Simple Strategies to Build 21st Century Learning

Instructor

Vaishali Gupta

Simple Strategies to Build 21st Century Learning

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56 lessons

7 quizzes

9 students

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Brief Description

In this Professional Development course, you will get simple strategies to build 21^st century learning in classrooms. The entire course comprises 7 short modules which focus on building a holistic, integrated and competency-based learning environment, through practical examples that work.

Simple assignments, reflective and metacognitive practice sheets help teachers build skills for powerful learning that can enable them to transact the same for their students.

Further Details

Who will benefit from this course?

Any teacher wanting to transform classroom into experiential, Holistic and 21^st century skill builder
Teachers nurturing Pre-primary, Primary and Middle schoolers
Though this course is not very subject specific, it is most suited for Science and EVS teachers, simply because of the examples shared

Key topics covered:

Understanding 21^st Century skills and competencies
Experiential Learning
Science Process skills
Building skills of Observation and Experimenting
Understanding Circle Time
Worksheets to Build Critical Thinking
Projects and Games to extrapolate learning

Key Features of the course

1. Each module has one or more of these tools for empowered training

A cheat sheet with notes that serves as a ready reckoner. Keep cheat sheets as your reference notes for quick revision and recall.
A simple test with MCQs
A thought-provoking question for you to ponder upon and journal.
One or more short practical assignment to do
A Feedback form, for you to experience what metacognition is, and how it works in practical life.
This course also allows you to attend a live Q & A session, for which you have to book in advance. Book your slot as soon as possible because there are limited seats available in every slot.
On successful completion of all the modules in the course, teachers get a free downloadable certificate from One Teacher One Scientist which can add huge value to their profile.

2. At the end of the course, you receive a free, downloadable OTOS Handbook, which contains a couple of sample activities or a combination of a sample worksheet, project and assignment which is additional support I am giving you free of cost, so that it is easy for you to practically transact the methodologies taught here in this course.

3. You can use sample activities and worksheets given throughout the course as reference material, to create future assignments, worksheets and projects for your students on different topics. I would highly recommend you to store sheets of all OTOS courses in one place so that by the end you would have your own collection of reference material.

Module 1: Introduction
Module 2: Learning in the 21st Century
Module 3: Observation: A critical science process skill
Module 4: Building Qi skills through Circle Time
Module 5: Experiments To Construct knowledge
Module 6: Worksheets to build High Order Thinking Skills
Module 7: Projects for Holistic Learning
Module 8: Conclusion

Vaishali Gupta

Meet The Instructor

Vaishali Gupta

Vaishali Gupta has been writing in education for more than two decades now and has a deep involvement with development of quality education material in India.

Her understanding of the practical, application based, child friendly and interactive learning process required in today’s education system is transacted in her various school textbooks and learning materials. She is the author of many bestselling Textbooks and curriculum material for several international publishers. Her school textbooks in Science and EVS are published by Oxford University Press, her Science and Environment based activity and quiz books are published by Scholastic India, her computer science textbooks are published by Encyclopaedia Britannica ( Now Indiannica). Some of her books are also published by Cambridge University Press UK and Puffin India.

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