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| “When concepts are emphasised over content, there is no limit to the range of topics that students may investigate through a conceptual lens.” Taking the Complexity Out of Concepts Tania Lattanzio and Andrea Muller This interactive online workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to understand the role of conceptual inquiry. It will examine what concepts are and look at how to plan for conceptual inquiry so that concepts become the language and focus of the learning. Concepts will be put into action through providing participants with examples, strategies and formats that they can use and apply in their own situation. Ensuring that all feel more confident when planning, teaching and assessing concepts. |
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Session 1 – 2 hours
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Session 2 – 2 hours
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Session 3 – 2 hours
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Session 4 – 2 hours
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| This workshop is suitable for teachers, curriculum coordinators, team leaders, leadership from K-8. | |||||||||
| Tania Lattanzio | |||||||||
| Tania Lattanzio is an experienced international educator. Previously a teacher, coordinator, and manager with the International Baccalaureate, she is now Director of Innovative Global Education. In this role she works as an educational consultant throughout the world. This role involves developing and conducting professional learning for teachers and leadership, modelling pedagogy in classrooms and working intensively with teaching teams, through mentoring and coaching, to improve planning, teaching and assessment. A key focus of Tania's work is developing and designing conceptual curriculum for schools, this work involves conceptualising curriculum across subject areas and year levels. This also involves equipping teachers with ideas and strategies to ensure that the learning has a conceptual focus. An advocate of inquiry, she works with educators to provide students with an education that is purposeful, meaningful and relevant to their lives, where students have opportunities to be motivated and have agency of their learning. A passionate educator Tania works closely with educational settings to specifically meet their needs through supporting school reform, making significant shifts in pedagogy and developing conceptual curriculum frameworks in both local and international settings. Tania has worked with schools and teachers from early childhood through to high school. |
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| Lattanzio, Tania and Muller, Andrea. Taking the Complexity out of Concepts. Hawker Brownlow Education, 2015. Lattanzio, Tania, and Andrea Muller. “What Is a Concept?: A Fresh Look at Teaching Factual Information.” Childhood Education, vol. 93, no. 5, Mar. 2017, pp. 410–419. Lattanzio, Tania. 'The parents' voice' in “Chapter 11 Parents on the Learning Journey.” Journeys in Learning Across Frontiers, Edited Nancy Forster, International Baccalaureate, 2012. |
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| DATES & TIMINGS: 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th October 2021 Each Session is for 2 Hours London 8:00 am | Zurich 9:00 am | Dubai 11:00 am | India 12:30 pm | Hong Kong 3:00 pm | Melbourne 6:00 pm Please click here to check your time for the workshop |
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