NIET is an interschool research driven PLC that promote responsive teaching as part of holistic school growth.
NIET is based in Beijing and works with teachers within China and across the world.
Founders
NIET’s founders started with a desire to further improve their own professional teaching practice and experience through meaningful collaboration as life-long learners.
Edward
Research Chair
Edward gushes with enthusiasm and verbosity when discussing pedagogy and best practices. Head of English at his Secondary School, he regularly engages in cross-departmental collaboration and advancing whole-school literacy, writing and transferrable skills through using his department as an agent of change. He has yet to achieve his dream of developing a functional English language learning program for his two cats.
Currently taking the following PD:
Masters in Education, Leadership and Management
Planning and Evaluating Professional Development
Bilingual and Multilingual Learners
Chioke
Culture Chair
Chioke is a passionate educator who continuously works to improve school cultures and student life experiences. As a Department Head, Grade Level Lead, and Student Council advisor Chioke has a comprehensive understanding of student needs and wants from both administrative and student perspectives. Chioke believes schools have a duty to not only provide a rigorous academic program but also to provide a diverse, fun, and challenging student experience. To achieve this goal, he actively and regularly communicates with school leadership, parents, and students to help each group make their respective visions of school life come true.
As the NIET culture chair, Chioke mentors educators on how to implement classrooms without walls, authentic assessments, and student life activities in order to foster a more engaging student experience.
Thomas
Digital Chair
Thomas is a qualified teacher from the UK who is in his tenth year of teaching. He has worked both in state schools as well as private international schools. He currently teaches Grade 2 homeroom and Grade 3 EAL, following the IB PYP, at Daystar Academy’s Sanlitun campus. Thomas is the co-chair of Community Engagement Committee and will becoming the school’s G3-5 English Coach next school year.
Members
NIET is growing as a PLC and always looking for educators and teachers who want to develop their teaching practice and support others to improve theirs too. We meet four times a year in person in Beijing with online attendance through Zoom. You can apply to join us for free.