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keynote speakers shape the day by offering very different
perspectives on what personalised learning means for
them.
Alistair Smith
Personalised
Learning - what's the story?
 Alistair
Smith is the Chair of Alite Ltd, a skilled presenter,
trainer and developer and an author of highly-acclaimed
texts on motivation and learning. He has played a significant
part in re-invigorating thinking around learning and
teaching in the last ten years in UK schools. His work
on Accelerated Learning has proven to be hugely popular.
Alistair is the co-originator of L2 ø the Learning to
Learn programme.
Dr
Raj Persaud
What makes an individual? How do we become the person
we are?
 Dr
Raj Persaud is an author, broadcaster, media personality
and Consultant Psychiatrist. He lectures at The Maudsley
Hospitals and Institute of Psychiatry in London which
are the leading teaching, research and clinical institutions
in psychiatry in Europe. Unusually for a psychiatrist
he also holds a degree in psychology.
Raj Persaud
has published approaching 100 academic papers in learned
journals but he also writes regularly for the national
press and broadcasts widely for TV programmes like Horizon,
Tomorrow's World, Newsnight and BBC Question Time. He
currently presents All in the Mind on BBC Radio 4. He
lives in Central London, is married to an eye surgeon
working at Moorfields Hospital and has two children
who are the ultimate test of his sanity. To relax he
plays poker and tennis.
Dr Persaud
will help us put the person into personalising learning
Dame
Tamsyn Imison
What does
it mean to be creative? How can schools foster creativity?
 Dame
Tamsyn Imison is an Ôeducational strategist' whose first
career was as a scientific illustrator. After having
a family of three, went into teaching science in 1972
and taught for nearly thirty years. Between 1984 and
2000 she was Headteacher of the Hampstead School.
Now Ôretired',
Dame Tamsyn writes, researches and lectures on topics
such as Leadership, ICT, Comprehensive Schooling, Creativity,
Learning, Schools of the Future, Post 16 and Women Leaders.
In between she finds time to chair various committees
and is Honorary Fellow of Somerville College Oxford,
Queen Mary College London, and The Institute of Education
London.
Dame Tamsyn
Imison will help us explore creative possibilities in
personalising learning.
Shaun
Wallace
What constitutes
talent and how should we develop it?
(photo,
Sarah Lee 2004)
 Shaun
Wallace is the first black winner of the BBC Mastermind
Programme. Born and brought up in inner London, educated
in state schools, Shaun became a barrister and now works
in his own chambers. He is also a FA qualified football
coach, an energetic advocate of human rights and a man
who also happens to be passionate about everything he
gets involved in. Shaun has always loved learning. ÔIt
started when I was a kid as soon as I knew how to read.
My first subject, when I was about six was the kings
and queens of England.' However he admits his school
reports were awful ø Ôthey had me down as a lazy wastrel
dreamer'. Now he teaches law and has been a barrister
for 20 years.
Shaun Wallace has his own strong views
on individuality and talent and how it should be developed.
We hope he will share these with us.
To read about
last year's event, Alite 2004, click
here
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read more about this event, click
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