Maker Project Based Learning and Collaborative Classroom Workshops

Building a High Performing Professional Learning Community (PLC) Workshop

Citizenship and Character Education Workshops

Character Education Workshops by Dr Philip Vincent

Critical Thinking Workshops by Dr Roy van den Brink-Budgen

The simplest way to understand Critical Thinking is to see it as being concerned with the possible significance of claims. When a claim is made (say a piece of evidence or a prediction), then we need to ask ‘what does this mean?’ or ‘what significance does it have?’

GRIT & Other Workshops by Dr Thomas Hoerr

For too long, educators have focused only on getting students ready for the next test, for the next grade, for graduation, or maybe for college. Students must be prepared to succeed in school, and they must know how to read, write, and calculate. But that's only the beginning. Our job whether we teach kindergarten, 5th grade, or high school or we lead a school or district is to prepare students for success in the real world. To do so, we must also teach grit. Grit is a combination of tenacity and perseverance a willingness to take risks even if it means sometimes failing and starting again.

Making Student Thinking Visible Workshop by Ms Tina Blythe

Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study.  Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines, small sets of questions or a short sequence of steps as well as the documentation of student thinking. Using this process thinking becomes visible as the students' different viewpoints are expressed, documented, discussed and reflected upon.

School Discipline, Student Social Interpersonal Skills and Strategic Interventions Workshops by Dr Howard Knoff

School discipline, behavior management, and school safety continue to be major concerns in education—as schools attempt to increase students’ academic engagement and motivation, while preventing classroom disruptions and school violence.

Learning Study and Variation Theory Workshop by Dr Priscilla Lo

Learning Study projects have been widely carried out in schools in Hong Kong in the past fifteen years through various projects related to teacher professional development. The Variation Theory embedded in the Learning Study process is found to have a big impact in helping students to learn in the classroom by discerning the critical features of the content to be learned.

Educational Technology Workshops by Assoc Professor Mark Pegrum

‘Under the digital literacy umbrella are numerous interrelated skills that range from basic awareness and training to foster informed citizens and to build consumer and user confidence, to highly sophisticated and more complex creative and critical literacies and outcomes.  Given the constantly evolving nature of technology, acquisition of digital literacy skills represents a process of life long learning.’ (MNet, 2010)