About the webinar:

This webinar will focus on exploring a range of diverse teaching methods that foster an inclusive classroom environment, specifically catering to students with additional educational needs. By attending this session, you will have the opportunity to critically assess your own teaching practices and gain valuable insights, practical tips, and effective strategies that can be readily applied within your classroom setting.

About the speaker:

Alanah Harris is a Primary Teacher at Nord Anglia International School Hong Kong. Previously, Alanah was a Primary Teacher at a progressive school in West London, where she created an inclusive learning environment for a range of ages. She is passionate about differentiation and bringing out the best in each student.

Alanah holds a Special Educational Needs Coordinator qualification. Her expertise include supporting students with autism, ADHD, and OCD through collaborative and inclusive teaching models. At Nord Anglia, Alanah enjoys applying her skills in a multicultural environment and helping international students adjust to new cultures and curriculum.

About the webinar:

For English learning to be successful within an ESL setting then it must become more than just a subject of academic study within the four walls of a classroom. This webinar will provide some ways that this could take place within a local Hong Kong school setting by providing strategies and resources which can be adapted and implemented by educators to create a vibrant and communicative English language environment.

About the speakers:

Luke Athow, Programme Manager, Chatteris Educational Foundation
Hermione Riches-Wohlrab, Programme Manager, Chatteris Educational Foundation

 

Luke and Hermione are members of the Chatteris Programme Management Team and are responsible for implementing the Chatteris English Language Environment Enrichment Programme across 31 local Hong Kong schools this year.

About the webinar:

This webinar will briefly discuss STEM, the importance of the Arts, and making it STEAM. We will look into simple implementations of STEAM projects for Primary and Secondary, which should make it easy for anyone who wants to try to have ideas they can take away and use in their classrooms. Starting with simple and affordable ideas will allow us to fail repeatedly until we get it right.

We will also discuss one MIT approach: ‘Hack the Tube’. It embodies a maker mindset, physical manipulatives, engineering, and problem-solving. We are all makers!

About the speaker:

Mr Omar Fall is the Head of Computing and STEAM Co-ordinator at Nord Anglia International School Hong Kong. He has over 15 years of experience in education, using technology to enhance learning and advocating for STEAM education. He holds a Master of Science in Software Engineering and a PGCE (ICT in Secondary Education). He is fluent in French, English, Indonesian, Wolof, and conversational Chinese.

Mr Fall believes in getting to know each student individually to explore their interests and uncover their personalities before working with them to identify their learning styles and define their personal and educational goals.

About the webinar:

AI and tech tools have become increasingly important in education, providing teachers with innovative ways to enhance their teaching methodologies, engage students, and streamline administrative tasks.

This webinar will explore strategies for effective implementation, troubleshooting common challenges, and maximising the benefits of technology for teachers while maintaining a balanced and inclusive learning environment.

About the speaker:

Margaret Kwan is a Programme Director for Chatteris Educational Foundation. She has worked for the organisation for over 15 years, providing support for the use of technology in education to the Chatteris primary, secondary, and post-secondary programmes.

About the webinar:

What does progress look like in curiosity? And is there a way to measure progress in skills such as collaboration? This webinar will focus on the holistic skills that students need to develop to help them succeed as learners in the classroom and in their career beyond school. It will consider how skills such as collaboration, curiosity, and creativity, can be taught, how they can be adapted to each subject area and how we can measure progress. The webinar will also consider how the development of these skills can be made explicit to students to give them the agency and ownership they need to become lifelong learners.

About the speaker:

Dr Kate Erricker is the Assistant Director of Curriculum for the Nord Anglia Global Education team. She joined in January 2019 and is based at the school in Hong Kong.

Prior to joining Nord Anglia, Kate was a school improvement advisor for Hampshire Local Authority. In this role, she worked closely with teachers and leadership teams to improve outcomes in primary and secondary schools across the county.

Kate originally trained as an English teacher in the U.K. and has over 20 years’ experience in education. She has a Masters and PhD in Education, specialising in teacher professional development.

About the webinar:

This webinar will delve into the principles, benefits, and practical implementation of the academic choice strategy for structuring lessons and activities. Offering students choices in academic tasks and assignments can foster their motivation and ownership of their learning journey.

About the speaker:

Mariana Ganusiak is a Programme Director at Chatteris, overseeing the operation of the primary and secondary English development programmes. She has taught English and managed teachers for about ten years in several countries, including Hong Kong, Ukraine, Turkey, China, and Cambodia.

About the webinar:

In this session we aim to share with you our passion for drama centred, creative and kinaesthetic approaches to lesson design. Using a number of Drama Education principles, we hope to arm you with strategies that can be used to enliven any curriculum area and improve tangible outcomes for young people. This session will introduce you to a few of our favourites and hopefully empower you to take creative and practical risks when planning learning. Although this webinar has a focus on Drama, teachers from any phase or subject area are welcome to join!

About the speaker:

Guy Naylor is the Director of Drama and Performance at Nord Anglia International School Hong Kong and teaches Drama as a specialist subject in both the Primary and Secondary phases of the school. He joined Nord Anglia in August 2022. Prior to working in Hong Kong, Guy was a Head of Year and Drama Teacher at the British School of The Netherlands and worked as a Drama Subject Leader and a Head of House at the British School in Tokyo.

Guy originally trained as a Drama teacher in the U.K. and has 11 years classroom teaching experience in Drama and Theatre education. He has worked both internationally and in the U.K.