Two Day Workshop is ideal for:

• Groups of around 100 plus teachers to have hands-on sessions in developing powerful units that help focus on conceptual understanding.

• For international schools that want to encourage a concept based approach in teaching and learning.

• A good range of whole group and small group sessions that focus on concept-based unit development.

• Reflecting and Evaluating current practice/units and identifying future steps in incorporate inquiry based approach to teaching and learning.

This workshop will focus on why and how a Concept-based curriculum model is important to generate "Thinking Classrooms".

• Participants will be engaged in a variety of hands-on activities that enable:

• Understand the difference between Fact based Versus Concept Based Approach.

• Develop Units that enable students to move from facts to conceptual understanding.

• Develop Guiding questions that scaffold students thinking and promotes inquiry based approach to teaching and learning.

• Reflect on existing units to develop Guiding questions and conceptual understanding.

• Participants will receive practical strategies that can be effectively practiced the very next day in the classroom!