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INSET 2025-26

"A great teacher never stops learning."
Our dedicated faculty traded their lesson plans for seats in our latest Professional
Development workshop sessions under the ‘INSET 2025-26’ banner. Conducted by Aruj Khaliq, Oxford trained development scientist and Head of Academics, the IB Continuum training, dove deep into ‘AI in the Classroom’; Evidencing learning, managing learners and learning environments, standardization, moderation and effective evaluation. A key moment was the introductory seminar for the addition of CP (Career-related Programme] to ensure we’re bringing the very best strategies back to our students, readying them for the skill-specific economy of the future.
Watching our team collaborate and share their expertise was a powerful reminder that our school stands for growth—for our students, and our educators too.
A big team cheer as we begin Term II!

IB MYP CAT 3 ATL Skills PD Workshop

Whole-school IB Professional Development Workshops @ LAI, face-to-face - September 19th & 20th, 2025.
Workshop Leader: Lorand Zajta
Workshop Title: MYP Building self-directed learners through approaches to learning Cat 3.
Profile:
I am an internationally minded IB educator, and over the last twelve years I have been working in several IB roles, such as MYP and DP coordinator as well as MYP Individuals and societies, DP History and Theory of knowledge teacher, in different international IB World Schools, in Ecuador and Hungary. Also, 1 am an IB Workshop Leader and IB Examiner. I am passionate about the IB as its programmes on the one hand are founded on strategies that foster agency, and on the other hand help students find and make meaning of their learning.

IB PAK x LAI Professional Development Workshop 2025

Learning Alliance International proudly hosted the IBPAK Professional Development Workshops 2025, welcoming 200+ IB practitioners from 16 schools across Punjab.
Led by 10 expert workshop leaders, the day-long sessions offered rich, collaborative learning across the IB Continuum - PYP, MYP, DP & CP. The workshops fostered reflection, skill-building, and meaningful dialogue, making it a truly enriching professional learning experience for educators committed to excellence in IB education.

Rubric Workshop 2025

Rubrics are an assessment tool used by IB for MYP students. A rubric outlines specific criterion upon which a child’s performance is assessed and it provides descriptors for different levels of performance. Rubrics create an objective method of scoring as students are evaluated on formerly identified descriptors for performance. This ensures fairness in marking and provides clarity to students on tested materials, expectations and standards. The Rubrics Workshop gave parents and students a detailed overview of this assessment tool and how it is applied by each subject in the Middle Years Programme.


IB Whole School PD Workshops

At Learning Alliance International, we place great emphasis on continuous learning, recognising that the professional growth of our faculty is integral to the success of our students and the wider school community. In alignment with this commitment, our teachers recently participated in advanced Category 3 workshops for both PYP and MYP, facilitated by highly experienced international IB trainers. These workshops focused on deepening expertise in transdisciplinary curriculum design, student agency and approaches to learning, equipping our faculty with innovative strategies to create meaningful, student-centered learning experiences. By fostering opportunities for training, collaboration, and innovation, we ensure that our teachers remain at the forefront of international best practices, further strengthening LAI’s promise of delivering educational excellence.

INSET 2024

As a part of LAI’s vision of continuous Professional Developments, an IB INSET was conducted for the Academic Year 2024 – 2025 in August. The recently concluded first volume of the IB INSET is a holistic professional development program designed for the faculty at LAI. In order to equip our teams with the latest teaching practices: 10+ workshops focusing on 128+ teachers were planned for all the 3 IB Programmes therefore, 50+ learning experiences were created for our team.




INSET 2023

LAI - INSET : Making INQUIRY visible in IB

Excellence is an outcome of consistent habits, conscious choices and repetitive attempts at pursuing it. In order to equip our teaching team with novel pedagogical strategies aligned with both the requisites of 21st Century classrooms and the rigors of International Baccalaureate frameworks, an intensive INSET (In School Educational Training) was conducted at the start of Term II. The INSET titled Making INQUIRY Visible was designed for IB teachers across the Continuum ( PYP , MYP , DP ) and engaged teachers from all subject groups. Over the course of two days the participants explored: different inquiry frameworks starting from classical inquiry cycle by John Dewey to modern frameworks by Kath Murdoc and multiple strategies of Visible Thinking from Harvard University's Project Zero. The workshop series designed and lead by Ms. Aruj Khaliq enabled the participants to embed concrete linkages for making Inquiry Visible through the use of thinking routines. The sessions concluded with all IB teachers collaboratively presenting links with the existing curriculum, validating the effectiveness of the Thinking Routines for designing inquiry. The participants left the workshop venue packed with tools to use in their classrooms and with the aim to build that ecosystem which makes INQUIRY Visible.

September 2019

Learning Alliance International Professional Development (PD) Workshop

Learning Alliance International is committed towards developing knowledge and intellectual growth of its teachers as well as of its students. In this regard, a professional development (PD) workshop was conducted on 21st September, 2019, for members of the PYP faculty entitled: “Making the PYP Happen, Implementing Agency.”

The workshop was divided into two sessions and included the following topics:

  • Collaboration
  • The Learner Profile
  • Transdisciplinary Themes
  • Concept driven Learning
  • The Inquiry Process
  • Student Agency and Action
  • Assessment
  • The planning process and role of the planner

The objectives of the workshop included:

  • Situating learning in local and global contexts supports students’ understanding of human commonalities
  • Transdisciplinary Learning Design deepens students' understanding of complex ideas
  • Collaborative relationships support well-being of the students
  • Diverse ways of knowing, doing and thinking are supported by well-designed learning environments

The session ended on a an extremely productive note followed by an interactive Question and Answer session.

September 2017

International Baccalaureate Asia Pacific (IBAP)

Learning Alliance International is proud to host the IB Asia Pacific Regional Professional Development Workshops held from 14th September to 16th September, 2017 Directors, principals, coordinators and teachers of IB authorized, candidate and interested schools from all over Pakistan especially Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and Faisalabad attended these workshops. The workshop leaders who came from UK, Canada, Brazil and Australia, conducted the following workshops:

  1. Administrators: Cat 2 (DP)
  2. Assessment: Cat 2 (PYP)
  3. Inquiry: Cat 3 (PYP)
  4. Literacy, Mathematics and Symbolic Learning in the Early Years: Cat 3 (PYP)

The participants were awed by the purpose built campus and the state of the art facilities provided by Learning Alliance International, DHA campus. Also, the IB officials highly commended the professionalism and hospitality of the management and staff members at Learning Alliance International. The IB officials left Pakistan with the determination to revisit soon for yet another workshop!

MARCH 2014

ib workshop DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE ASIA PACIFIC’S VISIT TO LEARNING ALLIANCE

Mr. Ian Chambers, Director International Baccalaureate Asia Pacific, visited the Lahore Preschool – Learning Alliance DHA Campus on Wednesday, 12th March, 2014.  He met Ms. Anjum S. Ahmed, Mr. Nael Ahmed, both the Senior Vice Principals, Vice Principals, IB Team the IB MYP students.

The students enjoyed their interaction with him and presented him their own artwork as a souvenir. He expressed his delight at meeting the students and staff and was thoroughly impressed by Lahore Preschool-Learning Alliance purpose-built campus and its management. His compliments and admiration for Learning Alliance came through when Taimur Bandey and Farah Masood interacted with the IB Officials at the workshop/conference in Singapore.

MARCH 2014

1 INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE AUTHORIZED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP/CONFERENCE - SINGAPORE.

The IB Faculty has returned from Singapore after attending the International Baccalaureate authorized Professional Development Workshops/Conference.

Previously the entire faculty had successfully completed the Category 1 Online Training and upon the recommendation of IB officials they were sent to Singapore for Category 3 ‘face to face’ training, skipping Category 2. These recommendations were based on the unit planners, rubrics, assessments, and reflections of teachers that were submitted to the IB officials. We take pride in, and would like to commend the efforts of the IB Team in achieving this milestone within twelve months of its inception at Learning Alliance.

2 (1) Collectively, the faculty feels that the exposure and professional development they have received in Singapore will play an instrumental role in implementing the IB MYP curriculum at Learning Alliance.

The primary objective of training was to help the teachers in taking students beyond content onto the conceptual level through comprehensive unit planning. The faculty has come back more confident, and seeks to weave the IB philosophy of producing lifelong learners with a truly international minded approach, into the very fabric of the Learning Alliance IB MYP curriculum.

Additionally, the LA IB Faculty interacted with facilitators from all over the Asia Pacific region including Singapore, India, UAE, Bangladesh, Australia, Indonesia, and China. The LA IB Faculty also visited IB World Schools and observed classes and students in action. They have brought back many wonderful ideas and have prepared a document to share their plan of implementation which the Lahore Preschool & CIE stream may even find quite useful. Overall, through this exposure and networking Learning Alliance has made its mark in the world of International Baccalaureate.