Now on its fifth year, Xavier School’s Frontiers and Innovations in Teaching (FIT) is not your average summer professional learning destination. With this year’s theme, FIT 2018: EDUSCAPE Showcasing 21st Century Learning Environments, it has all that you’re looking for and more! From workshops and idea sessions about online safety, fighting fake news in the classroom, to improving comprehension in a tech-integrated environment, FIT is the place to be to re-wire and re-vamp your teacher brain this summer.
This professional learning destination is the place to be for teachers this summer as it will not just host 5 nor 10 fun and creative sessions, but more than 40 breakout sessions, each sporadically scheduled for your choosing—making this truly unlike any other. Aside from these, its roster of main keynote speakers are names to be ticked off in a teacher’s bucket list: from Ms. Gayle Rosen, a STEAM specialist from Nanyang Girls’ High School, Singapore; to Fr. Benigno Beltran, SVD, a Chief Learning Strategist from Sandiwaan Center for Learning; and Ms. Dina Ocampo, former DepEd Undersecretary and presently a professor at the University of the Philippines, each expert will be sharing their thoughts on how to create learning environments that will support the development of 21st century skills in students.
FIT 2018: EDUSCAPE will run for 3 jam-packed days from April 25 to April 27, 2018 at Xavier School, Nuvali in Sta. Rosa, Laguna. Aside from the 3 keynote sessions from the speakers mentioned above, it will also include 6 expert podium talks, 4 makerspace camps, 11 idea sessions, and 29 workshop sessions. Below are more information about these unique program features, which are also available on the website.
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KEYNOTE
Plenary sessions headlined by notable international and local keynote speakers whose leadership and expertise focus on 21st century education, student-centered learning environments, and digital learning, among others.
EXPERTS PODIUM
Four 15-minute presentations that put the spotlight on teachers and school leaders as they describe the innovations they have put in place in their school environment and how these have made an impact in their community.
MEET THE EXPERTS
Intimate sessions that give participants the opportunity to closely and actively interact with prominent education leaders and experts on topics related to 21st century learning and teaching.
IDEA SESSIONS
75-minute interactive lectures and discussions that ignite curiosity and active participation among the audience while equipping participants with essential concepts on fostering 21st century learning and teaching in the classroom, innovative leadership, and technology infrastructure.
STUDENT POSTER SESSIONS
60 minutes reserved for the participants to interact with the best and brightest students as they exhibit their real-world projects and entertain questions about their work WORKSHOP SESSIONS 90-minute hands-on exploratory sessions on various digital tools, topics or skills that will allow participants to learn by doing.
PLAYGROUND SESSIONS
40-minute sessions dedicated to giving the participants a closer experience with emerging technologies and digital tools for the 21st century learning environment.
MAKER CAMP
Two full hours that aim to immerse the participants in design-thinking and makerspace activities to let them see firsthand how these two concepts can be applied in school settings and also to give the participants a chance to personally dig into their own wellspring of creativity to produce original creations.
FIT (Frontiers and Innovations in Teaching) 2018 is open to students, education experts, librarians, private and public-school teachers, and more. Rates for early bird, student, and public-school teacher are available in the website. Please visit fitcon.ph for more details. The deadline for registration is on April 20, 2018. See you there!
By K. Brillo
