January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Active Learning for Early Years and Lower Primary

Welcome to our fourth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. Active Learning is a student-centred approach to teaching and learning in which the student is actively engaged with the materials, topics, skills and outcomes. In many respects, active learning is the opposite of a traditional teacher-centred, top-down or "direct" approach. 

Sessions each consider one aspect of Active Learning and how it might look in a classroom, and although the target audience here is Early Years (PK - K) and Lower Primary (G1 - 4) teachers, all teachers should follow an Active Learning approach and so would find these sessions valuable. Click on the session title(s) for more information on each.

Tuesday 2 January 2024

3.00 - 4.00pm : What is Active Learning? Introduction and Overview

Wednesday 3 January 2024

3.00 - 4.00pm : Mathematics, numbers 1 - 31

Thursday 4 January 2024

3.00 - 4.00pm : Mathematics, Fractions

Friday 5 January 2024

3.00 - 4.00pm : Writing : handwriting

Monday 8 January 2024

3.00 - 4.00pm : Problem-solving

Tuesday 9 January 2024

3.00 - 4.00pm : Purposeful play

Wednesday 10 January 2024

3.00 - 4.00pm : Tabletop Science

Thursday 11 January 2024

3.00 - 4.00pm : Reading : decoding, letter and word recognition

Friday 12 January 2024

3.00 - 4.00pm : Assessment and Evaluation

You might also find these sessions of interest :

• Early Years (PK - K) Methodology Philosophy & Practice

Complete the "Contact Us" form on the right to request fee and registration information, or to ask about institutional rates.

 

Single-topic, stand-alone sessions, which you can combine to form a more comprehensive programme. Join any or all - and ask about the multi-session discount for taking five or more of any of our January 2024 sessions). 

Each session $5000 including the teacher self-pay discount; additional multi-session discounts are available. Ask about institutional rates.

Click here to see our January 2024 Professional Development and Personal Growth programme by date.

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• A C1 or higher level of English is assumed.

• These are one-hour synchronous online video conferencing sessions.

• These are open enrolment group sessions. Ask us about closed programmes where you choose who, what, where and when.

• Open session group-sizes are limited to allow for participation and questions.
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