C-2 Foresight Educator’s Boot Camp
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.Have you ever wanted to package what you’ve learned about the future and use it as a professional course or student curriculum? Would you be ready if the opportunity came knocking to serve as an adjunct professor to teach futures studies at the community college or graduate level? Can you see yourself launching a “Futures Institute” that offers training for your school, community, or organization?
The need for leadership training in strategic foresight has never been greater in public service or private enterprise. This unique, one-day course will give you an edge to open doors and deliver high-quality sessions in both futures thinking and action. It will review existing resources and share best practices on how to create lesson plans, short courses, and entire curricula. Join the new vanguard of futurists who are leveraging what they know to help adults get future-ready.
Who should attend: Consulting futurists, college educators, corporate trainers, community planners, K-12 teachers, administrators, and anyone who has something to give as a foresight educator and wants to take it to a higher level.
What you’ll learn: How to: (1) assess your own personal, professional, and academic assets as a futures educator; (2) relate futures topics to real-world competencies that your audience needs for professional and personal development; (3) identify training opportunities that futurists can develop within schools, colleges, and companies; (4) engage in just-in-time learning when asked to create face-to-face courses or online curriculum; (5) find foresight educators who can mentor you; and (6) create practical foresight exercises, workshops, and courses.
How this new knowledge can be applied: Participants will leave with hands-on skills to develop custom foresight courses, curricula, and training.
Jay E. Gary, assistant professor, School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship, and designer and program director of the Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight, Regent University; worked as a “millennial consultant” throughout the 1990s helping communities and corporations reinvent themselves in light of the new century; his work has been featured on CNN and in the Los Angeles Times; member of the World Future Society, the Association of Professional Futurists, and the World Futures Studies Federation; Norfolk, Virginia
Stephen F. Steele, professor, sociology and futures studies; former director, Institute for the Future@Anne Arundel Community College (http://www.aacc.edu/future); works with advisory team in the ongoing development of a vehicle for delivery of future views and tools at local level; promotes future thinking, trains learners to use future tools, and facilitates creativity and planning; member of the World Future Society; Arnold, Maryland
$130 members/$180 nonmembers Register Now
World Future Society
7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 450
Bethesda, MD 20814 U.S.A.
Tel: 301/656-8274 • Fax: 301/951-0394 • E-mail: sechard@wfs.org
