MagicSchool AI is a platform designed for educators to enhance teaching and learning. It offers tools for lesson planning, assessment, and resource sharing. Magic Mondays is a four-week workshop series in September where educators can learn to use MagicSchool AI effectively. Participants will complete certifications, share their experiences, and engage in interactive activities to learn best practices for using the platform in their classrooms.
- Teacher: Aaron Tyo-Dickerson
- Teacher: Annefieke Bonants
- Teacher: Silvia Semana
- Teacher: Aaron Tyo-Dickerson
- Teacher: Samuel Wright
Agam Academy's Effective Lesson Planning is a 6-week course designed for Indian educators seeking to enhance their lesson planning skills. Tailored to the Indian education system, this programme offers 1.5 hours of video content, expert strategies, and interactive activities to empower teachers in creating well-structured, engaging lessons that align with the diverse needs of the Indian curriculum.
Led by Nicholas Bruce, an experienced international educator, the course covers the four-part lesson plan, planning tools for diverse learning styles, and techniques for creating active, fun lessons. Participants will gain practical insights, downloadable resources, and a certificate upon completion, all aimed at improving teaching practices and student learning outcomes in Indian classrooms.
- Teacher: Nicholas Bruce
- Teacher: Aaron Tyo-Dickerson
- Teacher: Penny van Niekerk
This is a four-week, asynchronous online program being developed exclusively for the schools of the Stichting Rijnlands Lyceum. Facilitated in English and Dutch, the course will guide educators in understanding the DigCompEdu framework, implementing it strategically, measuring progress, and engaging stakeholders to future-proof their digital literacy practices. Participants will also utilize the SELFIEforTEACHERS self-reflection tool. This comprehensive program aims to empower educators within the Stichting Rijnlands Lyceum network to enhance their digital competencies and pedagogical strategies.
- Teacher: Aaron Tyo-Dickerson
This course supports all new teachers at ISH in embedding formative assessment strategies into their everyday classroom practice. Participants will explore our shared approach to formative assessment at ISH, engage with resources on the Formative Assessment @ ISH Portal, and plan and teach a lesson using one or more of the five key strategies of formative assessment.
⏳ Approx. 1.5-2 hours/week over 5 weeks (asynchronous)
📅 Flexible start until the week of 6th October
🤝 Final face-to-face session on 19th November (Wednesday afternoon)
👥 Optional: Participants may also book one (or more) 15-minute 1:1 appointment(s) with the course facilitator – Silvia Semana – at any point during the course to ask questions, explore ideas, or get personalised support.
Main Goals
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Use the Formative Assessment @ ISH Portal confidently as a professional learning resource
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Apply ISH’s shared understanding and language of formative assessment in own teaching practice
- Teacher: Silvia Semana
- Teacher: Aaron Tyo-Dickerson
Whether you are an experienced teacher with lots of strategies in your back pocket, or new to your career and eager to find out about how to organise an effective learning environment, hopefully you’ll get a few ideas from this course.
Each week will have a theme, in which a few strategies will be shared (along with a bit of theory, because, y’know, this is professional development after all!). You will then be given a couple of weeks to test out a strategy (or maybe more) and then come back together to see how you’ve gotten on.
- Teacher: Nicholas Bruce
Whether you are an experienced teacher with lots of strategies in your back pocket, or new to your career and eager to find out about how to organise an effective learning environment, hopefully you’ll get a few ideas from this course.
Each week will have a theme, in which a few strategies will be shared (along with a bit of theory, because, y’know, this is professional development after all!). You will then be given a couple of weeks to test out a strategy (or maybe more) and then come back together to see how you’ve gotten on.
- Facilitator: Nicholas Bruce
This course has been created to help teachers expand their subject assessment options. Traditionally, the essay has been the go-to medium for assessment. However, subject areas and subject boards are looking for other ways to empower their students to make choices about how they respond to an assessment or display their learning.
The course will consist of the following sections
1. What is an assessment by multimedia?
2. The Advantages of multimedia as an assessment tool
3. Using multimedia as an assessment in your subjects
4. Tips and Tools for students to use multimedia for an assessment
- Course Creator: Martin Watts