Learning with Meaning & Understanding for Clarity

The main purpose of this introductory course is to bring awareness and deepen teachers’ knowledge about how learning can be facilitated for meaning, understanding with clarity. With an increasingly demanding curriculum that focuses primarily on students’ performance, this workshop would focus on the process of learning - so that students learn with meaning, understanding and clarity and provide opportunities to succeed in their learning outcomes as well.

A few pedagogical approaches will be illustrated such as Concept-Based instruction by Lynn Erickson, Visible learning by John Hattie and suggest learning strategies and tools to facilitate and enhance the learning process.

Fundamentally, there will be a vital need to reframe and shift teachers’ beliefs, mindsets and practices from a TEACHING/TELLING to a LEARNING/THINKING classroom - one that emphasizes the Process of learning that fulfils Learning Outcomes as well for our students.

Course Learning Goals

At the end of the workshop, participants will:

• Reflect on their current knowledge and understanding of facilitating  learning for meaning and understanding.
• Learn and sharpen their knowledge on the ‘why’ and ‘what’ it means to learn for meaning and understanding for clarity; and
• Introduced to approaches and strategies that illustrates how learning can be facilitated with students to learn with meaning, understanding for clarity.

Course Outline

• Elicit participants’ prior knowledge and experience on learning with meaning and understanding
• The ‘Why’ and ‘What’ of Learning with Meaning for relevance
• The ‘How’ in learning that can be facilitated for Understanding and Clarity with examples
• Learning with the end in mind for successful performance
• Reflection on their current practice and consider how learning can be better enhanced with meaning and understanding for clarity.

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Pre-Workshop Prerequisite:

• Participants should be able to share their experiences that had challenges while teaching with Meaning, Understanding and for Clarity with their pupils
• Bring a unit plan/topic that they wish to review.