Theme: Inspiration

This is a TEDxNorrköpingED evening event with contents mailnly related to education and school development.

NORRKÖPINGS VISUALISERINGSCENTER
Norrköping Visualisering AB
Kungsgatan 54
Norrköping, Östergötlands län, SE-60233
Sweden

Agneta Gulz

Professor in Cognitive Science, Linköping University and Lund University, Sweden.

Professor in Cognitive Science, Linköping University and Lund University. Samples from her Research Domain: Next generation educational software, as research instruments and as real-world-value tools to support learners and teachers. At what age can a child learn for herself by teaching someone else? How do different students behave when learning is not easy and they don't make progress?

Guy Claxton

Professor emeritus. Cognitive Scientist. Author.

Guy Claxton is emeritus Professor of the Learning Sciences at the University of Winchester, a post he took up in September 2008 together with the role of Co-Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning (CrL).He previously held the same title at the University of Bristol Graduate School of Education. He has a ‘double first’ from Cambridge and a DPhil from Oxford, and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and the Royal Society of Arts, and an Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences. Guy Claxton is the author of more than twenty books including the best selling Building Learning Power.

Jill Harland

Headteacher at Brudenell Primary school, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK

Jill Harland is the Headmaster of Brudenell Primary School in Leeds where the the school results hasve turned to a success. For a more detailed look at the school improvement plan please look at https://brudenellprimary.co.uk/leeds/primary/brudenell/site/pages/parents/schoolimprovementplan Their work together with students and parents to achieve better integration over cultural nd ethnical boundaries is of particular interest.

Martin Renton

Martin Renton is Challenging Learning's Director of Consultancy, Training and Development.

Martin’s knowledge of pedagogy and leadership is borne out of his experiences in schools and colleges as a teacher, leader, consultant and coach. His early experiences as a nanny (2-9 year olds), then as a teacher and leader in middle schools (9-13 year olds), secondary schools (11-18 year olds) and colleges (16+) have given him a comprehensive insight into how people learn from the age of 2–adulthood. Martin uses these insights to challenge, inspire and engage his audiences. With a Masters Degree in Educational Research from Newcastle University, Martin works alongside the Challenging Learning evaluation team to integrate evaluation processes into all of our long-term projects. These processes form a central part of our reporting and monitoring, giving us and the schools we work with the data we need to achieve excellent outcomes together. Martin is perhaps best known for his work with FE Colleges (vocational, adult and further education). Having set up the celebrated Think-FE ap