Around 400 participants are attending the two-day 4th Education Specialists Seminar at Chancellor Hall, Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD), which began yesterday.
The seminar, themed ‘Contemporary Specialisation in Educational Practices towards Education Excellence’ and sub-themed ‘Effective Instructional Coaching towards Education Excellence’, puts a focus on instructional coaching for teaching practices to address the diverse needs of students.
Participants include school leaders, education specialists, potential education specialists, coaches from government schools, lecturers from UBD’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education, as well as officers from various departments in the Ministry of Education (MoE).
Minister of Education Datin Seri Setia Dr Hajah Romaizah binti Haji Mohd Salleh was the guest of honour. The event was organised by the Department of Educators Management at the MoE.
Director of Educators Management at the MoE Masdiah binti Haji Tuah, the seminar committee chairperson, shared that the seminar is an important milestone that shows the ministry’s continuous effort to produce education specialists in various areas to achieve Brunei Vision 2035.
A keynote entitled ‘What is Teaching Excellence? How can Coaching Help Achieve This?’ was delivered by Singapore’s National Institute of Education Associate Professor Dr Ng Pak Tee.
This year’s seminar aims to foster instructional coaching, cultivate skills and competencies essential for effective coaching that create holistic transformational change in educators, strengthen educational practices informed by research and data, explore practical tools and resources to enhance coaching and address its challenges and concerns and to empower leaders to strategically incorporate coaching and establish sustainable coaching culture in schools.
The seminar continues today with a number of workshops delivered by potential education specialists and a workshop on ‘Enhancing Coaching Conversations with Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Emotional Intelligence (EI)’ from head of the specialists unit at the Brunei Darussalam Leadership and Teacher Academy Chong Yun Onn. – James Kon
