Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Assessor to Teacher: Understanding How We Learn
Education and Training Foundation (ETF)
This online course explored learning theories and their links to common teaching approaches, the approaches to learning used in technical education and learning in context.
4 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr Katerina Kolyva
Chief Executive Officer
Education and Training Foundation (ETF)
Transcript
Syllabus
Week 1 – Thinking about learning
- Analysing best and worst learning experiences
- Overview of relevant learning theories
- How the learning theories link to common teaching approaches: behaviourism, cognitivism, constructivism and connectivism
- Review of a lesson plan and teaching materials and identifying instances where learning theories have been used
Week 2 – Approaches to learning
- Common approaches to learning that are used in technical education: Bloom’s Taxonomy, Growth mindset vs Fixed Mindset, Flipped learning
- Applying other teaching theories to your lesson
- Review of research on classroom practice – ‘What makes teaching great’
- Some of the most relevant strands for technical education in the Teaching and Learning Toolkit – collaborative learning, feedback, metacognition
Week 3 - Activity week
- Participants consolidate learning from Weeks 1 and 2 by choosing one from six independent learning tasks.
Week 4 – Context of learning
- Group work as a teaching device
- Enjoying learning - strategies and benefits
- Key pieces of legislation that affect teachers
- Key organisations that support the FE sector
- Education Inspection Framework - curriculum intent, curriculum implementation, impact
- An introduction to T Levels
- Building teacher resilience
- Reflecting on the challenges and successes participants have experienced as teachers
- Action planning
Issued on 7th January 2022
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