©INTERNATIONAL LEADING SEAGULLS PROJECT
The International ICT Seagulls Project completed its
10th year. It was a STUDENTS’ project focusing on continuous improvement
through İmece Circles (SQC) methodology and technology use.
Now, it is also the time
for empowering teachers to lead the Circles as leading Seagulls!
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Do you want to be known at national and international platforms by revealing your real potential?
Do you aim at creating awareness for the present problems of your environment and finding out solutions for the betterment of life?
Do you want to move to the place and honour of a leading and innovative teacher through this project, as one of the pioneers of it?
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“©International
ICT Seagulls Project” started in 2003 hugging all the students from
Kindergartens to Colleges and completed its 10th year successfully with
well-conducted 269 projects, not only in Turkey but in USA, UK, India, Nepal and
South Africa (See www.bilisimcimartilar.com).
In
the Digital Age, a ten-year time for a project format is enough. Time is
changing, needs are changing and we also must change to lead contemporary
generations. The only thing remaining steady is the wonderful relationship
between a teacher and his/her students. Sometimes we, educators, develop fears.
We think that one day technology will take our places and education will be
totally a technology-based with one way communication. As experienced teachers,
we are aware of the human-to-human communication. Technology cannot replace a
teacher’s love and affection which forms the core of teaching-learning process.
As the designer of innovative ICT projects for some time, I wanted to emphasize
the significant role of “teachers” upon the new generations and I wanted to
empower the teachers once more. Teachers are not robots. They have their own
initiatives and personal, educational backgrounds. They deserve to be trusted.
They deserve to make some important decisions within the educational policy.
But, unfortunately they cannot. So, within this project, I want to give the
decision of forming his/her project teams choosing from the voluntary bodies.
Those bodies might be students, NGO members, PTA members, administrating
bodies, colleagues or people from the community, parents even; the business
people who will support the educational issues and help make a great (WOW)
change. As a result, title of the project has changed like the format and the
contents:
INTERNATIONAL LEADING SEAGULLS (TEACHERS) PROJECT!
INTERNATIONAL LEADING SEAGULLS (TEACHERS) PROJECT!
The
project will start on 15th January 2014 and will end on 2nd
June 2014. Then, for 10 days, assessment step will take place. As mentioned
above, all the initiative will belong to the leading teacher. In other words,
all the target groups, main theme, members, contents will be determined by the
teacher and s/he will be responsible for the labor of division along with the
project members for all the steps, processes,
procedures including the videotaping, preparing
the ppts and Blogs/Web pages. We want to empower teachers from the very
beginning to the end. As you know MOOCs (=Massive Open Online Courses) are very
popular among the world-wide known universities. In our project, teachers and their
teams will prepare their Oops! (=Open Online Projects) and (I hope) will cause
billions of WOWs(!) around them as a result of great change they create.
PDCA Mindset and analytical problem
solving steps (SQC Methodology) will form the essence of the planning and
implementation, and sharing will be realized through technology use. Leading
teachers will participate in three categories. The assessment will be conducted
in those categories:
1. Teachers/Instructors
(working at state or private schools, belonging at every level and all subject
areas including colleges)2. Teacher trainees/Student Teachers (Attending Anatolian Teachers’ High Schools and Faculties of Education)
3. Retired Teachers (Every level and all subject areas).
Even though, we do not want to restrict the project topics, one of the following issues might be selected as the problem area. For a totally different field, you can talk to the General coordinator. Here are the main themes of this year:
1. Educational issues,
2. Environmental problems,
3. System and Leadership-focused
problems,
4. Violence, Humiliation,
Inequality and Rights,
5. Disabilities,
6. Media and Ethics.
In
order to
take part in the Project, the “Standards and Ethics Project Protocol” should be
signed by the teacher and also the administrator of the organization/school.
Ethics and technical conditions are important issues. Volunteerism is another
important principle in the project.
This
project has not a materialistic award. The most important thing for a teacher
is to add his/her creativity, love and Imece (=collaboration) spirit to his/her
personal and professional lives. It will be understood easily that having
national and international reputation through a real İmece project is the
greatest award for the teacher and for his/her students.
The
participants might attend the “17. ICSQCC” which will be held
in Kingston University, London, UK in June 2014. There, you will present your project and see some other SQC samples.
The
Projects will be handed in on 2nd
June 2014.
In order
to get more information, please contact Dr. Hayal Köksal, General Coordinator.
TEL: +90 212 341 26 01 CELL: +90 532 373 84 87 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
E- MAILS: hayal@hayalkoksal.com koksalhayal@gmail.com hayal@boun.edu.tr
E- MAILS: hayal@hayalkoksal.com koksalhayal@gmail.com hayal@boun.edu.tr
THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST.
