Past Workshops

Teaching and Leading in an Increasingly Complex School Environment

- How do we continue to remain effective in the classroom amidst rapid changes around us?

- How do we engage a new generation of students who feel entitled but continue to have learning needs?

- How do we achieve outcomes that are consistent with the investment of our time and efforts?

Heads of Department, Subject Heads and Classroom Teachers face the above challenges daily. In this half-day workshop, participants will get a better understanding of the changes taking place in the external and internal environments in our schools. Using diagnostic tools, participants will be able to identify some of the underlying issues that are not always apparent to busy individuals. Participants will appreciate the value of unearthing students’ aspirations, generating conversations and understanding complexities through the Leadership Insights Framework™ above. Participants will also discuss actively the Seven Strategies to EMBRACE Complexities™.

The registration form can be downloaded here: Registration Form. Please email to ascdadmin@work-solutions.com if you need more information. See you soon!

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Supporting Students with Dyslexia (2nd run)

Hello!

2nd Run of Workshop

Supporting Students with Dyslexia by Kimberly Loong

On 14th April 2023

As promised, we have organised the 2nd Run of this workshop due to the overwhelming response. Information you need is in the flyer below. Registration Form is here: Registration Form. Please submit as soon as possible as we expect the places to be snapped up quickly.

Quotes from participants of the 1st Workshop on 13th March 2023:

Sharing of good practical teaching strategies which EL teachers can bring back to the classroom to help my students. Helps me understand more than dyslexia.

Diana Chua, Peirce Secondary School

Practical examples provided through sharing of the types of resources used to hone their skills plus Kimberly's and her son's honest sharing were very heartfelt and insightful in helping me to understand how to support my students, appreciate the challenges faced and articulate clearly my students' learning needs/support to my college. It is also very encouraging.

Malarvizhi Haugen, Anderson Serangoon Junior College

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Supporting Students with Dyslexia

This workshop will cover an understanding of dyslexia - the biological underpinnings and the symptoms to look for in different age groups, including teenagers. Participants will have a broad understanding of the Response-to-Intervention model (RTI) and learn multisensory skills to teach reading and spelling to children struggling with literacy, through hands-on activities. Ideal for educators at all levels.

The registration form can be downloaded here: Registration Form. Please email to ascdadmin@work-solutions.com if you need more information. See you soon!

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Updates on the November workshops

We've received much positive responses for our workshops in November, and some are full, or nearly full. Thank you for your support. Here's an update on some workshops that are still available.

The registration form can be downloaded here: Registration Form. Please email to ascd@work-solutions.com if you need more information. See you soon!

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Five Workshops in November

This November, our top experts will be holding workshops on various topics like differentiated instruction, mindful self-care, improving the quality of feedback, strategies of assessment for learning and making learning targets visible for students. You can choose to attend one or several workshops. Full details can be found below.

The registration form can be downloaded here: Registration Form . Please email to ascd@work-solutions.com if you need more information. See you soon!

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Assessment Workshops with Jan Chappuis

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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Online Workshop by Dr Nah Yong Hwee

This popular workshop will start you off on your journey to understanding what is autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is and the support that you can provide to children with such special needs. The workshop has two parts, and participants have to attend both days to complete the workshop:

Part 1: Understanding Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Provides an introduction to ASD. It will provide the knowledge of the impairments that are commonly present and co-occurring conditions associated with ASD.

Part 2: Supporting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Focuses on enhancing the capacities, skills and practices of the teachers teaching students with ASD.

The registration form can be downloaded here: Registration Form. Please email to ascd@work-solutions.com for more information.

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Differentiated Instruction workshop

by Dr Heng Tang Tang

This workshop aims to clarify common myths about differentiated instruction (DI) by engaging with its key principles. By drawing on findings from Dr Heng's research on teachers' implementation of DI in Singapore, we will explore how DI can be enacted in the Singapore context. Participants will also be introduced to some common challenges of applying DI to the Singapore context and discuss ways to overcome them. Participants should have a basic knowledge of DI, as this is not an entry-level workshop.

The registration form can be downloaded here: Registration Form. Please email to ascd@work-solutions.com for more information.

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Workshop by Dr Heng Tang Tang

This workshop aims to clarify common myths about Differentiated Instruction by engaging its key principles. Participants should have a basic knowledge of Differentiated Instruction.

The registration form can be downloaded here: Registration Form.docx . Please email to ascd@work-solutions.com for more information.

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Workshop by Dr Wong Lung Hsiang

This workshop on Blended Learning comprises two sessions, and participants must attend both sessions.

The registration form can be downloaded here: Registration Form.docx. Please email to ascd@work-solutions.com for more information.

Workshops by Jan Chappuis and Erik Francis

Below are more details about the individual workshops:

Assessment Workshops by Jan Chappuis

All assessment workshops are online, from 9am to 12.30pm. You can choose to attend one or several workshops by paying the appropriate registration fees for each workshop.

The registration can be downloaded here: Registration Form.docx. Please email ascd@work-solutions.com for more information.

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Good Questions - Inquiring Minds Workshop

by Erik Francis

All workshops are online, from 2pm to 5pm. These are three independent, subject-specific workshops. The registration can be downloaded here: Registration Form.docx. Please email ascd@work-solutions.com for more information.

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Blended Learning:

A Workshop by Dr Wong Lung Hsiang

We have just been able to finalise the workshop on Blended Learning by Dr Wong Lung Hsiang. This workshop is specially for upper primary and lower secondary teachers.

We suggest that you have two or three teachers sign up so that they can start preparations offline before and during the break between sessions.

The workshop is split into two sessions: 31st May and 4th June 2021. Both sessions will be from 9am to 12pm. Participants must attend both sessions to complete the workshop.

The registration can be downloaded here: Registration Form

Please email ascd@work-solutions.com for more information.

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Workshop by Asst Prof Choy Ban Heng

Noticing to Feed Forward in Mathematics Teaching
(For primary and secondary school teachers)

26 March 2021 (Friday), 3-5pm

By Asst Prof Choy Ban Heng

(National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University)

How can teachers attend to mathematical details embedded in students' work? How can we analyse students' thinking to make instructional decisions that enhance students' learning? In this interactive online workshop on Teacher Noticing, we will focus on developing an awareness of how teachers can build teaching expertise by learning to attend to and interpret instructional details to making instructional decisions.

At the end of the workshop, participants should:

1. Know the different components of teacher noticing;

2. Be aware of what and how to notice students' thinking from their work; and

3. Use what they have noticed to improve their teaching

Click herefor more details about the workshop.

The registration form can be downloaded here: Word / PDF

Dr Choy Ban Heng, a recipient of the NIE Overseas Graduate Scholarship in 2011, is currently an Assistant Professor in Mathematics Education at the National Institute of Education (NIE). Prior to joining NIE, he taught secondary school students Mathematics for more than ten years, and held the position of Head of Department (Special Projects) before he joined the CPDD in MOE as a Curriculum Policy Officer.

Extension of Closing Date for two November 2020 Workshops

Thank you for the overwhelming response to our workshops. We've extended the closing date for registration for these two workshops to 9th November. (All the other workshops are fully booked)

- Workshop 4: Understanding Differentiated Instruction, by Tang Swee Noi

- Workshop 5: Inquiring Minds: Teaching and Learning with Good Questions, by Erik Francis

Click on the links to find out more about the two workshops and to download the registration form.

Upcoming November 2020 Workshops

We've lined up six workshops in November so you can continue your learning journey - all conducted via Zoom!

Workshop 1 Assessment Practices That Create Self-Directed Learners, by Jan Chappuis 3 sessions Date: 17th, 18th 19th November 2020 Time: 8.30am-11am	Workshop 2 Understanding Differentiated Instruction, by Tang Swee Noi 3 sessions Date: 17th, 18th 19th November 2020 Time: 2.30am-5pm	Workshop 3 Inquiring Minds: Teaching and Learning with Good Questions, by Erik Francis 1 session Date: 20th November 2020 Time: 8.30am-11am
Workshop 4 Understanding Differentiated Instruction, by Tang Swee Noi 3 sessions Date: 23rd, 24th, 25th November 2020 Time: 2.30am-5pm	Workshop 5 Inquiring Minds: Teaching and Learning with Good Questions, by Erik Francis 1 session Date: 26th November 2020 Time: 8.30am-11am	Workshop 6 Offering Effective Feedback, by Jan Chappuis 1 session Date: 27th November 2020 Time: 8.30am-11am

Workshop 1

Assessment Practices That Create Self-Directed Learners
by Jan Chappuis

(For secondary school and junior college teachers)
3 Sessions : 17th, 18th, and 19th November 2020, 8.30am to 11.00am
Participants must attend all 3 sessions for the complete workshop.

Membership Type	Fee per Participant
Life/Ordinary/Institutional	S$145.00
Non-Member	S$175.00

Students who are college- and career-ready are willing and able to learn independent of external rewards and punishments. This presentation examines how classroom assessment practices can develop a self-directed learning mindset in all students.

Topics include:

• Three types of student goal orientations and their potential impact on student motivation and achievement

• Seven Strategies of Assessment for Learning
• Preparing students to self-assess, self-direct, and self-reflect

Click here to download the registration form

Workshop 2

Understanding Differentiated Instruction
by Tang Swee Noi

(For secondary school and junior college teachers)
3 Sessions : 17th, 18th and 19th November 2020 from 2.30pm to 5.00pm
Participants must attend all 3 sessions for the complete workshop.

Membership Type	Fee per Participant
Life/Ordinary/Institutional	S$110.00
Non-Member	S$140.00

Differentiated instruction (DI) is not a strategy but an approach to education—one that is built on honouring the differences in the students we teach and helping each of them realize their potential.

This interactive workshop provides an overview of DI, with its basic principles and components, offering critical pointers for effective, proactive lesson planning that will improve students’ access to content, enhance their ability to make sense of it, and ensure they’re able to accurately show what they know. It provides guidance for participants who are interested in adopting DI as an approach in lesson design and delivery to address the diversity in the classroom.

Participants will explore the role formative assessment plays in differentiated instruction and a practical application of using pupils’ level of readiness, interests and learning style by developing activities and lessons and utilizing a variety of teaching strategies that help students learn.

Click here to download the registration form.

Workshop 3

Inquiring Minds: Teaching and Learning with Good Questions
by Erik Francis

(For secondary school and junior college teachers)
1 Session : 20th November 2020 from 8.30am to 11.00am

Membership Type	Fee per Participant
Life/Ordinary/Institutional	S$95.00
Non-Member	S$125.00

Participants will learn how to use questioning and inquiry to encourage students to demonstrate different levels of thinking and communicate their depth of knowledge in different contexts and new situations.

Outcome: Participants will learn how to develop and deliver inquiry-based learning experiences that uses good questions to pique students’ curiosity and interest to learn, assess and build foundational knowledge, deepen conceptual and procedural understanding, and develop their learning and talent into personal expertise they can use in deeper and diverse academic and real-world contexts.

Click here to download the registration form.

Workshop 4

Understanding Differentiated Instruction
by Tang Swee Noi

(For primary school teachers)
3 Sessions : 23rd, 24th and 25th November 2020, 2.30pm to 5.00pm
Participants must attend all 3 sessions for the complete workshop.

Membership Type	Fee per participant
Life/Ordinary/Institutional	S$110.00
Non-Member	S$140.00

Differentiated instruction (DI) is not a strategy but an approach to education—one that is built on honouring the differences in the students we teach and helping each of them realize their potential.

This interactive workshop provides an overview of DI, with its basic principles and components, offering critical pointers for effective, proactive lesson planning that will improve students’ access to content, enhance their ability to make sense of it, and ensure they’re able to accurately show what they know. It provides guidance for participants who are interested in adopting DI as an approach in lesson design and delivery to address the diversity in the classroom.

Participants will explore the role formative assessment plays in differentiated instruction and a practical application of using pupils’ level of readiness, interests and learning style by developing activities and lessons and utilizing a variety of teaching strategies that help students learn.

Click here to download the registration form.

Workshop 5

Inquiring Minds: Teaching and Learning with Good Questions
by Erik Francis

(For primary school teachers)
1 Session : 26th November 2020 from 8.30am to 11.00am

Membership Type	Fee per Participant
Life/Ordinary/Institutional	S$95.00
Non-Member	S$125.00

Participants will learn how to use questioning and inquiry to encourage students to demonstrate different levels of thinking and communicate their depth of knowledge in different contexts and new situations.

Outcome: Participants will learn how to develop and deliver inquiry-based learning experiences that uses good questions to pique students’ curiosity and interest to learn, assess and build foundational knowledge, deepen conceptual and procedural understanding, and develop their learning and talent into personal expertise they can use in deeper and diverse academic and real-world contexts.

Click here to download the registration form.

Workshop 6

Offering Effective Feedback
by Jan Chappuis

(For secondary school and junior college teachers)
1 Session : 27th November 2020 from 8.30am to 11.00am

Membership Type	Fee per Participant
Life/Ordinary/Institutional	S$95.00
Non-Member	S$125.00

Feedback is an assessment fulcrum point: when done well it can shift the skill and responsibility of self-regulated learning to our pupils. What we choose to comment on, how we deliver the information, and when we give it all affect the extent to which they will learn from it. In this half-day workshop we delve into guidelines drawn from research that ensure our feedback is effective in causing new learning and in helping pupils learn to self-direct.

Objectives:
• Five guidelines for offering feedback that maximize impact on learning
• How to make feedback-giving take considerably less time

• How to teach pupils to give each other accurate and actionable feedback

Click here to download the registration form.

Forthcoming Events for 2020

The details have been updated on 10 January 2020. Some event dates are to be confirmed.

Date	Details	Topic
16 March	Workshops by Jan Chappuis	Session 1: Preparing Students for Involvement in Assessment Session 2: Offering Effective Feedback
18 March	Workshops by Jan Chappuis	Seven Strategies of Assessment for Learning
20 March	Duck Learning (For ASCD Singapore members only)	Playful Enquiry Workshop Free for ASCD (Singapore) members
30 May	30th Anniversary Lunch & Annual General Meeting (For ASCD Singapore members only)	Marking 30 years! New website launch Free for ASCD (Singapore) members; S$100 for non-members
June	Workshops by Erik Francis (postponed)	DIP IT!: Differentiation, Individualisation and Personalisation in Questioning
June	Workshops by Erik Francis (postponed)	Now That's A Good Question!
July afternoons only	Workshops by Tang Swee Noi (postponed)	Understanding Differentiated Instruction (Primary schools)
July afternoons only	Workshops by Tang Swee Noi (postponed)	Understanding Differentiated Instruction (Secondary schools)
7-8 September	Let's Play Workshops by Opal School (USA) (postponed)	Inventing the World: Supporting empathy and agency through a playful inquiry (2-day workshop)
9 September	Let's Play Workshops by Opal School (USA) (postponed)	Middle & Upper Primary Schools: Playful Literacy: Strengthening literacy in the intermediate years
10 September	Let's Play Workshops by Opal School (USA) (postponed)	Pre- & Lower Primary Schools: Story Workshop: A structure supporting emergent literacy
November	Workshops by Tang Swee Noi	Questioning Strategies to Activate Student Thinking (Secondary Schools)
November	Workshops by Tang Swee Noi	Questioning Strategies to Activate Student Thinking (Primary Schools)
Special Event: ASCD (Singapore)'s 30th Anniversary! Updates and details on our website: www.ascdsingapore.org