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Starting the Conversation Workshop with Clinic Dover

In Aug 2020, colleagues form the Clinic in Dover came together for a team-building workshop. It was the first time some of the team had met each other since being employed and working from home.

Quarterly Workshop with the HR Team

In Aug 2020, colleagues in the Department of Human Resources worked together on strategic focuses for the next year, farewelled a colleague, gave awards to others who had gone above and beyond, and participated in physical challenges.

Starting the Conversation Workshop with DEER Team

In Feb 2020, colleagues in the Department of External Engagement and Relations (DEER) dedicated time to participate in ‘Start the Conversation’; a workshop facilitated by the Professional Learning & Development team, which explores our work preferences and what this means for building strong teams.

Teaching Assistant Cache Programme

Teaching Assistant colleagues on Dover campus attended their 3rd workshop as part of their 6-month Teaching Assistant Cache programme. This workshop was a collaborative effort, with modules on Child Development (facilitated by Lynda Scott & Vikki Wright) and Equality, Inclusion & Diversity (facilitated by Gez Brogden & Jill Stephenson).

Practical classroom strategies for delivering a concept-based curriculum with Shane Pill

on 22 Feb 2020

In early February, PE colleagues spent a week working with PE academic Shane Pill to reflect on how best to integrate concept-based teaching and learning into PE. Shane worked on East and Dover campuses and led a Saturday workshop for internal and external participants as well.

Eowyn Crisfield workshops

on November 2019

On November 2019, we hosted Eowyn Crisfield, a passionate devotee of inclusive, multilingual approaches to engaging our students of different language and cultural backgrounds.

The High School Maths Job alike & ATM meeting

on May 2019

I really enjoyed discussing the conceptual understandings for the new IB Mathematics courses, understanding these will really make a difference to how I plan a unit of work.

UWCSEA Dover Participant

There was a very warm collaborative atmosphere is the room and it was fantastic to meet up with colleagues from other schools in Singapore to share ideas on our theme of Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics.

Julie Dale, Head of High School Mathematics, Dover Campus

Discovering Positive Education Workshop

on 14 – 15 Sep 2019

Dover hosted the 3-day workshop. Approximately 20 UWCSEA staff took part in the workshop, which focuses on promoting wellbeing.

It reaffirmed what we are doing in the college, and provided us with further resources for ways we can work even more diligently to support this approach

UWCSEA East Participant

Often, the material is not new and schools are doing these things, but what is so wonderful about the workshop is that it helps to make stronger connections between the beliefs and the actions.

Workshop Facilitator

Great and Glorious Goal-Setting

The HR team have been working with teams and departments across the college to support the upcoming goal-setting process. As support and administration colleagues get prepared to write their goals for the year, workshops are being run to support our thinking. In the photo, the Teaching Assistants on East campus enjoy the 90 minute workshop as part of East PD Day.

Fire Safety Training Aug 2019

Briefing Time

Setting up for the demonstration

Demonstration of putting out the fire

Putting out the fire

Red Rhino

Group Photo

Cognitive Edge with ELT members

The ELT team & guests participated in a workshop with Zhen Goh from Cognitive Edge on 15 May to learn ways of making sense of complexity, and how to manage within such complexity. Quick takeaways were that we can’t manage complexity; we can only manage within it. And every time we change the conversation, we open more possibilities’

Instructional Coaching with Jim Knight

(Dover-East Intitiative)

A joint Dover-East initiative saw Jim Knight (see above), guru of instructional coaching, deliver a 2 day onsite workshop for 60 educators from both campuses at UWCSEA East on 2-3 May. For more on Jim’s work, go to www.instructionalcoaching.com

Concept Based Teaching & Learning

On 7-8 May, Carla Marschall and Pippa Haley facilitated a 2-day workshop for High School teachers on Dover to support their continued learning on how best to integrate concept based teaching & learning into classes. Some feedback included:

Yikes! The K-12 English standards, benchmarks and EUs need to be revised! It would be great if we could right away start remodelling our units in light of this conceptual learning. However, I feel somewhat stuck b/c I know that our curriculum is K-12 and across two campuses, so revision will be really challenging especially as it seems we are being a bit squeezed in terms of time and money. For now, we can make unit-level changes and improve conceptual learning within and between our units, but they will not connect as meaningfully as they could if we had a stronger, better written curriculum.

Learning in more detail about what Conceptual based teaching means. I feel I am more aware about the fluid relationship between the concepts and the skills in my subject and feel more confident to ground concepts continually with factual and skill based examples. Whilst I enjoyed hearing about how other subject teachers apply concept based learning in their classroom, I enjoyed seeing examples which relate to my own subject area.

A chance to take a closer look at conceptual based inquiry and where it fits in our units. Using many of the strategies in a practical manner – finding out positives and negatives for ourselves- gives greater insight into the student perspective too. Being able to look in-depth at strategies that we can transfer directly into units. Chance to have conversations about where these things can fit- we never normally have time for this kind of discussion and it can be crucial to improving a unit.

Did you know?

Over the April break, the 3rd PD Learning Fest took place for support & admin colleagues.

Quick Facts:

16 workshops & sessions

232 attendees

10 days, 2 campuses

50 litres coffee consumed (okay , I made this up)

Streams included:

Health & Safety (e.g. avoiding injuries)

Communication (e.g. proofreading)

Collaboration (e.g. work cultures)

Specialist (e.g. photoshop)

Highlights:

50 staff received an introduction to Pos Ed
First ever support staff book clubs launched
First time the boardgame ‘Detective’ used in teambuilding (perhaps, not the last – it was cool)
First ever lego-certified serious play undertaken as a focus of critical thinking