Facilitator: Nadine Giraudeau, French Language Acquisition teacher, Service as Action Coordinator, International School of Hellerup.

Takeaways:

• A toolkit to increase student agency in creating meaningful service learning experiences.

• A toolkit to incorporate UN Global Goals and targets in your lessons and school projects

• A list of available workshops connected to Global Goals and ideas on how to include local and Global NGOs in your service learning projects.

Description:

How can the understanding of local and global challenges be optimised so that students are inspired and supported to engage in purposeful, authentic, critical and mindful action?  In this workshop, we will focus on practical and concrete strategies for successful service learning that promote student agency while supporting UN sustainable development goals.

Facilitator: Laura Bakewell, Witra Publishing.

Takeaways:

• A clear understanding of the concept of student agency.

• Activity ideas to promote student agency for classroom use

• A feeling of confidence in encouraging student agency amongst your own student.

Description:

This workshop will dig into the definition and ideas behind student agency, why it is important and how it can be successfully implemented in the classroom, regardless of the students' age.

Facilitator: Olivia Biagetti, MYP 5 Literature teacher, DP English B teacher, CAS and Mother Tongue Coordinator. International School of Hellerup

Takeaways:

• Participants will take part in at least three different activities, which they can adapt and integrate into their own instruction.

• Participants will gain/strengthen differentiation strategies for language learners, particularly in response to analytical thinking.

• Participants will reflect on their student body and how to increase multilingualism for their particular context.

Description:

It is no surprise that international schools attract students with a wide breadth of languages. However, students’ depth of analysis in these languages sometimes requires further development to excel in academics and beyond. This workshop will look at this target group and ask: In an English-instructed classroom, how can we use multilingual literature and tasks to develop students’ analytical thinking across their language profiles? We will attempt to answer this question through (1) participating in different classroom provocations, (2) identifying to what extent this teaching method could address transitions across courses and programs, and (3) reflecting on different models to integrate this teaching method into our schools’ preexisting structure.

Facilitator: Chiara Giani, ASCP Leader. International School of Hellerup.

Takeaways:

• Modern research promotes active learning.

• Free choices and student-led activities enhance students´ social and emotional wellbeing.

• Together we can share ideas of student agency examples so after the workshop the participants will hopefully have more ideas up their sleeves on what to teach.

Description:

Learning does not stop outside of the classroom. This mini-workshop is dedicated to Pedagogues and Pedagogue Assistants of the After School Care Programmes. We will explore the potentials of student-led activities to enhance social and emotional learning in the After School Programmes.

Facilitator:Camilla Martinsson, International school of Bergen

Takeaways:

• You will learn what mindfulness is and what it isn't, and why we need it in our lives. You will find out about the background to the western type of mindfulness, and how you can practice and become more present and aware.

• You will learn about the positive effects of a regular mindfulness practice; how mindfulness works; and how it affects the brain in different ways. You will hear about the current research studies about how mindfulness affects us.

• You will get tips, advice and ideas on how to get started with a regular mindfulness practice at your school or in your classroom. You will hear what students say when reflecting on their own mindfulness experience. You will be given a list of resources for further learning.

Description:

In this workshop you will find out what mindfulness is, how and why it works and get some tips on how you can get started with a program at your school or in your own classroom. Recent studies have show that a regular mindfulness practice can help improve sleep, reduce anxiety and depression, increase the ability to focus and concentrate and help emotional regulation. More and more students suffer from anxiety, sleep deprivation and have a difficult time focusing and concentrating, which is why implementing a mindfulness program in your school or class, could be beneficial. With just 10 minutes of practice a day you can give your students a tool to handle life's adversities better. It can also be a tool you can use yourself!

Facilitator: Mitch Campbell, Canggu Community School (Bali, Indonesia). Managing Director of Oxford Study courses.

Takeaways:

• You will leave this workshop knowing how to record your own videos to support your class (including technical details). You will plan and actually record a short video showing a concept in action.

• You will know how to set up your students to record their own videos as part of their class work, including considerations on when this might be a suitable activity.

• You will hopefully feel better prepared to enhance your own teaching by making resources yourself – these can be used to reach a smaller audience like your class, or a larger audience by sharing on social media or other platforms.

Description:

Have you ever been looking for resources online to support your class and thought: “I wish there was a video showing XYZ?” Let’s learn how to do exactly that.

In this hands-on workshop, we will be discussing how to design, record and share videos that you can use in your own class, to teach your own students or a larger worldwide audience. This can be done in nearly any subject, for any grade level. We will explore the technical details needed, as well as considerations for age, subject, ability level and tone.

We will also be discussing how to encourage your students to make their own videos as part of authentic learning, as well as research on best practices and pedagogy. For example, language students can record videos showing their learning in action, physics students can record a video showing projectile motion and explain a concept.

Facilitator: Jamé Johnson, PYP 1A teacher, International School of Hellerup.

Takeaways:

• UDL describes expert learners as resourceful and knowledgeable, strategic and goal directed, purposeful and motivated.

• Students are already expert learners in one or more areas of their lives.

• Helping students recognise their own expertise can support their development of a growth mindset and help them to apply those expert habits to other areas of their lives.

Description:

Students bring a wealth of knowledge to school with them. They are often already experts in many areas. Universal Design for Learning describes expert learners as resourceful and knowledgeable, strategic and goal directed, purposeful and motivated. Learn what happened when 1 class of students framed themselves as experts and connected their experiences to learning in the classroom. The workshop will also include an opportunity for attendees to discuss, plan and develop their own expert-related ideas or activities.

Facilitator: Anna Söderström, Stockholm International School.

Takeaways:

• Students will enjoy literature if presented with various text types.

• Knowing the vocabulary when you teach visual texts is important.

• Together we can share ideas of good examples of visual texts, so after the workshop the participants will hopefully have more ideas up their sleeves on what to teach.

Description:

One of the aims in Language and Literature in the DP is “to foster a lifelong interest in and enjoyment of language and literature”, and in a world where students read less fiction this is not always an easy task for teachers, especially with the strict format of prescribed reading lists and regulations from the IBO. In this mini-workshop, I will introduce how I use visual texts in my teaching to spark my students’ interset in analyzing texts, and to raise their awareness of that visual texts can be of many different types. Moreover, what I have learned to be important when teaching visual texts to my students, to gain as much understanding of the text types as possible. However, this will not be a long presentation from me, my hope is also that this will spark ideas among the participants and that we can share good examples of visual texts to teach with each other.

Facilitator: Elisabeth Moore, Visual Arts teacher and Head of Department, Personal Project Coordinator. International School of Hellerup

Takeaways:

• Dream it, Do it: how to get from a good idea to a practical program in your school context.

• Beyond barriers: What tools and strategies help educators overcome the challenges to interdisciplinary work.

• Getting Started: Design your interdisciplinary concept for your school context and take home a practical plan.

Description:

Practical and interactive, this workshop delves into the aspects of bringing real opportunities that work to learning between disciplines, across curriculums and into our contemporary lifestyles. We look at both the challenges and opportunities of working across multiple subject groups. We develop ideas and tools for strategic implementation in real world schools. Finally the workshop allows educators to exchange ideas, experiences and conquer the demands for the design and implementation of interdisciplinary opportunities.

Facilitator: Katie Fox, Individual & Societies Teacher and Head of Department, International School of Hellerup.

Takeaways:

• The benefits of incorporating student choice on assessments for the student.

• The benefits of incorporating student choice on assessments for the teacher.

• Practically how to plan assessments allowing for student choice.

Description:

Most teaching training programs, including Universal Design for Learning, encourage allowing for student choice. This workshop will not use much time on the rational behind offering choice, but instead will offer practical examples and methods on how to do so. Please bring your grading criteria, a unit you are hoping to add assessment choices to, and what you prefer to use to plan-paper or a computer. I will offer concrete examples of units I have incorporated assessment choice into, and will share with you my successes and failures to make your own process smoother. We will work in subject groups to develop an assessment choice bank for various criteria. My hope is that we will have time for you to map out a concrete plan of how to fit a variety of choices of assessment in to an upcoming unit.

Facilitator: Karen Myrick-Nilsson, PYP mentor, Certified Mindfulness instructor. International School of Gothenburg Region.

Takeaways:

• Teachers will come away with two practical, hands-on mindfulness activities to use in their classrooms right away.

• Teachers will learn about the many science-backed benefits a classroom mindfulness practice can offer, and how these benefits can impact student learning, behaviour and well-being.

• Teachers will come away with the knowledge of how to implement a classroom mindfulness practice, and what needs to be considered before starting.

Description:

Mindfulness is now a sub-section of the Approaches To Learning Skill (ATL) of Self Management. What is mindfulness? How does it connect to the PYP? How can we implement a mindfulness practice in our own classrooms? In this hands on and interactive workshop, teachers will have these questions answered, and have the chance to experience the practice of mindfulness for themselves.

Facilitator: Paula Martinez, Ludika Center for Development

Takeaways:

• To gain learning strategies that support concentration and improve self regulation in children 0-10 years. Strategies which teachers can implement within their classroom environment.

• Provide hands-on activities that can be applied within the classroom.

• Opportunity to experience the activities.

Description:

Ludika will seek to provide teachers and supporting staff with specific activities which can be used directly within the classroom to promote concentration and self-regulation in children in early years and PYP.

Facilitator: Elise Dupoy, French Language Acquisition teacher. International School of Hellerup.

Takeaways:

• Understanding of the benefits of games as a means of differentiation and engagement.

• Practical examples of low to no-preparation games to use in the classroom.

• Toolkit of online platforms to design your own activities.

Description:

During this workshop, we will explore how we can increase students' engagement and participation in lessons by using games. More than just a gimmick, games can be both a powerful learning tool, enabling oral participation, retention and independence, and a means of carefully designed differentiation.

We will look at concrete examples, based on language acquisition lessons, and see how these can be transferred to other subject areas.

Facilitator: Lars Bo, Lekolar. Teacher trainer at Lekolar

Takeaways:

• Children already know play is their superpower. We’re here to convince the grown-ups

• Develop ideas for running and facilitating playful hands-on lessons in STEAM subjects

• Learn how to use LEGO Education SPIKE™ series in a classroom.

Description:

In this workshop you will get to try the LEGO® Education approach to learning. We will discuss how teachers can teach STEAM, 21st. century learning skills and build students’ confidence, following the progression of the LEGO SPIKE units. We will work ‘hands-on’ and have lots of fun!

Facilitator: Maria teresa Tan Guyo, Stockholm International School.

Takeaways:

• Participation and being a pioneer member of the Nordic Network Math Titans.

• To learn how to facilitate and organise the Nordic Network Math Titans.

• Collaborative planning and learn diverse STEAM related activities to poke students interest in learning

Description:

Nordic Math Titans is a collaborative platform for young math enthusiasts including competition series and opportunities for students and educators to collaborate and advocate fun math learning activities.