Qualifications

Further Training

ECIS Multilingual Learning in International Education: 2022 Mini Conference

London, UK
February 2022

Certificate

• Collaboration & Partnership Using Home Language: Neurodiversity and New To English – A Journey for Staff and Student

ECIS Multilingual Learning in International Education: Unity through Multilingualism Conference
London, UK
March 2019
Certificate

• Building Academic Language with Beth Skelton
• Identity Text Projects with Jim Cummins and IS Hague Teachers
• Language, Heritage and Migration with Yongcan Liu
• Identity Construction and Fostering Student Agency with Niki Cooper
• Authentic Conversations with Amar Latif and Susan Stewart
• Language Integrated Teaching with Eowyn Crisfield
• Panel & Plenary Discussions with Jim Cummins, Fred Genesee, Mary Hayden, Paul Kei Matsuda, Kate Seltzer, Victoria Murphy, and more

IBO Extended Essay Workshop
Franconian International School
February 2019
Certificate

• The EE and the Assessment Criteria
• Unpacking the Assessment Criteria
• The Supervisor’s Role
• World Studies EE
• Admin

Launching the MYP: Introduction
Franconian International School
February 2019
Certificate

• MYP Philosophy
• MYP Unit Planning
  • Subject aims, writing concept-driven curricula
• MYP Assessment
  • Diagnostic, Formative, and Summative
• MYP Classroom
  • Student-centered teaching and learning, student driven inquiry, practicing the standards

AGIS Conference 2019
Hanover, Germany
January 2019
Certificate

• Response to Intervention: A Model of Inclusion and Differentiation for All Learners
• CIS International Accreditation: Accreditation Evaluators Online Training. An Overview and How to Become a CIS School Evaluator
• The Cultural Orientation of International Schools- How Much Does your School Value the Local Culture?

NEASC ACE Accreditation Visitor Training
Oberusel, Germany
November 2018
Certificate

• Introduction to ACE conceptual framework
• Training to serve on an ACE Learning Team
• Training to conduct Learning Principles visits

MYP Category 1 Language Acquisition Workshop
Franconian International School
June 2018
Certificate

• MYP Language Acquisition Standards (C1-C4)
• Aims, Objectives, and Requirements
• Developing a Concept-Driven Curriculum
• Assessment
• Approaches to Learning
• Inquiry
• Scoring
• e-Assessment

Story Listening & Comprehensible Input Workshop
Franconian International School
May 2018
Certificate

• Dr. Krashen’s Theories
• Dr. Beniko-Mason’s Placement into Practice
• Conduit Hypothesis & Implications for Literacy
• Story Listening Efficiency
• Practicing the Story-Listening Method

WIDA Implementation in International Schools Workshop
Munich International School
April 2018
Certificate

• Testing Guidelines & Logistics
• Assessment Data & Support Provision
• Using WIDA to Inform Mainstream Instruction

AGIS Conference 2017
Hanover, Germany
January 2018
Certificate

• BRIEF Keynote: “Sparkling Moments in School Life”
• “How to Share Your Classroom”: Co-Teaching Practice
• Use of Protocols to Enhance Lessons
• “Make a Difference in the World- Inspiring and Motivating Children to Help Others”: Service Learning
• Child Protection Laws and Policies in Germany

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Franconian International School
October-December 2017
Certificate

• Perception of Ourselves & the World
• Feeling at Home in Your Body
• Stress and Mindfulness
• Thoughts are Just Thoughts
• Mindfully Dealing with Emotions
• Communication and Mindfulness
• Retrospect & Prospect: Taking Care of Yourself

Cultures of Thinking Workshop
The International School of Luxembourg
October 2017
Certificate

• 6 Principles of Cultures of Thinking
• The Story of Learning
• The Cultural Forces
• Thinking Routines
• The Language of the Classroom

Learning by Design Conference
The International School of Brussels
March 2017
Certificate

• How Gender Aware is My School? (2 Days)
• Model UN for Middle Schoolers
• Empowering a Diverse Set of Learners

The Power of Differentiation Workshop
Franconian International School
February 2017

• Differentiation as a Mindset
• Developing Tiered Activities
• Assessing for Understanding

Educational Collaborative for International Schools (ECIS) Conference
Copenhagen, Denmark
November 2016

• Pre-Conference: Collaborative Skills & Practices to Enhance Student Learning
• Bringing a Language Week to Your School
• Supporting Struggling Adolescent Readers
• Teaching Foreign Languages through Art
• Women in Leadership: Key Patterns & Strategies
• Invisible Subtitles: When Consequences Don’t Work

Learning2 Conference
The American School of Milan
April 2016
Certificate

• Pre-Conference: Curation for Change: A Leadership Toolkit
• Extended Session: Living in Beta
• Students as Curators & Creators of Textbooks
• What is Coding?
• Technology for Struggling Learners

C1 – Conversation and Grammar French Course
Deutsch-Französisch Institut
January-April 2016
Certificate

• Themed discussions
• Strengthening of everyday and subject knowledge French

Teaching ESL in Mainstream Classrooms: Language in Learning across the Curriculum
Franconian International School
November-March 2016
Certificate

• Module 1: ESL students and learning in a second language
• Module 2: Language and learning and the role of scaffolding
• Module 3: Oral language: how the task shapes the talk
• Module 4: Using oral language: interpreting and producing oral texts
• Module 5: Working with written and visual texts
• Module 6: Working with written and visual texts at the text level
• Module 7: Developing knowledge of genre and language at the language level
• Module 8: Assessing written texts
• Module 9: Programming and whole-school models of support for ESL students

Train the Trainer: Teaching ELs in Sheltered Content Instruction for Course Instructors
Prince William County Schools
April 2015
Certificate

• Review of major principles in English as an additional language instruction
• Preparation for training teachers in sheltered instruction