Excellence in Science Learning for All – ASE Asia Conference 2026

Excellence in Science Learning for All – ASE Asia Conference 2026

Date: Friday 20th March 2026
Location: King’s College International School Bangkok, Thailand

The ASE Conference South East Asia is an annual event hosted in Bangkok, Thailand, by a network of International Schools. The event aims to provide world-leading speakers, with Professor Louise Archer, President of the ASE and Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at UCL, providing the keynote, and workshops run by delegates in a wide range of areas within science pedagogy.

This year, the conference is looking to attract all science educators—whether KS1 (ages 5–7 in the UK) or KS5 (ages 18 in the UK)—as the conference strives for Excellence in Science Education for All. This is why I am so pleased to announce that Dr Hellen Ward, Associate Senior Research Fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University, will be joining us to run workshops focused on primary science.

The programme is designed by educators for educators, ensuring that workshops provide CPD opportunities relevant to today’s teachers and the context in which they work. The event also provides an opportunity to meet with the area's leading teachers and suppliers to build a network of supportive connections that will last far beyond the end of the one-day conference. 

Another key area of the conference is the Philip Harris Technician Strand, led by Jaquiline McKie, which enables technicians to have access to high-quality CPD and be trained in areas from storage of glassware and chemicals to specific practicals such as Planck’s Constant or Brownian motion. This year, we are opening up more places for technicians, as well as having workshops run by technicians for technicians.

We are also very excited to announce that we will welcome Matt Endean, Deputy Director of CLEAPSS, the leading advisory service in the UK for science and technology. He will be running three dedicated workshops throughout the day.

For All Workshops:

• Top 20 issues found in CLEAPSS lab audits

• Everything a HoD needs to know about risk assessments in 45 minutes

• Essentials of Good Lab Design

• Building Better Science Jigsaws: Designing Expert Cards and Student Grids for Talk-Rich Science Lessons

• Tackling Gender Bias in Physics

• Practical lab-based Chemistry for KS2 and KS3 teachers

Primary Focused:

• The Primary Science Planning Framework: A Flexible Model for Supporting Consistent, High-Quality Science Education

• Enhancing the Primary Science and STEAM curriculum through the use of ICT

• Optimising Learning in Primary Science

• Starting a science unit: The Power of Phenomenon

• Science Meets Design: Exploring the Eatwell Guide through Nutrition and Inclusive Innovation

• Sparking Primary Science: Lesson Starters for thinking, talking and building connections.

Secondary Focused:

• ESS Teachers Collaborative Meeting

• Design Thinking for Science Skills

• Teaching Neuroscience through Inquiry and Dissection

• KS3 Science curriculum review - WWWs and EBIs

• Leading your Team to promote Excellence in Science Learning for All

• Lessons from a Lab Rebuild: Defining Your Space 

• Future-Proofing Physics: Using Artificial Intelligence to Transform IB Classroom Practices

• Discuss Like Scientists: Using Role-Based Dialogue to Deepen Scientific Thinking

• Practical examples to make the science curriculum more inclusive

• Dangerous? Or Just Forgotten: Reviving Big Demos with Confidence

• Interweaving Geographical and Scientific Thinking to Create Engaging, Cross-Curricular Learning 

Tickets are now on sale!
Spaces are limited — secure your seat and join us in celebrating Excellence in Science Education for All.
Buy tickets and sign up to host a workshop here: bit.ly/3INKoPK 

Watch this to see what the day was like: bit.ly/3KHXRce 

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