Microsoft Innovative Schools and Teachers Event

Sunday, 08 June 2008 @ 21:28 GMT

This event has several objectives:

1. To bring together Microsoft sponsored Key schools and innovative Partner schools into a community, to share best practice and learn from one another
2. To provide me with an online community that I can use for communication and collaboration with other schools after the event
3. To introduce me to some free curriculum, resources and practical advice that you can begin using right away
4. To use my expertise and leadership to help grow our new Innovative Teachers Network and Programme

Innovative teachers Programme

- will be used as a communication portal creating an online community.

Introductions

- lots of the schools at present are grappling with integrating share point and the learning gateway. Some schools are using share point effectively for administration, but not with students. There are a wide range of experiences and view points ranging from management through to teaching and to technical.

Innovative Schools

Kirsten Weatherby Academic Programme Manager

• Holistic school reform
• roadmap for technology

Currently there are 12 innovative schools around the world, issues that these schools shared in common include:

• getting staff to buy into the education vision
• curriculum

The 6 i process is a way for schools to evaluate themselves.

• introspection
• investigation
• inclusion
• innovation
• implementation
• insight

http://innovativeschoolsonline.com

http://microsoft.com/education/innovativeschools

Innovative Teachers Programme

Is designed to help create CPD programme, online communities, and an innovative virtual classroom.There are 3 phases of an innovative teachers programme

1. Teacher - Self Evaluation
2. Creator - Creating resources
3. Developer - becoming a coach

Innovative Teachers Forum could be a great platform for promoting the use of web 2.0 technologies within the classroom.

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