Designing a new school: the first day!
Today, on October 29, 2018 at AlmaU an advanced training program for directors, head teachers and teachers of secondary schools started, entitled “Content Without Borders: Designing a New School”.
The first day of the program was remembered by networking of representatives of schools from different cities of Kazakhstan and bright speeches of speakers. Before starting the training, the organizers conducted a tour for guests, showing AlmaU Innovation Museum, a unique neuromarketing laboratory, Design Lab, a new university building - AlmaU Knowledge Building, Atrium Grand Hall and other AlmaU attractions.
After going around Almaty Management University, the main part of the training began - lectures from leading experts. The first speaker was Zhanat Rakhmani, the founder of Ustudy. The lecture was held in Keynote speech format on the theme “School of the Future: what is it?”. As the speaker says, “Education of our children is an investment in the future.” Therefore, Zhanat Rakhmani, in his speech, stressed the importance of an innovative approach to teaching. The founder of the educational center shared his experience of creating an independent regional testing center Ustudy and spoke about modern trends in children's education.
Gaukhar Nursha, director of AlmaU Center for Teaching Excellence, also spoke at AlmaU Conference Hall on the theme “Anti-frailty concept’ or alternative ways of finding funds for schools ”. The speaker shared her knowledge in the field of fundraising for schools. Schools of Kazakhstan, like any other in the world, are well-known for their lack of finances for successful development. Gaukhar Nursha sees solution in this situation in searching for grantors among business and international funds. The lecture introduced listeners to the stages of preparing a grant application, tools for improving its quality, as well as ideas that can be implemented through such cooperation.
Adil Jalilov, the founder of factcheck.kz, a well-known journalist in his speech on the topic “What is fact checking and why it is important for schools to know about it?” told about the importance of checking the accuracy of the information described in the texts of popular science and journalistic style.
In recent years, AlmaU has been actively promoting the issue of “Knowledge Management”. Ability to manage properly the intellectual capital of employees in order to improve performance of the company is one of the basic skills of managers. Therefore, in the advanced education program for general education for school managers, this topic got special attention. Professor of AlmaU Aigul Gabdullina conducted a practical training on the topic “Knowledge Management in Schools”.
The final performance of the first day of the program was “PR and self-branding as a part of success of a modern school” training from a PR specialist Elnora Rozmut. The speaker spoke about the importance of promoting and building a school brand. In her speech, Elnora Rozmut shared PR tools that will help general education schools to establish communication with the media and other information channels. As the speaker says, the school, like other companies and organizations, should actively manage its website, filling it with content about teachers and students, achievements and school news.
