Sketchnoting or “Visual note-taking” is gaining widespread popularity as an effective and engaging way for students to take notes and to display their understanding and learning. The technique allows one to draw or doodle their thoughts, observations, or notes in combination with words or text.
- Alan November
1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd February 2021
Based on research for student motivation as well as leveraging emerging technologies, this course is designed for secondary educators who enjoy exploring new strategies to empower students to take responsibility for managing more of their own learning.
Increasingly, we are recognizing the importance of the culture of the classroom as foundational for learning. And yet, we often don’t give teachers many tools for or understanding of how to create group culture that can foster deep learning and build understanding.
- Carol Ann Tomlinson
4th, 11th, 18th, 25th February 2021
This four-session Virtual Book Club is designed to guide teachers in exploring differentiated instruction as they read a book on differentiation, hear from the book’s author, talk with colleagues, and connect key ideas from the book with their own classroom practice.
- Ron Ritchhart & Mark Church
6th, 13th, 20th, 27th February 2021
Over the last decade there has been in explosion of interest in how teachers can best build a culture of thinking in their classrooms, nurture students as powerful thinkers and learners, and make thinking visible.
- Sarah Gilmore & Katierose Deos
6th, 13th, 20th, 27th February 2021
In the classroom, seamlessly providing students with timely and effective feedback is an integral part of how we teach.
Better Conversations is one of the most popular workshops we offer. Based on the book Better Conversations: Coaching Ourselves and Each Other To Be More Credible, Caring, and Connected
- Dylan Wiliam
6th, 13th, 20th, 27th February & 6th March 2021
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.
- Dan Feigelson
6th, 13th, 20th and 27th February 2021
Nothing encourages deep, joyful comprehension more than having someone to talk to about what you read.
- Kathy Collins
6th, 13th, 20th, 27th February 2021
Please join Kathy Collins for this series of study sessions in which participants will learn and develop new ways to welcome our youngest children into what Frank Smith calls “the Reading Club.”
- Jay McTighe
17th, 24th February & 3rd March 2021
Established Standards provide a clear set of worthy educational outcomes. However, the Standards are not curriculum. Educators must use the standards as a basis for designing high-quality curricula and assessments to support impactful teaching for effective learning.
- Jennifer Chang Wathall
20th - 27th February 2021
How can we move to a three-dimensional curriculum and instruction model that allows us to compact the overloaded curriculum, and teach both factual and conceptual knowledge with greater depth and rigour?
- Kath Murdoch
27th - 28th February 2021
In the true spirit of inquiry Kath has been working hard to develop an online workshop that will ensure teachers continue to have access to practical, professional learning.
- Sarah Gilmore & Katierose Deos
27th February, 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th March 2021
Technology has changed the way we shop, communicate with friends, share information with our families, and has provided us the opportunity to share our thoughts with a worldwide audience.
- Carol Ann Tomlinson
1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd March 2021
While there is a great deal of conversation in schools about formative assessment, it is relatively rare to see it implemented in classrooms as it ought to be if the goal is to improve teaching and learning.
- Naomi Ward CPCC
2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th March 2021
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1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th April 2021
Purposeful Leadership is a five week personal development programme enabling educators to connect back to their purpose in order to be their best.
- Howie Knoff
3rd, 10th, 17th & 24 March 2021
Many students with social, emotional, and / or behavioral challenges have not learned or mastered critical interpersonal, social problem-solving, conflict prevention and resolution, or emotional control and coping skills.
- Susan Harris Mackay & Tara Papandrew
3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th March 2021
Opal School proposes a professional development experience exploring the power of Playful Inquiry The sessions will explore theory and practice in a way that invites teachers to imagine and investigate implications to their practice.
- Paul Andersen
6th - 7th March 2021
Paul Andersen has been providing professional development and teaching labsites this spring on Zoom and Google Meet. This online workshop will focus on the best practices of online science instruction including; modeling instruction.
- Jared Cooney Horvath
6th, 7th, 13th, 14th, 20th March 2021
Over the last several decades, our knowledge of learning and the brain has grown exponentially. During this highly engaging and interactive short-course, we will consider what this knowledge means for teachers and students.
- Steve Sostak, Aaron Moniz & Kavita Tanna
6th, 13th, 20th, 27th March 2021
Developed by Inspire Citizens co-founders, Steve Sostak and Aaron Moniz, the Empathy to Impact teaching approach and project-cycle addresses the global need for applied learning for active global citizenship, service as action, compassionate empathy, and sustainable development.
- Anne Van Dam
6th, 13th, 20th, 27th March 2021
Throughout this online workshop, participants will construct understandings around children's identities and rights and how these beliefs influence the educational context they create for their students.
- Kathy Collins
6th, 13th, 20th, 27th March 2021
Often teachers may have rigid expectations for how small group instruction is supposed to be planned and how it ‘should’ look and sound, when in fact, small group instruction has so many variations
- Lainie Rowell
6th, 13th, 20th, 27th March 2021
Are you already familiar with Blended Learning? Just starting Blended Learning? Either way, this series will be a rich source of ideas and resources for leveraging social-emotional practices and technology
- Lucy (Hoiyin) Wong
6th, 13th, 20th, 27th March 2021
线上工作坊:开展探究性学习的实用策略(幼儿园及低小) (使用语言:普通话)
How do we implement inquiry-based learning in the early years? This four days, 16 hours workshop aims to offer you strategies which support your teaching in an inquiry-based way in early years.
- Debi Keyte Hartland
7th & 14th March 2021
In this 2-day workshop, we will dive deeply into methods, values and principles to frame how we can engage in pedagogical listening to develop and design short, medium, or longer-term projects
- Jessica Martin
7th, 14th, 21st, 28th March 2021
What would small group instruction that centers student needs, identity, and social-emotional well-being look and sound like? Would there be aspects that you recognize from your own small-group teaching with students?
How do educators inspire students to pursue careers in STEM fields that require persistence and dedication? One of the key methods of instruction is the use of storytelling.
- Jay McTighe
11th & 18th March 2021
What is deeper learning and why is it important? How does deep learning occur? How should curriculum be framed to promote deeper learning? How should deeper learning be assessed? What kinds of instruction are needed to help students learn deeply? How can teachers work smarter and more effectively using instructional tools for engaging their learners?
- Kath Murdoch
12th - 13th March 2021
There has been growing interest in ‘personalised learning’ for many years now. Increasingly, schools are making arrangements to provide more opportunities for learners to learn to be self-directed and to have their needs and interests met through the curriculum.
- Lucy (Hoiyin) Wong
21st, 28th March and 11th April, 2021
线上工作坊:开展探究性学习的实用策略(使用语言:普通话)
How do we implement inquiry? This three days, 10 hours practical workshop aims to offer you practical strategies which supports your teaching in an inquiry-based way.
- Carol Ann Tomlinson
6th, 13th, 20th, 27th April 2021
The goal of the four-session workshop is to guide teachers in planning differentiated instruction in their classes for a unit in progress or a unit that will be coming up shortly.
- Jessica Martin
10th, 17th, 24th April & 1st May 2021
Experience each of the five stages of a design thinking inquiry process and how writing can play a pivotal role in developing thinking and understanding at each stage.
- Anne Van Dam
10th, 17th, 24th April & 1st May 2021
Throughout this online workshop, participants will have an opportunity to experience the planning process of Anne van Dam and her colleagues at an inquiry based school in The Netherlands.
- Steve Sostak, Luka Lesson & Christina Lin
10th, 17th, 24th April & 8th May 2021
Inspire Citizens’ Global Youth Media exists to teach and empower all ages of students and learner communities through the responsible consumption and production of media, as well as practices of investigative journalism and ethical storytelling as essential elements of applied learning in a complex world.
- Jessica Martin
11th, 18th, 25th April & 2nd May 2021
Children bring their intuitive knowledge of mathematics to school. How might we create more opportunities to listen deeply, notice, and name what children CAN do before making instructional decisions that build on what they know?
Empirical and anecdotal evidence shows that boys struggle in writing classrooms. Why is this so? What specific challenges (such as handwriting) handicap boys?
- Lucy (Hoiyin) Wong
17th, 18th, 24th, 25th April 2021
线上工作坊:持续开展有效差异化教学的实用策略(讲座使用语言:普通话)
Differentiation is not new. Research reveals that differentiation is not well-understood or consistently and thoughtfully applied.
- Kath Murdoch
1st - 2nd May 2021
In the true spirit of inquiry Kath has been working hard to develop an online workshop that will ensure teachers continue to have access to practical, professional learning.
Co-teaching has become an integral part of educators' efforts to include students with special needs in typical classes.
A hallmark of today's classrooms is the diversity of learners gathered together in one place. Students typically differ in culture, language, entry points into varied curricula, interests, adult support systems, enthusiasm for learning, self-confidence, and a host of other attributes.
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.
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.