margin of excellence for independent and international schools.This session will show how to balance the trade offs of income and expense most effectively while honoring a school’s unique culture and how to build and expand profit centers that can generate one million annually of net income on a ten million dollar budget.
DENNIS MCLOUGHLIN -- BEWARE: 6 VALLEYS OF DEATH. STAY AWAY – EXCEL-BE HAPPY!
Beware: 6 valleys of death. Stay away and live to tell your grandchildren you were an educational leader. Visible only to high trust leaders, not to Harvard Business School, not to Wharton Business School,....up your leadership!
