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Speakers have been selected with the overall theme of international education in mind and also with the goal of offering practical, thought-provoking advice and tools for use in individual classrooms.
Our speakers at the 2009 IEC;
Dr. Gary Ferraro
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
and noted author of Global Brains: Knowledge and Competencies for the 21st Century.
Caryn White Stedman
AP Teacher, the Metropolitan Learning Center Interdistrict Magnet School for Global
& International Studies, Bloomfield, Connecticut. Caryn Stedman is a long-time champion
of international literacy and has contributed to making Metropolitan Learning Center
an award-winning school for its global education instruction and initiatives. While
serving as department chair of her school's social studies department and teaching
AP courses, Stedman is also an adjunct instructor of world history and East Asian
history within the history department of Central Connecticut State University.
Paul Miller
Paul Miller is the Director of Global Initiatives for the National Association of
Independent Schools.
Scott McGinnis
Dr. Scott McGinnis (Ph.D. Ohio State University, 1990) is the Academic Advisor for
the Washington Office of the Defense Language Institute (DLI). He also holds the
academic rank of professor at DLI. Between 1999 and 2003, he served as Executive
Director of the National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages
at the National Foreign Language Center in College Park, Maryland. His 23 years
in the language teaching profession have included positions in summer programs at
the University of Pennsylvania and Middlebury College, and a decade of experience
as supervisor of the Chinese language programs at the University of Oregon and University
of Maryland. Dr. McGinnis has authored or edited five books, and over 40 book chapters,
journal articles and reviews on language pedagogy and linguistics for the less commonly
taught languages in general, and Chinese and Japanese in particular. He previously
served two terms as President of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, as chair
of The College Board Chinese Language Test Development Committee for the Educational
Testing Service, and as a member of the Board of Examiners for the National Council
for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. His current professional responsibilities
include serving as Coordinator for the Interagency Language Roundtable for the United
States Government, and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Joint National
Committee for Languages.
Martin Skelton
is one of the two co-founders of Fieldwork Education. His education experience includes
more than twenty years as a teacher and the headship of two primary schools. He
has a Masters degree in Organisation and Management from the University of Sussex
and lectures on Oxford Brookes University's International Education Masters programme.
Martin also directs the school improvement planning programme for a group of schools
in Saudi Arabia as well as working closely with schools in South Africa, Dubai,
The Netherlands, Sweden, Oman, the United States and elsewhere. He has written widely
about education, most often about management issues including curriculum development,
improvement planning and policy production. For the past five years he has been
immersed in the results about brain research, has written about its implications
for teachers and is currently preparing a book about 'brain-friendly' school management.
Martin has been at the heart of the development of the Looking for Learning process
and the learning focused school, in collaboration with schools around the world,
for the past six years.
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