Teacher of the 21st Century: Quality education for quality teaching

Teachers’ Life-cycle from Initial Teacher Education to Experienced Professional

1. Findings in Brain Investigation - a New Approach in Pedagogy

Dr.Alla Guseva,
Moscow.

August, 24th, 2011
Riga

Plan of the session

9.00 – 12.00 - interactive lecture, dialogues:

• Introduction to the theme and the attended problems.
• The concept of education and pedagogy – why a new approach?
• The concept of development, human life and progress.
• The human brain and the person’s cognitive activity. The definition of the natural code of thinking - A.Guseva’s Patent.

13.00 – 16.00 – seminars, hands-on session, discussions, and collective reasoning – training:

• Concept of the information code of thinking, cognitive activity of teachers and pupils – learn how to get to know it.
• The background for a new approach in pedagogy: test - a questionnaire as a tool for defining the Natural area of a person’s thinking, background of the thinking regularities, information code, and natural basis of a person’s progress (natural sequence of the activities: Reasoning – What?, Sensus – How?, Will – Why?).
• The background for a person’s harmonious progress – creative activity for the development of the individuality.
• The author’s patented technologies for the person’s development.

2. Wanted: Exemplary Teachers for All Students

Dr. Vivienne Collinson
(Michigan, USA)

August, 24th, 2011
Riga

Plan of the session

12.00 – 15.00 - Reflection, discussion, presentation, collaborative work, backward design.

Context:

Why/how do we recognize some teachers as exemplary?
What have we learned?: Exemplary teachers speak out (presentation of a new grounded theory of exemplary teachers).
What would it take to have more exemplary teachers?