WES 18 - Beirut | Programme

    • FridayDecember 7, 2018
08:45

Registration

09:00

Opening Remarks

09:15

Theme 1. Using Problem-based Learning to Up Your NGSS Game

To help prepare students for their next steps in school and beyond, students need to be 'doing' science and seeing how it fits into their daily lives.



Michael Padilla
Speaker
10:15

Theme 2. Make Maths Visible, STEM-up Your Learning Environment: Integration by Design

Through multiple modalities provided by Envision Math to attain conceptual understanding, this session takes advantage of the STEM project, project-based learning, and visual learning to build a foundation for both maths practices and students’ confidence to think on their own.



Dr Mahdi Mansour
Speaker
11:15

Coffee break

11:30

Theme 3. القراءة المتدرّجة

.تفعيل المطالعة في المدارس وتحفيز الطلاب على القراءة



Talal Sweid
Speaker
13:00

Lunch

14:00

Theme 4. Inquiry and Scientific Practices: Keys to Getting Students to Think

This session details how the new standards will focus on inquiry and practices and will outline teaching strategies to develop these important ideas.



Michael Padilla
Speaker

    • SaturdayDecember 8, 2018
09:00

Theme 5. International Arab Baccalaureate – Preparing Our Students for Life

10:00

Theme 6. Power Maths and ActiveLearn Primary

A demo of the new Power Maths series, an exciting whole-class mastery approach that works for every child, and how this can be delivered through the ActiveLearn Primary platform.



Berwyn Jones
Speaker
10:45

Coffee break

11:00

Theme 7. ActiveLearn Secondary

A demo of the ActiveLearn Secondary platform and how this can be used to deliver the Lower Secondary series, Maths Progress and Exploring Science.



Berwyn Jones
Speaker
11:45

Theme 8. Panel Discussion: Impact of STEM on School Level, Students, Teachers and Management Staff

Over the past few years, many studies have been conducted to show the progress of academic achievement for STEM students. This panel session will discuss the impact of STEM on students, teachers and school management staff.



Joe Ephrem
Moderator
Enas Fawzy Soliman
Panellist
Sarah Hajj
Panellist
Mohamad Saad
Panellist
Mudar Al Dusoki
Panellist
12:45

Theme 9. International A Level

An overview of the international A Level portfolio.



Berwyn Jones
Speaker
13:30

Lunch