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