Description

As schools around the world begin to shift their curricular priorities toward developing 21st-century competencies, questions abound regarding how—and even if—we should assess these competencies. Knowledge and content still matter, but they are being repositioned as a means to an end; as the way to develop the critical competencies.

Nothing is developed without assessment. Schools can’t, on the one hand, claim to be developing critical and innovative thinkers for the 21st century but then, on the other hand, assert that we don’t assess those. While some assessment fundamentals are timeless, there are others that will need to be reworked or rethought to align with these 21st-century outcomes.

This workshop will explore how teachers can take advantage of their current assessment knowledge and seamlessly transfer it to a 21st-century learning environment.

As a result of participating at this institute, attendees can expect to:

• Learn the assessment fundamentals that remain essential and which will likely become somewhat marginalized or even antiquated
• Learn the fundamental principles of performance assessments (including project- or problem-based learning) and how they must transform the assessment norms of every classroom, school, and district.
• Learn the practices and processes necessary to assess critical thinking, creative thinking, collaborative thinking, and other critical 21C competencies.

Target Audience:

All international school educators (administrators, teachers, teaching assistants)

 VISA

Please see the list of visa-exempt countries

The approximate cost of the visa is USD $108

Click this Link to apply for the visa

HEALTH

South Africa requires all travellers journeying from yellow fever-risk countries to show proof of yellow fever vaccination by means of a valid yellow fever certificate. Click here to view yellow fever entry requirements.

Travellers entering South Africa are no longer required to produce COVID-19 vaccination certificates or recent negative PCR tests.

 ACCOMMODATION & TRANSFERS

City Lodge Hotel Fourways
Montecasino Blvd &, Witkoppen Rd, Fourways, Johannesburg, 2068
Cost per night in USD –  $96 (may change due to occupancy and exchange rate)
For a discounted rate of $91 kindly email clfourways.resv@clhg.com and quote “ American International School of Johannesburg  guest file no: 1017175”
From the airport to the hotel is 34 minutes
The cost of airport transfers if arranged through this hotel $27

Indaba Hotel
William Nicol Drive, Pieter Wenning Road Johannesburg, Fourways, Sandton, 2191
Cost per night in USD: $89 (may change due to occupancy and exchange rate)
No discounted rate is available
From the airport to the hotel is 41 minutes
The cost of airport transfers if arranged through this hotel $41