We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Einstein

‘Conceptual learning involves designing learning around ideas of significance that have relevance in life within and beyond the classroom. These ideas provide the why and purpose to student learning ensuring that learning is meaningful and transferable in different contexts and lead to deep understanding.
The teacher’s questions and provocations are what initially drive investigation, and it is the result of this process that we see students’ own critical wonderings emerge’
This workshop will focus on how to effectively plan and teach for conceptual learning. It will provide an opportunity to plan and assess a unit of work conceptually.
As a way of understanding the role of concepts in student centered learning, the workshop will also examine the pedagogy of inquiry. It will provide educators with strategies to capture and maximize student’s curiosities, to develop practices for recognizing authentic conceptual inquiry using concepts as well as ideas for designing learning environments that optimize conceptual thinking

Anne-Marie Evans has more than 40 years career in education that has taken her all over the world, starting in Iran where she worked at Iran Girls College, a university for women, and later to California where she founded the Cascade Canyon School.

As a consultant, she has worked with schools in Hong Kong, Ghana, the Middle East, Europe, Indonesia and throughout the United States and Canada. She became a School Management Advisor in Qatar at the start of the school reform project in 2003. In Dubai, she is a school inspector for the Dubai School Inspection Bureau. In Sri Lanka, she was the Professional Development Manager for the IB. In this capacity, she developed and implemented a two-year pilot project, training a core group of teacher trainers to pass on their skills to a network of village preschools. In 2012, the IB commissioned her to be an editor of the book, Journeys in Learning Across Frontiers.

English, all educators, curriculum managers, administrators K-10

Please note although content for sessions are indicated, this may be adjusted in terms of timing and participant needs as the workshop progresses.

Certificates of Attendance will be issued to participants who have taken part in all sessions. Please make sure your personal information is correct in the registration form.