"WE DON'T JUST TEACH OLD SCHOOL."
The Loyola Schools celebrated World Teachers’ Day last October 5th in an unforgettable way: They held a Lip Sync Battle among faculty and staff—probably one never before seen on the Ateneo campus. The originator of the idea? Ateneo de Manila’s newly established Ateneo SALT Institute.
Upon the initiative of the Ateneo de Manila’s SALT Institute, a total of nine Jesuit institutions involved in teacher education in the Asia-Pacific are forming a consortium of Jesuit schools of education.
The different education deans and their representatives are set to congregate at Sanata Dharma University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, from October 30 to 31. This milestone meeting will be graciously hosted by Dr. Johanes Eka Priyatma, PhD, who is the President/Rektor of Sanata Dharma and currently the Chair of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities in Asia Pacific (AJCU-AP).
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During its recent meeting last 05 August 2017, the Board of Trustees of the Ateneo de Manila University approved the establishment of the Ateneo SALT Institute or the Ateneo de Manila Institute for the Science and Art of Learning and Teaching). The vision and plans for the institute are the fruits of a year-long series of consultations with the university’s teacher educators and trainers in the different disciplines.
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For two literally stormy days, from the 27th to 28th of July 2017, twenty selected administrators and faculty took off from the Ateneo de Manila campus and braved the weather to huddle at the Eugenio Lopez Center in Antipolo for a much-needed brainstorm. Their agenda? To form a consortium of schools and departments of the university engaged in teacher education and training.
