AGIS Conference 2024 Potsdam

Using the 'Love and Logic' approach to promote positive, respectful relationships between children and adults in your school. "The Love and Logic Approach teaches adults a range of skills that support the development of positive, supportive, and respectful relationships with children. Joyce and Chris have used these resources to support teachers, parents, and children over many years, with families of different cultures and religions and in several countries.

The 5 key principles of Love and Logic are:

Mutual Dignity - Love and Logic believes that mutual respect and dignity are critical for teaching children how to treat others.

Shared Control - Power struggles between parents and children are fundamentally about control. When we try to exert control over others, we lose it, but when we share control, we can gain it.

Shared Thinking - Enabling children to think about the consequences of their choices is a lifelong gift. By sharing the thinking process with them, they learn how to think on their own and solve their own problems at an early age.

Sincere Empathy -When we respond to children with anger and frustration, they will respond with defensiveness and defiance. When we respond with empathy, there is a much better chance that we will encourage them to think about their behaviors and consequences. Nothing works without empathy!

Loving Relationships - By following these principles parents will naturally develop a loving and mutually respectful relationship with their children. Kids learn to see their parents as both powerful and loving, and they are much more likely to grow up and become respectful, responsible adults.

Digital Society is a new course in the IB and the first students in this program will graduate in 2024. This session is intended to highlight what this new course is all about and the exciting learning that the first class and I experienced over the last two years. I will share details of the curriculum, the highlights we experienced, and the challenges we faced. I will have a social robot to show you, how I use a virtual reality world to enhance the experience, and I will explain the Bitcoin activity that we engaged in.

With all these new EdTechapps and AI tools looming around, it can often feel overwhelming to integrate them in a meaningful manner or know what’s out there. In this workshop, we will talk about some great EdTech platforms and how to utilize AI for your classroom -for lower to upper primary. Feel free to share examples of your best practices in or just be an curious mind during this session.

My passion for education and a desire for professional growth has led me to pursue a Master's in education. For the last four years, I juggled teaching full-time, balancing personal interests and family demands.

My session is set to explore efficient time management techniques, the choice of adaptable study programs, utilizing support from employers, and preserving personal well-being despite challenging timetables.

In my presentation, I aim to address the unique challenges I faced as I worked to enhance my teaching qualifications and provide an inclusive learning environment for my students. It will explore effective time management techniques, how to utilize employer support, and the importance of self-care throughout the process.

By equipping teachers with the knowledge and tools to better fulfill their learning and teaching responsibilities, I hope my presentation can help guide and motivate fellow educators to propel their professional and personal growth in completing a Master's in education program.

Are you looking for new ways to boost student engagement? Have you been searching for tools to reinvigorate your curriculum? Then this session is for YOU. We explore practical ways to add drama to a unit and how to use it as an assessment tool.

As a drama teacher with over 24 years of experience I am passionate about helping others discover the joys of adding theatre to areas where they could never imagine it.

At the end of the session, you will leave with several tools and maybe a few ideas that will inspire you to add a little drama to your classroom.

Your life is an epic journey, and you are the hero of the story. Joseph Campbell developed his concept of the “Hero’s Journey” through studies in comparative mythology, finding that cultures around the world have hero stories sharing an underlying story structure. The protagonist receives a call to adventure, faces a series of trials and challenges, learns and perseveres to get a treasure, and finally brings the treasure back home to share. The Hero’s Journey is therefore symbolic of personal development and acquiring special gifts to contribute to society. This workshop uses The Hero’s Journey as a lens to look at our own life journeys, asking how we became ourselves, what trials and challenges we faced, what we learned along the way, why we decided to become educators, and what special “treasures” we can bring to support our students and colleagues. When a hero complete’s their own journey, their role is supporting young people’s agency as they become the heroes on their own life journeys.