COM 12 : COMMUNICATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE SCHOOL AND FAMILY
Duration: 4 DAYS
COST: Kshs. 24,000
Dates:
COURSE ABSTRACT:
Is the blame game at fever-pitch? In a sense - it is. Who is to blame for what has happened to schools, the children, the reading culture, performance, and the sound thinking patterns? What is needed is communication that facilitates a powerful transformation to realize higher vision, mission, and values for school and family. By looking at over ten types of culture at school and learning how to change them to the most desirable ones, children can be helped. Schools can become better. Families can become more nurturing and performance can improve. Instead of blame dishing - hurled at church, school, and family - the whole world over, it is better to dialogue and to communicate. If blaming solved any problem, there would be no problems left to solve. The course brings together the main stake-holders in education. If as it has been admitted that communication plays a central role in solving social problems in corporate contexts, it must be one of the main solutions in dealing with children at home and at school.
COURSE OUTLINE:
1. Communication theory and creating a learning visionary school with sound values and attitude
2. Norms and climates that stand in the way of visionary achievement
3. School and family climates and communication barriers
4. School and family communication and visionary emotional intelligence quotient (EQ)
5. School and family communication and intelligence quotient foundations (IQ)
6. Communication and school at family anxiety /uncertainty management
7. Family communication at collaborative conflict resolution
8. Emphathic and visionary communication for success
9. Communicating with and influencing students to prevent indiscipline
10. Disciplining and making champions of school children
11. Communication and changing school/institutional culture
12. Communication, transactional and transformational school leadership
13. Communication to the youth through behaviour modelling
14. Examples of student behaviour models, Kenyan and non-Kenyan
TARGET AUDIENCE:
* Parents with children in school
* Parents who want to create a learning culture at home and school
* Private school heads and principals
* Public school heads and principals
* District Education Officers (DEOs)
* Provincial Education Officers (PEOs)
* Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Officials
* Ministry of Education officials
* Directors of education
* School PTA members
* Members of School Boards of Governors
INSTRUCTORS:
Dr. G.N. Marete University of Nairobi
