School culture & community development: Creating Community
An innovative educator, I work at providing frameworks for OPPORTUNITIES where students, teachers, administrators, and colleagues can experience success. Please take a moment to explore the activities here:
Here you’ll find an example of student-generated work for an in-service Professional Development course “Collaborative and Cooperative Learning” which ran several times this spring at the BTC. Teachers work long days and then come to the College to upgrade their skills and to catch up on recent developments in educational research and in classroom practice. We are really trying to make the sessions learner-centered. I was so amazed at their dedication and efforts. Enjoy.
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4001 is the entry-level PD course at the BTC. The Ministry of Education sponsors the training and BTC faculty and trainers deliver the program. In this course, “The Learning Environment”, participants actively engage in sessions to learn more about topics such as multiple intelligence, differentiated instruction, classroom management, thinking taxonomy, and others. Have a glance at some of the presentations and documents prepared by these adult learners! Have a look at the photos here on my Flickr page
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Research Skills for Educators 124. In this B.Ed. Year 1 undergrad course, it was a pleasure to interact and share research skills, processes and ethical issues with these young educators. Our teaching methods at BTC are dynamic and innovative and students respond to these with verve and enthusiasm; it’s a delight to work with them. Here is a presentation created to deal critically with a scholarly article, shared with their peers, and now with you.
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Managing Learning 121. In this second semester course undergrad course, participants explored the issues, theories and practical applications associated with successfully managing classroom learning. We certainly had some fun tackling various approaches. Groups chose one particular theorist to focus on and then they compared and contrasted the various approaches. The presentations were engaging and effective. Please have a peep.
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For more PowerPoint presentations and work from students, please visit my Slideshare site
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Here are some conferences at which I presented recently. I hope to present new findings based on a project underway currently at a conference in Hong Kong in December. This example, “‘The more we get together, the happier we’ll be’: promoting shared practice through curriculum initiatives” was created for the Orientations: Language, Learning and Translation – a conference held at Sohar University, Sultanate of Oman, in 2008.
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RECENT CONFERENCES:
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TESOL Arabia – 2010
“Language, development and community – using shared practice to enhance reform”
Dubai, March 2010
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VII International Forum on Education & Culture (Sponsored by Regent University, USA)
“Creating community to enhance development in educational reform projects”
Rome December 2009
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8th International Conference on Language and Development (British Council with Dhaka University) ‘
Approaches to creating community through shared practice’
Bangladesh, June 2009
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International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication (IAISLC) – ‘The Native Speaker and Mother Tongue – a Middle Eastern view’
Cape Town, December 2008
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Qatar Arabia TESOL
” Dual identities … dual community: creating bilingual and bicultural identity through English curriculum delivery”.
Doha, Qatar, April 2008
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Orientations: Language, Learning and Translation – Sohar University, Oman
“‘The more we get together, the happier we’ll be’: promoting shared practice through curriculum initiatives”.
Sohar University, Oman, February 2008
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European Council of International Schools, Administrators’ Conference ‘Mission Impossible: aligning school mission statements in practice for community growth’.
London UK, April 2005