To INEPS members and all interested persons

Berlin, September 8, 2004

Invitation

to IPLE’s 16th International Seminar

“PRODUCTIVE LEARNING –
THE NEW ROLE AND COMPETENCIES OF PL - EDUCATORS”
in co-operation with OPEKO and MY OWN CAREER (Finland)

November 27 to December 3, 2004 in Heinola and Helsinki (Finland)

Dear Madam or Sir,

Dear colleagues and friends,

the Institute for Productive Learning (IPLE), Berlin, invites you to participate in IPLE’s
16th International Seminar “Productive Learning – the new Role and Competencies of
PL Educators” which will be held from November 27 to December 3, 2004, in Heinola
(Finland). The seminar will be organised in co-operation with OPECO and MY OWN
CAREER, Finland.

The seminar is addressed to all INEPS-partners and their educators as well as to

administrators and politicians who have to decide on PL projects and their further
development. Invited are also educators, administrators and politicians who are in-
volved in other educational programmes and who wish to develop their work via the
approach taken by Productive Learning. During the seminar they will get the chance
to find out more about Productive Learning in theory and in practice.

The subject of IPLE’s 16th International seminar is closely related to IPLE’s last semi-
nar in Berlin in October 2003, which had the topic “Productive Learning – its Methods
in Practice and in Theory”: The educator is the “animator” of every Productive Learn-
ing project; she/he has to transform PL ideas and PL methods into concrete educa-
tional activities. Therefore, the educator has to develop a new professional role, a
new professional understanding of him/herself, and a set of new professional compe-
tencies.

Over the last twenty years, Berlin PL educators and IPLE as well as PL educators in
Finland and in other countries have worked out, developed, experienced, and ana-
lysed their new roles. Via our distance study programme, IPLE has created an impor-
tant instrument to support the growth of PLE educators’ competencies.

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The seminar will offer workshops for presenting, trying out and discussing the most
important role aspects of PL educators as well as the corresponding competencies.
PL educators from Finland, Germany and Sweden will co-operate by facilitating the
workshops:

Workshop 1: “The New Professional understanding of oneself as PL Educator”

Workshop 2: “From Being an Instructor to Being an Educational Counsellor”
Workshop 3: “From Being a Subject Teacher to Being an Individual Curriculum
Developer”
Workshop 4: “From Being a Lesson Reader to Being a Communication Group
Facilitator”
Workshop 5: “From Being the Lord of the Classroom to Being a Community Educa-
tor and Project Developer”

The seminar programme will take place within the following time frame:

Saturday, November 27, 2004

Arrival
Welcome dinner

Sunday, November 28, 2004

Adventure education in the snow – meeting each other and preparing youth ex-
change activities
Opening of the seminar

Monday, November 29, 2004

Workshops

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Workshops

Wednesday, December 1, 2004

Workshops
Conclusion plenary
Farewell dinner

Thursday, December 2, 2004

Visits to Finish Productive Learning projects in Helsinki
Please contact Jussi Kahara if you need a hotel accommodation in Helsinki
(Departure of participants who have to leave)

Friday, December 3, 2004

Departure

Please send your registration form as soon as possible (Deadline 1st October, 2004) to
IPLE by fax and a copy to Jussi Kahara from OPEKO by e-mail
Fax IPLE: ++49 30 21 79 21 79
e-mail Jussi Kahara: jussi.kahara@opeko.fi

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