The Foundations of Teaching for Learning programme is for anyone who is teaching, or who would like to teach, in any subject and any context - be it at school, at home or in the workplace. With dynamic lessons taught by established and respected professionals from across the Commonwealth, this eight course programme will see you develop and strengthen your skills in teaching, professionalism, assessment, and more.

Course curriculum

    1. Disclaimer

    2. Being a Teacher: A Professional Privilege

    3. Lecture 1: About the Course

    4. Start developing your Portfolio and your forum discussions

    5. Lecture 2: Being a Teacher

    6. Do the Thinkpiece

    7. Lecture 3: The World of Childhood

    8. Watch the Hans Rosling video from YouTube

    9. Lecture 4: Being a Professional

    10. Do the Thinkpiece

    11. Extend your thinking

    1. Thinking about learning

    2. Lecture 1: Revisiting Learning

    3. Do the Activity: What do I know?

    4. Lecture 2: Thinking About Thinking

    5. Practical Activity: Spot Check

    6. Lecture 3: Teaching for Learning

    7. Watch this Ron Ritchart video:

    8. Lecture 4: Thinking About Curriculum

    9. Read the article Making Thinking Visible by Ron Ritchart and David Perkins

    10. Visit the Thinking Classroom website:

    11. Extend your thinking

    1. How good is my classroom?

    2. Lecture 1: What is a Good School?

    3. Do the Thinkpiece: What makes a good school?

    4. Lecture 2: Questioning

    5. Teaching in a Zambian Classroom

    6. Lecture 3: Thinking about Assessment

    7. Do the Thinkpiece: Assessment and Learning

    8. Do the activity: The Force Field

    9. Lecture 4: Planning for Improvement

    10. Do the Thinkpiece: What do you see?

    11. Extend your thinking

    1. Continuing to Learn in a Changing World

    2. Lecture 1: A World of Change

    3. Watch the Ken Robinson video on Creativity

    4. Do the Thinkpiece: Active Learning

    5. Lecture 2: Outside of School

    6. Do the thinkpiece: My Best Thinking

    7. Lecture 3: Professional Development

    8. Complete the Practical activity: The critical incident analysis

    9. Lecture 4: A Review: Questions of Professionalism

    10. Extend your thinking

About this course

  • 43 lessons
  • 4 hours of video content

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • have a chance for you to reflect on you own identity and aspirations as a teacher and gain an informed understanding of the world, or worlds, of childhood.

  • learn how to think effectively and creatively using thinking ‘skills’.

  • focus on the ingredients that make good classroom.

  • help children to live and learn in a world of change.

Certification

You will receive a certificate of completion for the Foundations of Teaching for Learning: Introduction course. You will receive 5 SACE points.

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