10:15_12:10 Session2-workshops promptly begin at 10:30
B3: Putting your best vision forward
Using scenario planning to envision and prepare for an uncertain future
Presenter: Mrs.Hiba Nashebe - Khaled Ben El Walid school principal
Audience:Principals, administrators, head of departments, head of divisions, and coordinators.
Description: As an education leader you face multiple challenges every day. But, do you know what challenges you are likely to face 10 years from now? How about five years from now? It is impossible to predict the future. But, by using a research-based, proven methodology familiar to the business world, you can anticipate and prepare for the future and its many uncertainties. In this session, you will learn about trends of the future,become familiar with the principles of senario-based planning and have an opportunity to apply the method to your own strategic plans.
B4: Teaching Digital Natives
Presenter: Mrs. Rola Kazem-Secondary English language coordinator
Audience: Cycle 2 to 4 teachers.
Description: In today's school system, students are digital natives, from pre-school to the university level. Whereas the teachers are considered digital immigrants who are not as familiar as current students. This workshop aims at bridging the gap between digital natives and digital immigrants on the education system. It offers ways teachers can use technology to assure that deverse digital natives are successful in the general education curriculum.
B5: Integrating Mouse Mischief into the Classroom
Presenter:Mr Ghassan Shahine-Microsoft trainer/Mrs.Rawaa Chehab- A Mathematics teacher
Audience: Cycle 1 and 2 teachers
Description: Mouse Mischief from"Microsoft Corparation" integrates into Microsoft PowerPoint letting teachers insert questions and drawing activity slides into their lessons. Students ans actively participate in these lessons by using their own wireless mice to click, circle, cross out, or draw answers on the screen.
1:45-2:00 Registration for Session 3
2:00-3:55 P.M. Session 3-Workshops promptly begin at 2:00
C1: Developmental theory of leadership
Presenter:Mrs.Hiba Nashebe-Khaled Bin El Walid principal
Audience:Principals,administrators,head of departments,head of divisions, and coordinators.
Description: The constructive-Developmental Theory or ways of kshows that one 's way of knowing is not associated with gender, age, or life phase. Although there are discrete and broad stage in a persons development of his /her way of knowing,it is important to not that there are also distinct and identifiable transitional stages. Our way of knowing shapes the way we understand our role and responsibilities as teachers, principals, or learners and the way we think about what makes a good teacher or a good principal...
C2: Effective Use of technology in teaching: blogging
Presenter: Mrs Ghina Badawi- Kalil shehab principal
Audience: All teachers, but basic familiarity with computers is required.
Description: This hands-on workshop aims at empowering teachers with strategy, skills and activities for a proper implementation of technology in learning, and to introduce blogging as a teaching and learning tool to enhance collaboration and interactivity. Blogs are effective teaching and learning tools because they enable students to reflect and publish their thought and knowledge and receive feedback and scaffolding from their teachers. Other benefits of using blogs as a teaching tool are delineated, including the ways in wich blogs can support the teachers in their teaching
C3: Almost There, but not quite
Presenter: Rola Kazem-Secondary English language coordinator
Audience:Cycle 2 to 4 teachers.
Description: When you tell some teachers about a new approach, they instantly respond, "Oh,Im already doing that". And sometimes they are-sort of, but not entirely. Keeping control of the classroom, ignoring problems with the curriculum, missing the systemic factors, settling for self-disciplines, blaming the students, and manipulating with "positive reinforcement" are some of the few barriers that we need to overcome so as to cause change as intractable to the belief that one doesn't need to change.
C4: Turn Microsoft PowerPoint to an ineractive and assessment tool using ActivOffice :
Presenter:Mr.Rabih Baalbaki-IET Promethean educational technology manager
Audience: All Teachers.
Description:Promethean ActivOffice allows teachers to lead the class in an engaging, two-way lesson. It transforms lessons into powerful interactive powerpoint presentations with the ability to conduct real-time assessments. Add learner response system(LRS) questions both to new and existing slides. Register your LRS devices directly within powerpoint and manage/create questions quickly using question manager. Use the powerfull Import/Export feature to import questions and export audience responses for further analysis.
2 comments:
A great example of perseverance and continuity
The MERC is shaping up to our expectations and I am sure you are all on the right track, thanks to the serious work of Rana and the Support of Dr Dallal and ardent follow up of Miss Adla
I am impressed and I wish you success yet in another MERC workshop
We thank you Sir for your inspiration and support. We look forward to this event as successful as all Makassed events with the teachers' participation and valuable presentations.
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