AGIS Conference 2024 Potsdam

Learn proven strategies for constructive communication and navigating challenging interactions.
Elevate your professional and personal relationships, where interactive exercises and real-world scenarios offer a transformative learning experience.
Unleash your potential for clear, confident, and impactful communication!

The art of storytelling can be a powerful tool for teaching and learning languages through AI. This conference aims to provide practical online activities teachers can use in their classrooms to captivate and immerse their audience while teaching any language. From elementary to the new DP language B and the Ab Initio program, participants will learn how to use compelling storytelling techniques in their language lessons by exploring the various available AI online tools.

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss how we can apply empathetic leadership to our behaviours in the classroom and in the meeting room. During this session we will reflect on our dominant leadership characteristics and consider whether these have changed over time, mapping our leadership journey. We will consider whether there is a tension between the characteristics of influence/vision and compassion/collaboration and, if so, how to navigate this. We will discuss what empathy looks like and the ways in which leaders can use empathy for self, others and situations to inform action. We will also reflect on how our biases can affect our leadership decision making.

Using English and maths menus, paired with a clear classroom system for completing and revising work has increased independence and excitement about my students’ own learning. I will share how I organise my English and maths week and how it made my planning, resourcing so much easier (and fun!) and how I was able to increase my time on child during each lesson. Every school setting is different, so I will give you several ways of implementing a system that will work for your and meet your school’s demands. Most ideas are based on the course by “Math with Ms Matherson” whose permission I have to share her approach and system.

I will present about how PYP teachers can help prepare their students for MYP science. "In PYP, science is not a dedicated subject but integrated into the units of inquiry. This can often lead to a difficult transition for students entering the MYP. This session will focus on how to include authentic science inquiry and critical thinking in the PYP.

This session will also be useful for schools that do not use the IB curriculum, as it will focus heavily on best practices for teaching science in general. This includes how to teach students to design a valid experiments.
The session will include using templates and sentence starters for designing and evaluating science experiments. Teachers will get several ideas for experiments that do not require special equipment or training and have a chance to brainstorm what experiments might go well with their units.

Ever wonder how to better support ELL Students as a classroom teacher? In this session a seasoned ELL teacher and class teacher will share valuable tipps and tricks with non-ELL teachers. Prepare for a fun interactive workshop with differentiated examples and a helpful group discussion at the end to share ideas.