Learning Design and Coordination
Cultivating student skills and responsibility in any subject
As teachers we often find ourselves losing time re-teaching content and skills that students were taught the previous year, or even the previous day. There are many factors that can cause students to forget content and skills, or struggle to apply familiar skills in new contexts. We partner with departments through a comprehensive and insightful diagnosis that helps teachers and coordinators discover the most effective and efficient areas in which to implement two key strategies for skills building: identifying opportunities to apply skills, and increasing student responsibility. We can then model experiential, fun and inquiry-based teaching that fits your new tailored skills framework and supports your students to become life-long learners.
"How can we help students retain skills rather than having to re-teach them each year?"
The Problem
Teachers are frustrated at having to re-teach skills that students should have mastered already
The Cost
The Solution
Decreased teacher time and morale; poorer student grades and readiness for future studies and careers
Collaborative workshops for teachers across grades to: • Build a comprehensive map of current skills development and assessment • Identify opportunities for students to practice and apply skills to diverse contexts across themes and subjects • From short exercises to large enquiry-based projects, we can model instruction that reinforces content and fosters problem-solving across diverse settings.
The Audience
Teachers and coordinators of any department
"How can we help students to think more?"
The Problem
Students seem to expect answers to be provided for them. Too much time is required each class recapping the previous; poor exam performance
The Cost
Lower student confidence; lower student independence; lost opportunities for success; decrease in teacher time and wellbeing
The Solution
Workshop for teachers and leaders to enhance the most essential student skill of all - becoming active, responsible learners. We use our insights into learning bottlenecks due to ADHD, anxiety, apathy and over-reliance on digital learning to help teachers to modify their instruction, assessment and communication in order to increase student accountability. This model includes: • Evaluating our own teaching habits that may inadvertently incentivize student dependence • Building teacher confidence to let students have more ownership of their learning and grow in independence • Teacher-student collaboration to communicate expectations of effort and independence • Incorporating simple instructional and assessment changes that incentivize student effort and support their growth in the form of attention, recall, participation, and perseverance • Evaluating and incentivizing student effort with fair and time-effective assessment that supports student growth
The Audience
Teachers and coordinators of any department
