Upcoming Workshops
Differentiated Instruction
Differentiated Instruction is an approach planning instruction that takes into account both content requirements and the needs of varied learners in a classroom.
January 12th - 13th, 2019
Beijing
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Effective Feedback Practices
This workshop is designed to deepen participants’ understanding of how high-impact formative assessment practices can be woven into daily teaching activities.
January 19th – 20th, 2019
London
Jan Chappuis
Infuse Reading Workshop with the Spirit of Inquiry: Reading Instruction that is tailored to everyone!
For a great many teachers, an underlying tension can arise when we strive to be well-planned, yet we also want to infuse our reading workshop with an inquiry-mindset.
January 19th – 20th, 2019
Seoul
Kathy Collins
Concept Based Curriculum and Instruction
Karin Tellis expands our understanding of the conceptual level of knowledge, thinking, and understanding. In this highly interactive session, Karin will challenge your mind as she contrasts a three-dimensional concept-based curriculum and instruction model with the worn out two-dimensional coverage model.
January 25th - 26th, 2019
Shanghai
Karin Tellis
The Thinking Classroom for Literacy and other Process-Driven Disciplines: A Concept-Based Approach
Designing a high-quality curriculum is one of the most important steps in promoting student thinking, differentiating instruction and ensuring that learning continuously improves.
February 1st - 2nd, 2019
Adliswil, Switzerland
Lois A. Lanning
Having Hard Conversations
As teachers and colleagues, we often come up against situations where difficult topics must be addressed - with parents, colleagues, or students.
February 2nd - 3rd, 2019
Adliswil, Switzerland
Jennifer Abrams
Concept-Based Instruction: Designing Effective Lesson Plans Using Tools to Support Inquiry and Transfer
What does Concept-Based Instruction actually feel like? How do you move from a written Concept-Based Curriculum unit to what is actually taught in the classroom? How do you design your lessons to help students uncover important transferable understandings?
February 3rd, 2019
Adliswil, Switzerland
Lois A. Lanning And Tiffanee M. Brown
Concept-Based Mathematics: Teaching for Deep Understanding
Traditional curriculum focuses on rules and procedures with little attention paid to the conceptual relationships of mathematics and mathematics is a language of conceptual relationships.
February 5th - 6th, 2019
Dubai
Jennifer Wathall
Differentiated Instruction
Differentiated Instruction is an approach planning instruction that takes into account both content requirements and the needs of varied learners in a classroom.
February 8th - 9th, 2019
Jordan
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Intensive Instructional Coaching Institute
Jim Knight has spent more than two decades studying professional learning, effective teaching, and instructional coaching. He is a Research Associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning and the President of the Instructional Coaching Group.
February 20th - 24th, 2019
Dubai
Jim Knight
Documentation in the Early Years: An Active Process of Seeking Deeper Understanding
Documentation is a powerful strategy in early childhood education, a complex and significant process that invites us to reflect on and interpret the meaning and significance of children's learning.
February 23rd - 24th, 2019
Baar, Switzerland
Fiona Zinn
Enhancing Learners Agency 'the what, why and how of supporting learner agency in schools'
Child centred learning has been Anne's passion for more than 25 years. Anne has worked in schools in the Netherlands, China, Singapore and Switzerland, where she took on various positions such as team leader, PYP coordinator and director
February 24th – 25th, 2019
Hong Kong
Anne Van Dam
The Writing Workshop
Principles that guide our work: All children can write and want to write. Acknowledge first what the child CAN do
March 2nd - 3rd, 2019
Berlin
Ralph Fletcher & Martha Horn
Assessment for Learning
There is now a large and growing evidence base that helping teachers develop their use of minute-to-minute and day-by-day assessment is one of, if not the most powerful ways to improve student learning.
March 9th – 10th, 2019
London
Dylan Wiliam
Infuse Reading Workshop with the Spirit of Inquiry: Reading Instruction that is tailored to everyone!
For a great many teachers, an underlying tension can arise when we strive to be well-planned, yet we also want to infuse our reading workshop with an inquiry-mindset.
March 9th – 10th, 2019
Mumbai
Kathy Collins
Chapters International Celebrates their 10th Year by getting Yong Zhao for a One-Day workshop on What Works May Hurt: Side Effects in Education
Medical products are required to disclose both their intended outcomes and known side effects. Educational policy and practice, however, carries no such labels.
March 16th, 2019
Hong Kong
Yong Zhao
Teaching and Learning Through Inquiry for Middle and High School
Trevor MacKenzie deepens our understanding of inquiry-based learning at the middle and high school years. In this highly engaging session, Mr. MacKenzie will challenge your mind to rethink the role of the teacher and the learner in the inquiry classroom.
March 18th – 19th, 2019
Hong Kong
Trevor MacKenzie
Teaching and Learning Through Inquiry for Middle and High School
Trevor MacKenzie deepens our understanding of inquiry-based learning at the middle and high school years. In this highly engaging session, Mr. MacKenzie will challenge your mind to rethink the role of the teacher and the learner in the inquiry classroom.
March 22nd - 23rd, 2019
Munich
Trevor MacKenzie
Teaching and Learning Through Inquiry for Middle and High School
Trevor MacKenzie deepens our understanding of inquiry-based learning at the middle and high school years. In this highly engaging session, Mr. MacKenzie will challenge your mind to rethink the role of the teacher and the learner in the inquiry classroom.
March 25th - 26th, 2019
Dubai
Trevor MacKenzie
What’s the Best That Could Happen?
New Insights and Possibilities for Readers Workshop
In this two-day, interactive workshop, participants have opportunities to clarify and enhance their understanding of readers’ workshop.
March 30th – 31st, 2019
Hong Kong
Debbie Miller
Developing a shared pedagogy in the early years:
Bridging the divide between what we believe and what we do.
What do we believe about young children and their learning? How do we draw on beliefs and practices to develop shared understandings?
March 30th – 31st, 2019
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Fiona Zinn
Teaching and Learning Through Inquiry
In this practical workshop, participants have the opportunity to clarify their understanding of what it really means to use an inquiry based approach to teaching and learning in the primary/elementary classroom.
April 5th - 6th, 2019
Toronto
Kath Murdoch
Concept-Based Mathematics: Teaching for Deep Understanding
Jennifer Chang-Wathall is an independent educational consultant, author and honorary faculty adviser for the University of Hong Kong.
April 13th - 14th, 2019
The Hague
Jennifer Wathall
Differentiated Instruction
Carol Ann Tomlinson is William Clay Parrish, Jr. Professor and Chair of Educational Leadership, Foundations, and Policy at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education where she is also Co-Director of the University's Institutes on Academic Diversity.
April 13th - 14th, 2019
The Hague
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Key Principles for Responsive English Language Learner (ELL) Instruction: EAL and Classroom Teachers Sharing Responsibility
Dr. Rojas conducts professional training on effective programs and strategies for English learners from pre-school through grade 12 for ESL (EAL) and classroom teachers.
April 29th - 30th, 2019
Seoul
Dr. Virginia Pauline Rojas
Creating a Culture of Thinking Creating Places Where Thinking is Valued Visible and Actively Promoted
The Cultures of Thinking Project is a global initiative under the direction of Dr. Ron Ritchhart, a Principal Investigator and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
May 30th - 31st, 2019
Brisbane
Dr. Ron Ritchhart
Teaching and Learning Through Inquiry for Middle and High School
Mr. Trevor MacKenzie is a practicing high school English teacher, inquiry learning coach and consultant who works with schools and organizations in their adoption of inquiry.
August 12th – 13th, 2019
Adelaide
Trevor MacKenzie
Teaching and Learning Through Inquiry for Middle and High School
Mr. Trevor MacKenzie is a practicing high school English teacher, inquiry learning coach and consultant who works with schools and organizations in their adoption of inquiry.
August 15th – 16th, 2019
Melbourne
Trevor MacKenzie
Differentiated Instruction
Differentiated Instruction is an approach planning instruction that takes into account both content requirements and the needs of varied learners in a classroom.
August 19th – 20th, 2019
Brisbane
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Leading for Differentiation: Growing the Teachers Who Grow the Kids
Diversity is a hallmark of most contemporary schools. Students represent a variety of languages, cultural groups, economic backgrounds, levels of adult support, learning issues, degrees of academic advancement, and so on.
August 21st, 2019
Brisbane
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Teaching and Learning Through Inquiry
In this practical workshop, participants have the opportunity to clarify their understanding of what it really means to use an inquiry based approach to teaching and learning in the primary/elementary classroom.
August 31st - September 1st, 2019
Seoul
Kath Murdoch
What every Teacher needs to know about Learning, Memory, Questioning and Feedback
For many years, most teacher education programmes included substantial coverage of theories on the psychology of education.
September 12th – 13th, 2019
Hong Kong
Dylan Wiliam
Creating a Culture of Thinking Creating Places Where Thinking is Valued Visible and Actively Promoted
The Cultures of Thinking Project is a global initiative under the direction of Dr. Ron Ritchhart, a Principal Investigator and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
September 14th - 15th, 2019
Seoul
Dr. Ron Ritchhart
Assessment for Learning
There is now a large and growing evidence base that helping teachers develop their use of minute-to-minute and day-by-day assessment is one of, if not the most powerful ways to improve student learning.
September 17th - 18th, 2019
Dubai
Dylan Wiliam
