Teacher Training Modules

TEACHER TRAINING MODULES BY ART 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 Half day DURATION Primary, Junior, Middle-School teachers and administrators PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

Gathering and organizing profile data

Developing physical, social, intellectual and psychomotor profile of students

Profile interpretation to design and contextualise instruction

Teaching-Learning towards building a certain profile

COVERAGE To familiarise participants with the process of developing and using student profile to design and assess the efficacy of instructional practices PURPOSE

ESSENTIAL AGREEMENTS When I belong, I invest. When I invest, I own. - Vithal Nadkarni Half day DURATION Primary, Junior, Middle-School teachers and administrators PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

Process of preparing essential agreements

Essential agreements for effective and participative decision-making

Different kinds of essential agreements-class specific and school specific

COVERAGE To familiarise participants with operational principles of participative and ownership driven decision-making PURPOSE

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 One / two days DURATION Administrators and Primary, Junior and Middle-school teachers PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

Intra-disciplinary, Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary

Planning for creativity and problem solving

Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles

Instructional Intelligence

COVERAGE To familiarise participants with effective planning strategies and tools for content coverage and skill development of all learners such that there is `no-child-left-behind` PURPOSE

EFFECTIVE TEACHING-LEARNING

Learning is something students do, NOT something done to the students

- Alfie Kohn

One / two days DURATION Administrators and Primary, Junior and Middle-school teachers PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

Bundled and Layered Strategies (Work Smart)

Project Method : The Reggio Approach

Learning to Play, Playing to Learn

Inquiry Based Approach

Concept Based Approach

Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

Graphic Organizers

COVERAGE To equip participants with effective ways of bundling and layering strategies to reduce remove discrepancy between the taught and the learnt. This enables participants to make learning engaging to create a ‘synergistic thinking classroom` PURPOSE

ASSESSMENT It is assessment that helps us distinguish between teaching and learning One / Two days DURATION Administrators and Primary, Junior and Middle-school teachers PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

Assessment and Evaluation

Assessment of learning, for learning and as learning

Designing Authentic and Varied Assessment Tasks

Generating Rubrics

Performance Tasks

Process and Product Assessment

Checking for Understanding

COVERAGE To prepare participants with the necessary tools to assess and assemble evidence that students are progressively developing a sophisticated understanding of the curriculum over time PURPOSE

LITERACY & NUMERACY Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best - Bob Talbert One / Two days DURATION Pre-primary teachers, Primary teachers and administrators PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

A Balanced Literacy Program

Literature-based Curriculum

Math Manipulatives

Math Phobia to Math Mania

COVERAGE To make participants aware of and enable them to use innovative and age-appropriate methodologies of building literacy and numeracy among the early learners; setting them up for success as good communicators and analytical thinkers PURPOSE

DEVELOPMENT OF SOFT SKILLS The purpose of education is to prepare the child for life and not just a test One day DURATION Primary, Junior, Middle-School teachers and Administrators PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

Cooperative Learning

Conflict Resolution

Scaffolding and Layered Learning

Time Management

COVERAGE To familiarise participants with the need for developing life skills such as conflict resolution, cooperative learning and to empower them with the tools for making teaching-learning more holistic for the stakeholders PURPOSE

DEVELOPING AN ENDURING UNDERSTANDING We have a curriculum design problem if it is an inch deep and a mile wide - David Ford One day DURATION Pre-Primary, Primary, Junior teachers and Administrators PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

Difference between a topic and a concept and between a fact and a generalization

Planning and Designing Three-dimensional, Idea-Centred Curriculum

Assessing Central Idea Understanding

COVERAGE This block aims at a significant structural shift in the perception and understanding of classroom pedagogy providing clarity and focus to what we want students to remember after the learnt facts have faded and forgotten PURPOSE

DIFFERENTIATED LEARNING Teaching is about learning and learning is about becoming. - Carol Ann Tomlinson One / Two days DURATION Primary, Junior, Middle-school teachers and Administrators PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

Elements of Differentiation

Learning Environments that Supports Differentiated Instruction

Differentiated Instructional Strategies

Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences

COVERAGE This prepares participants for honouring each student’s learning needs and maximizing his/her learning by reaching, teaching and engaging each learner whose learning they are entrusted with PURPOSE

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 One / Two days DURATION Primary, Junior, Middle-school teachers and Administrators PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

Inquiry based approach- A departure from the traditional

Planning for inquiry

Various inquiry approaches and cycle

Assessing and evaluating inquiries

COVERAGE This prepares participants for understanding and appreciating the efficacy of student-initiated and teacher facilitated inquiries, equipping them with the ability to plan, implement and assess inquiries. PURPOSE

PORTFOLIO CREATION AND MANAGEMENT One day DURATION Primary, Junior, Middle-school teachers and Administrators PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

Portfolio as a reflective and recording tool

Contents of a portfolio

Various models of portfolio creation and management

Portfolio as a reporting tool

COVERAGE This familiarises participants with the concept of student portfolio (paper and electronic), as a reflective, recording and reporting tool both for self and students PURPOSE

PRIMARY YEARS PROGRAM Two days DURATION Primary teachers and administrators PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

The Taught Curriculum

The Learned Curriculum

The Assessed Curriculum

Inquiry & Constructivist Approach

COVERAGE This makes the participants aware about IB PYP so that they become proactive contributors to the success of the program and are guided by best practices adopted by other PYP schools across the world PURPOSE

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 One day DURATION Preschool, Primary, Junior school teachers and Administrators PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

The philosophy of Hundred Languages

The role of teachers and environment

Planning and undertaking the Projects

Documentation

COVERAGE The participants will get to understand and experience the Reggio Emilia approach of teaching-learning with an appreciation for the endless forms and opportunities of expression that can be created for children PURPOSE