MAW Education

January 2012 - MAW Education is working with the Oxford Language College to provide courses on teaching and learning. For details e-mail:

maweducation@discover-multiple-intelligences.com

December 2011 - MAW Education provides Skype consultations and a course on applying Multiple Intellingences theory to teaching and learning. For details go to:

http://www.discover-multiple-intelligences.com/consultancy.htm

December 2011 - MAW Publications (a branch of MAW Education) published two booklets of templates helpful to classroom teachers on how to apply Mutiple Intelligences theory to lesson planning and assessment. For details go to:

MI and Assessment
http://www.discover-multiple-intelligences.com/mawbooklets.htm

MI and Lesson Planning
http://www.discover-multiple-intelligences.com/mawbookletlp.htm

Meanwhile, when not working abroad, I continue to carry out assessments of teaching assistants who are aspiring to become Higher Level Teaching Assistants (HLTA), travelling up and down the motorways of southern England to schools for children of all ages.

A wide range of places and schools visited to run workshops, and in one school give a lecture.

School visited:

Bishop Cotton College - Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
Budding Buds Senior Secondary School - Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Assam.
Dehradun Teachers' Centre - representatives from three schools attending; Doaba Public School, Hoshiarpur; Hopetown Girls', Dheradun; Doon School.
Guru Nanak Public School, Ludhiana, Punjab (lecture)
Bal Bharati School, Pitampura, Delhi.
Sunbeam School, Lahartara, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

Thank you all for your warm and generous hopitality.


This visit included a wonderful evening attending the most amazing wedding reception in Chandigarh. Thank you for letting me take part in such an amazing event.

January 2nd - 21st, 2011 - Took part in school inspections in Dubai and the desert town of Hatta through UK - CfBT and Dubai - KHDA. Memorable journeys and visits to schools and a fascinating afternoon at the Dubai Museum.

November 11th - 14th, 2011 - Attended the World Interent Summit where many inspiring speakers including Tom Hua and Brett McFall spoke and we were able to speak to them.

The International Biographical Center, UK and the American Biographical Institute once again organised the annual World Forum, this time held in the beautiful setting of St. John's College at Cambridge University, UK.

This year a gave a presentation on 'Changing Education: a challenge across the world for the 21st century.' After speaking about past changes in education I showed photos of schools in the different countries I have visited: South Africa, Malta, India, Algeria, Qatar and Dubai where change is taking place and pointed towards some of the challenges teachers face now and in the future.

I was greatly honoured with an unexpected award for 'Distinguished Intellectual Contributions to the 2010 World Forum, Cambridge, England Representing Europe', for which I thank humbly the two respective Institutes.

The Multiple Intelligences Institute in Beijing organised a World Symposium at which Professor Howard Gardner was a speaker. It was advertised as an all Asia Symposium, so I decided to attend as I work so much in India and wanted to hear about Gardner's latest research.

I was not disappointed. It was a wonderful conference, with many excellent speakers and very informative group sessions.

After the two-day conference, I stayed on for three days to do some site-seeing, visiting the Temple of Heaven and Hutong, The Forbidden City and Summer Palace, the Ming Tombs and a walk along the Great Wall of China. Wonderful experiences and my guide was first class.

How lucky I was to be invited back yet again to take part in four school inspections, leading three of them. I visited schools in the city of Dubai and also 40 minutes away, travelling to a village in the desert.

When I arrived in Dubai on January 1st, all were still in festive mood with families from many Arab countries enjoying a holiday at the hotel.

A truly momentous occasion was the opening of Burj Khalifa (Dubai) the highest building in the world at 828 metres. The six-lane traffic came to a halt, as we all watched the amazing fireworks and the ceremonial opening.

I was invited to return to Dubai, to take part in school inspections. I joined teams in eight different schools with students from Kindergton up to Grade 12, leading two of the inspections.

Another wonderful visit to India to run Multiple Intelligences and Assessment Workshops, and this time also to interview principals and a politician to gather information for a book I am writing.

Schools visited were:

Alpha Matriculation - Chennai
Miles Bronson - Guwahati
Navrachana - Baroda
Spring Dale - Amristar
Pinegrove - Solan Hills

Another wonderful World Forum organised by the American Biographical Institute and the International Biographical Centre,UK. This time it was held in Washington DC, at the end of June and the start of July, so we were there for the festivities on the 4th July.

As always the presentations were of high quality and by people from many different professions and countries. A real cultural exchange of ideas and many international professional friendships formed.

It was a sadness to us all that I had to give news to the gathering of the death of two former delegates, Dr. and Mrs. Sandu of Spring Dale and Spring Blossom schools, Amritsar.

I was invited to work with teams inspecting schools in Dubai. On this occasion, I took part in three school inspections, leading two of them.

One and two-day Workshops held in the following schools:

Multiple Intelligences Workshops:

• Glendale Academy - Hyderabad
• Taktse School - Gangtok, Sikkim
• St Xavier School - Panyong, Sikkim
• Achariya Bala Siksha Mandir School - Pontichelly

Introduction to ICT ad the Digital Classroom through Multiple Intelligences

• Bal Baharti School - New Delhi

I chaired one of the Symposia at the World Forum, held during August 2008 in Oxford, UK which was organised by the American Biographical Insitute (ABI) and the International Biographical Center (IBC). Many interesting lectures, papers and presentations were given.

In 2007, I attended this World Forum, which was then held in Washington DC.

I have had articles published in the following journals this year.

Education World - February 2008 - Developing Multiple Intelligences

Teacher Plus - March 2008 - Bringing Multiple Intelligences into the Classroom

Visit 6
Travelling by overnight train, planes and taxis, I covered very many miles.

My first school was:
The Aditya Birla Public School - Renusaga (a very different setting from other schools I have visited, as the school provides for the community that serves the coal mine and electricity plant in this quite remote area. A five and a half hour taxi drive from the airport at Varanasi began this visit.)

From here I went on to run a two-day workshop in Bal Bharti School - New Delhi.

Then to Chandigarh to carry out Parent Consultations and enjoy a family Multi-Faith festival weekend with friends. A wonderful drive up the Morni Hills near Chandgarh to Tikar Tall Lake, celebrations in the Nadha Sahid Gurdwara and Christ Church - The Church of North India, and a dinner party with friends are among many happy memories.

Back to SunCity World School in Gurgaon to run a one day workshop - I had visited the school before, and was interested to hear about the progress they are making in multiple intelligences planning.

From there to Delhi Public School in Jalandhar for a two day workshop. On the way back from here I was honoured to visit a family involved with renovation historical buildings in the village of Ladhran. This is such a worthwhile project as historical buildings cannot be saved once lost. They need all the help that can be offered them.

Daly College - Indore kindly invited be back for a second time, to observe lessons and provide written feedback, and were kind enough to arrange for me to stay four nights at their guest house in wonderful surroundings.

Then to Bangalore to contribute to the TAIAI Conference for Teachers and Middle Management. I was indeed honoured to be invited to take part.

And lastly a third visit to Springdale - Amritsar - for four days, to carry out classroom observations and general education consultancy.

Back to Chandigarh to meet a fellow International Education Consultant and compare notes on what we each offer in our workshops, and then time for one more unexpected pleasure - a weekend at Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, somewhere I have wanted to visit since I first came to India. Another pestigious school in a wonderful setting, up in this Himalyan hill station. Thank you so much for having me to stay as your guest.

Another truly amazing visit, with so many friends and colleagues now across the country. Thank you all for your continued kindness and hospitality.

A wonderful week in Algeria! I was kindly invited by the linguistics department to contribute, in February, to the students' teacher training programme. The students will be leaving university this year and most will apply for teaching posts. The first language of people in Algeria is Arabic but most people also speak French fluently. French is taught as the main, second language and English as a third language.

Three hundred 4th Year university students joined me each morning for a lecture in the auditorium, and this was followed by workshops in smaller groups of about 30 students with a teacher/lecturer in classrooms. There was much enjoyment when practical activities were the plan for the day!

The students were enormously generous, enthusiastic, warm, friendly and very keen to learn. A wonderful group of people.

I was also extremely well looked after by two colleagues, who joined me for meals and from whom I learned much about Algerian culture. They also organised and took me on many site-seeing visits. We walked through Setif shopping area and market, visited the countryside where I saw the very 'French' villages, and travelled further afield, with appropriate security, to Djemila to see the extensive, well preserved ruins of a Roman city. Absolutely amazing!

Yes, what a wonderful week! Thank you so much everyone.

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