Concept-Based Inquiry in Action: Promoting Deeper Understanding
Unlock the power of a Concept-Based Inquiry approach in your school or classroom to engage students as learners capable of building understanding and making……
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At IES we know that professional development is extremely important to you as educators, and leaders of learning both for student success and career potential. To support our talent pool, we offer a wide range of professional growth opportunities to inspire and extend your skill base.
About us
International Education Services (IES) is quickly becoming recognized as one of the fastest growing firms in the international education sector. We support top-ranking international schools across China and the rest of the world, with our comprehensive suite of services.
We are extending our service to provide exceptional professional growth workshops to elevate the quality of education for the schools that we work with. In response to ever-changing needs in education, we are constructing professional growth solutions for our school and educator clients.
What we offer
At IES, our professional growth program is designed to offer online, in-person workshops and webinars to better adapt the diverse needs of educators and schools.
We are passionate about building a unique professional community where educators can connect with each other through relevant, contextual and engaging learning experiences. We also deliver tailored professional growth workshops to schools upon request.
Workshop
IES strives to empower educators and leaders in every discipline
Concepts in Action:
Facilitating Meaningful Learning Through Conceptual InquiryMarch 18th 19th, 2023
This interactive two-day workshop will examine the role of conceptual inquiry and how we can embed concepts and inquiry into our units of learning to ensure students are active participants, where they have choice and voice in their learning, developing depth of understanding and the ability to transfer and apply their learning in authentic ways.
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Previous Workshops
The following have been successfully held in 2022
Multilingual Mindsets: Nurturing Multilingual Ecosystems in International Schools
The global majority of people are multilingual, including the vast majority of students who attend our schools. Students
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The Heart, Head and Hands leadership approach to collaboration
A positive school culture requires an holistic, human-centric approach. Head, Heart, and Hands Model encourages active participation, a balance of all voices and a focus on relationships. Due to the……
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Curriculum Design and Innovation in the 21st Century
When we are all bombarded with different trends regarding various curriculums in education, leaders are seeking to facilitate and build pathways for students to find their own place in the world and their purpose……
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Previous Workshops
The following have been successfully held in 2021
Exploring the Inquiry Classroom
Trevor will be speaking about his work in supporting schools in implementing inquiry, how to scaffold for student agency, and what strong inquiry schools do to build a culture of inquiry both for students and for teachers. Trevor will share structures to cultivate curiosity and engage learners as partners in designing the learning experience.……
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Students Agency Through Project Based Learning
Core competencies students require for success now and in the future include critical and creative thinking, collaboration, and communication.A way to develop these to lead through PBL Structured in groups or independently. Through PBL, students can explore their passions, interests, strengths ……
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Developing Thinking and the Implementation of Essential Skills in the Curriculum
The leaders of tomorrow lay dormant in the children of today. Academic excellence is important, but essential skills such as love, empathy, resilience and acceptance cannot be overlooked ……
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Student Wellbeing in China
Mental health and wellbeing is a big topic. There is a general trend of declining student wellbeing in China, and teachers are in a unique position to influence and support the students in their care. In this two-part workshop we will look first at teacher self-care and go through an exercise that considers skills and strategies……
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Learning That Transfers
Synthesizing the best available research on how we learn, educators can design units and lesson plans that prepare our students to meet the challenges of an uncertain future……
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Creative Destruction
What might we need to destroy in order to make space for innovation? How might questions help us create this space? What might we learn by turning our questions inside out……
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Lessons from Leading-Learn
The Core values of successful leadership are common across continents and in both state and private education. Keeping things simple and applying common sense, leaders in education ……
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Educational Landscape
In today’s educational landscape, disruption and change have become the new normal. In these circumstances, leaders who are adaptive and flexible increase their potential to……
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Nurturing Thinking Classrooms
Societal changes are unstoppable. Technological advancements influence the access and delivery of growing knowledge. The demands on the workforce continue to vary while ……
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Developing a Sustainable Culture
In this three-hour session we will build a common understanding of what it means to have a culture of abundance in a classroom setting. Participants will be given strategies……
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Strategies to support guided inquiry
The most common misconception about inquiry learning is that children should learn to answer their own questions through a research process. Inquiry is actually a learning process ……
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Culturally Responsive Assessments
Assessment, if not done designed and implemented with our students’ identities in mind, will privilege certain evidence of student learning while marginalizing others. Regardless of whethers……
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Concept-Based Unit Planning
Teaching and learning in middle school is a challenging and rewarding experience. Successful middle school educators plan units that provide rich experiences that engage students ……
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The Culture of Leadership
The world of school leadership is changing quickly. This workshop will explore the intersection of leadership and culture. Through examining layers of culture including school, local, and……
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Synthesizing the best available research on how we learn, educators can design units and lesson plans that prepare our students to meet the challenges of an uncertain future……
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What might we need to destroy in order to make space for innovation? How might questions help us create this space? What might we learn by turning our questions inside out……
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