The First Annual Lola Stein Symposium opens on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 7:00 pm with a Keynote Address by Howard Gardner: Excellence in Education followed by Q&A. The symposium will take place at the Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Grande located at 4861 Yonge Street, Toronto.
Wednesday, September 2, is a Day of Professional Enhancement Workshops for educators to be held at the Toronto Heschel School, 819 Sheppard Avenue West, Toronto. The day commences at 8:30 a.m. with a welcoming address, Inspired Teaching and Curriculum Design, given by Gail Baker, Director of The Lola Stein Institute.
Participants spend the day in three Food For Thought workshops selected from the nine listed below. The workshops are divided into two categories: Integrated Jewish Studies and Integrated General Studies.
The day wraps up at 4:30 p.m. with an address by Gail Baker: Looking At A New Year.
About the Keynote Speaker, Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero.
In 2005 and again in 2008, Prof.Howard Gardner was selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of the 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world.
Gardner is best known in educational circles for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be assessed by standard psychometric instruments.
During the past two decades, Gardner and colleagues at Harvard's Project Zero have been involved in the design of performance-based assessments; education for understanding; the use of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction, and pedagogy; and the quality ofinterdisciplinary efforts in education.
Howard Gardner's books include: Five Minds For The Future, Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons, The Development And Education Of The Mind: The Collected Works Of Howard Gardner, Making Good: How Young People Cope With Moral Dilemmas At Work, and The Disciplined Mind.
Gardner's newest book, Five Minds for the Future has been recently released in paperback and includes a new foreword. This book outlines the specific cognitive abilities that will be sought and cultivated by leaders in the years ahead: the disciplined mind, the synthesizing mind, the creating mind, the respectful mind, and the ethical mind. You can read a review of this book in the Financial Times.
For more information on Howard Gardner, please visit his website at: www.howardgardner.com.
SCHEDULE
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Keynote Address by Howard Gardner: Excellence in Education followed by Q&A
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Commencing 8:30 a.m. - Welcome by Gail Baker: Inspired Teaching and Curriculum Design
Participation in three Food for Thought workshops
Closing 4:30 p.m. - Wrapup by Gail Baker: Looking At A New Year
COST
Registration Fee for Howard Gardner Keynote
Registration Fee for 2 day Symposium
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