ISA COORDINATOR ROLE

I have been teaching for more than 20 years now, that is why I can clearly tell that the teacher’s profile should change into that of a guide, mentor, or leader or simply facilitator

For me, if you want to be an efficient teacher today, you should engineer a truly effective learning environment, where students should be equipped with not only language skills, but also new 21st century life skills such as creativity, innovation, critical thinking, communication,computing, problem solving, and leadership.

Thus, to be up-to-date and set a more enjoyable and permanent learning spirit, we should always have a big trust in an eclectic communicative interactive approach to learning and teaching. But we should never abandon the idea of learning and developing professionally. This is possibly done through different strategies such as consulting references, collaborating with colleagues, attending workshops and conferences (both real and virtual), creating teaching sites and blogs, joining social groups and sharing new trends in teaching, and finally keeping track of the new things we learn on our personal journal or online portfolios. All this was generously accessible in this experience of INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL AWARD IN COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND THE BRITISH COUNCIL.

I feel really lucky that I accepted to take part in the International school award. In fact, this experience is of the most importance since it involves creativity, innovation, collaboration, as watchwords and keys to success.

To succeed all I had to do was to develop the following six core skills in me first, my students and colleagues and partners around the world:

 Creativity and imagination.

 Digital literacy.

 Critical thinking and problem solving.

 Students’ leadership.

 Collaboration and communication.

 Citizenship.

This is what I did:

As an ISA member, I benefited – in technical knowledge, career and skills development, shared experiences and successes, networked with other colleagues and gained lasting friendship and belonging to a great circle of acquaintances all over the world.

Now I gained higher self-esteem, better self-image, higher proficiency, and professionalism

The International Dimension Co-ordinatorshould promote International Awareness throughoutthe school, the wider school community and the local community.

This can be achieved by:

 Arranging international activities within the school.

 Inviting visitors from other countries into school.

 Initiating communication links with other schools around the world.

 Reporting to staff and governors as appropriate.

 Providing articles about recent international work for the school magazine.

 Informing the local media of international events taking place in the school. As an International Coordinator, I had :

 To have overall responsibility for successfully applying for the International School Award.

 To be responsible for conducting an annual audit outlining the schools action plan fordeveloping an International Dimension.

 To contribute towards a school policy statement on the International Dimension.

 To develop an International dimension throughout the school by helping colleagues develop cross-curricular projects within each year group.

 To help the school celebrate the rich and diverse cultural heritage and ethnic diversitywithin the school through the assemblies, international days/weeks, etc.

 To plan for the International Dimension by liaising with all staff.

 To regularly evaluate the impact of international activities.

 To develop and maintain resources to promote the International Dimension.

 To develop, monitor and support global school links and exchanges.

 To liaise with and support visitors from other countries.