Amy Long, BA, PGDip

Wonder. Learn. Grow. 

Graduate Diploma of Teaching and Learning 2012
Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia 
The Staples Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement

Bachelor of Arts (History) 1996
University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada

Additional Qualifications / Professional Learning Highlights

International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB PYP) Certificates 

• The Role of the Coordinator   June 2025 

• Concept Driven Learners         September 2019
• The Role of the Coordinator   October 2017
• Concept-Based Teaching and Learning  February 2015
• Assessment     October 2013 
• Making the PYP Happen  April 2013

Professional Development Highlights

• Strategic Safeguarding for Leads in Education August 2025

• Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions: Best Practices in the Question Formulation Technique,      Professional Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, October- November 2024
•Developing Learning Power through Inquiry With Kath Murdoch and Guy Claxton, Chapters International       Workshop, London, October 2023

• Focus on Inquiry (yearlong in school) 2020-2021
•Tellah Middle Leadership Certificate Modules 1-3 (Module 4 cancelled due to pandemic) 2019-2020
• Communicating Clear Directions and Procedures **, Chapters International, online Workshop, March 2017
•Tellah Middle Leadership Certificate Modules 1-3 (Module 4 cancelled due to pandemic) 2019-2020
• Communicating Clear Directions and Procedures **, Chapters International, online Workshop, March 2017
• Teaching and Learning through Inquiry **, Kath Murdoch Dubai November 2017
• Concept-based Mathematics: teaching for Deep Understanding with Jennifer Wathall Dubai February 2017
• Concept –based Curriculum and Instruction for the Thinking Classroom  with Lynn Erickson Dubai, January 2017
• Learning How to Learn: Dr Barbara Oakley and Dr Terrence Sejnowski , University of California, Online Course (2016)
• Mathematics with Dr Mariam Small (October 2015)
• ELL Strategies for Learning and Teaching (October 2015)
• Regie Routman Residency: Reading, Writing, Reading and Writing (2014-2015) 
• Assessment with Anne Davies (Oct 2014)
• How to Learn Math:  Stanford University, Jo Boaler, Online Course (2014)

Visible Thinking
•Making Thinking Visible: Building Understanding through Critical and Creative Thinking, Harvard World Wide 2013 
• Completed Teacher Training Workshop with Ron Ritchart, Harvard University’s Project Zero, Singapore, 2012

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