Workshops

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Rachel Arnold 

Board Certified Behavior Therapist & Licensed Educator 

Designing Inclusive Learning Spaces: Creating Environments that Foster Joint Engagement and Play-Based Learning 

Inclusive classrooms aren’t just about who is present—they’re about how every child can truly participate. In this session, we’ll explore how thoughtfully designed Early Years environments can increase learning opportunities by fostering joint engagement and play-based learning. We’ll highlight how space, materials, and routines can reduce barriers for learners with a range of abilities, expanding entry points for participation. Attendees will leave with practical strategies for arranging environments that invite collaboration, spark communication, and ensure all young learners feel valued, engaged, and included.

Lara Small 

Dulwich College Seoul 

Curious Thinking and the Role of Scaffolding 

Moments of awe and wonder can be transformed into meaningful learning by intentionally building on children’s questions, theories, and discoveries through rich communication and language. Through practical examples, this session examines how skilful scaffolding and purposeful dialogue extend thinking, strengthen communication and language, and deepen learning while preserving children’s natural curiosity.

Mark Kelly 

Dulwich College Seoul 

The Write Stuff: Using role play and drama as a lead into literacy in the Early Years. 

The workshop will explore how to provide young children with learning experiences both inside and outside of the classroom that encourage a link with literacy. The workshop will provide opportunities to reflect how as a practitioner, both role play and drama can be utilized for children to write for a variety of purposes. 

Andrea Carrera

Psychologist - Dwight School Seoul

The psychological role of play: what happens in the brain when children play? 

This workshop explores the neuroscience behind play and its essential role in children’s emotional, social, and cognitive development. Participants will learn how play shapes neural pathways, strengthens executive functioning, supports regulation, and fosters creativity and resilience. Through practical examples and guided reflection, educators will understand how playful experiences act as a natural mechanism for learning and well-being. The session offers strategies to intentionally integrate developmentally meaningful play into daily practice.

Nina Burrows 

Early Years Teacher

Small Worlds Open Possibilities - Designing Small World Play that inspires curiosity, stories and collaboration 

This workshop explores how intentionally designed small world environments can open up possibilities for curiosity, storytelling, and collaborative play. Participants will consider how materials, space, and adult interaction can support rich narratives, shared thinking, and social communication, while allowing children’s ideas to lead the direction of play and learning.

Raquel Pavia 

Dulwich College Seoul

Risky Play: Building Confidence, Resilience, and Independence 

This workshop explores the role of risky play in supporting children’s physical development, self-regulation, and risk awareness in the early years. Participants will consider how appropriate challenge and managed risk help children build confidence, resilience, and decision-making skills within a safe and supportive environment.

Annabelle Ambrose

Dulwich College Seoul

Loose Parts for Magical Thinking 

This workshop explores how loose parts can be used across the curriculum to promote imagination, curiosity, and flexible thinking. Participants will consider how open-ended materials support problem-solving, narrative development, and rich communication and language.

Ciara Dudley 

Seoul International School 

Process over product: Art projects 

Hands on workshop to experience what choice based art centers offer instead of cookie cutter art projects. 

Maggie Goddard 

Dulwich College Seoul

Learning Outdoors: Play, Schemas, and Possibility 

This workshop explores the power of outdoor learning as a rich context for play and schematic behaviour in the early years. Participants will consider how outdoor environments support deep engagement, physical development, problem-solving, and sustained play, while allowing children’s schemas to drive meaningful learning experiences. 

This workshop explores the power of outdoor learning as a rich context for play and schematic behaviour in the early years. Participants will consider how outdoor environments support deep engagement, physical development, problem-solving, and sustained play, while allowing children’s schemas to drive meaningful learning experiences. 

Katy Wood 

Dulwich College Suzhou 

Playful Learning 

This workshop explores playful approaches that spark curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking. Participants will discover hands on strategies to make learning engaging, meaningful, and fun for all ages. 

Gemma Stanton and Renee Lawson 

Dulwich College Puxi 

Capturing Magical Moments of Learning 

This workshop explores how to notice, capture, and document moments of awe and wonder in the early years. Participants will consider meaningful and authentic ways to record children’s thinking, questions, and discoveries, and how thoughtful documentation can make learning visible, support reflection, and strengthen shared understanding with children, colleagues, and families.

Louisa Ramsden and Hosana Lee

Dulwich College Seoul

Scientific Wonder: Nature as a Source of Exploration 

This workshop explores how simple science provocations, natural materials, and outdoor experiences can ignite curiosity, prediction, and investigation in the early years. Participants will consider how weather, seasons, and the natural world inspire awe, imagination, and meaningful scientific thinking. 

Hannah Sharp and Cindy Neo  

Dulwich College Seoul 

Playful Pathways to Mathematical Thinking 

This workshop supports teachers in presenting mathematics as beautiful, surprising, and joyful. Through storytelling, natural patterns, and playful exploration, participants will explore ways to spark curiosity, deepen mathematical thinking, and cultivate a sense of awe in the classroom. 

Genevieve Kung 

Dulwich College Seoul 

Big Feelings, Little Learners 

This workshop supports children to explore and understand their emotions through games and playful strategies, strengthening emotional regulation and personal, social and emotional development.