Mar. 27
In recent years there has been an explosion in the number of UK universities offering a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education PGCE (International) in-person or online and in 2022 the UK Department for Education piloted a new international teaching...
Mar. 22
A few months ago I wrote about an inspiring article by Patrick Alexander and Jacques-Olivier Perche in which they propose ways to help teachers find “a deeper, more profound connection with a sense of professional identity that is both practically...
Mar. 07
Have you ever heard the term “unvarnished listening”? I can’t stop thinking about it since our recent session of Emerging Ethical Minds. This module, offered through Ecolint’s Institute of Learning and Teaching, is led by our renowned P4C...
Feb. 09
In November two colleagues for whom I have deep respect, Patrick Alexander and Jacques-Olivier Perche, published an article in Medium about teachers’ intellectual wellbeing which they define as “the positive sense of self derived from an authentic...
Jan. 24
Bien que les fêtes de fin d'année semblent déjà loin, j'espère que vous avez tous pu profiter de la beauté de l'hiver et que vous continuerez à le faire en attendant que le printemps arrive tout doucement. May 2023 bring us peace and hope for new...
Jan. 23
As we reach the mid-way point of Ecolint’s co-teaching training, we embark upon a reflection of our own experiences of collaboration and lean into the ideals and realities of co-planning. We began the session with an invitation to identify our best...
Dec. 16
The Ecole Internationale de Genève, generally acknowledged as the world’s first International School, was founded in 1924 to support the educational needs of the children of the expatriate population working in the newly formed international...
Dec. 05
On a recent professional learning day I had the good fortune to sit with colleagues in a session about assessment by Stuart Kime of Evidence Based Education. If you know Stuart, you know all the reasons why I felt lucky to be there. He is not only...
Nov. 22
In the first session of the professional learning programme 'Learning principles: A thinking toolkit for teachers', hearing the names of prominent anthropologists such as Franz Boas and Margaret Mead took me fondly back to a lecture hall in...
Nov. 16
In my last article I reflected on why I believe in co-teaching. Whether we are thinking about co-teaching, collaborative, or team teaching, the aim is to provide structures based on the notion of shared responsibility in professional, instructional...