| Open Workshop Creating Capacity for Learning Trainer : Professor Louise Stoll PhD FAcSS Date : 2 June 2016, Thursday Venue : Academy of Singapore Teachers Time : 9:00AM to 5:00PM Closing Date : 1 April 2016, Friday Workshop Fee: S$300.00 per participant. If 2 or more participants from the same school/organization attend the same workshop, the discounted fee will be S$250.00 per participant for that particular workshop. Fees are subject to GST and include all training materials, 2 tea breaks and a lunch. Click here to register for the workshop
Workshop Description Improving practice is extremely hard. It is easy to find research or guidelines on how to improve schools, yet what comes across as straightforward when you read or hear about it is altogether different as you try to introduce it, move it from one person or place to another, or ensure its sustainability. The landscape is littered with examples of educators who engage enthusiastically in improvement efforts that ultimately make little difference. Improving practice, especially in fast changing times, does not just mean getting better at doing the same thing; it means that practice must also become more innovative. Based on her research and development activity in England and internationally, in this workshop Professor Louise Stoll will outline and explore seven questions leaders need to consider if they are serious about creating capacity for learning in and between their schools. You will have the opportunity to examine ways to enhance professional learning and leadership capacity development, stimulate learning conversations, spread great practice and develop conditions that help promote the creativity of colleagues. Benefits of workshop attendance will be obtained by a single representative from a school, but there would be added advantage from having more than one leader from a school attend the workshop. Learning Outcomes By the end of the workshop participants will have:
ABOUT THE TRAINER: PROFESSOR LOUISE STOLL Professor of Professional Learning London Centre for Leadership Learning UCL Institute of Education
Professor Louise Stoll PhD FAcSS is Professor of Professional Learning at the London Centre for Leadership in Learning, UCL Institute of Education, University College London (part-time) and a freelance researcher and international consultant. Her research and development activity focuses on how schools, local and national systems create capacity for learning, with an emphasis on professional learning communities and learning networks, creative leadership and leadership development. She also focuses on finding ways to help connect research and practice and enjoys working with school leaders to support them in making the best use of research. Her projects include a middle leaders’ knowledge exchange project, evaluating progress towards an evidence-based teaching system for the Department for Education, synthesising findings of teaching school alliances’ (networks’) R&D projects for the National College for Teaching and Leadership, and England’s first national research on Effective Professional Learning Communities (EPLCs) for the Department for Education and Skills, National College for School Leadership and General Teaching Council. Professor Stoll has been named as one of Debrett’s 500 2016 most influential people in Britain. She is a former President of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, Fellow of England’s Academy for the Social Sciences, and expert to the OECD on its Improving School Leadership, Innovative Learning Environments, Transforming Schools into Learning Organisations, and Evaluation and Assessment initiatives. Author of many publications translated into six languages, she has also developed materials based on her research on EPLCs, a simulation on learning networking, and an OECD leadership toolkit. She is a popular international keynote and workshop presenter and facilitator. |
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