IB Mathematics Workshops

Professional learning that changes mathematics classroom practice.

Effective workshop work in IB Mathematics should improve planning, sharpen department thinking, and give teachers practical routines they can use immediately. I design professional learning that is credible, specific, and close to classroom reality.

Department CPD IBEN Programme Leader Inquiry and assessment School-facing delivery

Workshop design

Sessions shaped for departments, leadership teams, and wider school improvement contexts.

Immediate usefulness

Professional learning built to change planning, discussion, assessment, and instructional choices quickly.

Subject specificity

Mathematics-focused work where pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment need to stay intellectually serious.

Wider school context

Support that connects IB expectations with the realities of leaders trying to improve teaching at scale.

Workshops should be useful, not decorative.

The strongest professional learning gives teachers something clearer to think about and something stronger to do when they return to the classroom.

My workshops draw on work as an IBEN Programme Leader, examiner, curriculum leader, and consultant. That means the sessions stay grounded in both IB expectations and the daily complexity of teaching mathematics well.

Sessions can be adapted for a single department, a whole-school context, or a wider international school network. The design changes, but the principle does not: make the work thoughtful, actionable, and close to real instructional decisions.

Inquiry

Helping teachers design better questions, better tasks, and better mathematical discussion.

Assessment

Using evidence more intelligently to improve instruction, intervention, and student thinking.

Inclusion

Practical approaches for dyscalculia-informed support and broader inclusive mathematics practice.

Leadership

Professional learning designed for school leaders who want classroom impact rather than performance theatre.

Workshop themes I facilitate.

These sessions can be adapted by audience, timescale, and school context.

Pedagogy

Inquiry in IB Mathematics

How to create lessons where students do more of the intellectual work.

Sessions focus on questioning, task design, explanation, discussion structure, and the relationship between inquiry and mathematical precision.

Assessment

Data-informed teaching and intervention

Moving beyond data collection into decisions that change instruction.

Teachers and leaders look at how evidence can reveal misconceptions, guide response, and sharpen intervention planning without becoming bureaucratic noise.

IB systems

IA preparation and moderation processes

Department routines that make Internal Assessment work more consistent and less stressful.

The focus is on supervision, checkpoints, moderation, and how to keep the process aligned with assessment expectations.

Inclusion

Inclusive practices and dyscalculia support

Practical ways to maintain mathematical challenge while improving access.

This work supports departments thinking about intervention, scaffolding, teacher language, and more deliberate support for diverse learners.

Why schools ask for this work.

Schools usually want workshop facilitation from someone who understands both IB expectations and the wider improvement context around mathematics departments.

IB expectations in plain language

Teachers benefit from sessions that clarify expectations without reducing them to slogans or compliance talk.

Professional learning that respects subject knowledge

Mathematics CPD should stay mathematically serious while also addressing pedagogy, curriculum, and inclusion.

Cross-school coherence

Leadership teams often want workshop work that helps departments develop more shared language and more consistent practice.

Action after the session

The most useful workshops leave behind next steps that teachers and leaders can actually implement rather than admire briefly and forget.

Plan workshop work that teachers can actually use.

If your school is planning IB Mathematics workshops, CPD, or department-based professional learning, I work with schools in Switzerland and internationally.

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