The teacher is the most important part of the classroom. This might sound like a bold statement, but hear me out. Through your relationships with students and your professional expertise, you have a greater impact on student learning than any textbook, worksheet, or device could ever have. You bring the learning material to life and make important decisions about what happens in your classroom. Supporting you to do this is a crucial part of our mission to provide a world-class science education for every student. That’s why we developed Stile Professional Learning.

Stile Professional Learning is designed to help you maximise your impact, and we’ve got a great track record. Over 1000 teachers participated in Stile Professional Learning in 2022 and 98% of those teachers said they would recommend it to a colleague. Our practical workshops are purpose-built for busy science teachers and there’s something to suit every Stile-ish teacher.

“Hands down it was the best PD I have ever attended. Everything that was presented was intentional and helpful in so many ways.”
— Stacy Whiteman, Pacific Hills Christian School

Professional Learning Workshops

We’ve recently expanded our offering of virtual Stile Professional Learning workshops to four separate options that suit different audiences and experience levels with Stile. We’ve also developed a handy flow chart to help you work out which one is right for you. Try it out below.

Setting up Stile for your department

This full-day virtual workshop is designed for Heads of Science and Stile administrators.

You’ll learn everything you need to know to support your science teachers in using Stile effectively with their students.

Sessions include:

• Planning with Stile: Use Stile's resources to plan your school's science program
• Managing teachers in Stile: Learn how to manage teachers' Stile accounts
• Organising resources: Curating teaching and learning resources and organising them for your team

This event is taking place on Thursday 17 August and Thursday 23 November.

Getting started with Stile (and Stile X)

This half-day virtual workshop is designed for teachers who are new to Stile.

You’ll learn everything you need to know to teach engaging science lessons the very next day.

Sessions include:

• Teach with Stile: How to use Stile as a presentation and collaboration tool to deliver evidence-based teaching strategies in class.
• Getting started with Stile X: Using Stile's student notebook and revision guide with students
• Analyse student progress: How to monitor learning and provide timely, specific feedback.
• Prepare yourself: Prep like a pro with Stile's rich content library, comprehensive teaching plans and detailed model answers.

This event is taking place on Wednesday 1 November

Getting the most out of Stile

This full-day virtual workshop is designed for intermediate Stile teachers.

You’ll learn everything you need to know to teach engaging science lessons the very next day.

Sessions include:

• Teach practical activities with Stile: How to use Stile’s presentation and collaboration tools to teach practical activities.
• Customisation: How to customise lessons to personalise and differentiate your science teaching
• Scaffolding study skills: How to support students to develop effective note-taking and learning strategies with Stile X

This event is taking place on Thursday 10 August and Wednesday 15 November

Next level science teaching

This full-day virtual workshop is designed for intermediate to advanced Stile teachers.

You’ll explore key pedagogies behind Stile’s resources with a focus on applying these with your students the next day.

Sessions include:

• Driving Questions Boards: Harness the power of student-generated questions to motivate learning
• Scaffolding understanding with SOLO Taxonomy: Sequencing learning activities to promote mastery
• Classroom discourse for science teachers: How to use specific questioning methods to promote thought, discussion and debate

This event is taking place on Wednesday 25 October.

Ongoing development

We don’t want to leave you high and dry. You’ll be invited to participate in a virtual, thirty-minute Continuing Professional Learning session four to six weeks after your Stile Professional Learning workshop. This follow-up session is facilitated by the Stile team as a chance to share how you’ve applied your learning in practice, hear how other teachers have used their new knowledge and ask any questions that might have come up during the process.

Want to know more? Drop me a line at alexandra.russell@stileeducation.com