Professor David Hopkins
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Speaker Topics
- Secondary
- School Improvement
- School Design
- Raising Standards
- Professional Development
- Primary
- Policy Making
- Out Of School Learning
- Motivation
- Learning
- Leadership
- Curriculum Design and Assessment
- Change
- Adventure And The Outdoors
- 21st Century Learning
Introduction
David is passionately committed to improving the quality of education for all, and the action orientation of his work is characterised by an integration of policy, research, and practice. This reflects the variety of roles he has held in education as a teacher, professor, change agent, senior policy maker and international consultant. His professional interests are in the areas of learning and adventure, teacher and school development, leadership, educational change and policy implementation. David is also an International Mountain Guide who still climbs regularly in the Alps and Himalayas.
Current Positions Held
• Visiting or Emeritus Professor at the Catholic University of Santiago, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Institute of Education, London, and the Universities of Edinburgh, Melbourne, Nottingham and Wales
• Member of the Board of Trustees of Outward Bound and responsible for developing the Outward Bound School concept
• International Education Consultant, currently to the Governments of Bermuda, Chile, Mexico and States/Provinces in Australia and Canada
Personal Achievements and Awards
• Author of over thirty books on educational issues. Most recently: Every School a Great School, Models of Learning - Tools for Teaching and A Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Research
• Member of the team that won the contract for the National College for School Leadership, founding member of the College’s Governing Council and Chair of its first Think Tank
• Long time consultant to the OECD on policy formation, school improvement and teacher quality and to some twenty Ministries of Education worldwide on these themes
• 1977-80 Simon Fraser University, Canada - Doctor of Philosophy
Relevant Career and Professional Background
• 2005 - 2009 Inaugural HSBC Chair in International Leadership, Institute of Education
• 2002 - 2005 Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State on School Standards
• 1999 - 2002 Chair, Leicester City Partnership Board
• 1996 - 2002 Professor and Dean of Education, University of Nottingham
• 1985 - 1996 Tutor, University of Cambridge Institute of Education
• Previously - School Teacher, College Lecturer, Outward Bound Instructor and Mountain Guide