Dear Colleagues:
We are pleased to invite you to this year's Spring Heads' Meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. EARCOS is able to offer this opportunity each year to show our appreciation to the heads of our schools. EARCOS makes the institute complimentary to all who choose to attend, this includes conference registration and all of the EARCOS sponsored social events. It is our way of saying thank you for all you do to support our organization.
EARCOS is proud to announce that Martin Skelton will lead our Annual Spring Heads' Institute on April 21 & 22, 2012.
EARCOS Board meeting is on Friday, April 20, 2012.
This promises to be a good-end-of-the-year program and one that will enable heads of our schools to come together in a supportive environment where camaraderie is of utmost importance. Heads who have attended this meeting give the event high marks.
CLEAR YOUR CALENDAR, register below, make your air and hotel reservations early and meet us in Phnom Penh, Cambodia!
Regards,
Dick Krajczar
EARCOS Executive Director
P.S. Please contact the EARCOS office to let us know that you will be attending.
For more information please contact Vitz Baltero at vitz@earcos.org
Hotel Reservation
For over eighty years, the Raffles Hotel Le Royal has been the choice of royalty, dignitaries and celebrities travelling through the capital of modern Cambodia, Phnom Penh. Graced through the years by legends such as former U.S First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and French adventurer André Malraux, this landmark Phnom Penh hotel sets the benchmark for refined enchantment in Cambodia. Ideally situated at the heart of the city, this leading Phnom Penh luxury hotel offers easy access to the prime shopping attractions in the city, such as the Central Market and Russian Market. It also makes an ideal base for sight-seeing tours of Wat Phnom, the resplendent Royal Palace, the Silver Pagoda, the National Artefacts Museum, and dazzling sunset boat cruises along the Mekong River.
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About the Presenter
Martin Skelton Martin Skelton has worked for forty years in education, originally as a teacher and then a Principal of two schools. He was co-founder of Fieldwork Education and is now a Director of the parent organisation, World Class Learning. Martin was the designer and Founding Director of the International Primary Curriculum, designed the Looking for Learning protocol and Toolkit and is currently working with Emily Porter in leading the development of the International Middle Years Curriculum. Martin works with schools around the world. His educational passions are learning, international mindedness, how brain research is helping us and how we can provide practical, accessible and jargon-free support to school leaders, teachers, students and parents. He has set himself the challenge of making sure that his keynote and his sessions reflect all of his passions, including the last!
Workshop Title & Description
Title: "Leading for Future Learning"
Deascription: I am honored to be invited to work with you. The group size (and the location) seems to be just perfect for open-ended exploration and the sharing of ideas. Hopefully, we will all leave with a few of our own ideas refined, a few supported and, with a little luck, a few challenged.
My passion is the exploration of learning and the implications of what we think about learning for classrooms, schools, buildings, leadership and more. So, learning is going to be the central theme running through our time together.
I will make a number of different presentations. But at this conference these presentations are not meant to persuade you that I am right but to create a context for us to think and respond. So, in addition to presenting as well as I can I am also going to do my best to facilitate as well as I can, holding our feet to the fire about the central theme but allowing each of us to develop our ideas that start from where we are and in a way that is sensitive to our current context. For the past ten years I have been trying to live up to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's conviction in his work 'Flow' that the best conditions for learning are 'High challenge, Low stress.' It has to be a time for thinking, reflecting and talking as much as it is a time for listening.
There are obviously areas that my work with schools, teachers and school leaders has shown me are worth raising, but I also want to make sure we have space to allow other issues to arise as well. Rather than fake it and pretend that each session has a particular theme which we will stick to come what may, it seems sensible (and thanks to Tim Carr for helping to frame this idea) to set out instead some of the questions we might be thinking about and which are the issues I will be trying to address in the time I have to offer some thoughts to you. They are:
What is learning, and why should schools have a shared definition of learning?
What kinds of learning happen in school, and how do these relate to the learning that is needed for the future?
Is there a particular kind of learning that should be at the centre of what we do in schools?
How do we facilitate different kinds of learning, and how do we know it is happening?
What do leaders need to do in a learning-focused school of the future?
In what ways might ideas about learning affect school design in the future?
In the day and a half we have together I hope we will be able to develop our ideas, test them out and reflect on them in the light of the real-life practice we live every day in our schools.
Registration
* Complimentary for all current EARCOS heads of schools
* Includes Lunch & Dinner
Important Informations:
* Taxi from the airport is approximately US$10.* For inquiry please contact Vitz Baltero at vitz@earcos.org
REGISTER NOW!