the connected leader in elt - 30-minute talk given at the xxxv binational center symposium

The Connected Leader in ELT

Isabela Villas Boas

These are the slides used in a thirty-minute talk delivered at the XXXV Binational Center Symposium in Franca, SP, Brazil on October 04, 2013. In it, I provided an overview of why and how ELT leaders can become more connected.

http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2013/sep/24/eight-qualities-successful-school-leaders

Passion

Emotional Intelligence

Judgment Resilience

Persuasion

Vision

Courage

What comes to mind when you think about connected leaders? Connected in which way(s)?

The teachers

The field

The ELT community(PLN)

The students

What they talk about

What they listen to

What they play

Where they go

The gadgets they use and

whyWhat makes

them tick

How are teachers today different from in the past?

What challenges have you been facing regarding hiring and keeping teachers in your staff?How is their relationship

with students and with you different?

That generational gap plays out in very distinct ways: Many baby boomers were taught by their parents that you don't hop around from job to job, that it makes you look unreliable. But Gen Y, with their Mark Zuckerbergs and Larry Pages, aren't letting any grass grow under their feet. (USA Today – Are Millenials Really the “Me” Generation?)

ELT

AssessmentSecond

Language Acquisition

Educational Technology

Methodology

Teacher development

The ELT Market

Education

Assessment and evaluation Public policies

Educational Technology

Educational leadership

The ELT and Educational Leaders Community

We principals will never get staff and students to employ social media tools for higher-level learning if we don’t use the

tools, for basic communication at least. It’s simply a step principals need to take.

Larkin, P. (2013).Tweeting the good news – and other ways to use social media. In Educational Leadership, Vol. 70 No. 7.

Ways to become connected

Follow blogs written by educational leaders /experts you admire; comment on their posts; share the posts you like; start your own blog.

Join professional groups on Facebook.

Follow educators on Twitter; share interesting tweets; share what you read on twitter; participate in or just be a lurker on edchat.

Ways to become connected

Take an active role in a teachers´ association: Braz-TESOL; TESOL; IATEFL.

Write for associations’ newsletters.

Take an online course, such as the e-teacher course offered by the RELO Office, or others offered by TESOL.

Ways to become connected

Subscribe to professional websites and sign up for news feeds.

Tools to organize and keep track of information

Tools to organize and keep track of

information

Yes, we are very busy!

But we do not have a choice!

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How can we teach our students to become 21st Century citizens if we do not model these 21st Century

skills?

isabela.villasboas@thomas.org.br

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