Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Girls' Education: Teaching Strategies That Develop Confidence, Resilience and Collaboration
Girls' Day School Trust
This course examined the significant factors that influence girls’ learning experiences and explored teaching strategies that support girls’ success in school and beyond. The course covered different aspects of pedagogy that are ‘girl-friendly’ according to research and experience, and that promote character traits such as resilience. Topics covered included collaborative and cooperative learning, partnership in learning, talk for learning and challenge in learning.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Mrs Cathy Walter
Assistant Director of Education
Girls' Day School Trust
Professor John West-Burnham
Professor of Education
Girls' Day School Trust
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss the need for effective pedagogies for girls and identify factors that can limit girls reaching their full potential
- Develop a rationale and criteria for effective collaborative learning in order to maximise effectiveness and engagement in girls' learning
- Explore strategies used to develop and sustain Growth Mindset
- Evaluate school-based strategies that can help girls build confidence and respond positively to learning challenges
- Identify practical in-school opportunities to develop talk for life and consider the need to develop a cognitive vocabulary in girls
- Explore the range and nature of partnerships that enable learning
- Reflect on, analyse and understand the implications of the course for your own practice
Syllabus
- The relationship between girls’ experiences at school and their experiences at work
- The need for effective pedagogies for girls and the influence of classroom culture on girls’ learning
- The ways in which collaborative learning can be an effective part of girls’ learning
- Strategies that can be used to develop Growth Mindset
- The need to help girls build confidence and resilience and respond positively to learning challenges
- Approaches to developing opportunities for talk across the school
- The range of partnerships that enable learning and how these can be established
Issued on 2nd January 2017
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