Engage, Elevate, and Inspire: Transformative Learning Modules for Professional Growth

IGE’s interactive workshops are designed to deepen understanding, ignite curiosity, and empower educators across all age groups and subject areas. Each session offers practical strategies grounded in research and responsive to real classroom needs.

Schools can select one or more of the following workshops—or a blend of areas—based on their goals and the available time frame. If there are additional areas of interest, IGE can tailor workshops to meet those needs. The primary purpose of these interactive learning modules is to meet the specific context and learning goals of each school.

Elementary & Middle Years

  • Leveraging Deep Learning: Strategies and Tools for Assessing Conceptual Understanding
    Explore practical ways to assess for deep understanding throughout the learning process.

  • Teaching for Meaning: Harnessing the Power of Concept-Based Learning
    Discover how teaching through concepts builds deeper, transferable learning.

  • Designing for Depth: Building a Concept-Rich Curriculum
    Learn how to organise curriculum around big ideas that matter.

  • Planning with Purpose: Designing for Conceptual Inquiry
    Strengthen planning practices to support student-led inquiry and meaning-making.

  • Differentiation that Matters: Meeting Learners Where They Are
    Use flexible strategies to tailor learning experiences to individual needs.

  • The Art of Inquiry: Cultivating Curiosity in the Classroom
    Uncover ways to spark student questions and nurture a culture of exploration.

  • Voice, Choice, and Ownership: Moving from Compliance to Confidence Through Student Agency
    Build learning environments that empower students to take control of their learning journey.

Early Years

  • Play with Purpose: Joyful, Inquiry-Rich Learning in the Early Years
    Embrace play as a powerful context for exploration, learning, and wonder.

  • The Thinking Child: Nurturing Theory Building and Conceptual Understanding
    Support young learners in constructing and expressing their own theories.

  • Learning Stories: Documentation as a Window into Children’s Thinking
    Use documentation to make learning visible and inform teaching.

  • Intentional Environments: Designing Spaces that Spark Engagement and Wonder
    Explore how the physical environment influences thinking, relationships, and discovery.

  • Material Matters: The Role of Materials in Play and Inquiry
    Harness the power of open-ended materials to support creativity and conceptual development.

  • Planning for Possibility: Responding to Children’s Ideas and Emerging Theories
    Learn how to design learning that is flexible, responsive, and co-constructed with children.

Single Subject Areas

  • Teaching for Understanding: Embedding Conceptual Learning in the Single Subject Areas
    Connect subject-specific content to big ideas to deepen relevance and understanding.

  • Inquiry in Action: Inquiring, Exploring, and Discovering in the Single Subject Classroom
    Embed inquiry practices into specialist subjects to encourage student-driven learning.

  • Empowered Learners: Voice, Choice, and Agency in the Single Subject Classroom
    Create conditions where students take ownership and actively engage in specialist learning.

  • Meaningful Assessment: Assessing for Understanding in Single Subject Contexts
    Design assessment practices that reflect and support conceptual growth in your subject area.