30 webinars. 45 hours. 70 resource speakers. 20 Jesuit schools and universities. 7 countries including Australia, the United States, Mexico, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Italy.
Hundreds of Ignatian educators participating every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in this series of professional conversations on topics ranging from online learning in the different disciplines, digital formation and ministry to well-being and cura personalisin this time of the pandemic–including a special Ignatian recollection in celebration of the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola last 30 July.
This article is authored by Ms. Jennie Hickey, the Executive Officer of Jesuit Education Australia.
The Key Leaders of Learning and the Ignatian Coordinators from Jesuit and Companion Schools Australia were engaged in a four-day workshop entitled “Learning by Refraction: A Practitioner’s Guide to 21st Century Ignatian Pedagogy.” The workshop was held at St. Peter Canisius House, Pymble, Australia from the 23rd to the 27th of February 2020.
A total of 32 participants attended the workshop, representing Australia’s ten Jesuit and Companion Schools.Continue reading “LEARNING BY REFRACTION GOES TO AUSTRALIA”
Turo Guro brings together education experts from different disciplines to train teachers in the science and art of effective teaching and the science and art of 21st-century learning. Continue reading “4th TURO GURO WORKSHOP COMING UP”
Last October 20, nearly 60 administrators and master teachers from Jesuit schools all over the country congregated at the Mirador Jesuit Villa for the first JBEC IPP Trainers’ Training Workshop based on LEARNING BY REFRACTION.
In celebration of World Teachers’ Day, the Ateneo SALT Institute, in cooperation with the Teachers’ Formation Institute (TFI), TALAB, and the Ateneo CELADON, held TEACHING NEW: INNOVATION ROOTED IN TRADITION on October 4 at the Loft of the George SK Ty Learning Innovation Wing at the Arete.
Leland dela Cruz, head of TALAB, is shown here with some of the people behind the event: Jen Ramirez, Atty. Michelle Juan, JJ Atencio, and Je Ching.
For those interested in joining any of the three certificate courses that the Ateneo SALT Institute is offering this coming August 2019, here are the schedules of the face-to-face sessions:
Effective August 2019, the Ateneo de Manila is launching a Graduate Certificate Program for Higher Education Learning and Teaching. Customized for the Ateneo educator, this unique professional development program aims to strengthen the Ignatian character of Jesuit education by expanding the participants’ expertise in the science and art of learning and teaching.
Last June 5, 2018, the Ateneo SALT Institute opened its doors for the first batch of interns. Thirteen individuals ranging from undergraduate, graduate, and MA students gathered for their on-boarding session for the internship program this Intersession 2018.
The Ateneo SALT Institute created this internship program mainly to have more assistance in the research and marketing departments and for the organization of the institute’s upcoming conference on educational frontiers. Research coordinator Eos Trinidad says that having interns means allowing for more people to get to know the institute, be more immersed, and engage in a positive learning environment. Thus, being able to propel the institute to do something much more than it could.
Interns busy at work
Interns are divided into two functions – Marketing & Branding and Research & Partnership. The former is tasked to organize and create content for the institute’s website and social media platforms, as well as market the International Conference on Educational Frontiers.
On the other hand, the latter is responsible for data gathering and analysis of various research topics essential to the institute. Topics include student formation, training needs analysis, and student-centered learning among others.
The interns and the SALT team
With more than a month ahead, the interns are hopeful, excited, and prepared for the challenges to come over the course of the program. Trinidad hopes that at the end of the intersession period, interns are left with three major takeaways – a greater sense of self through the work experience, a fuller understanding of the education system and its opportunities, and a deeper grasp of mission in that the work is significantly larger than themselves.
The SALT interns are working at the College ’66 Co-Lab of The Areté building in the Ateneo de Manila University.
After the deliberation and approval of the Office of the Vice President for the Loyola Schools (OVPLS), the Ateneo de Manila University Press (ADMU Press), and the Ateneo SALT Institute, six textbooks applications will receive support in terms of load from the OVPLS.
The six will also receive support in terms of publication from the ADMU Press.
The accepted applications include:
a senior high school textbook for economics,
a biology manual series,
a book on text mining,
a book on group therapy,
a textbook for linear algebra, and
a book for art appreciation.
On behalf of the textbook committee, the SALT Institute wishes to thank the proponents and the reviewers for their generosity and effort.
TURO GURO is a collaboration among education specialists from Ateneo de Manila University’sSchool of Humanities,School of Science and Engineering, and School of Social Sciences who join forces every summer to offer a diversity of seminar workshops especially designed for K-12 teachers in the Philippines.
