Workshops for Low Cost Education Institutions
Standard 6-hour day; 1-15 trainees 2,500
Customised 6-hour day; 1-25 trainees 5,000
Customised (Master Trainers) 6-hour day; 1-10 trainees 8,000
Partnership 2 sessions/Mo/Yr; full staff 30,000
Subject Matter Workshops*
English
Teachers who are First Generation Learners learn English as they teach English for fluency to First Generation Learners.
Environmental Science/ Social Sciences & General Science
The primary curriculum is organized echonographically around a curriculum that encourages compassion, an understanding of difference and the exploring of identity
*National Curriculum Framework is used as the Guideline
Workshops on Methodology
Classroom Management Strategies
Multiple Intelligences and Multiple Learning Levels are provided individual attention while providing inquiry-based education
Managing Concept Clusters – 5 learning levels that were always there are acknowledged and skills to manage them are taught
Seating Arrangements – Various configurations of classroom furniture and student groups ensure that the tools of knowledge do not remain limited to the blackboard, the teacher and her piece of chalk.
Placement of Resources – Teaching-Learning-Material is placed so that they are controlled by the learner, not the teacher. PepC cards, Jodo Gyaan counting beads and charts are strung up at eye-level and touching-distance such that students can use all their senses to learn whenever they choose.
Using Concept Maps for Revision and Remedial Learning
Concept Maps are used to as a tool for teacher preparation, cross curricular referencing, testing before remedial action and the creation of Individualized Remedial Education Plans
Creating Assessment; Monitoring Activities tied to Learning Outcomes
Practitioners are taught to articulate Learning Outcomes. They devise strategies to assess activities for effectiveness and devise new ones to fill gaps that energy
Implementing Activity Based Learning (ABL)
The practical guide to using Concept Clusters as an effective Classroom Management Style that address multiple levels and prepares teachers to implement the Right to Education Act
Alternative Strategies for Assessment
How to assess all Intelligences continuously, as well as a monitor teacher effectiveness in ways that are fun for children, pedagogically sound, as well as easily integrated into existing school calendars
Inquiry as Methodology for Preparation to Teach
How Teachers’ Preparation Time (annually, weekly or daily) can be used to experience the inquiry into method and subject matter prior to introducing it to children
Workshops on Community School Partnership
Parent Partnerships
How to integrate parent participation in the school curriculum, in terms of teacher and student learning on an ongoing basis. How to take academic learning to the home such that parents are educated
Family Profiling
How to profile students and families such that Individual Education Plans can be made and services offered to children are customized
LearningInq has developed a guide to assess engagement, in which 8 needs have been identified. It is believed that the satisfaction of these 8 needs leads to better engagement – of the teacher, the student, the employee. They are as follows:
1. Academic
2. Pedagogic
3. Spiritual
4. Physical
5. Psychological
6. Social
7. Administrative-Logistical
8. Financial
Community Outreach & Engagement with Learning
How to raise the level of education in the whole community such that children’s education plans stay uninterrupted. Academic curriculum with learning outcomes that involve community participation. Door to door coverage of a community
Systems Workshops
Curriculum Consistency
Many inputs with varying philosophies can cause a flurry of chaotic activity without the organization realizing the full impact of the total investment it has made. This workshop assists the management and the educators to synchronize all educational activities and opportunities in the organization such that all efforts are unidirectional, pedagogically sound and curriculum is consistent
Curricular use of the school building/space
The space in which children safe to explore and learn is called a school. Schools in the open, schools is well-equipped buildings, schools in drop-in Government facilities need to recognize that children’s learning strategies determine how space is used optimally for learning. LearningInq helps your organize space so that learning can flourish
Effective Mainstreaming
Workshop on pragmatic solutions to use the last month before mainstreaming to the best advantage. Simple, do-able plans of action will emerge as LI's entire range of expertise will be applied to whatever the current situation in centres/schooling/organisations/classes.
The three day workshop will include sessions on the following:
Assessment of learning levels in English, Hindi, EVS and Math
Remediation in a multi-grade situation
Exam taking skills
Involving parents in the mainstreaming process
Classroom management in a multi-level and multi-grade classroom
Purpose :
Ensuring that good practice and proven strategies are used such that the most possible students are mainstreamed. This workshop will have several follow ups on how to retain children who have been mainstreamed.