Make an effort to share resources and research with the school community.
Feedback from IB Regarding my work with new PSPs and the Authorization/Evaluation Process
March 2022, Authorization and Evaluation Programme Leader for MYP
Cambridge English - Young Learners Exams, KET and PET
CIS: International Acceditation Evaluator
Ambassador for the Certificate of Advance Educational Leadership ( 4 Modules)- currently pending
Leading Learning
Developing Yourself
Leading with Excellence and Equity
Driving Change
I am the first member of ISNS to be chosen to be part of the IB Educator Network. I am currently certified to teach all CAT 3 modules, CAT 1 and 2 Language Acquisition and to participate in Authorization and Evaluation visits for the MYP Program in all IBEN Networks world-wide.
In this presentation we will explore good practices related to improvement science and the difficulties of enacting realizable and sustainable change. Using guiding questions, we will drill down into the work of improvement, explore a systematic implementation cycle and discuss root cause analysis practices that can be used to inform our planning.
ACAMIS ELL Conference 2019
Purposeful Structures for Emerging Multilinguals -This workshop will explore the power of purposeful structures for groupwork, differentiation, comprehension and much more. Participants will engage with various learning activities to explore language learning processes and enhance their knowledge of communicative and cooperative learning techniques used to support critical and creative thinking in any language.
Asia- Pacific International Schools Conference
Diversity is the face our international community of schools. Our schools face the challenge of ensuring that each teacher has sufficient breadth and depth of knowledge, to include a range of skills to meet the ELL learner’s needs. Experienced teachers are feeling the heat of differentiation at the hottest degrees and new teachers are often getting through teaching programs with little or no readiness for international teaching and multicultural education.
Presentations to parents and school community
ISNS Leadership Certificate Sessions
Exploring Core Values and Beliefs
How to articulate and establish community value around change initiatives
ACAMIS ELL CONFERENCE 2018
Exploring Collaboration Models that Support Co-Teaching
Diversity is the face our international community of schools. Our schools face the challenge of ensuring that each teacher has sufficient breadth and depth of knowledge, to include a range of skills to meet the ELL learner's needs. Experienced teachers are feeling the heat of differentiation at the hottest degrees and new teachers are often getting through teaching programs with little or no readiness for international teaching and multicultural education. In this workshop, we will examine collaborative culture to understand how collaborative models can support positive co-teaching experiences between subject specific or grade level mainstream teachers and English language support teachers.
PYP South China Network Job-a-Like: Teach What Matters
2018 PYP Job-a-like: Our school hosted a regional job-a-like for PYP practitioners and I hosted a workshop on International Mindedness for teachers and school leaders. The goals of the workshop was to share our understandings of what overexposure to extraordinary highs and lows might be doing to our awareness of ourselves and the needs of others. Together we review perceptions of International Mindedness and reviewed human commonalities to further explore their applications in classroom.
ELL PROFESSIONALS AS TEACHER LEADERS
In this workshop, we will examine 6 challenges faced by educational institutions, with mainstream teacher readiness, and with on-going professional development. By exploring these challenges and looking at case-studies we will consider how those challenges can best be faced head-on by placing emphasis on the roles of ELL specialist not only as collaborators and support, but also as leaders.
Challenges:
1. Lack of Knowledge Regarding Common Criteria for Identifying ELLs and Tracking Their Academic Performance
2. Researching and Implementing Appropriate Assessments Coupled with State or Local Benchmarks
3. Inadequate Educator Capacity for Improving Literacy in ELLS
4. Lack of Information Regarding Appropriate and Flexible Program Options
5. Limited Use of Research-Based Instructional Practices
6. Lack of a Research Agenda for Continued Development and Reflection