1.PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS :

Primary, Junior, Middle-School teachers and administrators.

1. Gathering and organizing profile data.
2. Developing physical, social, intellectual and psychomotor profile of students.
3. Profile interpretation to design and contextualise instruction.
4. Teaching-Learning towards building a certain profile.

COVERAGE: To familiarise participants with the process of developing and using student profile to design and assess the efficacy of instructional practices PURPOSE.

2. ESSENTIAL AGREEMENTS

When I belong, I invest. When I invest, I own.-Vithal Nadkarni

PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS:  Primary, Junior, Middle-School teachers and administrators.

1. Process of preparing essential agreements.
2. Essential agreements for effective and participative decision-making.
3. Different kinds of essential agreements-class specific and school specific.

COVERAGE: To familiarise participants with operational principles of participative and ownership driven decision-making PURPOSE.

3. PLANNING INSTRUCTION

The problem with the curriculum is not that it is loaded with expectations but that we fail to plan effectively to teach for their fulfillment - Carol Ann Tomlinson

PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: Administrators and Primary, Junior and Middle-school teachers.

1. Intra-disciplinary, Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary.
2. Planning for creativity and problem solving.
3. Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles.
4. Instructional Intelligence.

COVERAGE: To familiarise participants with effective planning strategies and tools for content coverage and skill development of all learners such that there is `no-child-left-behind`

4. EFFECTIVE TEACHING-LEARNING

Learning is something students do, NOT something done to the students - Alfie Kohn

PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS:Administrators and Primary, Junior and Middle-school teachers.

1. Bundled and Layered Strategies (Work Smart)
2. Project Method : The Reggio Approach
3. Learning to Play, Playing to Learn
4. Inquiry Based Approach
5. Concept Based Approach
6. Revised Bloom's Taxonomy
7. Graphic Organizers

COVERAGE: To equip participants with effective ways of bundling and layering strategies to reduce remove discrepancy between the taught and the learnt. This enables participants to make learning engaging to create a synergistic thinking classroom.

5. ASSESSMENT

It is assessment that helps us distinguish between teaching and learning.

PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: Administrators and Primary, Junior and Middle-school teachers

1. Assessment and Evaluation
2. Assessment of learning, for learning and as learning
3. Designing Authentic and Varied Assessment Tasks
4. Generating Rubrics
5. Performance Tasks
6. Process and Product Assessment

COVERAGE: To prepare participants with the necessary tools to assess and assemble evidence that students are progressively developing a sophisticated understanding of the curriculum over time.

6. LITERACY & NUMERACY

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best - Bob Talbert

PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: Pre-primary teachers, Primary teachers and administrators.

1. A Balanced Literacy Program
2. Literature-based Curriculum
3. Math Manipulatives
4. Math Phobia to Math Mania

COVERAGE: To make participants aware of and enable them to use innovative and age-appropriate methodologies of building literacy and numeracy among the early learners; setting them up for success as good communicators and analytical thinkers.

7. DEVELOPMENT OF SOFT SKILLS

The purpose of education is to prepare the child for life and not just a test.

PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS:  Primary, Junior, Middle-School teachers and Administrators.

1. Cooperative Learning
2. Conflict Resolution
3. Scaffolding and Layered Learning
4. Time Management

COVERAGE: To familiarise participants with the need for developing life skills such as conflict resolution, cooperative learning and to empower them with the tools for making teaching-learning more holistic for the stakeholders PURPOSE .

8. DEVELOPING AN ENDURING UNDERSTANDING

We have a curriculum design problem if it is an inch deep and a mile wide - David Ford


PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: Pre-Pri mary, Primary, Junior teachers and Administrators.

1. Difference between a topic and a concept and between a fact and a generalization
2. Planning and Designing Three-dimensional, Idea-Centred Curriculum
3. Assessing Central Idea Understanding

COVERAGE: This block aims at a significant structural shift in the perception and understanding of classroom pedagogy providing clarity and focus to what we want students to remember after the learnt facts have faded and forgotten PURPOSE.

9. DIFFERENTIATED LEARNING

Teaching is about learning and learning is about becoming. - Carol Ann Tomlinson

PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: Primary, Junior, Middle-school teachers and Administrators

1. Elements of Differentiation
2. Learning Environments that Supports Differentiated Instruction
3. Differentiated Instructional Strategies
4. Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences

COVERAGE: This prepares participants for honouring each student’s learning needs and maximizing his/her learning by reaching, teaching and engaging each learner whose learning they are entrusted with.

10. INQUIRY BASED TEACHING

LEARNING Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world and with each other. - Paulo Freire

PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: Primary, Junior, Middle-school teachers and Administrators

1. Inquiry based approach- A departure from the traditional
2. Planning for inquiry
3. Various inquiry approaches and cycle
4. Assessing and evaluating inquiries

COVERAGE :This prepares participants for understanding and appreciating the efficacy of student-initiated and teacher facilitated inquiries, equipping them with the ability to plan, implement and assess inquiries.

11.PORTFOLIO CREATION AND MANAGEMENT

PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: Primary, Junior, Middle-school teachers and Administrators

1. Portfolio as a reflective and recording tool
2. Contents of a portfolio
3. Various models of portfolio creation and management
4. Portfolio as a reporting tool

COVERAGE: This familiarises participants with the concept of student portfolio (paper and electronic), as a reflective, recording and reporting tool both for self and students PURPOSE.

12. PRIMARY YEARS PROGRAM

PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: Primary teachers and administrators.

1. The Taught Curriculum
2. The Learned Curriculum
3. The Assessed Curriculum
4. Inquiry & Constructivist Approach

COVERAGE: This makes the participants aware about IB PYP so that they become proactive contributors to the success of the program and are guided by best practices adopted by other PYP schools across the world PURPOSE.

13. THE REGGIO APPROACH

A child is born for a first time, and then through a long and difficult process of constructing his identity, it is as if he is born again. -Loris Malaguzzi

PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS:Preschool, Primary, Junior school teachers and Administrators.

1. The philosophy of Hundred Languages
2. The role of teachers and environment
3. Planning and undertaking the Projects
4. Documentation

COVERAGE: The participants will get to understand and experience the Reggio Emilia approach of teaching-learning with an appreciation for the endless forms and opportunities of expression that can be created for children.