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Visions for the Future

Towards a national strategy for global dimensions in ITET
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Friday 7th | Saturday 8th | Sunday 9th

Friday

Session 1: Introduction to the Weekend

7.00 Dinner

8.00 Welcome and housekeeping
        Homegroups

  • To enable people to meet each other
  • To share their hopes for the weekend
  • To identify what some of the key issues arising from the papers circulated


9.00 Entertainment and Bar

Saturday

Session 2: Where are we now and where do we want to go

8.00 Breakfast

9.30 Keynote Speaker : TBA
        Questions from the floor

10.30 Coffee

11.00 Projects and Policies: Visions for the Future: Four presentations:

  • Global Teacher Project
  • Glasgow University: Global Citizenship Project
  • Southern and Black perspectives on visions for future
  • National Strategy group

12.00 Home Groups Discussion
          How do these visions and projects fit with reality for participants?


1.00 -2.00 Lunch

1.00 - 3.00 Resources Fair:

  • Bookstalls
  • Displays
  • Short talks

Session 3: How we might get there

3.00 Workshops:

  • Research on student attitudes
  • Black perspectives
  • Quality Assurance and Assessment - designing new modules
  • Global issues in the classroom
  • Community Knowledge: Stories from Zimbabwe
  • Critical thinking and the global dimension
  • Global education and teaching training in Kenya
  • Global dimensions in Secondary history


4.30 Coffee

5.00 Workshops
        Repeated as above

6.30 Free time

7.00 Dinner

8.00 Home groups

8.30 Free time, bar etc

9.00 Entertainment: 'Disco'

Sunday

Session 4: What do we need for the future

8.00 Breakfast


9.30 Keynote speech: TBA

10.00 Visions for the future: common themes
          Summary of yesterday's ideas common threads


10.15 Practical ways forward:

  • Consider practical ways forward and the real issues for individuals, organisations and networks

11.15 Coffee

11.35 Home groups

  • Feed back some of key issues from the different discussion groups and identify key issues
  • Practical steps for us to take towards a national strategy

12.15 Plenary
          Action and plans for next year's conference

12.45 Close of conference

1.00 Lunch and depart