Consilience is pleased to offer the Certificate on Redesigning for Deeper Learning. This Certificate will have 5 Professional Learning Tracks for international school educators that are focused on Instructional (Re)design for Deeper Learning, greater Student Agency, more Authentic Work, and Rich Technology Infusion.
In the teaching and instructional coaching tracks, our facilitator, Dr. Scott McLeod from the University of Colorado Denver, will use the 4 Shifts Protocol to frame our instructional work together. The protocol contains concrete, specific 'look fors' and 'think abouts' that allow educators, coaches, and instructional leaders to shift students' instructional work in deeper, more robust directions. The protocol is a useful complement to SAMR, TPACK, Triple E, the ISTE Standards for Students, and other frameworks that international schools may be using, and also is an excellent capacity-building bridge to more complex inquiry and PBL projects.
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Wearable Technology Masterclasses
Fashioning the Wearable Technology of the Future Masterclass is a professional development program in which educators learn how to create fashionable clothes, garments, and accessories with computational functionality.
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Project-Based Learning Workshops
This two-day, interactive workshop sets the stage for successful implementation of digital-age PBL. Interest in project-based learning is accelerating globally, as schools seek instructional strategies that will develop students’ competencies as innovative problem solvers, critical thinkers, and skilled communicators. For teachers and school leaders who are new to PBL, this shift creates both opportunities and challenges.
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Developing Your Leadership Team Workshop
Developing Your Leadership Team is a 6 session workshop that allows you to develop the educational leadership skills of your team.
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Teaching Empathy in the Classroom
Teaching Empathy in the Classroom workshop enables participants to teach students to be able to learn the skills to understand themselves and others, show compassion towards others, collaborate effectively and practice kindness and acceptance.
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Technology Coaching Workshops
This Two day Workshop is designed for anyone who is interested in learning more about coaching and adult learning and how these can lead to school-wide change. While the focus will be on technology coaching, the skills introduced during this workshop can be used by instructional coaches across a school. Participants will explore and learn how coaching conversations can transform teaching practice and ensure effective transfer of professional learning.
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Social-Emotional Learning
This workshop will teach participants how to activate socio-emotional learning through drama. Every method in Drama Based Learning (DBL)involves working with human interaction and interpersonal engagement, key requisites for socio-emotional-learning. Deployed correctly, DBL approaches can be woven into a school’s teaching and learning culture as a means to foster strong Socio-Emotional Learning opportunities at multiple points in the student’s daily experience.
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Certificate on Redesigning for Deeper Learning
Consilience is pleased to offer the Certificate on Redesigning for Deeper Learning. This Certificate will have 5 Professional Learning Tracks for international school educators that are focused on Instructional (Re)design for Deeper Learning, greater Student Agency, more Authentic Work, and Rich Technology Infusion.
In the teaching and instructional coaching tracks, our facilitator, Dr. Scott McLeod from the University of Colorado Denver, will use the 4 Shifts Protocol to frame our instructional work together. The protocol contains concrete, specific 'look fors' and 'think abouts' that allow educators, coaches, and instructional leaders to shift students' instructional work in deeper, more robust directions. The protocol is a useful complement to SAMR, TPACK, Triple E, the ISTE Standards for Students, and other frameworks that international schools may be using, and also is an excellent capacity-building bridge to more complex inquiry and PBL projects.
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Drama Based Learning Certificate
The Drama Based Learning (DBL) Certificate is an experiential workshop that equips educators, specialists, and leadership with a comprehensive understanding of how to adapt DBL strategies and conventions to their teaching needs, and design learning experiences accordingly.
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Project-Based Learning Workshops
This two-day, interactive workshop sets the stage for successful implementation of digital-age PBL. Interest in project-based learning is accelerating globally, as schools seek instructional strategies that will develop students’ competencies as innovative problem solvers, critical thinkers, and skilled communicators. For teachers and school leaders who are new to PBL, this shift creates both opportunities and challenges.
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Diving into Robotics Masterclasses
Robotics is a field that integrates many disciplines. The mechanical design and the silicon chip brain of a robot determines its functions and intelligent behavior. This Masterclass delves into using microcontrollers, engineering design concepts, basic mechanics, and prototyping techniques to design intelligent robots.
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Game Development Quest Masterclasses
Games have existed throughout history and have been used for entertainment, education, and mental or physical exercise. With the availability of many game design engines and current tools, digital game development has gained growing interest. Game design brings together artists, story writers, planners and programmers. This Masterclass will introduce participants to basic game design and guide them through the creation of a game.
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Technology Coaching Workshops
This Two day Workshop is designed for anyone who is interested in learning more about coaching and adult learning and how these can lead to school-wide change. While the focus will be on technology coaching, the skills introduced during this workshop can be used by instructional coaches across a school. Participants will explore and learn how coaching conversations can transform teaching practice and ensure effective transfer of professional learning.
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Digital Citizenship Workshops
As educators, we are responsible for mentoring students in the safe, legal and ethical use of digital tools and to promote the protection of intellectual rights and property. This One day Workshop explores why students need to recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living and working in an interconnected digital world, and shares strategies, practices and tools that empower educators to support digital citizenship in their schools.
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Drama and Leadership Institute
When an actor walks on stage they are poised and calm, deliver their lines clearly and with purpose while keeping their audience engaged. How do they do it? The tools that an actor learns, to be able perform a role, communicate feeling and reach an audience, can all be used in the workplace. For example, when:
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delivering a presentation
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keeping an audience attentive
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getting a message across clearly
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motivating others to get involved
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leading effectively and confidently
Many people are nervous about leading a meeting or standing up and talking in front of a large group of people. The nerves shadow the important material that needs to be shared or the messages that need to be heard. The focus should be on the work and reaching the audience as effectively as possible. This Institute will teach participants how to leave the nerves behind so they can express themselves, their work and their ideas with clarity, conviction and passion.
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Building Empathy and Critical Thinking Through Video Production
This two-day, interactive, hands-on workshop focuses on using and creating videos as a way of understanding how visual media plays a role in society and education. We will explore how visual fluency and critical thinking can enable students to navigate and differentiate between truth from fiction and objectivity from influence. Moreover, getting behind the camera is a powerful tool to help develop and practice empathy by seeing the world through the eyes of others and developing intercultural understanding. This workshop will equip you with the knowledge, skillset, mindset and toolset of a video producer - essential components that create empathy, respect and understanding of the world.