Teacher Training Module

TEACHER TRAINING MODULESbyART OF LEARNING

Student Profile
We teach the child and not the curriculum and yet teachers know more about the curriculum than the children they teach

Essential Agreements
When I belong, I invest. When I invest, I own.
- VithalNadkarni

Planning Instruction
The problem with the curriculum is not that it is loaded with expectations but that we fail to plan effectively to teach for their fulfillment
- Carol Ann Tomlinson

Effective teaching-learning
Learning is something students do, NOT something done to the students
- Alfie Kohn

Assessment
It is assessment that helps us distinguish between teaching and learning

Literacy & Numeracy
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best
- Bob Talbert

Development of Soft Skills
The purpose of education is to prepare the child for life and not just a test

Developing an enduring understanding
We have a curriculum design problem if it is an inch deep and a mile wide
- David Ford

Differentiated learning
Teaching is about learning and learning is about becoming.
- Carol Ann Tomlinson

Inquiry based teaching-learning
Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world and with each other.
- Paulo Freire

Portfolio creation & management

Primary Years Programme

The Reggio Approach
A child is born for a first time, and then through a long and difficult process of constructing his identity, it is as if he is born again.
-Loris Malaguzzi