Session 9
SATURDAY | 31 October 2015
14:00-15:15
Room
KELLY ARMITAGE / ANDY DAVIES Supervision Evaluation MYANMAR 3 How to Create and Sustain a Teacher Appraisal System that Truly Makes a Difference for Student Learning A few years ago, International School Bangkok “re-engineered” its teacher appraisal system to focus on student learners. We moved from focusing on teacher behaviors in the classroom, to focusing on student learning, teacher reflection, learning data, and professional conversations. We will share what progress we have made in the past couple of years, some bumps in the road, successes, and advice for making this paradigm shift sustainable in schools. LOUISE FAVARO Student Relationships BRUNEI 2 Resilience and Responsibility Model: Managing the Parents Some parents are quick to assume that their child is being bullied, or rush to blame others when their child has done something wrong, particularly when they don’t have all the facts. This session focuses on managing parents, including those who ‘defend,’ ’ ‘rescue,‘ enable,’ or make their child into a ‘victim.’ MAXINE DRISCOLL Change Drivers MYANMAR 1 Global and Local Drivers of Change Discover how to use drivers of change and help your school plan to meet the needs of 21st century learners. Maxine will share insights gained from the recent International Conference of Thinking 2015 held in Bilbao, Spain.
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JANE HYUN Conflict to Collaboration GARDEN GALLERY Effective Conflict Strategies: Building Collaborative Relationships No matter your job function, title, or level, it is critical that you build cooperation with your colleagues and team members, and develop strategies for managing those who might be more difficult. In this workshop, you will learn powerful tools for skillfully managing difficult situations, and discover techniques to be culturally sensitive in your assertiveness, so that you can develop and strengthen meaningful work and social relationships. MIKE JOHNSTON Technology / Student Safety MALAYSIA Growing Up Digital Today’s young people connect, collaborate, and innovate media. But who helps them reflect on the implications of their actions? Who empowers them to make responsible, respectful, and safe choices about how they use the powerful digital tools at their command? A clearly articulated and well-implemented digital ditizenship plan gives students and parents the tools and curricula they need to guide a generation in becoming responsible digital citizens. In this session we will look at combining values and IT skills in an effective way. How do middle schools tackle the issues, work with parents, and keep their community safe and focused on the learning? We cannot afford to simply build fences or put up walls around the pool—it is time to teach them how to swim. LAURA LIPTON Leadership VALLEY 1 & 2 Making Meetings Work Meetings have the potential to build and strengthen collaborative relationships while getting important tasks accomplished. This interactive session offers methods and strategies for turning meetings from obligations to opportunities. Learn ways to maximize meeting productivity in a minimum amount of time. Practical tools for balancing participation, focusing energy and attention, sharing and processing information, and engaging collaboratively around tough-totalk-about topics will be explored. Time for specific application to participant work settings will be provided. DOUGLAS OTA Student Transitions MYANMAR 2 How To Do Something Essential That Can’t Be Done on Your Own: Addressing Transitions through Networks of “Safe Passage” Schools Worldwide Are you seriously interested in mobility issues at international schools? Have you already been involved in addressing mobility, or have the themes in one or more of Ota’s workshops piqued your attention? The introduction in this final workshop quickly guides you to the collision of two big ideas: transitions must be addressed for optimal learning to occur, but no single school can accomplish the task alone, because the issues span multiple schools. What should educators do? Ota’s final workshop is the first known attempt to provide educators with a platform to discuss the macro-challenges involved in addressing mobility at international schools worldwide. How do you address an issue that transcends single schools? Are networks of “Safe Passage” schools possible? Are nascient networks already emerging? What role could accreditation play in the future? Come join the debate, and help shape the future of how transitions gets addressed at international schools! MARTIN SKELTON Assessment INDONESIA Knowledge and Skills — Learned, Taught, and Assessed Differently As we think more about learning, it becomes clear that we need to develop a better appreciation of the ways in which the learning we hope our students will acquire differs in some crucial ways. During this session, we’ll be working to tease out what these differences are and the impact they have on our practice in our classrooms and schools. BERNADETTE VAN HOUTEN Intercultural Communication SINGAPORE Cross-Cultural Discourse in an International School Context Ensuring cultural inclusiveness within the school and externally with the host community strengthens staff cohesion and morale. This session will address methods of promoting positive discourse, civility, and a pluralistic mindset as well as recognition and management of cross-cultural conflict and harassment.
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