Description

This seminar will provide a practical set of ideas and tools for developing collaborative groups to become effective and better equipped to resolve complex issues around student learning. The training not only explores what makes teams effective but how to develop skills as facilitators and informed group members.

As a result of participating in this seminar, attendees can expect to develop: 

• An increased capacity to initiate, develop, and sustain high-functioning groups.
• New lenses for diagnosing the stages and phases of group development.
• An expanded repertoire of practical facilitation tools.
• Understanding of when and how to engage groups in dialogue and discussion, the limitations, forms, and values of each.
• Skills to move groups beyond consensus to a common focus.
• Ways to value and use discussion, argument, and conflict.
• Strategies for keeping group members on track, on topic, energized and resourceful.

Target Audience: All School Leaders, Educators and Co-professionals

ACCOMMODATION AND TRANSFERS

City Lodge Hotel Fourways

Montecasino Blvd & Witkoppen Rd, Fourways, Johannesburg, South Africa
Accommodation Rate: US$ 96 Bed and Breakfast
Airport Transfers: US$ 42 per way
Contacts: clfourways.resv@clhg.com; Quote“American International School of Johannesburg guest file no: 1017175” to access discounted accommodation rates.

Indaba Hotel
William Nicol Drive, Pieter Wenning Road Johannesburg, South Africa
Accommodation Rate: US$ 98 Bed and Breakfast
Airport Transfers: US$ 48 per way
Contacts: indaba@indabahotel.co.za

The host school will provide a shuttle between these hotels and the schools in the morning and evening.

VISA AND HEALTH

• Check if you need a visa. If you do, please follow this link to apply for your e-visa
• Ensure you have medical insurance that covers your trip and stay in South Africa.
• If you are travelling from an area where Yellow Fever is endemic, you will need to show your Yellow Fever vaccination card upon arrival in Johannesburg.
• All travellers to South Africa are no longer required to show proof of vaccination status or provide a negative COVID-19 PCR test certificate on arrival. If transiting or departing, you should be aware of entry requirements at your final destination.