Responsive Classroom training provide educators practical tools to create safe, predictable, and inclusive classroom environments. Teachers learn how to foster a positive classroom community, use discipline practices that minimize disruptions, and apply effective classroom management strategies to engage students in meaningful academic learning.
Description: The International Educator Certificate for IB Qualification programme will qualify you for an IB Certificate in Teaching and Learning. This highly-valued credential will help open up teaching opportunities for you in the 100+ IB schools within Ontario and over 4700 schools across the globe.
The IB Certificate in Teaching and Learning offers students the opportunity to examine the principles and practices associated with one of three IB programmes (Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma Programmes). This certificate programme shapes pre-service, new and experienced educators into reflective practitioners and teacher researchers.
Description: How is mathematics taught using an inquiry approach? How is mathematics addressed within and outside of the context of the programme of inquiry? How do learners construct and transfer meaning and then apply with understanding? The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with the skills, knowledge and ideas needed to successfully address the teaching and learning of mathematics within the context of their educational setting. Teachers will have an opportunity to discuss the teaching and learning of mathematics, share resources and work on relevant curriculum documentation.
Description: This workshop will introduce the Primary Years Programme (PYP) as a systemic and all-encompassing curriculum through the study of Making the PYP happen: A curriculum framework for international primary education (January 2007, updated December 2009). You will look at the implications of the learner profile as an expression of the philosophy of the IB and its contribution to the development of international-mindedness. You will review the standards and practices that are crucial in preparation for school verification. The workshop will present an overview of the written, taught and assessed curriculum as it pertains to concepts, knowledge, skills, attitudes and action—the five essential elements of the PYP that are integral to classroom practice.
Description: This workshop invites you to inquire into your own teaching practices and reflect on how you can develop the capabilities of a PYP teacher. By exploring the PYP framework, you will connect how voice, choice and ownership is recognized and developed in all members of the IB community. You will be supported in your understanding of learning and teaching in a transdisciplinary, concept-driven curriculum and how to design this in your own school context.
Description: This course will help you gain a solid understanding of the principles behind teaching English as a foreign language, as well as a wealth of practical ideas on how to make your lesson fun, effective and methodologically sound.
(Description from ICAL Website)
The topics we will explore include:
What does an antiracist classroom look like in practice? What does racial equity look like when we're not specifically talking about racial equity?
How do we persist in this work? What barriers to we come up against and what motivates us to keep going? What does antiracist work mean to you?
What are the sorts of things that "liberal-minded" white educators do in the name of antiracism that actually perpetuate racial inequity? What is the role of those educators in antiracist education and how can they play that role without harming colleagues of color?