13th OECD-Japan Seminar June 7-8, 2010 Tokyo, Japan “Pursuing Professional Development and Attaining Program Management and Leadership Quality in ECEC”
Ways of Improving Quality Professional Dev. Leadership Quantity & Quality Equally in widening-economic-gap society raise Knowledge-based Quality in Practice PD as an entire entity Workforce (May 2009) School Leadership Report (2008) Policies (since 2007) Ways of Improving Quality
PD in Japan Self-evaluation system @ preschool Teaching certificate renewal system Program evaluation system @ K continuous lifelong learning opportunities for professionals
Objectives extracting practical cases with distinctive features conferring current global trend extracting practical cases with distinctive features learning ways of tackling these issues concretely Objectives
Administ-rative Level Practical Level How policy relates to PD How policy impact practice Two Layers
Dialogues among Stakeholders Theme: PD & Leadership Policy makers Academics & Professional bodies Practitioners & Parents Media & Journalists Korea, China, Singapore, & others (e.g., countries in ARNEC; Global Strategies) OECD/ECEC Network local, national, & international perspectives Dialogues among Stakeholders
Plans & Schedules (tentative) June 7th 2 Keynotes Steven Barnett Christine Pascal 2 Workshop June 8th 2 Workshops 2 Plenary Sessions June 9th School Visits (integrating system, kindergarten, preschools, etc) Plans & Schedules (tentative)
We look forward to meeting all of you in Japan next June!!