Moving from the key attributes of high performing school systems to the features of successful schools, the presentation will move to how governors and school leaders play co-supportive roles in creating high performing school cultures.

Language : English

Topic : Leadership and Management

During these challenging times happening in education sector, role of the leaders are also changing on a fast pace. Leadership being the key component in guiding the teaching-learning process is necessary for preparing today’s students with relevant knowledge and skills. The leaders play an essential role in technology integration. This role is crucial in helping teachers create today’s ideal learning environment for students to empower both teachers and students to innovate and create when becoming technology confident users.

Language : English

Topic : Innovative Methods / 21st Century Teaching

Language : English

Topic : Curriculum

Saudi Arabia's experience on virtual accreditation visits during the Corona pandemic.

Language : Arabic

Topic : Innovative Methods / 21st Century Teaching

Language : English

Topic : Music / Performing Arts / Sports

The topic assures engagement with students using the NLP model of Human Excellence exploring the teaching learning scenario using the Tools of Neuro Linguistic Programming like Modelling, Visualisation, Matching and Rapport Building. The workshop aims to register and encapsulate the learning outcome with periodic experiential learning implementation and tools via brainstorming and other problem solving tools in particular. The initiative is towards making learning a priority through the Human Excellence of connect and engagement through interactions and comprehensive means of engagement.

Language : English

Topic : Neuroscience

The promise of sunnier climes, shorter working hours and tax free salaries drives teachers to international teaching, but can also lead to speedy staff turnover as teachers view their new international position as temporary, and leaders view the churn as part of the international education landscape. Staff retention is a pressing issue given the expense of international hires, but also improving standards can be incredibly tough with this temporary mindset. Victoria James will moderate a conversation with leaders to discuss practical strategies to drive retention rates up, encourage loyalty and build a reputation as the best place to work. This conversation will touch on teacher wellbeing in terms of job satisfaction, career progression and security, and encourage the change in mindset required in staff approaches to international teaching.

Language : English

Topic : Leadership and Management

Technology advancements, the rise of cloud, socio-economic and demographic changes are shifting expectations and placing new demands on society. While these changes hold great promise, education systems will need to respond to prepare their students for the future.

Today’s students need to be empowered with access to the right tools, experiences, and learning opportunities to build the skills necessary to fuel the future. While students will still need 21st-century skills like collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity, and computational thinking, it’s becoming increasingly important to equip students with the technology skills they’ll need to thrive in a digital economy.

Language : English

Topic : Digital / eLearning

The COVID-19 pandemic has given us the opportunity to reimagine and reinvent our global education system. In this talk, we will explore case studies and emerging models of education in the coming decade. We will look at examples of how schools around the world are successfully deploying cutting-edge solutions - including learning models that have no exams, grades or classes. Join us as we look at practical examples of interdisciplinary, challenge-based, and inquiry-based learning models. 

Language : English

Topic : Curriculum

Careers education and guidance are marginalized in a system of education. Most of these curriculums are not current and do not prepare the youth for their future careers and their future responsibilities as world citizens. Those responsible for providing academic provisions with tight budgetary constraints, rarely buy-in to the value of employing a qualified practitioner who not only understands the business of education, but also understands the business of career readiness for the youth.  This talk discusses key points for headteachers and key stake-holders. Careers Education is THE most important service that prepares the youth for the realities of work, but also ensures that education institutions are supporting the preparation of our future world citizens and ensuring that they are being given quality guidance that helps them merge, understand and take advantage of the world of academia and their pathways towards future careers.  

Language : English

Topic : Curriculum

This session will talk about the importance of engraining sustainability education within schools and why the world needs more environmental leaders going forward.

Language : English

Topic : Higher Education / Vocational

All educational institutions are now vigorously looking for new practices to meet all the new expectations addressed to schools and educators to enable safe return to in-person instruction. A million-dollar question is, how to ensure safe and healthy but at the same time a supportive learning environment. The presentation will provide ideas and measures as inspiration and jumping-off points for new to create learner-centered environments where everyone can reach their fullest potential.

Language : English

Topic : Learning Environment

Language : English

Topic : Leadership and Management

Language : English

Topic : Innovative Methods / 21st Century Teaching

My proposed talk would explore the predicted causal factors for teacher turnover in international schools and explore the strategies that have been recommended to promote greater retention in leading studies. I would also hope to be in a position to give a synopsis of a more substantial literature review on this topic and also the insights I will have gained from my own preliminary research into teacher turnover in British Schools in Abu Dhabi as I am in the final stages of a PhD application with University College London. The main construct categories that have been found to contribute to teacher turnover would be explored; namely, teacher characteristics, school characteristics, leadership characteristics, organisational characteristics and host characteristics. I would then set out a series of recommendations that can be put into practice to promote retention based on leading studies and national / international reports.

Language : English

Topic : Early Years

Being a great leader within the school is not just about being Head Boy or Head Girl. The Royal Grammar School Guildford Dubai, believes that every child has the potential to become a great leader if they are taught the right skills. A leader is an individual that truly understands themselves, knows where they want to go, and wants to inspire people to join them on a journey for good. Over the past ten years, the RGS Guildford in the UK has been working on creating a leadership programme that is rooted in the psychology of leadership. The programme’s learning principals are Organisation, Engagement, Imagination, Perseverance, Aspiration and Reflection. Aside from the clear value of academic learning, RGS believes and knows that true success in life depends on so much more. This belief is the true essence of RGS Guildford Dubai’s leadership programme, Riyada, which means ‘leadership’ in Arabic, and is at the heart of RGS Guildford Dubai’s curriculum.

Language : English

Topic : Leadership and Management

This talk will discuss the challenges of education in the Middle East following the pandemic and how by adopting and implementing elements from the Finnish education system schools can be future ready. The talk will focus on areas such as developing a learning and wellbeing agenda, building trust and future proofing your school through a hybrid model.

Language : English

Topic : Leadership and Management

How do you address the growing skills gap between our current education system and organisations? It's no secret that companies are struggling to find the right talent to fill jobs. With rapid technological advancements, workers' skills are becoming obsolete faster than ever before. The world of work is quickly changing, and employees require a lifetime of continuous learning to keep up. Companies are struggling to provide the learning environment needed to tackle the workforce skills gap. 70 % CEOs say their employees don't have the current skills needed to adapt, only 11% execs are confident that college graduates will be prepared for the workforce, and 42 % employees say they are likely to leave their current job because they aren't learning enough. The context for the UAE, more than 28% of the population of the middle east is aged between 15 - 29. This represents over 108 million young people. The largest number of young people transitioning to adulthood in the region's history.   I will talk about what the solutions are for the current skills gap.

Language : English

Topic : Curriculum

Language : English

Topic : Leadership and Management