Session 5
SATURDAY | 3 November 2012
14:00-15:15
Room
JENNIFER ABRAMS Leadership KELANTAN Being Generationally Savvy: Working Effectively With Educators across the Generations Millennials, Gen Xers, Baby Boomers, Veterans—what are the implications of how your generation works with other generations in your school? What are the strengths and needs of each generation? What structures and communication protocols should we design to work well with them all? This session will provide tools and resources on this increasingly intriguing topic. BAMBI BETTS Instruction /Learning PERAK Well Known Facts about Learning… What Are You Doing about Them? During the past two decades, it has become possible for neuroscientists to study live brains (which is clearly much more useful than dead brains!). That has resulted in at least a handful of ‘truisms’ about how learning happens which are of critical importance to anyone involved in teaching and learning. In this session we will: present a few of these facts; challenge each other to determine what practices in our schools are consistent with these facts and which are not (yes, sadly, there will be a few!); share some ideas about how to bring our teaching practices more into line with these learnings. Relevant to those leading at all levels.
SESSION 5
CAROL COMMODORE Leadership SELANGOR Understanding How Innovation Is Practiced within Educational Organizations: Four Essential Leadership Practices within Innovative Systems This session will extend to the essential leadership practices that support the attributes of innovative systems and are rooted in the elements of change. They are part of a continuum of leadership behavior that supports improvement as well as innovation. This session will focus on this continuum of leadership behavior and the paradoxes they produce. DALE COX Recruitment PENANG Teacher Recruitment: Who Are the Candidates and What Are They Looking for in Schools? This workshop will present the results and implications of recent research on international teacher recruitment involving more than 1,500 recruits from CIS, ISS, and SEARCH Associates, providing a profile of the candidates and how they approached the recruiting process. It analyzes their perceptions of schools based on characteristics such as experience, partner status, dependents, preferred teaching level, and others. Discussions will focus on implications for teacher recruitment. MAXINE DRISCOLL Strategic Planning TRAINING ROOM So It’s Time to Create a New Strategic Plan This presentation will outline a creative way to develop an interactive strategic plan for your school community. Prem Tinsulanonda International School, Chiang Mai, Thailand, will be presented as a case study. Participants will learn of the drivers of change and how to use future thinking when developing a strategic plan. MARC FRANKEL School Board KEDAH Using Board and Head Evaluation to Build Leadership Capacity Board self-evaluations and comprehensive head of school evaluations can be much more than mere appraisals. Done well, each is a critical part of building leadership capacity in schools. This workshop will include a walk-through of rubrics for board and head evaluation, including a menu of three models for gathering and processing feedback about the head’s performance. AIMEE GRUBER / TK OSTROM Admissions LEMON GARDEN TERRACE The Customer’s Perspective: Efficiencies & Customer Service in Admission Understanding your customers’ (applicants’) experience will enhance your ability to provide relevant information, increase enrollment, and create life-long relationships. What is the enrollment process like for applicants and parents? How might the admission office interface with other departments? Consider online applications and “paperless” operations. Go from paper to purpose! CHIP BARDER / ETTIE ZILBER Governance Models SABAH ANTE ROOM Profit Vs. Non Profit Schools Most new international schools are identified as “for profit.” What is not clear is: What are the definitions of “for profit” and “not for profit” schools? Is either intrinsically bad or good? Can profit-driven and mission-driven exist in the same institution? Are the accreditation standards any different? What are the kinds of questions a teacher or administrative candidate should be sure to ask when seeking a position in a “for profit” school? JAY McTIGHE Instruction/Learning JOHORE Establishing School-wide Learning Principles Education is a learning profession. Accordingly, schools and teachers should be guided by established principles of learning. In this session, we will examine the benefits of having an explicit set of learning principles, and learn two practical and proven processes for engaging staff in identifying them for your school. ALAN NOVEMBER Leadership SARAWAK Leadership: Managing the Transition This workshop outlines essential skills for leadership to begin the process of aligning our schools to prepare students for the realities of the global economy while maintaining a commitment to standards. Establishing new basic skills of information and communication literacy; Staff development planning; Aligning technology to critical curriculum areas; Shifting from technology planning to information and communication planning; Managing fear and hope; and Building collegiality. 28
EARCOS Leadership Conference 2012