Our workshop leaders are all highly experienced Diploma teachers, coordinators, and examiners. They are all approved by the regional office in Geneva.
The small size of our workshops means that the leaders are able to give participants individual attention, and our lively social programme enables the leaders to get to know participants outside the formal classroom setting.
Some leaders are from St.Clare's itself whilst others may be 'returners' who having moved on in their careers, relish the opportunity to revist Oxford and the College. Each year we also welcome many leaders from IB schools around the world. This ensures a truly international mix of leaders and participants at our workshop events.
| Subject |
Leader |
| Physics |
Trevor Wilson |
| History |
Andy Dailey |
| Biology |
David Hepworth |
| Business & Management |
Roni Hamieri |
| Chemistry |
Nick Lee |
| Economics |
Nicholas Bates |
| Geography |
Steve Marshall |
| English A1 |
Tina Shobbrook |
| English |
Victoria Watson |
| English A1 |
Liz Stephan |
| Music |
Jonathan Newell |
| Mathematics |
Bill Roberts |
| Psychology |
Christos Halkiopoulos |
| TOK & CAS |
Bill Roberts and Suzanna Agostini |
Andy Dailey is currently Director of Albanian College Durres. He is a highly experience CAS Coordinator and History teacher, serving in these capacities in three international schools. He has established noted and successful school archaeological, gardening and recycling projects as part of his CAS programmes. In terms of history, he is Series Editor for Hodder Education’s Access to History for the IB and co-author of ‘Peacemaking, peacekeeping – international relations 1918-1936’ and ‘Causes, practice and effects of 20th century warfare’. He is author of the forthcoming ‘Move to Global War’ in the same series. He was also a member of the IB History Curriculum Review Committee. Andy has been a consultant for the Discovery Channel, is an avid collector of antiques and although he is from Tennessee, he considers Egypt his home. He has led IB History workshops since 2006 and for CAS since 2010.
David Hepworth teaches Biology at the Vienna International School. He holds a BSc in Zoology from UC Cardiff where he also completed a PGCE and a PhD on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields. He has taught the IB for 23 years in Vienna and Cairo. He was the ECIS Science Conference Workshop leader in 1997 and has been an IB workshop leader since 1999, an Extended Essay examiner since 1992, and a team leader since 2002. Outside the classroom his career as a ski racing coach ran from 1993 until his retirement (from the piste) in 2006.
Contact: dhepworth@vis.ac.at
Roni Hameiri holds a BA (Hons) in Political Science and Economics, a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), both from University of Tel Aviv, Israel, 1984, as well as a Master's in Business Administration (MBA), England, 1999. Roni has been teaching IB Business and Management and also IB Economics in St. Clare's Oxford since 1990. She also worked as Associate Lecturer in Business Studies and also Economics in Oxford Brookes University (2000-2002) and in Auckland Institute of Technology (1998-1999). Roni has been the Deputy Chief Examiner for Business and Management and has been an examiner and moderator of Higher Level Paper 1 and 2, Extended Essays and also the Internal Assessment since 1995. She is a member of the current (and previous) Curriculum Review Committee. Roni has been a Workshop Leader for experienced and non-experienced teachers in Business and Management in various IB Regions since 2000.
Contact: roni.hameiri@stclares.ac.uk
Nick Lee is well known in the IB world. He was the IB coordinator and Director of Studies at St. Clare's for very many years where he was also Head of Chemistry. Nick has been Principal Examiner for Higher level Paper 2 and was a member of the team which carried out the 1996 syllabus revision. He has led workshops in Bilbao, Geneva, Baltimore, Munich, Paris and Oxford and has made presentations and led sessions at many IB Coordinators’Conferences. He now works part time for the IB and part time as an educational consultant. In addition to his role as workshop leader for the Chemistry workshop, he also holds the post of 'Chief Punting Coach'.
Contact: jaylee@phonecoop.coop
Nicholas Bates Nick Bates teaches Economics at the La Chataigneraie campus of the International School of Geneva. He was born in England, grew up in Africa and is now Swiss. He went to universities in Sheffield, Leeds, Bristol and Wales (MSc Econ) After a few years teaching at Charterhouse he moved to Switzerland. He started teaching IB Economics in 1987, at the International School of Geneva, and is currently Principal Examiner for IA as well as marking SLP1 exams and extended essays (in English and French.) He has run workshops and taught at IB preparation and revision courses. He has also taught in Ghana and has great interest in China and India. His son Liam recently graduated in Chinese and hosts a TV series on the Chinese Travel Channel. Personal interests include chess, bridge and skiing. He is happy to watch other sports.
Contact: nicholas.bates@ecolint.ch
Steve Marshall holds a BSC (Hons) in Geography and Post Graduate Certificate in Education from Newcastle University, UK (1988). He is an IB enthusiast (15 years) with international experience in Seychelles, Jordan, Spain, Brazil, China, and Ethiopia and is currently delivering the Geography and Environmental Systems and Societies courses at St Clare’s, Oxford. Previous posts have included teaching Geography, Asian history, Biology, Economics and Business Studies, Environmental Systems and Societies, and Head of Geography and Economics, Head of Humanities faculty, IBDP Coordinator and IBDP Examiner.
Contact: sgm1966beijing@yahoo.co.uk
Victoria Watson has been teaching English at St. Clare's since 1996 on both the Pre-IB and Diploma courses. With an academic background in both literature and linguistics, she has taught in France, Poland and the United States. She has taught English A1, English A2 and English B and is an assistant examiner. She also teaches Theatre.
Contact: vicky.watson@stclares.ac.uk
Tina Shobbrook is a highly experienced IB teacher and workshop leader. She has worked for many years as a member of the IB Institute team and we are delighted that she will be leading one of the English A1 workshops this year. Tina is an IB examiner and team leader for A1 (Paper 1) and has taught all levels of IB English. Tina has taught in the UK, spent 11 years teaching in the Vienna International School and is now in her ninth year as Head of Department in the International School of Brussels where she was lucky enough to work for a while alongside Janet Cowie, the deputy chief examiner for English A1. Her teaching materials have appeared in many IB workshop booklets.
Contact: shobbrookt@isb.be
Elizabeth Stephan has been leading IB workshops for many years. She is a Senior Examiner for Internal Assessment and has also examined in all the other assessed components of the A1 programme. She was Head of English for many years at St John’s International School in Belgium, teaching A1 and Theatre Arts. Liz currently teaches A1 and A2 at Hockerill Anglo-European College, a state school in the UK. She has written a guide for teachers, Teaching Language A1, and the Oxford Study Courses A1 Study and Revision Guide for students. Please contact Liz with any particular requests, concerns, needs that you would like addressed in the workshop. It is always helpful for her to know the particular circumstances you are coming from and the experience you have.
Contact: saintjohns@hotmail.com
Bill Roberts has taught Theory of Knowledge for 12 years, firstly in Cairo, Egypt and most recently in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He has worked as an examiner for TOK since 1999 and as a Senior Examiner since 2001. His subject specialism is mathematics. He has also presented at five regional IB workshops on TOK since 1999. Bill has also taught Mathematics HL and SL for 12 years, firstly in Cairo, Egypt and most recently in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Prior to that he taught A Level Mathematics and Further Mathematics in the UK. Bill has worked as an examiner for Mathematics HL since 1996 and as the Deputy Chief Examiner since 2005. He has presented at five regional IB workshops on Mathematics since 2000. Currently based at the University of Newcastle in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, Bill lectures in communication, culture and gender and is working on his PhD looking at the influence of international schools on the construction of masculinity.
Jonathan Newell Jonathan has wide-ranging educational experience, living and teaching in the UK, Norway, Egypt and Austria. He also worked in Higher Education for ten years at Trinity College of Music, London, and Brasenose College, Oxford University. Jonathan has also been a senior examiner for several examination boards, and a facilitator and developer for online IBDP Music and EE workshops. He is currently the EE coordinator for EF International Academy, Oxford, and regularly leads teacher-training workshops for the IB around the world in Music and Extended Essays. Jonathan is a graduate of the University of Durham, and holds a Master's degree from the University of Surrey, UK. He is a Fellow of the Cambridge Society of Musicians, the Incorporated Society of Musicians, and the Royal Society of Arts.
Christos HalkiopoulosCPsychol AFBPsS
A philosopher by interest, a psychologist by training and a teacher by happy coincidence, Christos has been teaching IB Psychology at St Clare’s since 2003. He holds a BSc in Psychology from UCL (University of London) and specialised in Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck College (University of London) where he obtained an MSc in Occupational Psychology. The British Psychological Society (BPS), of which Christos is a member, has awarded him the title of Chartered Psychologist for his contribution to psychology teaching and relevant publications and the title of Associate Fellow for his contribution to the practice of psychology. A BPS-Registered Coaching psychologist, he is also a member of the Association of Business Psychology (at Principal Practitioner Level). In addition to teaching and practicing psychology, and for ten years also TOK, Christos is a published author. He co-authored the popular Pearson IB Psychology textbook and is currently busy writing for its second edition. Christos is closely connected to the IB.
An experienced examiner and frequent member of curriculum review teams, he is also an IB-trained Workshop Leader. As a Workshop leader, Christos has delivered many Category 1, 2 and 3 Workshops to both beginner and experienced psychology teachers in the UK and abroad. In the last few years these included workshops in Oxford, Amsterdam, Florence, Berlin and Dubai. For seven years Christos was a staff development officer at St. Clare’s, a role he cherished as it gave him the opportunity to use his experience as an organisational scientist, psychologist and educator to devise many original and useful training sessions for the teaching staff, especially in the areas of internationalism and student motivation and welfare. Every year, Christos uses his immense experience in teaching and practicing psychology to run seminars and courses in student motivation and well-being. In recent terms he has run, in the context of his CAS Psychology Club at St. Clare’s, one-to-one and group coaching sessions on student motivation (including procrastination), stress management and resilience training.
Apart from his inexhaustible enthusiasm for psychology teaching, and practice, Christos’ interest in art history takes him to galleries all over Europe and beyond and he tries to find plenty of time to devote to his guitar playing, countless (and mostly aimless) visits to the centre of Oxford and (his very favourites) ‘philosophising about nothing in particular’, ‘doing absolutely nothing’ and ‘reading dozens of jokes per day’ from books and on the net. He considers books of jokes an alternative introductions to psychology and he is telling his students as much.
Contact info: c.halkiopoulos@stclares.ac.uk
Trevor Wilson born in Australia with Irish grandparents. He has taught the DP for the past 14 years in Prague, Helsinki, Aberdeen and now Kyiv. Most of that time he has also been the DP Coordinator. His teaching subjects include Physics, Chemistry and Psychology. Trevor is a script marker for Physics and Chemistry exams and a Senior Moderator for Physics internal assessment, and he has been a workshop leader for the IBO in various locations, principally in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He has recently been involved in revising the IA programme in Physics for the new syllabus that was introduced in 2007. In his spare time he enjoys modern architecture, reading, flying and experiencing different cultures.
Contact: trevor.wilson9@btopenworld.com