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Baldwins Sep 2003

Using ‘Multiple Intelligences’ for Active Learning

Deep down we know active learning is the best way to learn. Deep down we know that each child is intelligent. Deep down we want to be creative teachers. But how?
Perhaps using “Multiple Intelligence” as a format to think, design and implement lessons is the panacea, a unequitable resource for the creative teacher. An interactive workshop for teachers to reap the benefits of using the Multiple Intelligence approach:
Experiencing & Understanding Multiple Intelligences
Understanding its Implications
How to use Multiple Intelligence in lesson Planning
Exciting ways in which MI helps in making learning more enjoyable and effective.
Role of MI format in making Language learning more rapid, maths more meaninfull and science more experiential for pre school children.
Duration: Four hours

GENIEKIDS has been a forerunner in using Multiple Intelligence as a methodology for developing active learning resources, for fostering all round development of children and helping them to identify their intelligences. Geniekids has been doing various learning programs with children based on MI for the last three years. A visit to our center will expose teachers to many MI activities and further enhance your understanding of how to use MI

If they are Laughing, they are Learning

Use of Humour in Teaching & Classroom
Children learn best when they are interested, happy, think positively about the teacher, the classroom and the subject. Laughter can be a magnificent aid to learning, and the teacher who knows how to bring joy into the classroom will inspire as well as instruct. Do you want to bring sunshine into classroom, light up the minds of your students and let the physcological and physiological effects of humour open them to eager learning?
Exposure to Strategies and Techniques to enliven and enrich

• The classroom
• Subject
• Teaching Style
• Homework and Assessment
• Disciplining

Methods to create a learning environment filled with trust, creativity, spontaneity, wonder and joy
Duration: Four hours

Making Mathematics Meaningful
A Pleasure to Teach & Exciting to Learn
Make Maths easy to understand using ‘Active’ learning methods.

• Designing and using ‘Manipulatives.’
• Activities to introduce new concept ideas.
• Activities to facilitate better conceptual understanding
• Activities to review and assess understanding
• Connecting Maths to real life - learning through ‘Experiencing’.
• Using real life to provide contextual basis for understanding maths
• Making Math ‘Problems’ more interesting and relevant using real life experiences
  

Duration: Four hours

Discipline in Classroom

for Joyful and Effective Teaching
Interactive workshop for effective classroom management - experience the joy of teaching through techniques for:

1. Soliciting Cooperation
2. Disciplining and Alternatives to Punishment that work.

Duration: Four hours

Understanding learners and Making learning more Involving, and enjoyable

Module 1: More effective Teaching through "Learning Styles" We are all different. We also learn differently. We all have different learning styles. Obviously we learn best through our learning style. Does that mean we teach each child differently? Can we do this in a classroom of thirty children?
Can I do something to nurture each child's unique strengths, talents and potential.
What are Learning Styles?
How do I integrate them in my teaching and classroom?
How do I reach out to every child in the classroom?
How can learning style help in various behavioural issues ?

Duration: three hours

Mind Mapping and Graphic Organisers to aid

better Understanding and Retention
Presenting a workshop that offers you Creative techniques that multiply your children's ability to learn and understand by organizing thoughts, identifying key ideas, link themes, and remember more effectively while using both sides of the brain. Techniques like mind mapping and other graphic organisers in day to day studies to make understanding and learning faster and better.

1 Graphic organisers

Different types of graphic organisers - where to use what; how do they work
Using organisers to think better
Information organisers
Using them to plan lessons, teach topics, review concepts and assess learning
Helping children learn and use it for faster and better understanding & retention
Designing graphic organisers and using them for active learning

Duration: Four hours

Effective Strategies to teach SPELLINGS

Presenting a workshop for you to teach effective method of learning spelling to your students. This will enable the children to spell right, learn new words easily and gain confidence in their written work.
Duration: two and half hours

Above is only an indicative list, workshops can be conducted to meet specific needs of your school.

Duration of workshop dependent on topic and can be customised to your school’s needs.
The Fee for the above workshops would be Rs700/- per hour for a group of upto 30 teachers.
The handouts provided at the workshop will include Activity Sheets and Reading Material.

APS - Bangalore

Young Thinkers

Today’s generation belongs to people who can THINK - who can create, analyze, solve and make decision and also who can face the vagaries of life to come out of it - successful. The whole program will focus on development of the following three critical aspects of child’s mind’s development.

Creative Thinking Skills

Enliven the CREATIVE GENIUS IN YOUR CHILD through this unique journey of our past from stone age to battle fields of India and civilizations around the globe. Since Art and Clay are the symbols of a culture: The children get stimulated, enthralled and exposed to generations of expressions, culture and creative thinking.
Stress n developing creative thinking skills while the children learn basic skills and techniques like observation, imagination, composition.
Mediums used will be creative games, group activities, creative visualisation, art, drawing, colours, clay and pottery, puppetry, papier mache, models etc.

Critical & Analytical Thinking Skills

A whole brain thinking is what is required by children to develop an analytical, problem solving and decision making mind. Through games and activities, through visual activities, through case studies and simulation exercises children are lead to become structured thinkers.

Success Thinking Skills

Team building, Effective Communication and Conflict resolution, planning and organisational skills. Self Evaluation; Building self confidence and self esteem, Resourcefulness, perseverance and concentration.

Program Specifics
Twenty Eight sessions spread over 28 weeks over the whole academic year according to the calendar given by you. Each session of 80 minutes every Friday 1:40pm to 3:00pm
First session starting on 11th June 2004
Two sections of standard VI - each section 30-35 children
All Material including photocopies, activity material, clay, paints, tools, etc. included in the fees and will be provided by Geniekids.
Program Fees: Rs 800/- per child

Cambridge Public School

Mind Mapping & Graphic Organisers

Creative techniques that multiply your ability to learn and understand by organizing thoughts, identifying key ideas, link themes, and remember more effectively while using both sides of the brain. Techniques like mind mapping and using other graphic organiser in day to day studies to make understanding and learning faster and better.

Mind Mapping

The Process (Tony Buzan’s approach)
Using it in teaching
Using it to plan lessons
Helping children learn and use it for faster and better understanding & retention
Designing graphic organisers
Using them for active learning

Memory Techniques

To teach children effective techniques to remember information and facts. Techniques that can be applied immediately for all kinds of subjects. Techniques that compliment graphic organisers and mind mapping.

Visualization, Crazilization and Associations
Linking and Story Methods
Peg Method
Revision tactics

Date: Your requirement of 30 Nov is suitable
Duration - Six hours - 9:30 to 4:30
Investment: Keeping in mind 45 teachers of your school we offer two options:
Option 1: Two workshops, each for 20-25 teachers: Rs 4,500 per workshop (Cost per teacher 180/-)
Option 2: One workshop for all 40-45 teachers: Rs7,500 ((Cost per teacher 167/-)
First option is highly recommended to ensure best possible interaction due to smaller group size.

Frank Anthony Public School

Proposal for a One Day workshop for Teachers

Making Mathematics More Meaningful
A Pleasure to Teach & Exciting to Learn
Make Maths easy to understand using ‘Active’ learning methods.
Designing and using ‘Manipulatives.’
Activities to introduce new concept ideas.
Activities to facilitate better conceptual understanding
Activities to review and assess understanding
Connecting Maths to real life - learning through ‘Experiencing’.
Using real life to provide contextual basis for understanding maths
Making Math ‘Problems’ more interesting and relevant using real life experiences

Possible Dates: 26th May 1:30 pm to of 18th January 2003 ( Saturday) is suitable
Duration: Four hours - 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Investment: Keeping in mind 25 teachers of your school:

One workshop for all 25 teachers: Rs 2800/- (Cost per teacher - Rs 112/- only)

DPS

Using ‘Multiple Intelligences’ for Active Learning

Deep down we know active learning is the best way to learn. Deep down we know that each child is intelligent. Deep down we want to be creative teachers. But how?
Perhaps using “Multiple Intelligence” as a format to think, design and implement lessons is the panacea, a unequitable resource for the creative teacher. An interactive workshop for teachers to reap the benefits of using the Multiple Intelligence approach:
Experiencing & Understanding Multiple Intelligences
Understanding its Implications
How to use Multiple Intelligence in lesson Planning
Implementing MI lesson plans.

GENIEKIDS has been a forerunner in using Multiple Intelligence as a methodology for developing active learning resources, for fostering all round development of children and helping them to identify their intelligences. Geniekids has been doing various learning programs with children based on MI for the last three years. A visit to our center will expose to many MI activities and further enhance your understanding of how to use MI

Dates:
29th May 2003 (Teachers of 4th to 9th Standard): 10am to 2pm
31st May 2003 (Teachers of KG to 3rd Standard): 10am to 2pm
Training Fees: Rs700/- per hgour for a group of 25-30 teachers per hours.
Total Rs 2800 for each group - Total 5600/-

St. Thomas Public School

If they are Laughing - they’re Learning
Children learn best when they are interested, happy, think positively about the teacher, the classroom and the subject. Laughter can be a magnificent aid to learning, and the teacher who knows how to bring joy into the classroom will inspire as well as instruct. Do you want to bring sunshine into classroom, light up the minds of your students and let the physcological and physiological effects of humour open them to eager learning?
Exposure to Strategies and Techniques to enliven and enrich

• The classroom
• Subject
• Teaching Style
• Homework and Assessment
• Disciplining
  

Methods to create a learning environment filled with trust, creativity, spontaneity, wonder and joy

Memory Techniques

To teach children effective techniques to remember information and facts. Techniques that can be applied immediately for all kinds of subjects. Techniques that compliment graphic organisers and mind mapping.

• Visualization, Crazilization and Associations
• Linking and Story Methods
• Peg Method
• Revision tactics
  

Date: 30th May , 2003 ( Friday ) Duration: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Investment: Keeping in mind 25 to 30 teachers : Special Price for Oxford School - Rs 4550/-
Schedule If they're Laughing,they're Learning: 9:30 am to 1:30 pm ( Four hours )
Lunch Break: 1:30 pm to 2:00 pm Memory Techniques: 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm ( Two and a Half hours ) Extensive reading material , handouts and activity sheets will be provided to the participants of the workshop.