November 19, 2009 at 11:37 pm · Filed under BTG Conference 2009 and tagged: 21st Century Education, BTG, BTG 2009, conference, professional development, ybtg09, YIS
Educators often help students prepare portfolios for goal setting and to record progression in learning. But who is helping the teachers do the same? Are teacher portfolios a necessary part of teaching? For educators in international schools, a teacher portfolio may be the best way to consolidate teaching materials and reflect on their work as they travel the world. In this presentation we will relate and discuss student to teacher portfolios, how to get started or make your teacher portfolio better, and what things to be conscious of when sharing your work with an audience that extends beyond the classroom.
Christine Usyak is Elementary ICT Facilitator at Yokohama International School, and an education, sports, culture, and music enthusiast. Passionate about using Web 2.0 and social media and how it affects learning. Made in Tokyo, raised in international schools. http://cu08.info/
November 19, 2009 at 11:35 pm · Filed under BTG Conference 2009 and tagged: 21st Century Education, BTG, BTG 2009, conference, professional development, ybtg09, YIS
The first teachers were great storytellers. They passed their culture’s history, culture, and wisdom from generation to generation through poetry, tales, and songs. The development of digital technology and Web 2.0 tools has provided new ways to share old and new lessons in ways that engage the diverse learning styles of today’s learners. Participants in this workshop will come to listen, watch, and engage in conversations about some old and new stories. They will leave with a broader understanding of the strong connections between the world’s oldest pedagogy and its newest tools.
Any Century Learning and Leadership Facilitator Chris Toy has over 30 years of experience as a teacher, principal, university instructor, presenter and writer. He has worked with educators, school boards, students, and parents nationally and internationally in collaboration with EARCOS, NMSA, and Apple in the US, Canada, Japan, and Asia. Chris’s work has been published by NASSP, NAESP, NMSA, Meridian Online Journal, and others. His highly interactive and engaging style reflects a strong belief that effective leaders must “Walk the Talk” and model the same effective educational practices they want to see in their colleagues and faculty.
November 19, 2009 at 11:33 pm · Filed under BTG Conference 2009 and tagged: 21st Century Education, BTG, BTG 2009, conference, professional development, ybtg09, YIS
One aspect of managing educational innovation that all writers concerned with that topic appear to agree on is its complexity. Whether addressing, for example, the multiple contexts any educational innovation takes place within, the people who must act to effect an innovation or the effects of the innovations themselves, the complexity of the processes involved never appears to be in question.
However change and innovation are inevitable and necessary. As societies change so their institutions change and is has been suggested that as the world we live in increases in complexity, the way schools are currently structured is no longer appropriate. If that is the case, failure will follow any planning which is based on the premise that schools are rational organisations which exist in an uncertain world, where “change, fluidity, loss of identity and meaning, unpredictability, alienation and anomie reign”.
The presentation and discussion to follow will work from these premises and aim to generate ideas and strategies, which can be used to try and ensure planned change is successful.
Stephen McIlroy is High School Curriculum Coordinator and IBDP Coordinator at YIS.
November 19, 2009 at 11:30 pm · Filed under BTG Conference 2009 and tagged: 21st Century Education, BTG, BTG 2009, conference, professional development, ybtg09, YIS
A discussion about some of the new trends in education in Mathematics. How can we better prepare our students for the future by using the tools of the present?
Sergio Mejia has a scientist degree in Theoretical Physics. He has over 18 years experience with computational mathematics and algebra systems. He has been beta tester for diverse Mathematics Software used in High School.
November 19, 2009 at 11:29 pm · Filed under BTG Conference 2009 and tagged: 21st Century Education, BTG, BTG 2009, conference, professional development, ybtg09, YIS
There has been much media surrounding such labels as ‘Digital Natives’, the ‘Net Generation’, ‘New Millennium Learners’ and so on. Some educational research is critical of such terms. I would like to discuss what educational research can tell us in this area and what questions we would want educational research to provide us with the answers to.
Simon Lorimer has taught science at YIS for the past 18 years, and taught in HK and UK before that. In 2005 he completed a Masters Degree in Science Education at Curtin University in Perth, Australia with an emphasis on learning environment research.
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