Speakers have been selected with the overall theme of international education in
mind and also with the goal of offering practical, thought-provoking advice.
A sampling of speakers participating in the conference;
Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and
Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also holds positions as
Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and Senior Director of Harvard
Project Zero. In 2004 he was named an Honorary Professor at East China Normal University
in Shanghai. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship
in 1981.
In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's
Grawemeyer Award in Education and in 2000 he received a Fellowship from the John
S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2005, he was selected by Foreign Policy and
Prospect magazines as one of 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world.
He has received honorary degrees from twenty colleges and universities, including
institutions in Ireland, Italy and Israel. The author of over twenty books translated
into twenty-three languages, and several hundred articles, Gardner is best known
in educational circles for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the
notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be assessed by
standard psychometric instruments.
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Breakout Session topics include;
We are in the middle of the 'learning revolution'. Learning has - at long last,
some of us might say, overthrown teaching, resources and so much more to become
the rightful central focus of what schools and classrooms are about. Truthfully,
many schools are still trying to work out how to make learning central; how to change
the personal and collective beliefs of students, teachers and parents; how to embed
learning-focused structures and systems into the school, how to generate meaningful
evidence about whether learning has happened and how to feed that information back
into the learning process.
This is a tough task and we shouldn't underestimate the work ahead to make all schools
truly learning-focused. At the same time, we need to begin working out what happens
next. One of the most important next moves will be how to help students, teachers,
parents and others develop 'deep' learning in their students.
An overview of the International Primary Curriculum that is influenced by two ideas.
The key concepts of independence and interdependence which underpin our view of
what it is to have an international mind-set and the lessons learnt as a result
of a decade of research into the brain and the development of brain-friendly learning
and teaching strategies.
Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful
community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the communities. An
overview and guidance on participating in service learning networks worldwide to
encourage the professional development of educators.
is an International Program for Educators at the University of North
Carolina Chapel Hill. World View was established in 1998 to help K-12 and college
educators anticipate and respond to the challenges of this smaller, more interconnected
world. This session will offer resources, lesson plans, and ideas to enhance global
connections and multicultural awareness in your classroom. Come learn how to infuse
global themes in your class every day!
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