Date: Friday 8 and Saturday 9 March 2024

Venue: International School of Lausanne

Research and evidence-based practice

High quality teaching forms the bedrock of effective learning and student success, playing a pivotal role in shaping the minds and futures of students.

Skilled teachers possess deep subject knowledge. However, also fundamental is their pedagogical expertise, enabling them to present information in a clear, engaging, and meaningful manner. Effective teachers adapt their teaching strategies to meet the diverse learning needs of students, fostering a positive and inclusive classroom environment.

High quality teaching goes beyond the transmission of knowledge. It inspires and motivates students to become lifelong learners. The most effective teachers instil a love for learning, curiosity, and critical thinking skills in their students, creating an atmosphere that encourages exploration.

The 2024 SGIS conference will explore what research and experience says about how schools and teachers can ensure that their students receive the necessary knowledge and skills to thrive.

Delegate Registration for the Annual Conference

Individual Early bird registration for member schools (by Friday December 31 2023) CHF525
Individual Registration for Member Schools after December 31 2023 CHF 570
Individual registration for non-member schools CHF 625

Closing date for Registration, Monday February 24, 2024

Download the registration doc

Speakers include:

Gary Aubin is the author of The Lone SENDCO, a handbook of 300 questions and answers for busy SENDCOs. He works as the Education Endowment Foundation's Associate for SEND,  having been their SEND Content Specialist. In this role, he has spoken to hundreds of school leaders about the evidence base behind high-quality teaching for SEND. Alongside this, he leads on SEND provision for a Multi Academy Trust of 10 primary and secondary schools.

He is a secondary teacher, former primary and secondary SENDCO and former secondary Head of Year. Gary also authors the SENDMattersUK blog.

Dr. Eowyn Crisfield is a Canadian-educated specialist in languages across the curriculum (LAC), including EAL/ELL, home languages, bilingual and immersion education, super-diverse schools and translanguaging. Her focus is on equal access to learning and language development for all students, and on appropriate and effective professional development for teachers working with language learners.

She is author of the recent book ‘Bilingual Families: A practical language planning guide (2021) and co-author of “Linguistic and Cultural Innovation in Schools: The Languages Challenge” (2018, with Jane Spiro). 

She is also a Senior Lecturer in English Language and TESOL at Oxford Brookes University.

Harry has been a teacher, researcher and teacher-educator, and has worked in England, Japan, India and Sweden. He now leads Teacher Tapp's School Surveys, helping school leaders understand their staff, parents and pupils better, and is director of training for Steplab, helping schools use instructional coaching to improve teaching.

His latest book is Habits of Success: Getting every student learning, his blog is improvingteaching.co.uk, and he is on Twitter @hfletcherwood

HPeps Mccrea is an award-winning teacher educator, designer and author.

He is Dean of Learning Design at Ambition Institute, Director at Steplab, and author of the ultraconcise High Impact Teaching series.

Peps has three Masters degrees, Fellowships from the Young Academy and University of Brighton, and lots of distracting tattoos.

Visit pepsmccrea.com for more.

Companies

Tj Power is a neuroscientist, the co-founder of Neurify and an international speaker on the topic of mental health. Tj began his career lecturing in psychology at the University of Exeter before launching Neurify in COVID to support companies and schools across Europe. Tj has now delivered over 300 training experiences and amassed over 200,000 followers on Instagram with his simple, neuroscience-backed mental health teachings. During Tj’s sessions you discover how our modern, digital-based lives are impacting our minds and the optimal way to live in order to feel motivated, connected, calm and healthy.

Young People

Tj Power is a neuroscientist, the co-founder of Neurify and an international speaker on the topic of mental health. Tj began his career lecturing in psychology before launching Neurify in COVID to support companies and schools across Europe. Tj has now delivered over 300 training experiences and amassed over 200,000 followers on Instagram with his simple, neuroscience-backed mental health teachings. Tj deeply understands the challenges young people are experiencing and the steps required to truly transform how they feel.

Please check out Tj’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tjpower/ 

Anne van Dam is an educator and educational consultant with a passion for play as children's active, complex, vivacious meaning making process. She views documentation as a way to grow as educators as they examine threads, ideas and connections underpinning these investigations.

Anne has worked as a teacher, curriculum coordinator, head of school and vice-principal at (international) schools in China, Singapore, Switzerland and The Netherlands. She joined EtonHouse International Pre-School in 2007, drawn to the school for its vision to centre learning around young children's competencies in making meaning and establishing relationships. In August 2011, Anne became the Assistant Principal at the International School of Zug and Luzern(ISZL). At ISZL, she supported the development of a new vision for learning in the early years, placing a strong emphasis on relationships, play, learning spaces and documenting learning.

Anne moved to the Netherlands in 2015. This has given her the opportunity to collaborate with the PYP development team at the IB regional office in The Hague. She has worked on the IB PYP review focusing on learner agency, early years, inquiry and several aspects of 'the learning community'. Anne also collaborates with schools as an independent educational since 2015. Her aim is to support educators to developed a shared pedagogy based in honouring young children as amazing learners.