As a mentor school, we got a request from Microsoft PIL to answer these four questions. Ghinwa Doughan, Dounia Badreddine, Rawaa Shehab, Rola Ayoubi and I met as the leadreship team of Makassed KSPS and agreed on the following:
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What quotes have inspired you as a professional educator?
-"Do you want a Collection of Brilliant Minds or a Brilliant Collection of Minds? " quoted by Meredith Belbin
- "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination", quoted by Albert Einstein
- "We need to prepare students for Their future not Our past", quoted by Ian - Juckes.
What are the three most powerful ideas you have learned, developed, or heard of during your involvement in the program so far?
There were myriad of puissant ideas that were developed during the involvement in the program, the first of which is revisiting the school vision and involving all stakeholders in it. Before the program, there was a clear vision of the school but it was not generated by all stakeholder. Another thing that we developed was a Students' Council that represented the school's in international activities and was part of the decision making processes in the school. Working on the learning environment was also another thing learned during the program. Our final case study will show how learning was beyond classroom’s borders. We worked on the national and international levels. Our dexterous teachers worked on engendering global pupils who are inquisitive, creative and critical.
What is most important is that our teachers had a full understanding that pedagogy is the king and their focus should be on developing 21st century skills with the use of technology, that technology in itself is just a tool, but a tool that is much needed because we are working with digital natives, It can open great horizons and its benefits are limitless.
What has been catalyst in helping to make positive change in your school? What impact has this had?
Distributed Leadership played an important role because there was delegation of authority and not just responsibility. The impact was so positive because teachers felt empowered.
Another catalyst was the invisible usage and integration of ICT. Training of teachers and the infrastructure at school helped a lot. Teacher used blogs, wikis, Power Point presentations, Photo-Story, Movie-Maker, Learning Essentials, Producer, and Mouse-Mischief. Providing each classroom with an "Interactive White Board" was a good decision taken.
The good home/school connection was a third catalyst: Many school activities, occasions, and events were posted in the school’s blog and a Clovers Newsletter was produced by Microsoft Office-Publisher. This was an astounded way of communication between students, parents, and school.
What would you like to be quoted as saying if we were to quote you personally in any future publications or testimonials?
“It’s my belief that the essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another, and I also believe that the whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into window
Fortunately, the opportunities offered to educators by the opened windows in technology and its contagious influence on people made that dream come true. Actually man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” Dr Kamel Dallal, director of education affairs at Makassed.
Educators should combine a high level of technology for education and transmit them to a Global Horizon of advancement", Ms. Rola Ayoubi.
"The empowerment of technology is a striking need for transforming tutelage", Ms. Dounia Baderddine.
"International Collaboration transplanted innovation in the school's cultural system", Ms. Rawaa Shehab
"It's better to have a Qualitative Hi-Tech students than to have a Quantitative Addict-Tech pupils", Ms.Ghinwa Doughan
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