Busy classrooms are not necessarily thinking classrooms. Join Peter to experience some of the 14 thinking practices that emerged out of over 15 years of research into how teachers can transform their classrooms from a space where students mimic, to where students think. 

Join us for a transformative workshop on inclusion led by renowned inclusion specialist, Shelley Moore! Shelley will set the stage by helping participants calibrate their understanding of inclusion and how it has evolved over time before shifting mindsets of how we understand, respond to and plan for the diverse groups of students in our care.

This workshop provides educators across all educational contexts, an introduction to the guiding principles of Universal Design for Learning. Utilising approaches to teaching (AtT), educators will have the opportunity to develop strategies that can be transferred to all educational contexts, creating bespoke resources and artifacts.

Educators are at a crossroads and the global call for institutions to address their inequitable structures is ringing loudly. For teachers and school leaders who are hearing that call, this workshop offers knowledge and guidance for becoming a totally inclusive school.

Explore the 10 foundational mindsets needed to create a robust culture of thinking in your classroom and/or school context. These mindsets motivate and guide our actions and provide the touchstones we need as we create places where thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted. As we do so, we will look at the research behind these principles, the actions and data that can be used to move us forward in whatever teaching and learning environments we find ourselves.

Experienced multilinguals may sound orally proficient, but when they read complex texts or write discipline-specific papers, they may still need support to reach grade-level expectations. If this sounds like many of your students, then this workshop is for you! You will learn practical strategies for supporting these students across content areas. You will also have time in the workshop to redesign a summative assessment with appropriate scaffolds and develop a supportive daily lesson for that unit.

Pete Moorhouse is an Early Years creative consultant and artist educator who will present the Holistic Creativity Framework, which looks at the individual capacities children need and the facilitating factors that we can provide to help enable children's creativity to flourish.  Participants will be introduced to a monitoring tool for how we can best observe young children’s creative development and explore the teacher’s role in facilitating creative investigation and exploration. A special focus will be placed on woodwork as an exceptional media for both engaging children and encouraging creativity. Participants will, in addition to learning how to establish woodwork provisions, explore woodworking themselves through hands-on and minds-on exploration.

Join Emily on a deep dive into the what, why, and how of LGBTQ+ safety, equity and belonging in schools. You will take away foundational knowledge about LGBTQ+ child development, vocabulary and key concepts, as well as a framework for considering decision-making. Participants will be supported to develop an individualized LGBTQ+ equity commitment plan, specific to your role, context, and priorities within international education.

As more K-6 teachers look to add high-yield tasks to their repertoire, the struggle to make it all work becomes real. Let’s examine how problem-based lessons can be used throughout the scope of a unit and how we can harness their power to move student thinking forward. We’ll identify strategies and explore some tasks that help us find a healthy balance between application, conceptual understanding, and procedural fluency.

The Centre for Development Learning & Technology at the International School of Amsterdam is proud to be hosting the Appsevents European Google for Education Bootcamp on 17 November 2022 and Summit on 18 & 19 November 2022. It will be a truly world-class Google Professional Learning event.

Sometimes you need something that’s made just for you. Bringing our expertise to your school and working with our partners from various fields, we support you to intentionally design the experience of your school.