TEACHERS AS FACILITATORS
Workshop Details
WHEN: Saturday, 1 to Sunday, 2 October 2022 (8:00am - around 3:30pm)
WHERE: ISKL Ampang Hilir Campus - MPR1
FEES: For ISKL Faculty Only (please check process)
FOCUS: Schoolwide
TRAINER: Ochan Powell REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 24th SEPTEMBER 2022
Workshop Overview
Teachers as Facilitators focuses on the mindsets that teacher leaders need in order to lead their groups well. Here's what the authors say about the book and seminar:
" . . . teachers who facilitate meetings with their peers encounter unique challenges. Often they struggle to balance the demands of managing time, energy, and processes while simultaneously navigating the challenges of being a colleague and maintaining one's own professional integrity.
Teacher facilitators frequently feel caught between the expectations of their supervisors and desire to maintain affiliations with their teammates and peers. This in turn requires them to negotiate the sometimes delicate dance of being handed responsibility for task completion without the authority to compel the full participation of their co workers."
This 2-day workshop will provide teachers with the knowledge, skills and attitudes of working with and developing teams. It is appropriate for all teachers in collaborative partnerships, whether as a member of a co-teaching partnership or as a member of a department, and gets beyond the technical skills of running meetings and collaborating with others."
Learning Outcomes
As a result of this course, learners will:
Learn about the five mindsets that have the potential to make facilitators more effective and empower groups. Specifically, these are:
See groups as they could be
Groups grant consent
Prepare, don’t attach
Diversity enriches
Never let a conflict go to waste
Explore relevant information about each of the mindsets
Develop a repertoire of tools and strategies for facilitators related to each of the mindsets
Explore processes connected to each of the mindsets, for use with groups
Reflect on each of the processes
Try different tools and processes in their own settings
Ochan Kusuma-Powell
Ochan Kusuma-Powell received her doctorate from Columbia University and has developed and implemented inclusive special education programs in the United States, Indonesia, Malaysia and Tanzania. At the present time she is the Executive Director of Education Across Frontiers. She is regular speaker at international educational conferences and teaches in the summers at the Teacher Training Center.
Ochan is an associate trainer for the Center for Cognitive Coaching and Adaptive Schools.
Ochan and her husband Bill, are is co-authors of Count Me In! Developing Inclusive International Schools (2000), Making the Difference: Differentiation in International Schools (2007) Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Teacher (2010) and How to Teach Now: Five Keys to Personalized Learning in the Global Classroom (2011) and The OIQ Factor: How to Raise the Organizational Intelligence of your School (2013).
Ochan is currently working on a project, The Next Frontier: Inclusion to support the inclusion of special needs children in international scools.
When she is not facilitating teacher workshops or speaking at conferences, Ochan can be found in the French Pyrenees where she fights (together with a handful of sheep) an annual battle with the European bramble.