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A Focus on Personalisation
In line with our focus on personalisation our goals for professional development for this year are...
...to deepen our understanding of what personalising learning can mean in our classrooms
... to build a repertoire of strategies in one chosen aspect of personalisation
4 Areas of Focus
ISB has identified four areas of focus to support personalisation.
5 STReams OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Two of these areas of focus are directly related to classroom practice and will inform our professional development for the year. Working together with their section leadership, each teacher will choose one of five professional development streams related to these two focus areas. Detailed content and final titles for these workshops have not been finalised yet so the titles below should just be seen as placeholders. As we negotiate with the workshop leaders to develop the content of workshops we will add more information to this page.
STRAND 1: RESTORATIVE PRACTICES: PROACTIVE & RESPONSIVE led by Nick Haisman-Smith from IFSEL
(Institute for Social and Emotional Learning)
Following on from our CPI Classroom Culture course this year, this strand will delve deeper into the content of module 5 of that workshop - Restorative Practices, as requested by many teachers in the feedback surveys we did after the PD this year.
STRAND 2: PERSONALIZING CHARACTER EDUCATION led by Andrew Peterson from the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtue at the University of Birmingham.
ISB's character standards have the potential to support our students to become ethical international citizens and to support us to build the relationships in our classrooms and across the school which will underpin the culture we want to build at ISB. This strand will support us with specific strategies for using our character standards to achieve this.
STRAND 3: PERSONALISED LEARNING APPROACHES IN MIXED ABILITY CLASSROOMS led by Anita Churchill from HAGT ( High Ability | Gifted and Talented Learners Collaborative)
Personalising learning in a mixed ability classroom requires a repertoire of effective strategies for meeting individual student needs. This strand will focus on strategies such as tiered instruction which will help us ensure that every student in our class is both included and challenged.
STRAND 4: FOSTERING PERSONALIZED LEARNING WITH METACOGNITION led by Lorna Gardiner from Thinking Matters
As we move forward with personalisation, it will be essential to support our students to develop the metacognitive skills and strategies necessary to self-assess and become more independent learners.
STRAND 5: TRANSLANGUAGING: AT THE INTERSCTION OF LANGUAGE & LEARNING led by Eowyn Crisfield from Crisfield Educational Consulting
At ISB we have students from around 60 different nationalities, who speak a multitude of different languages. This strand will focus on ways to harness all their language resources to support their developing understanding in each subject, while also strengthening their cultural and linguistic identities.
A YEAR OF ONGOING LEARNING
The 5 strands will not just be one-off workshops. We are working on ways to connect them to our professional goals and support learning in an ongoing way across the year. Further details of this plan will come early in the new school year, but the calendar below should give you an initial idea. We will also be looking to form small "drive teams" to help truly embed the most important elements of each stream across the school.
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024 ( In-service day) - Each of the workshop presenters will prepare a video introduction to their strand and we will have structured time to view the videos so each person can consider which strand is best for them.
OCTOBER , 2024 - Time to think through professional goals and PD strands and negotiate them with section leadership.
JANUARY 6 & 7, 2025 ( In-service days)- Workshops in each strand including time to refine professional goals and consider strategies to meet them.
JANUARY to MAY 2025 - Ongoing work on professional goals. Some Monday afternoon meeting time will be devoted to this work.
MAY 28, 2025 ( In-service day) - Celebration of learning. We are still thinking through the format, but this day will include time for sharing and celebrating the learning on our professional goals for the year
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