Core Courses - Foundations for a Thriving International School

Core: Foundations for Learning

Strengthening Child Protection Practices in International Schools

This 4-hour course offers an insight of how to incorporate child protection practices in your day-to-day role. You will also explore up-to-date best practices that every school should have to ensure child protection. Exercise your duty of care!

Core: Foundations for Learning

Positive Behaviour and Relationship Management in International Schools

In this 4-hour course, you will explore approaches for promoting positive learning-focused behaviours and relationships that contribute to building a transformative learning culture of excellence. Think impact on learning!

Core: Foundations for Learning, IB DP

Developing Mindsets for Success in International Schools

In this 4-hour course, you will explore how to purposefully support non-cognitive skills development in your students; the skills that are at the core of a growth mindset and success in the 21st century. Think lifelong learners!

Core: Foundations for Learning, IB PYP

Building Executive Function Skills in Students

In this 4-hour course, you will explore the importance of executive function skills for school performance and adjustment, along with building a tool kit of EF strategies that can support you and your students.

Core: Learning & Progress

Early Childhood Teaching and Learning in International Schools

This 4-hour course blends a research-informed understanding of child development, the role of curriculum, framing effective pedagogy and assessment strategies, to support optimum conditions for young children’s learning in an international context.

Core: Learning & Progress, IB PYP, IB MYP, IB DP

Best Teaching Practices in International Schools

In this 4-hour course that blends learning in context, you will have the opportunity to build best teaching practices so that you can thrive as a teacher in your international school setting.

Core: Learning & Progress, IB MYP

Designing Learning for Intercultural Understanding in International Schools

In this 4-hour course, you will explore practical approaches to develop open-minded, evidence-minded, and ethical students who can grow to function at the deepest levels of the cultural iceberg model. Think unconscious bias!

Core: Learning & Progress, IB DP

Better Feedback: Effective, Sustainable Techniques to Improve Student Learning

In this course, you will develop a toolkit of evidence-informed feedback strategies to become more responsive to meet your students’ needs. You will learn how to give feedback more efficiently, improving results while saving time and effort.

Core: Learning & Progress, IB MYP

Self-Regulation in the Classroom: Helping Students Take Control of Their Learning

In this 4-hour course, you will explore strategies to support your students to learn how to learn, so they can self-regulate to take control of their own learning and have a better understanding of how to succeed academically.

Core: Leading for Learning

Middle Level Leadership for Impact in International Schools

In this four-hour course that blends learning, you will explore student-centred leadership practices and build skills to make a difference to student wellbeing and learning in your area of responsibility. Think transformative leadership for impact!

Core: Leading for Learning

Building Board Capacity in International Schools

In this 4-hour course, you will have the opportunity to learn about the Board’s core function- to ensure clarity of mission, ethos, and strategic direction of the school, to consider how to build board capacity and drive your school mission forward.

Core: Leading for Learning

Designing the Family Journey in Your School

In a world full of schools that all tend to look the same, it is hard to be seen as different. In this course, you will consider how to design the journey of families in your school and the way in which “experience” can help your school stand out!

Research-Informed Courses Essential for Strengthening Schools

Strengthening Child Protection Practices in International Schools

Positive Behaviour and Relationship Management in International Schools

Developing Mindsets for Success in International Schools

Building Executive Function Skills in Students

Early Childhood Teaching and Learning in International Schools

Best Teaching Practices in International Schools

Designing Learning for Intercultural Understanding in International Schools

Better Feedback: Effective, Sustainable Techniques to Improve Student Learning

Self-Regulation in the Classroom: Helping Students Take Control of Their Learning

Middle Level Leadership for Impact in International Schools

Building Board Capacity in International Schools

Designing the Family Journey in Your School

Why MiniPD Core Courses?

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Contextualized Learning

Space for Reflection

Modelled Inquiry

Global Learning Community

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