Answer the Urgent Global Call to Action

LEEANNE LAVENDER - GIN Global Issues Network

Session Audience:

Whole school

Session Goals:

Learn more on how to globally empower students to create passion-driven sustainable projects in their local communities.  In this session we will challenge participants to imagine and problem-solve how a region strong grassroots network of learning change-makers, GIN, can come together to collaboratively take action and solve our shared global issues through education. 

Session Outcomes:

• Acceptance of Global Citizenship
• Share the Global Project Library with more than 600 student -createdGIN projects
• Look into these sustainable passion-driven student projects addressing a variety of global issues often impacting climate change.
• The Global Issues Network (GIN) has created guides and tools with students to empower students, teachers, and schools now on five continents and will share these documents. 

Presenter Bio:

http://globalissuesnetwork.org/

The Designers Perspective: Tour through the New Early Years Centre at NIS

PHILIP IDLE & CHLOE SUMMERS - EIW Architects

Session Audience:

Whole school

Session Goals:

Discover the learning adventure with EIW Architects as they guide you through the new Reggio Emilia inspired early years centre. Hear about the collaborative design journey and how the NIS strategy was a driving force behind their design choices.

Session Outcomes:

• Dear Architect’ – Articulating the vision 

• Building ideas – the collaborative dialogue 

• Inspired by Design 

• Exploring the learning environment 

• Where to now? Next steps for NIS 

Presenter Bio:

Website: eiwarch.com.au    (hyperlink https://www.eiwarch.com.au/)

Instagram: @eiwarchitects     (hyperlink https://www.instagram.com/eiwarchitects)

Twitter: @eiwArchitects    (hyperlink https://twitter.com/eiwArchitects)

Linkedin: eiw-architects     (hyperlink https://au.linkedin.com/company/eiw-architects)

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Philip Idle philip@eiwarch.com.au

Chloe Summers chloe@eiwarch.com.au

The Cognitive Science of Creative Subjects

ZACH GROSHELL - Nanjing International School

Session Audience:

Whole School

Session Goals:

Participants will learn about key cognitive science principles as they relate to the creative classroom.How we think, know, and remember.

Session Outcomes:

• Discuss a variety of cognitive science principles and how they come into play in the creative classroom.
• Conduct a variety of simple experiments on themselves to confirm cognitive science principles and theories.
• Use Little Bits, Legos, and other design tools and materials to investigate and confirm cognitive science principles and theories.
• Engage in current peer-reviewed research literature in cognitive science, presented in APA formatting, from this doctoral student.

Presenter Bio:

Zach Groshell is a PYP Design teacher at Nanjing International School. He has previously worked as an elementary teacher in Vietnam, and an instructional coach and elementary teacher in Sudan. At past conferences, Zach has presented on blended learning, classroom environment design, and design thinking and has an active professional presence on Twitter and his website, educationrickshaw.com. He is currently working on his PhD in Instructional Design for Online Learning and can often be found playing video games with one hand while finishing his annotated bibliography with the other. Zach enjoys traveling and discovering new foods with his wife, Stephanie, and his daughter June.

Developing assessment capable learners

GARETH JACOBSON - Nanjing International School

Session Audience:

Elementary School & Middle School

Session Goals:

Strengthen participant’s connections between reflection and assessment. Promote student agency through assessment and feedback. Explore strategies to develop student driven inquires. Build understanding of emergent approaches to curriculum.

Session Outcomes:

• Case study.
• Collaborative dialogue.
• Visible thinking / protocol.
• Reflection

Presenter Bio:

Gareth Jacobson currently works at Nanjing International School as Coordinator of Data for Inclusion. He is also an international education consultant. Gareth has worked as a teacher, trainer and administrator in a variety of international school settings (UK, Bahamas, Sri Lanka,Thailand, Bangladesh, Tanzania and Italy), and developed a broad and knowledgeable perspective of teaching and learning within global contexts. Gareth continues to work as a PYP IB workshop leader and school visitor and has also worked on adult educational development projects with NGOs in Kenya and Sri Lanka. Gareth’s passion within education centres around the diverse applications of children’s inquiry. Fundamental to his philosophy and practice of education is empowering students to be leaders of their own learning, through constructivist and transdisciplinary approaches that foster collaboration and creativity within the learning environment.

Responsive classroom inspired classroom instructions in world language class

BELLA ZHANG & DORA SHAN - Nanjing International School

Session Audience:

Elementary School

Session Goals:

From the session, teachers learn about responsive classroom and its beliefs, and what you could do to implement it into your learning spaces.

Session Outcomes:

Participants will be able to see and practice the models and class activities in an interactive way. Discuss and plan the ways of implementing them into their classrooms.

Presenter Bio:

Bella is a PS Mandarin teacher from Nanjing International School. She has been at NIS since 2012. As a Chinese teacher, Bella is passionate about teaching and learning.

Dora is a PYP Mandarin teacher from Nanjing International School. This year is her 10th year working at NIS. Dora currently focuses on coordinating engaging activities with the local community in order to promote home learning and family engagement.