Speaker: Lorraine Costello — Raha International School, Khalifa City Campus
Session: Beyond the Graph: Moving from Description to Inference
Audience: Primary Teachers and Early Years
Room: AC1

What does inferring look like in a data lesson? This workshop explores informal statistical inference (ISI)—helping students make generalisations, use data as evidence, and reason with uncertainty. Through purposeful questioning, dialogue, and representation, teachers will gain practical strategies aligned with IB PYP to move learners from simply describing data to making thoughtful, evidence-based claims.

Speaker: Eslam Elegl — GEMS World Academy Abu Dhabi
Session: Quick Wins in Maths
Audience: Secondary Teachers
Room: AC3

Powerful, ready-to-use approaches that make an immediate difference without adding to workload. This high-energy session covers impactful lesson starters, fast checks for understanding, meaningful feedback routines, and mini-assessments that promote deeper thinking. Rooted in the work of Dylan Wiliam, John Hattie, and the EEF, every strategy has been classroom-tested across UAE schools. Leave with a toolkit you can use the very next lesson.

Speaker: Amy Buttery — BIS Abu Dhabi
Session: IBDP Toolkit
Audience: Secondary Teachers
Room: 351

A collaborative, practical session on preparing students for the IB Maths Exploration (SL/HL) and Paper 3 (HL) from day one. Share best practice, compare approaches, and leave with tested strategies for this distinctive element of the IB Diploma.

Speaker: Sabrina Conway — BIS Abu Dhabi
Session: AI in Maths Education
Audience: Secondary Teachers
Room: 352

A hands-on session exploring how AI tools can support maths teachers—from resource creation to lesson planning. Come with your device and leave with practical ideas you can use immediately. Facilitated by a teacher with 15 years of classroom experience and 6 years as an IGCSE examiner.

Speaker: Abena Thompson — Mamoura British Academy
Session: Making Thinking Visible in Maths Classrooms
Audience: All attendees
Room: 350

How do we make the invisible process of mathematical thinking explicit? This session explores practical, evidence-informed strategies for modelling reasoning and supporting students in structuring, checking, and reflecting on their own thinking—building independence and problem-solving skills. Grounded in EEF guidance and research on mathematical modelling.

Speaker: Lorraine Costello — Raha International School
Session: Maths Routines that Spark Talk and Thinking
Audience: Primary Teachers
Room: 352

This interactive workshop explores a range of engaging maths routines that promote reasoning, discussion and flexible thinking in the classroom. Participants will experience practical, low-preparation activities that build conceptual understanding, number sense, and mathematical confidence while encouraging all learners to participate. Attendees will leave with adaptable strategies they can immediately implement to foster rich mathematical conversations and deeper thinking in their own classrooms.

Speaker: Alan Grant — BIS Abu Dhabi
Session: Leading core subjects through ADEK inspection.
Audience: All Attendees
Room: 351

An insightful guide to leading a core subject through the ADEK inspection process. Drawing on practical experience, this session will explore how subject leaders can prepare effectively, showcase strengths, present evidence with confidence, and respond to inspector questions. Attendees will gain actionable strategies for curriculum leadership, self-evaluation, and ensuring their subject area is inspection-ready.

Speaker: Will McLoughlin — BIS Abu Dhabi
Session: Conceptualising Conceptual Understanding
Audience: All attendees
Room: AC3

What does it actually mean for a student to understand mathematics? This session defines conceptual understanding clearly and explores practical strategies that move learners beyond surface knowledge to genuine mathematical insight.

Speaker: Rahul Kumar — Dubai British School JP
Session: Culture and Coaching: Leading Effective Mathematics Departments
Audience: Secondary Teachers
(Current & Aspiring Leaders)
Room: AC1

What does it take to build a high-performing maths department? This workshop draws on leadership experience across UAE schools, covering coaching, curriculum development, intervention, and leading change through evidence-informed practice.

Speaker: Debbie Sleeth & Cliona Hurley — Raha International School, Khalifa City Campus
Session: Beyond Counting: Developing Number Sense through Subitising, Ten Frames and Reasoning in Early Years
Audience: Early Years Teachers
Room: 353

Counting is just the beginning. This session explores how subitising, ten frames, and structured reasoning activities build deep number sense that underpins later mathematical success. Grounded in NCETM, EYMaths, and Bruner’s CPA model, with practical classroom-tested strategies from Early Years practice.

Speaker: Frederic Bayeh — ICS Al Manhal
Session: Cross-Curricular Collaboration: Enhancing Teaching & Learning
Audience: Secondary Teachers
Room: 350

What happens when subject silos come down? This session explores how interdisciplinary collaboration can deepen learning, spark critical thinking, and enrich curriculum design. Attendees gain practical frameworks for connected learning across subjects.

Speaker: Dr Mamet Amfo-Brobbey — Brighton College Abu Dhabi
Session: Agentic Learning 101
Audience: All Attendees
Room: AC1

What if students led their own learning? This session introduces heutagogy—the pedagogy of truly agentic, self-determined learners. Drawing on doctoral research, the session outlines how agentic approaches can be embedded through formative assessment, with evidence of impact on engagement, motivation, and learner outcomes.

Speaker: Klenton A. Sibelina — Taaleem
Session: Teach Like a Pro: 45-Minute Math Lesson Structure
Audience: Primary Teachers
Room: 351

A clear, practical framework for delivering high-quality maths lessons using the Gradual Release of Responsibility model (I Do, We Do, You Do) combined with effective AFL strategies. Attendees explore starters, modelling, collaboration, and assessment aligned with UAE MoE expectations and inspection priorities.

Speaker: Kimberley Tepper — BIS Abu Dhabi
Session: Click to Concept: Designing Lessons with Digital Tools
Audience: Secondary Teachers
Room: 353

How can digital tools do more than look good? This workshop equips teachers with practical strategies for designing high-impact lessons that use technology to deepen conceptual understanding, boost participation, and streamline planning. Participants leave with a ready-to-use toolkit informed by classroom and computing experience.

Speaker: David Burt — British International School Abu Dhabi
Session: Same Value, Different Appearance — Seeing Relationships, Improving Calculations
Audience: Primary Teachers
Room: 352

The same number can appear in many forms, and understanding this deeply transforms mathematical thinking. This session explores how flexible representations and partitioning build number sense and improve calculation accuracy. Rooted in research on mathematical variation and cognitive science.

Speaker: Dr Michelle Kelly — Emirates College for Advanced Education
Session: All Together Now: Promoting Participation with Active Student Responding
Audience: All Attendees
Room: AC3

What separates a well-managed classroom from a stressful one? This session introduces immediately applicable, evidence-based strategies—including choice opportunities, choral responding, response cards, and SAFMEDS—to increase engagement and reduce disruption. Based on Dr Kelly’s published work.

Speaker: Ibtsam Youssef — Taaleem
Session: Every Number Has a Story: Using Data Storytelling in Mathematics Classrooms
Audience: Secondary Teachers
Room: 350

Mathematics becomes powerful when students learn to communicate it. This interactive session explores how data storytelling, inquiry, and digital tools develop reasoning, voice, and communication, with real-world contexts and AI-enhanced approaches.