The Well Teachers Curriculum: 2024
A thoughtfully designed curriculum with guiding themes to help nudge us to learn and develop personally and professionally throughout the year.
The problem with most PD and Wellbeing events is that organising them internally can be difficult when there is so much else to get done.
What’s more, organizing budgets, speakers, and topics can feel like a last minute rush.
As Teachers, we know how helpful it is to have a guiding direction and well-considered themes when it comes to learning and growth.
That’s partly why our curriculum at Well Teachers is designed with themes of the month, thoughtfully curated to fit alongside the seasons of a school year.
This helps add structure to the systems we have in place at Well Teachers (like the monthly PD sessions in #TheWell, which are listed here) that help us centre and focus our learning and discussions in a consistent way throughout the year.
April 2024
Theme: Metacognition
Focused on how we can apply metacognitive strategies to our own learning as well as our teaching practice.
Teaching Skills Focus: x2hrs
✅ Sessions: Getting Started with Understanding Metacognition (Theory) & Applying Metacognition (Practical Applications) with Sumbella Khan
Recordings: available in the Professional Development Hub in The Well.
Certificates: Provided.
Wellbeing Focus: x2hrs
April’s Personal Planning Wrapper Session
May 2024
Theme: Social-Emotional
Focused on how we can be fair and inclusive in our classes, and how we can understand our own needs.
Teaching Skills Focus: x1.5hrs
✅ Session: Creating an inclusive classroom atmosphere - ensuring fairness for every learner with Sumbella Khan
Recordings: available in the Professional Development Hub in The Well.
Certificates: Provided.
Wellbeing Focus: x2hrs
May’s Personal Planning Wrapper Session
June 2024
Theme: Money & AI
Exploring ideas about personal finances in the wellbeing theme, and AI in the teaching skills theme. .
Teaching Skills Focus: x1.5hrs
✅ Session: Getting Started with AI, facilitated by Alex Gray
Recordings: available in the Professional Development Hub in The Well.
Certificates: Provided.
Wellbeing Focus: x2hrs
June’s Personal Planning Wrapper Session
July 2024
Theme: Hobbies & Rest
Focused on fun and rest - learning about, and exploring different hobbies we can pursue.
Teaching Skills Focus: x1hr
🔜 Key Session: The Biology of Rest - member led event with Founding Member Malek Zwain
Recordings: to be made available in the Professional Development Hub in The Well.
Certificates: Provided.
Wellbeing Focus: x2hrs
July’s Personal Planning Wrapper Session
August 2024
Theme: Politics & Bullying
Thinking about our roles as part of educational and school systems and how to negotiate power dynamics ethically and confidently.
Teaching Skills Focus: x1.5hrs ++
🔜 Key Session: Bullying, Power & Politics with Sumbella Khan
Recordings: to be made available in the Professional Development Hub in The Well.
Certificates: Provided.
Wellbeing Focus: x2hrs
August’s Personal Planning Wrapper Session
September 2024
Theme: Facilitation
Exploring the foundations of facilitation and shifting between being the ‘guide on the side’ and the ‘sage on the stage’.
Teaching Skills Focus: x1.5hrs
🔜 Key Session: Peer power: Making the most of *all* the brains in the room to refine, improve and deepen learning experiences with Sumbella Khan
Recordings: to be made available in the Professional Development Hub in The Well.
Certificates: Provided.
Wellbeing Focus: x2hrs
September’s Personal Planning Wrapper Session
October 2024
Theme: Identity
Exploring identity, heritage, matters of race and privilege, and how to centre and situate oneself in educational organisations.
Teaching Skills Focus: x1hr
Key Session: Word Power: 3 practical and powerful tweaks to help make positive shifts in your learners (and how to weave them into your everyday language - in the classroom, and beyond) with Sumbe
Recordings: to be made available in the Professional Development Hub in The Well.
Certificates: Provided.
Wellbeing Focus: x2hrs
October’s Personal Planning Wrapper Session
November 2024
Theme: Friendship
Understanding and overcoming the challenges of making new friends as adults and professionals.
Teaching Skills Focus: x1hr
Key Session: TBC
Recordings: to be made available in the Professional Development Hub in The Well.
Certificates: Provided.
Wellbeing Focus: x2hrs
November’s Personal Planning Wrapper Session
December 2024
Theme: Reflection
This month has a theme on deep planning and reflection for the calendar year, in preparation for 2025. Some members may be attending the Planning Retreat in Chitral.
Teaching Skills Focus: 1hr
Key Session: TBC
Recordings: to be made available in the Professional Development Hub in The Well.
Certificates: Provided.
Wellbeing Focus: x2hrs
December’s Personal Planning Wrapper Session
A note on our curriculum
The sessions listed in this calendar overview are for members of The Well, the private membership area of Well Teachers.
Who writes this curriculum?
Well Teachers is a teacher-led initiative. We co-create and design these learning plans together with the Founding Members of The Well. We select themes specially based on several factors, one of which is aligned with teachers in international education.
For example: in the summer months our themes explore fun, hobbies and rest, which fits in well with that time of the year as many teachers are off. While you’ll find we spend August focused on many pertinent issues like office politics, classroom setup, and getting back into teaching mode.