Workshops

Cooperative learning is an approach to teaching where students work in pairs, groups or collectively, in order to optimize their thinking, information exchange and information retention.

Some of the benefits of collaborative learning strategies are improved social skills, increased academic achievement, reduced discipline problems, improved self-esteem, improved ownership and acquisition of employability and leadership skills.

Workshop objectives:

•To explore benefits of collaborative learning

•To explore formats of collaborative learning

•To explore assessment in collaborative learning

•To brainstorm the ways to apply cooperative learning in our existing classes

Complex tasks are tasks that involve more than one interaction or stage in order to complete it.

These kinds of tasks require students to develop and employ strategic, critical and creative thinking, and problem solving skills. They also create more meaningful engagement, because the real world is substantially complex. 

Workshop objectives:

•To distinguish between difficult and complex tasks

•To explore the ways to structure complex tasks 

•To share the ways to assess complex tasks

•To understand the importance of authentic audience

People learn better when learning is physically, socially and intellectually active. Active learning techniques allow students to take more ownership and more pleasure in learning, so as to learn more effectively. 

Workshop objectives:

•To create activities that lead to active learning in the classroom

•To explore how the format of learning activity influences the skills development  

•To revise the importance of a physical classroom setup

Critical thinking is a set of cognitive routines that are essential in successful learning and life. 

These cognitive processes include analysis, questioning, interpretation, evaluation and judgement, that are important for decision making.

Workshop objectives:

•To explore instructional strategies that promote critical thinking

•To create practices that promote mistake friendly classroom

•To explore the ways to turn student disobedience into an advantage for thinking skills

Creativity is the ability to come up with new and interesting ideas, products or solutions.

Creative thinking techniques include lateral and divergent thinking, aesthetic thinking and inspiration, as well as analytical skills. 

Workshop objectives:

•To explore instructional strategies that promote creative thinking

•To explore benefits of creative thinking

Wisdom begins in wonder. 

                                         - Socrates 

While studying, memorizing and problem solving might work without curiosity, the more meaningful states of learning happen when they are triggered by wonder, and even awe. These feelings might be developed and they are an asset in successful and long-term learning, as well as in a healthy life. 

Workshop objectives: 

•To explore the notions of wonder and awe and put them in the context of learning

•To understand the physiological role of curiosity in learning

•To explore wonder as a trigger for learning

•To explore awe in collectiveevents and projects

•To make connections between awe, wonder and curiosity, and inquiry learning

Horizontal collaboration is teachers' communication across different subjects. Vertical collaboration is teachers' communication across grade levels. 

Collaborative teaching communities are more able to create learning experiences and objectives that are meaningful, effective and suited for students. Another benefit of collaboration across subjects and levels is easier progress tracking. 

In addition to promoting diversity of ideas and creative solutions to organizing teaching, collaboration between teachers is essential for personal and professional growth.

Workshop objectives:

•To explore disciplinary practices that can be used in trans-disciplinary learning

•To recognize collaboration opportunities across subjects

•To propose collaboration formats 

•To distinguish between linear and non-linear skills development opportunities 

•To practice backwards planning

Transferable skills are those skills that are widely needed and used across subjects, across fields of work and across areas of life. 

Problem solving and critical thinking, collaboration and global citizenship, innovation and digital literacy are some of the precious skills acquired in a well set school and home environment.

Workshop objectives:

•To be able to create daily routines that promote skill-based learning

•To explore what meaningful feedback means for one’s class/student

•To plan learning experiences and assessment with skills in mind

•To create assessment routines that  promote self-guided learning

Mindset is a set of attitudes towards oneself, others or ideas. More specifically, in a developmental context, mindset is one's belief about their own abilities and attributes. 

Growth mindset is essential for successful teaching and learning, because the roots of one's ability to learn is in their belief about it. 

Workshop objectives:

•To understand the difference between fixed and growth mindset

•To be able to use growth mindset vocabulary to build resilience and deal with failure

•To be able to use error analysis for productivity and growth mindset

Experience is a bridge between our inner world and outer world. Thanks to this bridge, we make sense of us and the world we live in. 

Although experiential learning takes many forms, there are some common elements found in all of them: learning environment, learning activities, sensory and emotional experience, and cognitive processes.  Learning here is taken as a transformational process, where change in learners is evident. 

Workshop objectives: 

•To explore experiential learning model

•To understand the influence of learning spaces on learning

•To explore activities that support experiential learning model

•To understand the meaning and the impact of the sensory experience to learning

•To understand the meaning and the impact of the emotional experience to learning

•To explore different kinds of knowledge and different kids of intelligences

•To explore the ways to evidence transformation and progress

Communication is an essential skill in the educational setting. Information transfer, as well as the ability to self-reflect require students, teachers, leaders, parents and any other stakeholder in en educational community, to develop constructive communication.

Workshop objectives:

•To explore the notion of meaningful feedback

•To understand what it means to listen actively

•To be able to respectfully disagree

•To explore the importance of assertiveness 

Organization is an important prerequisite for successful and stress-free teaching and learning and it involves external and internal aspects.

Workshop objectives:

•To be able to use time management strategies

•To be able to use space management strategies

•To be able to use information management strategies 

It is important that parents understand the nature of progressive curricula in order to align expectations with the learning objectives. Understanding how learning skills with the content is different from learning only content information will create a positive climate for parents support to the students. 

Workshop objectives:

 •To understand the role of skills in progressive curriculum 

•To explore how skills development can be supported in a home setting 

•To understand sample processes for developing curious learners  

Self-guided learning includes many substantial school and life skills. Some of them are perseverance, adaptability,  resilience, self-regulation, motivation, discipline and organization. 

Being self-guided means we take ownership of our learning, and work hard on achieving objectives. Parents can play a crucial role in developing this kind of attitude towards learning and towards life. 

Workshop objectives:

•To understand the importance of productive struggle

•To be able to support growth mindset in students

•To explore effective scaffolding techniques at home

Authentic Learning describes learning activities that are either carried out in real-world contexts, or have high transfer to a real-world setting. Authentic learning activities should have both personal and cultural relevance (Stein, Isaacs, & Andrews, 2004).

Workshop objectives:

•To identify opportunities for learning in a real-life setting

•To be able to use conflict for developing communication, social and self-management skills

•To explore visible thinking routines in everyday life

Self-discipline is one of the cardinal virtues in the ancient philosophy. The real strength of a person lies in being stronger than oneself. One of the most important aspects of holistic approach to education is the opportunity to develop students' strengths, through both motivation and discipline. 

Motivation is the willingness to engage in a goal-oriented behavior. Self-discipline is the ability to move forward on working on your goals, independently of how you feel or whether you are motivated or not. 

Workshop objectives:

•To explore the relationship between motivation and discipline

•To understand the relationship between discipline and self-discipline

•To explore opportunities and tools for discipline 

•To explore types of motivation

•To understand the relationship between ownership and motivation

•To understand the role of disciplinary policies  

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