| Dates: 9th & 10th May 2017 | Time: 2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
This workshop will explore how media literacy is an integral part of being literate in today’s world. We will be looking at ways to integrate media literacy in the curriculum, helping students, parents and teachers become critical thinkers and mindful consumers of traditional and new media. The workshop will offer practical activities and teaching strategies for media literacy at different grade-levels.
When we allow young children to be more responsible, we lay the ground for them to become more responsible adults. In this month’s Ilm o Amal, TRC staff discusses how ECE teachers can help children develop the skills to become more independent and responsible.
| Dates: 25th & 26th April 2017 | Time: 2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
This workshop will address the importance of parents as stakeholders and teammates, and how best to communicate with them. Issues in dealing with parents at different levels of schooling from both teachers and administrators perspectives will be discussed and solutions identified through collaborative learning techniques.
| Dates: 17th & 18th April 2017 | Time: 2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
Teamwork is a part of everyday life. Great teams are energizing and productive. In an effective team, everyone understands how to contribute in ways that support team outcomes that go above and beyond what any individual could accomplish alone. This workshop will highlight stages of team growth.
| Dates: 13th & 14th April 2017 | Time: 2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
Inquiry-based Learning implies involvement that leads to understanding. Furthermore, involvement in learning implies possessing skills and attitudes that permit children to seek answers to questions while they construct new knowledge. This workshop will explore ways to enhance children’s understanding and their thinking skills.
| Dates: 8th April 2017 | Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.. |
Each learner must be enabled to make meaning of what teachers seek to teach. The process of making sense of new knowledge is influenced by the students’ prior understanding, interests, beliefs and how they learn best. Learning takes place effectively in a classroom where knowledge is clearly and purposefully organized and students are actively involved in the learning process. This workshop will address strategies to make this possible.
| Dates: 7th, 14th, 21st & 28th April 2017 & 5th May 2017 | Time: 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
The participants will understand the concept of a School Curriculum. They will explore the vital elements and different stages in developing an effective primary school curriculum. This short course has been designed for novice and in-service primary level teachers with one or two years of teaching experience.
Dear Readers,
Please check out our new Opinion Poll on whether schools should make community service mandatory, and cast your vote by the end of March 2017. As you know …
your opinion counts
Our February 2017 poll was about whether schools should punish students:
Schools should not punish students in order to maintain discipline. Punishment simply perpetuates abuse and little is achieved in terms of discipline.
• I agree. Positive guidance works better to teach students right from wrong. (87%, 41 Votes)
• I disagree. When you don’t punish students you encourage unruly behavior. With certain disciplinary issues, punishment is the only thing that works. (13%, 6 Votes)
Result:
An overwhelming majority of respondents (87%) believe that positive guidance is a better way to teach students right and wrong. They believe that punishment perpetuates abuse and that in the end penalizing children doesn’t achieve anything. A small minority of respondents (13%) believe that not using punishment encourages children to misbehave and sometimes reprimanding and penalising them is the only thing that seems to work.
Long considered an add-on or an afterthought when teaching literature, the practical benefits of writing poetry -widely seen as an impractical form of literature-are many.
