COURSES & CERTIFICATION
COURSES & CERTIFICATION
FROM ECIS AND PARTNERS
Our world of dynamic courses and certification programmes are designed to support all faculty at international and internationally-minded schools. From first-year teachers through to board members, our courses will not only add great value to your professional development, but also to your learning community.
If you have any specific questions, please contact learning@ecis.org.
Featured Member School image: International School of Busan, South Korea.
NEW: CULTIVATING CONNECTIONS THAT MATTER: A TOOLKIT FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL TEACHING
We are delighted to offer our member schools an excellent professional learning opportunity–an online course developed by members of our own community, Rachael Thrash and Ellen Heyting as a toolkit for transformational teaching. In addition to the course, ECIS will host open forums with Rachael and Ellen throughout the year. We look forward to gathering interested members to discuss and share the valuable learning and insights gained. We know there is value in pushing students outside a protective academic bubble to personalize their learning through real-world experiences and connections, but teachers and schools struggle to find time, resources, and assessable outcomes.
This online course, organized around 6 stages for connection walks teachers and curriculum designers through practical and reinforcing approaches that transform the classroom into a student-centered laboratory for growth! Teaching and learning become an active collaboration for all group members. Drawing on evidence-based best practice, this course guides educators to find the potential for learner growth within their content and subject areas. Teaching is a joyful practice when the learners are eager to engage and find meaning through their participation.
MIDDLE LEADER CERTIFICATE
Middle leaders, from teacher-leaders through coordinators and assistant principals (and more!), are crucial partners in facilitating school change that has a direct and meaningful impact on student learning. The middle leader certificate programme translates quality research around middle leadership into a credible professional pathway.
CHILD PROTECTION CERTIFICATE
Establishing a successful safeguarding culture in a school results from professional learning that includes everyone who works in or for a school — from teaching staff through school leadership and governing stakeholders. Understanding and applying the best safeguarding practices and behaviours is not for teachers alone; nor is it for school leaders alone, nor for trustees or governors alone. It is for everyone!
GOVERNANCE
As we outline in our ECIS Effective Governance quality standards and in our tome Governance in International Schools, trustees and governors, in partnership with the head of school, play a critical leadership role in international schools. Effective practices, policies, and behaviours at the governance level comprise an essential part of the foundation of stable and strong international schools, and that holds true whether we are considering not-for-profit or for-profit governing boards.
The Advanced Governance Webinars move the conversation about governance beyond basic training for new governors/trustees. We focus on four areas that are critical to success, but and also have the potential to create significant problems when done poorly. Each is a stand-alone webinar, but we suggest that you view all four as a complete package. The goal is to offer information which will lead to thoughtful conversations in your board room and inform good governance practice in a new way.
PREPARING FOR INTERNATIONAL TEACHING CERTIFICATE
The ECIS Preparing for International Teaching Certificate is a professional development qualification which will help your teachers develop their skills and deepen their knowledge around the intersection of intercultural awareness and global competence.
AWARENESS IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
At ECIS, we believe that increased global understanding and engagement is an imperative in schools today, as we seek a better understanding of our world and an appreciation of each other, so that we create impact and opportunity for current and subsequent generations. Enter the ECIS Awareness in Global Perspectives.
EXTERNAL COURSE PROVIDERS
TEACHING COURSES IN ASSOCIATION WITH MORELAND UNIVERSITY
If you are seeking the most direct and cost-effective pathway to earn an internationally-recognised teaching qualification in less than a year, while honing your skills for teaching in the digital age, let us help you earn that credential in as little as 9 months!
Master’s in Education (M.Ed.)
Earn a Master’s in Education (M.Ed. degree) while you are working, with a specialisation in one of the following areas: Teaching Multilingual Learners, Early Childhood, Special Education, Globalisation of Education, or Educational Research. What’s more, if you are seeking a bona fide teacher qualification, you can earn that at exactly the same time, all through our exclusive partnership with the Moreland University Graduate School of Education. Take your career to the next level!
HOW TO OBTAIN A TEACHER LICENCE
LEARN MORE ABOUT MORELAND UNIVERSITY
CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
ECIS recognises Cambridge Assessment International Education as an approved training provider. Please find below more information about Cambridge International’s digital courses. Discover a range of qualifications, courses, and resources.
DRAGONFLY TRAINING TEACHER COURSES
Dragonfly are delighted to be partnering with ECIS to provide a series of cutting-edge courses and programmes to meet the needs of international schools of all sizes and contexts, across the globe. Our courses are relevant to teachers of all levels and all curriculums and will be delivered in Dragonfly’s trademark interactive and practical style. So teachers will try out the new strategies and resources and leave truly inspired and with a clear understanding of how and why these techniques/materials work, as well as the confidence to put them into practice the very next day in their classrooms. Learn more about each course via the respective links below.
Cost: £135 when you quote code ECIS2020
EVIDENCE BASED EDUCATION
Assessment Lead Programme
The Assessment Lead Programme, delivered by Evidence Based Education, enables education professionals to make their assessment approach more efficient, allowing them to make more reliable judgements about what pupils know, can do and need next.
Assessment Essentials
Assessment Essentials focuses specifically on ‘what every teacher needs to know about assessment’.
