One Day Workshop is ideal for groups of 50 - 60 teachers in having hands-on sessions in developing powerful units that help focus on conceptual understanding.
This workshop will focus on why and how a Concept-based curriculum model is important to generate "Thinking classrooms". (Erickson, L., 2001).
Participants will be engaged in a variety of hands-on activities that enable to:
Understand the difference between Fact based Versus Concept Based Approach
Understand the Structure of Knowledge and how that applies to concept-based classrooms.
Develop a unit web that enable students to move from facts to conceptual understanding.
Develop Guiding questions that scaffold students' thinking and promotes inquiry based approach to teaching and learning.
Reflect on existing units to identify areas for developing the same in a concept based manner.
Participants will receive practical strategies that can be effectively applied the very next day in the classroom.
This workshop is ideal for international schools where teachers want to encourage a concept-based approach in teaching and learning.
One Day Workshop is ideal for groups of 50 - 60 teachers in having hands-on sessions in developing powerful units that help focus on conceptual understanding.
This workshop will focus on why and how a Concept-based curriculum model is important to generate "Thinking classrooms". (Erickson, L., 2001).
Participants will be engaged in a variety of hands-on activities that enable to:
Understand the difference between Fact based Versus Concept Based Approach
Understand the Structure of Knowledge and how that applies to concept-based classrooms.
Develop a unit web that enable students to move from facts to conceptual understanding.
Develop Guiding questions that scaffold students' thinking and promotes inquiry based approach to teaching and learning.
Reflect on existing units to identify areas for developing the same in a concept based manner.
Participants will receive practical strategies that can be effectively applied the very next day in the classroom.
This workshop is ideal for international schools where teachers want to encourage a concept-based approach in teaching and learning.