On Saturday 16th March our international secondary school staff attended the Xiehe Cross-campus professional development day. The day brought together 9 international campuses, consistent of 70 plus top-quality workshops delivered by our expert teachers and brought together 800 plus teachers to talk about how to best support our students. SUIS has over 25 years’ worth of experience educating students through an international and integrated East-Meets-West curriculum. Our cross-campus training was a powerful indication of the lead and experience we bring to learning in China.
The two key note speakers were Lance King and Dr Jordan Huang.
Lance King is arguably the world leader in student skills develop and teaching of skills. He wrote the International Baccalaureate Middle years and Diploma Programme skills curriculum. He gives talks and presentations world-wide and has written numerous books on 21st Century Skills.
Dr Jordan Huang is graduate of Beijing University and an innovator, author and entrepreneur. She shared with us the findings of her recent publication about developing our students to be innovators.
Our WUXI Secondary school campus expert teachers shared their knowledge with the teachers from all of the SUIS schools.
Rajashree Basu, our Director of Studies and IB DP coordinator, gave workshops on Using technology to develop approaches to teaching skills in the Secondary School.
Lucinda Holmes, our Vice Principal and Head of Secondary, gave a workshop on Self-Management Skills.
Terrie Rowe, our Head of Pastoral, gave a workshop on East meets West – Cultural Collaborations to Enrich Teaching and Learning.
Kymaree Sheather, our Head of Visual Arts, gave a workshop on the Harvard University, Project Zero, Visual Thinking Routines.
Not only did our teaching staff get to connect with other subject experts at other SUIS schools but our University Guidance Team and our Librarians were able to connect to identify how to best support our students.
Other workshops included: Good practices for Effective Formative Assessments, Critical Thinking in Chinese teaching and learning, Teaching PSHE, Moodle as a learning platform, meaningful feedback to students, Differentiation; every child matters, Developing Higher Order thinking skills in the classroom, best practice for Student University Reference Letters, Inquiry based teaching and learning, developing student leaders through a house system, best practice for applying to US Universities.
One of the most important factors in a child’s education is the quality of your child’s teachers. At WUIS we understand that and ensure all of our teachers are high qualified and receive the most up to date training.