With joint efforts of educational organizations and affiliated associations around the globe, The TTLITDA has invited an array of highly-regarded scholars, experts, faculties, and principals to this year's event to share their professional experience in comprehensive professional development at all levels in Smarter Education.
This year's theme, Accelerating Teacher Professional Development, aims to unite the voices of key educational influencers, on the cutting-edge topics of technological leadership and instructional technology, to further drive global competence in Smarter Education systems to prepare the next generation for tomorrow's economy.
Dr. Hsu obtained his Doctorate degree of Education from Taiwan Normal University, and currently is an assistant professor at the National Taipei University of Education. He is a well-known reading comprehension expert in the Greater China area, and has been invited to Shanghai, Ningbo, Chengdu, and Beijing as a visiting chair professor. His expertise is language education, assessment design, and curriculum and teaching. He is also the writer of more than 100 academic articles and several books. Dr. Hsu is committed to promoting the “Smart Reading” philosophy, which combines the teaching of “question-led thing” for reading, TBL teamwork learning, and the Smart Classroom. He has conducted more than 500 seminars, lessons, and sharing regarding this. As an elementary school teacher for 17 years, Dr. Hsu acquired abundant practical experience combined with his deep research history, and so he became a master of reading comprehension.
Ms. Hsu is an expert in smart reading. She emphasizes the success and joy obtained by the students in the classroom. She is also the kind of teacher who is capable of both “teaching” and “researching”. She is enthusiastic about educational innovation. Whether it is a teaching innovative design competition, or a teaching innovation research competition, Ms. Hsu always wins awards. She is skilled in combining reading-comprehension education with TBL teamwork cooperative learning, as well as promoting students’ learning via the Smart Classroom. She develops students reading horizons provokes their interest in reading, also develops the communication and cooperation ability of students.
Ms. Li has been continues to promote the projects of “Distant Smart Classroom Alliance for Four Cross-Strait Cities”, “Great Schools of Cross-Strait Distant Smart Classroom Alliance”, and “Smart Reading Alliance of Four Schools in Taipei”. She also shared her experience promoting smart education in Zhiqing Elementary School in the “Seminar of Curriculum Policy, Taipei City”, while conducting the “Date between the Principal and Graduates” lesson in her school through smart education.
Since Mr. Pan became the Principal of Xinmin Private Elementary School in 2015, his philosophy of Maker Education, International Education, and Innovation Education, has led the school forward to the frontline of education in this era. From the summer vacation of 2016, the school started to build Smart Classrooms, and completed Smart Classrooms throughout the whole school in June, 2017. The school proactively conducts seminars and sharing on smart education, and encourages teachers to develop innovative teaching modules by using the Smart Classrooms. Through the IES Cloud Supplementary Learning Platform, IRS Real-Time Feedback System, and cloudDAS Diagnosis and Analysis System, the complete digitization of the teaching process consisting of teaching, assessment, diagnosis, and learning process is achieved. By fully utilizing the interactive teaching model in the Smart Classroom, the conventional one-to-multiple learning model is gone, and the modern teaching philosophy based on the students and cooperative learning is realized.
This is the fourth year that Mr. Chen has been the Principal of Da You Junior High School. With the philosophy of “Innovation Management”, he promotes a system of Smart Classrooms throughout the whole school. In 2017, he conceived the plan to bring the Taoyuan Team to participate in the 2nd Cross-Strait Smart Classroom Competition, and beat 14 teams to win the Championship. As the Principal, he leads the innovation of teachers with technology, and the teachers developed Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) lessons for Hutou Mountain and The Martyrs’ Shrine.
Mr. Wang has conducted the first “Zhong-Shuang Education Cup” Smart Classroom Invitation Tournament. He also led his team to participate in the tournament, and won First Prize for the Group competition. He instructed the team to write an essay “Toward the Ideal Classroom Pattern”, which was published in the Journal of Chinese Teachers. He also led his team to undertake the topic “Experiments and Research for Improvement of Classroom Teaching through Multimedia” under the National 13th Five-Year Plan. He won the Prize for Excellence of Technology Leadership in our committee this year.
Ms. Chen is a leader in applying “Smart Classroom” technology in school education, and develops her peers to lead other willing teachers to properly apply the technology. She implements Smart Classroom transfer courses in the region, to combine daily teaching and researching of subjects with learning in the Smart Classroom organically, so that “Teaching Smartly, Researching Intelligently” is achieved; researching and teaching become an integral part and the Smart Classroom model can be promoted without bringing a heavier burden to teachers. There are two pillars to the application of the Smart Classroom model: One is the normal progress of daily education, and the other is the focus on advancement of discipline courses. The progress model of the Smart Classroom in the school is demonstrated and shared in the region, the experiences and lessons are positively summarized, and visits and communication from peer schools’ are welcomed.
Under Ms. Yu’s leadership, a teacher from Yang-Ming Elementary School, Mr. Wang, Che, participated the 15th Network Originality Competition (NOC), and was awarded with the second prize in on-site lecturing. She has participated in “Smart Education, Intelligence Gathering Classroom”, a seminar for the fusion of information technology and teaching, to discuss how to deliver lessons to Tieli City, Heilongjiang Province. She also conducted the “Information Technology and Innovation” seminar and the “Smart Education” teaching seminar in Daoli District under the Department of Tele-teaching and the Information, Education Research Institute, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. She was a lecturer in the “Smart Education” teaching seminar in Daoli District, sharing her experience.
Professor Wu is an expert in teaching technology and teaching system development, and the creator of the Habook Group. He is the creator of the TEAM Model Smarter Classroom brand and smart education support system, which has helped teachers in refine and realize the “smart link teaching method,” a modern and easy to implement education concept. This system has facilitated the innovative development and reform of smart education across the globe. The setup of large scale TEAM Model smart education demonstration schools and smart education demonstration districts are crucial for refining development and promoting education innovation. Professor Wu has spent over 20 years servicing elementary schools and education universities, and has extensive practical teaching and academic research experience. He has authored over 100 books on computer information, is enthusiastic about education work, and has helped teachers develop professionally and realize education ideals. As the third president and the honorary chairman of the Taiwan Technology Leadership and Instructional Technology Development Association, Professor Wu promoted the “Smarter Education Movement” and the “Rural Hope Project.” These public welfare programs can create endless education possibilities.
Dr. Chang received a Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy analysis and a master's degree in Information Science and Learning Technology from UM-Columbia. Currently, he is a full-time professor in the Department of Education at National Chengchi University. His main fields of study are school technology leadership and management, smart education principles and implementation, smart classroom and innovative teaching, principal and data-oriented decision-making, and teacher academic optimism and its effects. Dr. Chang is the author of the book School Technology Leadership and Management, and over 100 of his theses and research papers have been published by domestic and international journals (including SSCI and TSSCI) and also presented at seminars. Dr. Chang is an active advocate of smart education. He is involved with smart teacher teaching skill enhancement workshops, TBL seminars, and the Smarter Classroom Innovation Award and the Technology Leadership Excellence Award. These activities all cultivate and inspire smart leadership and smart teachers across the globe. To raise teaching and learning performance, Dr. Chang is working to promote the spread of smart education and the Smarter Education Movement, and to help teachers integrating technology into their teaching.
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08:00-09:00 |
Check-in |
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09:00-09:30 |
Open Ceremony / Welcome Speech |
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09:30-10:40 |
‧ Smarter Lecture Demonstration: "Mission Impossible"
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10:40-12:00 |
Keynote Speeches‧ Theories, Norms, Cases and the Mechanism of World-wide Smarter Education‧ Classic Case Study and Analysis on the Technology-leading i-ViSA |
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12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-15:00 |
➢ Smarter School Café Create a Systematic, Large-Scale Implementation, and Daily Application of Smarter School Learning from the Classical Cases of Smarter Schools |
➢ marter Districts & Smarter Principles Summit A Systematic Approach, Large-Scale Implementation, and Daily Application of Smarter School Successful cases of Smarter Districts and Experience Sharing |
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15:00-16:30 |
➢ Teacher Professions Café Methods and Cases on Leaders leading the Development of Teacher Professions Improving the Development of Smarter Lectures, Student-Center Learning Approach, Collaborative Learning |
➢ Teacher Professional Development Summit Methods and Cases of Accelerating Teacher Professional Development Smarter Lectures, Student-Center Learning, Collaborative Learning |
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16:30-17:00 |
Plenary Session on Smarter Education |
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18:30-21:00 |
Global Smarter Teachers’ Night2017 Gala Night & Award Ceremony: 2017 Technology Leadership Excellence Award & 2017 Innovative Smarter Lecture Award Ceremony Welcoming Gala of the Habook Group |
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08:00-08:45 |
Check-in |
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08:45-09:25 |
Open Ceremony: Smarter School Overview |
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09:35-11:50 |
Teaching Demonstrations by 2017 Cross-Straits Smarter ClassroomTournament Winners Teaching Demonstrations by 2017 Innovative Smarter Lecture AwardWinners Teaching Demonstrations by the best teachers of the school |
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12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-16:30 |
Team-Based Learning Collaborative Workshop * Student-Center Learning Approach and Case Studies Designing Effective Questions and Improving Teaching and Learning withData-Based Decisions |
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Activity |
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08:00-08:30 |
Check-in |
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08:30-09:00 |
Open Ceremony: Smarter School Overview |
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09:10-11:50 |
Teaching Demonstrations by 2017 Cross-Straits Smarter ClassroomTournament Winners Teaching Demonstrations by 2017 Innovative Smarter Lecture AwardWinners Teaching Demonstrations by the best teachers of the school |
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12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-16:30 |
Team-Based Learning Collaborative Workshop * Student-Center Learning Approach and Case Studies Designing Effective Questions and Improving Teaching and Learning withData-Based Decisions |
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Taipei Xinmin Private Elementary School is a distinguished school with an extensive history, featuring “Innovation, Excellence, Exquisiteness, and Vitality” as its educational ethos. Its students not only display outstanding academic performance, but also exhibit great strengths and achieve great results in such competitions as choirs, clarinet ensemble, English drama, languages, sports and science. The School actively cultivates students’ diverse capabilities and educates them according to their temperaments.
As Smarter Classroom is gathering momentum, Xinmin Elementary School has also jumped on the bandwagon. In 2016, the school principal, Pan Liang-Xi, gave support to the TEAM Model Smarter Classroom to be inducted into the entire school for full cultivation of Smarter teachers and Smarter Education development, under the premise of software/hardware equipment upgrades. In addition, the School has spared no effort in promoting international education under the theme of “Overturning the Global Village - Transporting the World to Xinmin.” In the 60th School Anniversary, students performed international music and dances for a deepened experiential study of international cultures and traits, along with dressing up in costumes. The aim is to team up Smarter Education and international education to cultivate all-around future talents.
To comply with policies from above, Pricipal Pan Liang-Xi hopes to conduct teacher professional development for students to benefit fully from classroom teaching. The School has proposed the concept of “60 years for the school, one entire life for the students” by proactively hosting TEAM Model Smarter Classroom workshops. Touchingly, all of the school's teachers, including the principal and department heads, have showed up to attend the above workshop. The lecturer enables the teachers, via experiential activities and drills, to grasp how to establish a connection with the student’s in the future in class with the help of technology and to keep track of the students’ trains of thought before giving real-time adjustments on one’s teaching directions, so that the teachers and students can both progress in learning.
As the school representative in this year’s Summit, Xinmin Elementary School has gradually implemented the instructional system such as IES and AClass ONE Appin order for the teachers to keep track of the students’ learning status with Big Data analysis. On November 10, Principal Pan Liang-Xi will officially and publicly share the successful experience and results in the school’s development of Smarter teachers, devising Smarter models, unfolding Smarter Classrooms. The convention will also host Smarter workshops on TEAM Model Team-based Learning and encourage global Smarter teachers to exchange precious teaching experience, promote technology application in the classroom, and to promote Smarter Education.
Taoyuan, being Taiwan’s smart city icon, proposed the “Smart City Flagship Program” in 2017 to progress steadily in its urban development strategies. When it comes to Smarter campus in Taoyuan, one has to mention Taoyuan Municipal Da You Junior High School, which is advancing at an incredible speed while overturning our views on education.
Starting from August 2016, the TEAM Model Smarter Classroom support system has been gradually inducted. In less than a year, over 80% of the teachers have all changed their teaching approaches, and over 90% of the classes can all utilize Smarter instructional system on a regular basis. Such pronounced results have drawn the visit of the Education Minister from Helsinki, Finland. In 2017, the school had an overall induction, with 50 Smarter Classrooms installed, and delivered an outstanding performance in the Comprehensive Assessment Program for Junior High School Students. This is sufficient indication that Da You Junior High School’s model in implementing Smarter Education is a worthy model for other schools to learn from.
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
In order to motivate teachers into learning about Smarter Classroom, teachers in Da You Junior High School that are familiar with the Smarter Classroom support system take initiatives in forming a commission and draft a Hiking Project in which to divide up the use of technology in Smarter Classroom into five stages, , much like a series of games marked with challenges. Certifications and rewards would be given to teachers for mutual stimulation and learning, as well as for self-improvement in professional development. Subsequently, such a proactive attitude will allow for an alternative classroom experience for the students.
Decent policies will have an impact on the performance of the team. Da You Junior High School’s principal, Mr. Chen Jia-Xiang proposes his five principles in technology leadership and congeals the team of teachers with concrete approaches, where Smarter Education is no longer about one person working in isolation. His approaches have achieved drastic key effects, whether in terms of attitudes or practical operations. On November 10, Principal Chen Jia-Xiang will share with the public the successful experiences and results & conclusions of the Smarter teachers development, formulating Smarter models, and delivering Smarter Lectures in his school. The convention will also host Smarter workshops on TEAM Model Team-based Learning and encourage global Smarter teachers to exchange precious teaching experience, promote technology application in the classroom, and to promote Smarter Education.
Smarter Lecture Demonstration
Mission Impossible
Instructor: Lin, Pei-Yu，Guang Ming Junior High School
Subject & Level: 8th Grade English
「Class Case Study and Analysis of the Technology Leadership i VISA Model」
Dr. Chang I Hua, TTLIDTA
