Picture Idea: Delegates during the KORCOS Conference

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SIS hosts annual KORCOS conference
By WILLIAM SON

Every year, a school in South Korea takes full responsibility of the Korea Council of
Overseas School (KORCOS) International Conference. The theme of this years
conference was Innovation in motion; Educating and Changing the World. With the
objective to learn and share new viewpoints, delegates specializing in different areas
shared ideas and methods of effective teaching at SIS on March 14.

I learned a lot from this conference, said Tim Henkels, teacher from Chadwick
International School. Last year, the conference was more focused on the educational
aspect and what it is we had to teach students. However this year, like the theme is, I
was able to share innovative strategies that I thought was useful, and gave a lecture
under the name of Frequent Flier Tips. It was all about tips educators should keep
in mind, if their teaching career was like an airplane ride.

Regardless of the successful outcome, during the six months of preparations with a
new facility, SIS faced many hardships while planning to host this conference.

Facility had been a problem, said Irene De Shazo, admission administrator. It is
true that we were happy to have a new facility in order to host this conference, but we
are having around a thousand delegates here at our school. We were able to find
enough classrooms to have the teaching sessions, but it was a concern till the end on
where we should have the opening and closing ceremony. [Having it in] the gym was
a possibility, but for safety reasons and liability problem, we decided to choose a
different location.

As this event is national, not only did staff members of SIS get involved, but also
members of the KORCOS organization got involved. For these members of the
KORCOS organization involved in the planning of this years conference, an
unexpected problem occurring at any moment of the conference kept them worried.

It was great having the conference at SIS, said Soleiman Dias, director of
admissions KORCOS president. Everybody was worried about having problems
with the facility, but there turned out to be no such problem. Also, due to having more
rooms for delegates to present and share ideas than previous conferences, it allowed
all of the delegates to have to a wider variety of options of different courses to choose
from, which inevitably led to better quality.

Despite the hardships during the preparation of this years KORCOS conference,
delegates felt satisfied and the conference reached a successful end. Faculty members
responsible in coordinating this years conference gave a sigh of relief.

Everything ended up well, said Irene De Shazo. All of the problems regarding
facility were resolved. This was because the entire faculty members tried hard with
full effort to make this event successful. Not only that, the passion and enthusiasm
from the delegates involved also had key impact. Whenever the staff members around
the school went around the conference rooms to check the progress, seeing smiles and
composure amongst the teachers allowed us to feel prouder and created the urge for
us to try even harder. Therefore, every part of this conference had a critical role in the
success of this event.