ASPS educators head overseas for upgrading programme
And while most educators this time of the year are getting a well-deserved break, Principal Marieta C. Flax-Headley, her Assistant Principals, and other staff of the Althea Scatliffe Primary School (ASPS) are attending the International Literacy Association (ILA) Conference 2016 from July 7-11, 2016 in Boston, USA.
The International Literacy Association (ILA) is a global advocacy and membership organisation of more than 300,000 literacy educators, researchers, and experts across 75 countries. With over 60 years of experience, ILA has set the standard for how literacy is defined, taught, and evaluated.
“Teachers are always seeking new strategies they may use to reach their students...what worked before might not work for today's students so the conference gives us the opportunity to improve our craft. Not only improve but gives us new strategies that we can use, to not only help the struggling students, but also how to push those at the top even further,” Principal Marieta C. Flax-Headley told this news site in an exclusive interview on July 5, 2016.
According to Flax-Headley, the conference is designed to energise and empower educators as they discover new teaching methods and tools needed to transform lives through literacy in the classroom and beyond.
While attending the conference, the group will be exposed to topics such as: Laying the Ground Work for Success: Foundational Skills to Support Lifelong Learning, Writing in Every Classroom: A Framework for School-wide Learning Communities, How to Motivate Elementary Age Boys to Engage in Reading and lots, lots more.
ASPS team
The group consists of Principal Headley, Assistant Principals, Ronda D. Smith and Kesia M. King, Year Heads: Grade 2- Mrs Shirley Martin Grade 3- Ms Debra Todman, Grade 4- Mr Binns Nickie, Grade 5- Mrs Judith Martin, and Grade 6- Mrs Sonia Dennis. Attending the conference also is Ms Lucinda Gordon, Resource and Reading and Mrs Jennifer Cupid- Grade 5 teacher. The group will join teachers of the Elmore Stoutt High School's English Department who are also attending the conference.
Asked if this is the first time they are attending the conference, Ms Flax-Headley said, “Yes it’s the first time the school is doing something of this kind. We hope to do it annually and we would certainly hope to have more teachers take advantage of the opportunity.”
Funding for the conference was made possible by friends and parents of the teachers and through fundraisers held during the school year.
Upon their return, it is expected that the educators will share all that they were exposed to with their colleagues during the school’s in-house professional development sessions for the new school year.
Among the general speakers for the conference this year are Adora Svitak Author- speaker and literacy advocate, Kwame Alexander Award- winning author and literacy advocate, Ana Dodson Charity- founder and reading support specialist, Steven Duggan- Microsoft's Director of Worldwide Education Strategy and Laurie Halse Anderson- New York Times bestselling author.
17 Responses to “ASPS educators head overseas for upgrading programme”
S****** needs more than this to grow professionally...as a teacher he sucks.
Ms. Headley, don't mind them, I will take you any day if you aint gone yet. Plus I going church now too.