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Session 9
15:30-16:45
ALAN CONKEY / GAIL SCHOPPERT -- School Board Policy
This one-hour session will differentiate between policy and procedures. It delves into the importance of why schools need to be run by policy rather than on an ad hoc basis or by individual directors’ personalities.
DAVID KOUTSOUKIS -- Creative Tools for Managing Student Behavior
This session outlines a formula for effective behavior management and emphasizes the importance of a whole school approach. David will cover a range of practical ideas and strategies from his widely acclaimed book the “Behavior Management Toolkit.” Powerful, practical ideas you can use in your school the very next day.
ISKANDAR RIZAL -- Man versus Machine in the Laptop-Enabled School Sponsored by APPLE INC.
Technology without content is futile and wasteful. And over the last seven years, the technology integration program at Cempaka International Schools has provided a lot of learning—both through success and failure—in its partnership with Apple. In this session, Dr. Rizal will address questions that current and aspiring technology schools need answered from an administrator’s perspective. How can I help my teachers adopt technology in useful ways? What helps keep teachers and students focused on the content, rather than the tool? And how can this ethos of learning be facilitated, rather than distracted, by the tools themselves? Dr. Rizal will draw on his history as an educator, administrator and executive to shed light on the challenges and opportunities of becoming a digital school with a purpose.
VIRGINIA FOLEY -- Trauma: Strategies for Management and Resilience
Earthquake, cyclone, terrorism, grief, relocation and loss. Who is immune? Play a critical role in providing an environment for overcoming the effects of trauma and relating to others in non-violent ways. You will understand the dynamics of trauma for youth and adults and learn how to build resilience.
DON MIRON -- Ubiquitous Computing and An Inquiry-Based Classroom: A Model for Live-long Learning
This workshop is designed for teachers and administrators who are currently using or planning to implement 1:1 laptop/handheld programs. The topic will examine not only the pedagogical foundations for ubiquitous computing and how it enhances an inquirybased learning environment, but also how the skills developed in such classrooms can be translated into lifelong learning skills. How to develop and deliver lessons using this model will be introduced with the intention of giving participants a view of what an effective “ Anytime, Anywhere” connected classroom looks like.
JORGE NELSON / RONALD MONTGOMERY -- Education Beyond the 21st Century: Constructing A Sustainable Legacy
To prepare students for success in life, schools need to expand traditional programs by addressing creativity, global issues, emotional intelligence and technology. With this new, well-rounded program educators will guide students in constructing successful solutions for their individual futures as well as for the continuing future of the world.
CHRIS ROOSE -- Individual Security Measures
Never more pertinent than now, it is important to be prepared for all emergencies in our continually changing world. This seminar is designed to help each individual establish levels of personal security and how to avoid being a “soft target.”
ANTHONY SKILLICORN / SUSAN EDWARDS -- Meeting the Rischard Challenge (Repeat)
How might an international school build a programme that will empower students to address global issues in a meaningful way? How do educational institutions link the curriculum to the practicalities of addressing global problems? Using the United World College of South East Asia’s Global Concerns programme as a spring board, we provide a model for schools to actively address ten of the ‘20 Global Problems’ as identified by Jean-Francois Rischard.
DAN KENNEDY -- Building A World-Class Marketing Plan for Your School
Any solid marketing plan has three components: Assessment, Branding & Building a Communication Plan. This workshop will present a framework adapted from the global marketing giant Procter & Gamble. Topics addressed to include: market evaluation, competitive analysis, ‘customer’ research, segmentation, defining your proposition, using an agency vs. in-house, establishing measurable communication objectives and examining the Return On Investment (ROI) of your marketing spending.
JIM HAUSMAN / MEDARD GABEL -- “Be the World” Aboard A Gym-Sized Full-Planet Map of Spaceship Earth (Part 2)
WorldDay “Be the World” participants play out an Earth history timeline and a roll call of present-day humanity on a gymnasiumsize distortion-free flat map of planet Earth. Through activities and thought experiments, profound perceptual shifts re-enliven forgotten senses– of scale, dimension, perspective, balance, belonging, engagement, and empowerment. Participants store “in their bones” newfound experiential sensations of the scales of time and space, the robustness of life, the incredible improbabilities creating the current condition, the dense interconnectedness of simple factors that emerge as complex systems, and an awareness that, like the 40,000 generations that have preceded ours, individual actors can and do make huge, often undreamed, differences.
