Author Archives: Teachers' Resource Centre

Communication skills are at the heart of effective leadership and is of vital importance at the workplace. Nonetheless, communicating clearly, non- verbally, verbally and in writing, and doing so with sensitivity to others, remains a difficult skill to master. For leaders, a continuous improvement approach to communication skills development is essential. This 6-hour workshop will help to strengthen your interactions within your workplace and help to place value on this interpersonal attribute to demonstrate its importance to your team.

Children’s behaviour that is perceived as difficult or disturbing in the classroom often hinders a teacher’s effective delivery of the lesson. This workshop will not only help participants to explore the reasons for such behaviour exhibited in the classroom but will also provide them with guidelines and approaches to overcome them. It will further facilitate in developing and customizing strategies for any given classroom.

Stories help to enhance childrens’ visualisation of concepts and give children the chance to explore their own and other’s experiences. When hearing stories, children learn to understand unfamiliar situations, places, and people. Stories help children to keep engaged in learning and encourage purposeful talking and discussion.

Inquiry implies a ‘need or want to know’ premise. Inquiry-based learning is more a process than a technique that helps engage the learners intellectually thereby leading to a deeper understanding of the concepts. This workshop will focus on strategies to teach Social Studies through the inquiry method.

“If a child will not learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way he or she learns.” The challenge that educators face today is engaging the 21century learner. This workshop will explore avenues and skills through which the learner can be engaged effectively in the learning process.

Children, from an early age, need to be sensitized towards peace and all that it entails, and teachers need to be equipped to bring in peace messages into the daily academic and non-academic domains of the classroom environments. Through this workshop, teachers will get a chance to reflect on their teaching skills and practices in order to understand the importance of a peaceful environment in the classroom.