Creating the School of the Future (SOF)
This course is now closed to the public. It is still available on request to individual schools. Please contact [email protected] if you'd like to make a booking.
(with Barbara Prashnig)
Leadership Seminar for Principals / Headteachers
based on Quality, Learning & Teaching Styles
A practical two-day Management Seminar
for innovative Principals, DP's & AP's and
their Management teams
If you are:
- Pre-planning for the next school year and beyond
- Incorporating Strategic Planning and Self Review
- Interested in better academic performance, happier, more harmonious students, more aligned, less stressed teaching staff, more constructive parent interaction
This Programme delivers:
- Practical, solutions-based steps to address key planning issues
- Proven blueprints for sustainable change strategies
- In-depth understanding of student-centred learning, diversity in the classroom and
- learning & teaching styles
- How to apply these principles to your school
Programme
Day 1: DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH
- am:
- A School for Brains
- - brain research and its applications within education
- Know Yourself & Others
- - the Learning/Working Style Analysis (LSA & WSA)
- pm:
- Multiple Intelligences
- - their implications for learning & teaching
- Staff Training in Style
- - professional development at the leading edge, based on TSA instrument (Teaching Style Analysis)
A Case Study - one Principal's practical experiences with implementing Learning Styles into the school environment
Day 2: The "SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE"
and its Role in the Community
- am:
- Six Conditions of a Quality School
- -its impact on students & teachers
- New Management Skills
- for School Leaders of the New Millennium
- pm:
- Vision - Mission - Goals:
- Our reason for innovating - where is our school going?
- Action Plan
- for your "School of the Future" - team work with an outcome
Your facilitator - Barbara Prashnig, Emeritus Professor
An educator and teacher-trainer in Austria for 17 years, Barbara has a double MA in Educational Sciences and English, studied Suggestopedia with Dr. G. Lozanov (the father of Accelerated Learning), has pioneered the introduction of learning style techniques in New Zealand and internationally. She is the author of two books 'Diversity is our Strength' and 'The Power of Diversity' and is CEO and Director of Training & Research at Creative Learning Co
Barbara will be joined by a principal experienced in implementing these approaches at their school.