Session 6
FRIDAY | 30 October 2015
11:15-12:30
Room
HARVEY ALVY Leadership CORUNDUM Searching for Educational Ideas that Work: Promoting Initiatives of Substance and Avoiding Harmful Fads To successfully meet student and teacher needs, school leaders must implement educational reforms and initiatives of substance to promote teaching and learning.Yet, despite the best of intentions, educators have spent millions of dollars on initiatives (often fads) that frequently fail. Although we can never know in advance if a new educational idea will succeed, there are thoughtful strategies that can be used to increase the likelihood of success in order to sustain changes that foster student growth and faculty continuous improvement. During this interactive workshop participants will learn about these strategies by reviewing the red flags that help leaders detect fads, and the practical guidelines needed to promote and support coherent initiatives of substance. After reviewing the strategies, workshop participants will have the opportunity to discuss the dilemmas and pressures that school leaders face to sustain the best traditional teaching and learning strategies while, at the same time, promoting state of the art innovations. CHRIS BETCHER Technology / Virtual Geography CHAO PHRAYA Explore Your World with Google Geo Geo tools are under-utilised in most classrooms. No matter the curriculum area, they offer amazing opportunities to enhance and extend the options for student learning. Google Earth and Maps can be used to explore the world, but Google MyMaps can be used to create your own customised geodatasets. Students can create maps for a huge range of learning purposes by adding markers and pins to maps. And they can also start with data and import it onto a map for deep analysis and to more easily see patterns in the data. Hands on session: bring a computer, or Chromebook. THOM FARRELL / VICTOR BOULANGER / YU-LIN CHEN Facilities for Innovation and Creativity MYANMAR 3 Use Design to Build a Better School Learn how the collaboration between a genius team of architects and the school community gave birth to the new Kaohsiung American School, a campus built for creativity and innovation.The presentation will highlight the leadership’s focus on curriculum, the architect’s’ creation of cross-pollinating spaces, and the integration of technology across the entire school.
MARC FRANKEL Strategic Planning MYANMAR 1 Making Strategy when Nothing Is Certain Traditional approaches to strategy assume that leaders can predict an organization’s future accurately enough to choose a clear, unambiguous strategic direction. But when the future is truly uncertain, such an approach is at best marginally helpful and at worst extremely dangerous. A new framework for thinking about strategy can help. This workshop will explore that framework and will give participants an opportunity to apply it to their schools. We find strategy becomes more important, not less, when things are “up in the air.” Getting it right is crucial. CHRIS GOULD Teacher Recruitment and Selection PHILIPPINES Recruitment & Screening of School Staff Chris will give an overview of good practice guidelines that exist with respect to how international schools should manage the recruitment of teachers and other staff. The workshop will include a review of some of the lessons learnt from recent cases where the recruitment practices have failed, together with an explanation as to relevance of ‘safer’ recruitment as it sits within the context of a comprehensive safeguarding framework. SCOTT HAYDEN Conflict Resolution NEXT 2 Conflict, Allergies, and Motor Oil: Turning Disagreements into Opportunities You can respond to everyday conflict in ways that build relationships and promote your highest values. Four spiritual principles guide us through the tangle of all kinds of disagreements, from classroom to boardroom. Springing out of select biblical writings of traditional Christianity, people of all faiths or no faith can find guidance. Learn how to: reorient yourself to what matters; take responsibility for your contribution to a conflict; gently help others do the same; reach mutually agreeable resolutions. JANE HYUN Leadership THE GARDEN GALLERY Flexing Your Personal Style Whether you are driven by the bottom line or energized by thorough analysis, we each bring a preferred relating style to our organizations. In this session, you will learn how to manage your core style while developing “flex” skills that will allow you to be more effective with those who have your opposite style. This session is highly interactive and offers an opportunity to practice skills in a low-risk environment. MIKE JOHNSTON Leadership MALAYSIA Systems Thinking Systems thinking deepens learning by providing a structured and interdisciplinary method to tackle complex issues. Those attending will learn and share examples of how systems thinking can be successfully integrated into K-12 education. “Compass Education” aims to equip schools as learning communities to act for a sustainable future. This growing collaboration between schools not only helps to improve student learning, but also creates a better world.
“Think Globally, Learn Locally. ”
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MARGARET ALVAREZ / CLARISSA SAYSON / CATHERINE STEINER-ADAIR / ANNA MARSDEN THE STUDY Job-Alike — Women in Leadership Have you wondered how to support the aspiring women leaders in your school? In what ways might women in leadership positions be encouraged to take the next step? This session will actively engage participants in exploring the issues that women might face when holding or aspiring to a position of leadership.
