International Summit on Teaching Profession Held in New York

Representatives from 23 countries met to discuss challenges of training and recruiting teachers in both successful and developing education sectors.

This week’s second International Summit on the Teaching Profession, held in New York City, brought together representatives from 23 countries and regions around the world to share their expertise. The attendees, all from parts of the world with either high-performing or rapidly-improving school systems, sought to find a better approach to training teachers and identifying and supporting future leaders in the field of education.

“Last year’s first-ever International Summit focused on how high-performing countries support and elevate the teaching profession, contributing greatly to the RESPECT Project,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. “The 2012 Summit has continued the conversation started last year, adding thoughtful insight on effective ways to prepare and develop skilled teachers and school leaders, and reaffirming the critical role they play in successfully implementing systematic reform.”

The U.S. Department of Education partnered with organizations like Education International, along with the American Federation of Teachers, the U.S.-based teachers union, National Education Association, and the Council of Chief State School Officers, to host the two-day Summit. Almost all regions of the world were represented. Attendees from Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland and Germany were some of the nations making up the European delegation. From Asia, The People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, and Singapore sent ministers, teachers and union leaders. North America was represented by the U.S. hosts and a delegation from Canada.

Participants engaged in extensive discussion around policies and methods for successfully developing school leaders, preparing teachers to deliver 21st century learning skills, and matching supply with demand in placing principals and teachers in areas where they are needed the most.

The Summit attendees discussed a paper released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development just prior to the start of the conference, that discussed various issues facing education systems around the world and their proposed solutions for recruiting, training and supporting school leaders and teachers.

A third Summit will be convened by the Netherlands, and is scheduled to take place in Amsterdam in 2013.

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March 27, 2012 at 1:16 pm

This will be my 5th PASS Summit also having been to two SQL Connections cofnerences.As an independent I have firstly to look at the overall cost and where in the cycle of an SQL version are we. Even with the best speakers on the subject hearing about SQLXXXX for the nth time doesn’t really interest me.I cannot afford any of the pre and post cons so I try and get there the day before the full conference because you had better be ready for a 7 am start most days. Once I register I pick up the agenda and try and figure out the sessions I want to go to in the DBA track. Sometimes the schedule changes at the last minute and that’s why I don’t preplan anymore. Most times I have more than 1 session marked for each timeslot (shows the quality of the sessions). I now have to weigh the speaker against the subject to make my number 1 choice and my number 2 and maybe number 3. Also remember the best sessions will fill up quickly and in some of those cases PASS my add a repeat later in the conference.I mentioned where in the SQLXXXX version cycle the product was at so at the last two years I went to a lot of SQL2008 sessions to be prepared for using it. I also look for the hot button issues and Jimmy May’s disk alignment was one of those last year as has been Linchi Shea’s ones on SAN performance.I usually find 3 days of fully loaded sessions leaves me with way too much I want to do when I get back to work and way too much to remember. I will certainly spend time with the CSS group this year as Microsoft are being represented by much broader groups than just speakers nowadays.I cannot speak for other than just being a DBA but I get so much more out of the PASS Summit than I can learn by taking courses. It doesn’t take long at the Summit to realise who the experts actually are so if they say something then you take notice. With so many opinions freely expressed on the Internet it can be difficult to know who and what to believe.So with this year being in Seattle again (much more top notch Microsoft people there) and maybe the dollar getting back close to par it will be time again to attend PASS. It’s also a year to take my wife so I can have some downtime before and after the conference.HTHChris

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