Making
HEADway
education
Our practitioner-focused professional development series highlights comprehensive strategies and actionable tips necessary for teaching in the 21st century.
Making HEADway is The HEAD Foundation’s in-house teacher professional development series. For each series, find handbooks, webinars, and featured workshops created by educators, for the Southeast Asian classroom.
Classroom
This video series features educators from the region demonstrating teaching strategies on how to engage students and encourage experiential learning.
Tackle geometrical concepts with a simple piece of square paper.
Guide students in understanding the power of the sun with solar power tinkering.
Unpack the concept of density with your students using simple household items.
Handbooks
Our open-access handbooks feature actionable strategies and lesson plans from educators in the region as a compendium of best practices.
Webinars
Our webinars feature exemplary educators in the field sharing knowledge on best practices and lesson strategies for teaching in the 21st century.
The two-part webinar features ideas about crafting lessons that:
- Form curricula for sustainable development
- Use pedagogies that support learning about sustainable development
- Enable students to take action for sustainable development
Download the accompanying handbook featuring 14 lesson plans from 25 educators across 8 Asian countries.
- Building a Positive School Culture
- Building a Culture of Relationships
- Building a Culture of Learning
Workshops
Our small-group, hands-on workshops are tailored to each community’s needs, prioritising depth and applicability of content and teaching methods.
Science Communication for STEM Education offers educators language and communication strategies to help explain science concepts better to students.
Getting to Zero is a physical card game conceptualised for secondary school Geography students in Singapore, to teach students about Singapore’s climate policy options.
Project-based Learning for Kurikulum Merdeka: Learning for Sustainability focuses on imparting specific project-based learning skills to primary school teachers, to execute lessons in line with Kurikulum Merdeka’s framework, particularly on sustainability education.
Science Communication for STEM Education is designed to empower educators with practical skills to deliver science content more effectively to students.
Crafting Relevant and Impactful Sustainability Lessons is designed to impart important research findings in agricultural adaptations and climate policy to teachers in the Mekong Delta region.
HyFlex Teaching Using Google Workspace is a hands-on up-skilling workshop for incorporating tools such as Google Hyperdocs and Google Sites into teaching practice.
About Making HEADway
Making HEADway was conceived, designed and launched by The HEAD Foundation in 2020, as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic made clear the urgent need for customised and contextualised capacity building opportunities for educators in the region. The sector was evolving rapidly, and educators, particularly in less-resourced parts of Southeast Asia, craved quality training opportunities.
In each series, leading academics and exemplary educators in the region share strategies and actionable tips on immediately responding to school closures, on future-proofing our schools and education systems so as to build back better.
