Professional Learning for International Educators
Courses designed by practitioners, for practitioners
Foundations for Learning
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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!
Teaching and Learning Practices
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Arabic: Student-Centered Lesson Design
3 CoursesIn this series of asynchronous MiniCourses, three strong Arabic voices in pedagogical practice will guide learners through the process of student-centered lesson design.
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Multilingual Classroom Practices
2 CoursesIn this MiniCourse Experience, international educators can learn practices to ensure that classrooms nurture students' multilingual assets and identities through translanguaging mindsets and pedagogical practices.
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Universal Supports for Learning
3 CoursesEngage with strategies to effectively adapt lesson planning to meet the needs of diverse learners. Explore ways to leverage accommodations, implement multi-tiered systems of support, and understand specific learning disabilities in the classroom.
Leadership at All Levels
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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!
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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.
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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!
For IB Coordinators and Educators
As part of the Faria Education Group, we support hundreds of thousands of IB educators around the world.
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ATLs in the PYP
4 CoursesLearn about the role of the ATLs in the PYP classroom. With support, learners will make a plan to demonstrate new understandings and/or abilities.
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Unit Planning for the PYP
4 CoursesThis Course Bundle is for PYP teachers, PYP coordinators, PYP school leaders who are supporting teachers in designing unit plans. With these well-designed units, we guide learners in developing deeper conceptual understandings.
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Unit Planning for the MYP
3 CoursesStrengthen IB MYP unit planning practices for inquiry, learning engagement, and assessment, based on the requirements of Building Quality Curriculum using ManageBac as the curriculum design platform.
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Planning an Effective CAS Program: Part 1
Are you wondering how to structure the 18 month CAS programme at your school? This MiniCourse will help you. We will work together step by step, month by month, to help you plan in advance and help you get the best out of your students.
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CAS for DP Subject Teachers
Explore what CAS is and your role in helping students to understand the CAS opportunities whilst developing the relationship within your academic discipline.
FAQs
What are you still wondering about?
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Are MiniPD courses certified?
Yes. Certification is awarded by MiniPD, from Faria Education Group.
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What do I need to do to gain my certificate?
You will need to complete all modules, learning activities in practice, and gain 100% in the checking for understanding assessments.
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What certificate will I receive?
You will be awarded the Certificate of Completion in 'Designing Learning for Intercultural Understanding in International Schools'.
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Can MiniPD courses count towards my continuing education requirements?
MiniPD is partnering with Kent State University, a R1 university in the United States, to grant graduate credits for completing MiniPD courses. To receive graduate credits, the learner must complete a required number of MiniPD Core or MiniCourses, and submit the completed MiniPD Learning Logs for each course. Details of the credit application process can be found at https://www.kent.edu/ehhs/offices/pd/minipd-courses. Please check with your license issuing authorities for details on the number of credits needed for your license renewal.
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How can I continue learning?
You will be presented with suggested pathways to support continued learning. These will include carefully designed resources, MiniCourses, and personalized coaching conversations.
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How can my school leverage the learning and amplify impact?
We can support you to implement this course in your own school with suggested approaches for interleaved professional development days, professional learning communities, and ongoing job-embedded peer learning structures. Contact us at [email protected] to find out more about school-level implementation.