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COOPERATIVE LEARNING FOR STUDENT-BASED APPROACH CLASSROOM TURKEY

October 25, 2016, 7:30 pm

sweetieboy
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Preparation:

Course organisers will send to the participants list of materials related to the course topic they can read in order to prepare for the course. Organisers will be on stand-by if participants need any information related to the accommodation, plane tickets or any detail necessary in organising the course.

Course description

The course focuses on changing the paradigm – from teacher-based approach to student-based approach in education through cooperative learning. Trainees will improve their theoretical knowledge and expertise in the area of cooperative learning. They will also have a chance to see and try many different methods and cooperative activities. They will also see how to adapt existing tasks and assignments in a way that they suit the needs of mixed ability classes. They will discuss how to experience and perform different roles. Trainees will also learn how to engage students of different profiles in education process.

Methodology:

Team – Building Sessions;
Role – Play
Ice – Breaking and Warm – Up Sessions;
Energisers
Group Discussions;
Debates;
Creation of individual learning pathway for the learners;
Problem – Solving Activities;
Project – Solving Activities
Inquiry – Based Activities
Questioning;
Goal – Setting sessions;
Decision – Making Sessions;
Action – Based Strategies;
Brainstorming;
Star bursting;
Planning an Structuring;
Negotiation and Persuasion;
Self – Motivation Sessions;
Questionnaires

Objectives

Improving teaching skills
Improving communication skills
Learning how to work in a group
Practicing verbal and non-verbal communication
Learning how to express feelings
Applying coop techniques in different subjects
Stimulating learner-based approach in education
Solving the conflict resolutions in the classroom through cooperative activities
Enhancing students' motivation through various collaborative activities

Learning Outcomes

Integration with teachers from various European countries
Improvement of language and communication skills
Increased capacity to cooperate on international level
Getting practical ideas for applying in classroom
Enhanced intercultural awareness
Internationalisation at the level of education
Broader understanding of practices, policies and systems in education
Bring positive and long-lasting effects on the trainees involved and synergy activities
Improve knowledge of best practices and latest research in children’s mental health issues and related fields
Enhance diversity and intercultural awareness, critical thinking and cyber media literacy
Encouragement of sharing best practices, ideas and materials between colleagues within the EU
Improvement of teaching and learning of languages and promotion the EU's broad linguistic diversity and intercultural awareness
Improved abilities to use innovative and student-centered pedagogical approaches and to develop appropriate assessment and certification methods, based on learning outcomes
Mastery of teaching techniques, e.g. multiple intelligences,editing and structuring reading texts, reinforcement and different approaches to teaching.
Acquisition of practical language to be used in the classroom, of new techniques, ideas…
Development of tools and techniques for innovative problem solving.
Provoking responses to problems which are global rather than provincial in nature and which foster interests in the outside world.
Encouraging students to question as a tool of learning.
Early identification of risk factors in class, including school climate and developing a safe school
Improve competences linked to the trainees’ professional profiles
Improve teachers’ confidence in developing appropriate methods within intercultural community
Early identification of risk factors and different types of barriers, improve primary, selective and indicated prevention
Provide teachers with a bank of ready‐to‐use materials
Allow teachers to meet colleagues of different nationalities within the EU, discuss their background and cultural differences, and build a network of teachers for future cooperation and increase capacity to cooperate on international level
See and analyze examples of good practice

Follow-up

Trainees will be given soft and hard copies of all lesson materials, which they presenting to their colleagues at their own organizations to generate interest in 21st-century teaching methods with creative thinking. In addition, a mailing list of participants will be created in order to exchange ideas/experiences. Self-evaluation materials will be provided. At the end of the course the participants will accomplish a questionnaire in order to get a detailed feedback for the effectiveness of the training event.

Programme of training activities day-by-day:

Day 1 – MONDAY