An
Experience

In
Leadership Training

The Institute is rooted in a simple

faith. Personal growth and educa-

tional excellence go hand in hand;

the more that Canadian Community
College educators develop their ;
leadership skills, the more effective
they will be in improving the quality
of education in their own colleges.

Participants at the Summer Workshop
learn:

— to quickly familiarize themselves
with a great variety of material
resources.

— to identify the skills of other
educators and to utilize these
skills as an important educational
resource.

-~ to develop structures and activi-
ties that will fulfill both their
own needs and those of a highly
diverse group of educators, each
of whom has his own set of
educational problems.

Thus, the Institute is designed to aid
the personal development of each
participant and to give him/her an

oppurtunity to function as a leader
in a dynamic learning environment.

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Experience |
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Cultural Exchange

 

Each year, the site of the National : |
Professional Development Workshop
alternates between the francophone |

and anglophone cultural milieux.
Skilled professional translators are
available to facilitate the rich cultural
exchange which takes place among
Participants, and bilingualism and
biculturalsim are pervasive influences,
touching every aspect of life at the
Institute. The many cultural activities
such as poetry readings, musical
evenings, etc. provide both anglo-
phones and francophones with an
opportunity for a greater under
standing of each other's cultures,

and this increased awareness and
appreciation of the Canadian reality
is often felt by participants to be
among their most valuable learnings
at the Institute.

A National Network
of Educational
Problem Solvers

The Institute provides a unique
opportunity for college educators
from all parts of Canada to come
together in an atmosphere designed
to facilitate the interchange of
educational problem solving skills.
Many of the friendships and profes-
sional relationships that develop
during the Institute become per-
manent, and past participants have -
Created a rich and ever-growing
national network which enables them
to utilize the educational skills of
their counterparts in other parts of
the country to help solve the pro-
blems they confront in their own
colleges.

Thus, the learning process which is
initiated at each year’s Professionai
Development Workshop continues
to be augmented in the months and
years after the Workshop's formal
close.