Anchored on the fundamental principle that between hope and despair, education is the great equalizer, a National Education Leader AKO Conference was held recently for school leaders, managers and teachers in the Department of Education Division in Aklan.
The confab held last Feb. 15-17, was organized by the Center for Learning and Teaching Styles (CLTS) Philippines. CLTS is an affiliate of the International Learning Styles Network (ILSN) based in the US and Scandinavia.
Speakers included Ben Ampil who talked about neuro linguistic programming; Albert Saldajeno, Jr on creativity in teaching; Michael Angelo Lobrin on school leadership with the heart in mind; and Al Ian Barcelona on awakening the genius in people.
The speakers also expounded on three specific areas: school leadership and management; social marketing for school success; and creativity in teaching styles and classroom management.
Under school leadership and management, they discussed how administrators and teachers can reinvent themselves for school success; “successorize” their value as school leaders; engage in mindful conversations; achieve peak success; and manage changes and transitions.
Included were discussions on communication beyond the syntax of language; balancing work and life; valuing self and others and leading with a limp.
The social marketing for sustainable success strand focused on the importance of school branding; looking back, facing forward; using integrated marketing communications; high-tech, high-touch teaching approaches; the new media and classroom learning; applied and action research; and shifting to engagement marketing.
For the creativity in teaching strand, the following teaching points were highlighted: education is the great equalizer; the wonderful world of learning styles and multiple intelligences; super teacher; teaching styles; classroom management for the “new youth” of today; and bridging the education gap, producing the right graduates.
Relative to this, a second seminar-workshop is slated for teachers and learning facilitators entitled “Making Teaching Fun, Engaging and Meaningful” on March 8-10 at the APSTA Teachers’ Center and Kalibo Pilot Elementary School in Kalibo, Aklan. This is open to both public and private educators in Aklan and nearby divisions of Antique, Roxas, Iloilo province, Passi and Iloilo City.
By May, a huge International Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences Institute and Conference will be held in Boracay. It will be graced by the directors from ILSN.
The DepEd Division of Aklan is headed by superintendent Dr. Jesse Gomez and assistants Michael Rapiz and Radne Jomuad. During the conference, our CLTS group stayed at the historic Glowmoon Inn managed by Prof. Jun Quimpo. Glowmoon is the birthplace of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Victorino Mapa, the legal adviser to the Philippine revolutionary government under President Emilio Aguinaldo. It is beside the Museo It Aklan, a landmark for educational tours and visits in the region.
(The author is president of the Center for Learning and Teaching Styles, Philippines and MINDful Ideas; executive board director of the International Learning Styles Network, US and Scandinavia; and founder of the Communities Honoring Individual Learning Diversity (CHILD). Email htenedero@yahoo.com [1] for comments.)
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