Approaches to teaching in a Concept-based Instruction environment.

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

Educators in the present are charged with preparing students to live and work in this complex, interactive world. For this reason, the design of the teaching-learning process includes helping students learn to use their minds well, as well as encouraging and inspiring them to purposefully use their skills in order to engage in intellect-rich experiences.
The key to supporting students make the most of their concept-based learning experience is the exploration of students’ intellect and socio-emotional skills. To do this, educators need to become sensitized about the processes that occur during the synergistic interplay between the factual and conceptual levels of thinking, as students experience learning. Likewise, the learning experiences they need to design should require students to process factual information through the conceptual level of thinking, so that they employ factual information to justify what they have understood, and, as a result, increase their motivation for learning.
In this workshop, participants will become acquainted with a broad variety of approaches to teaching in a concept-based learning environment. Aside from analyzing the teachers and students’ roles in each approach and/or strategy, teachers will also explore potential activities for the different stages of an inquiry exploration and will inquire into the design of a culture of thinking in concept-based teaching and learning scenarios. Likewise, teachers will hone their understanding and abilities to promote a diverse selection of approaches to learning skills in an
explicit manner.

In this workshop, participants will inquire into the following questions:

• What happens in a thinking classroom?
• How can we make thinking skills visible?
• How can we plan for deep understanding and explicit skills?
• How do the statements of conceptual relationships and inquiry questions guide learning?
• How can I nurture effective collaborative skills in my concept-based learning scenarios?
• Which are some strategies and tools for promoting and assessing communication, collaboration and thinking skills?

This workshop can be delivered in English, Spanish, or French, with resources available in Chinese and Korean.

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SESSION BREAKDOWN

Sessions are customized depending on group composition, location & needs of organizing school or organisation.

if you would like to organize this workshop at your school or organisation.

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