Susan Greenfield Spoke at Riyadh Teacher’s Forum
8:02 AMEquipping Teachers with Better Tools for the 21st Century
Read the latest Susan Greenfield blog. Professor Greenfield is a neuroscientist based in Oxford whose work in psychology has been focused on uncovering many of the most elusive questions on consciousness and the brain. As a researcher, she has devoted considerable time towards helping people who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s though new research that aims to find new mechanisms in the brain that may be linked to these degenerative diseases. An author and a broadcaster, she is currently at the helm of biotech company Neuro Bio.
Susan Greenfield spoke at the Riyadh Teacher’s Forum in August. The event was designed to help affect and accelerate changes in the country’s education system. Local teachers and those coming from other countries have gathered in Riyadh in order to share their expertise and experiences with their colleagues. During the forum, they discussed the best practices in a wide array of issues from engaging parents in teaching in the 21st century.
The forum lasted for three days with 800 teachers from throughout the country attending, along with a hundred other teachers from 30 other countries around the globe. This was an effort from the Education Ministry along with the leadership of the country’s support and in collaboration with the OECD to foster cooperation among education departments in the international scene.
Issues that concern the educational system were raised during the forum to help the attendees benefit from experiences gathered from international participants. The outcomes are then going to be studied whole the experience from the event will also be evaluated. The event served as a setting for a civilised, positive dialogue to also support the capabilities of teachers in the country and also deepen their professional and scientific experiences.
Susan Greenfield has delivered various lectures keynote talks and speeches for various organisations. She has talked about various sectors including technology, finances, media, human resources, and education. Understanding the mind along with how it has evolved is relevant to audiences regardless if they are from the private or the public sector. From nurturing leadership, inspiring creativity, solving issues in the workforce, as well as understanding consumers, her involvement in the forum plays a very crucial towards realising the goal of the event at better equipping teachers with the right tools for them to be more effective in the 21st century.
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ReplyDeleteHi Susan, I was there on your forum and I love your talk so much. My take about it is that Teachers need to be flexible, life long learners, facilitators, and must know their students. Teacher's noticing is now more important than ever before.
ReplyDeleteWe speak a great deal about 21st century learners and the skills, knowledge and understandings they require. Yet we appear to talk less about the qualities of the teachers. Should teachers have 21st century mindsets, be life long learners, adventurous, innovative and imaginative? Should they be individuals who were outsiders to traditional systems of learning?Or, do we continue to value what teachers know over who they are? If we value who they are, how might we attract these vibrant role models to teaching @Susan?
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