1. 13th OECD-Japan Seminar June 7-8, 2010 Tokyo, Japan
“Pursuing Professional Development and Attaining Program Management and Leadership Quality in ECEC”

2. 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

3. PD in Japan
Self-evaluation preschool
Teaching certificate renewal system
Program evaluation K
continuous lifelong learning opportunities for professionals

4. 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

5. Administ-rative Level
Practical Level
How policy relates to PD
How policy impact practice
Two Layers

6. 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

7. 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)

8. We look forward to meeting
all of you
in Japan next June!!