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Positive influencing in education management
6-19 August 2006 in Berlin
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The Summer School in August 2006 brought together participants and tutors from 12 countries. We spent two weeks learning about how to manage people and projects and shared our experience in this field. Some areas we covered were time management, assertiveness, holding people accountable, upward and downward influencing, negotiation skills, motivation of self and others, creating networks.
Some afternoons were devoted to ICT training, the participants developed their presentation skills, learned, among other things, how to create a website and how to use Interactive Whiteboards.
On other afternoons and evenings the group explored Berlin via a boat trip and a taxing treasure hunt, visited museums and trained their muscles through exercising martial arts and Tango. The international evenings were filled with presentations, quizzes, dancing, singing, drinking and eating traditional dishes from all our countries.
In the second week the participants got together in groups and spent one and a half intensive days developing a project idea which they presented to the group and an external audience at the end of the week.
One group focussed on the development of “Monitoring and Assessment in Teacher Education” in the context of the Bologna process, another group proposed to write a handbook for trainers in the field of education management based on the material and ideas used at the Summer School, a third group planned to set up training courses in three countries for education managers. We are currently looking at ways of funding some of these projects, and the teams have already begun to work on their projects. They are busy communicating on the Yahoo Group set up for the Summer School participants and are helping each other with tasks such as developing a needs analysis for their projects. So, it's all over, but the real work has only just begun!
Former summer schools
in Europe took place in Croatia, Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania. Click here for further information.
In July 2005 a Hornby Summer School on Preparing for tomorrow: Initiating and cultivating change in English teaching contexts was held in Berlin/Brandenburg. Click here for more details or read a participant’s review.
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