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Teachers need to know and implement

Classroom management: structures and routines

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Cognitive development and socioemotional skills

  • Higher level thinking skills – practical use
  • Students actively engaged in the lessons
  • Collaboration, including communication
  • Sensitivity to others

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Teachers need to learn

Interactive and Learner centered

Move away from teacher as the only one with the knowledge

Understand how to actively involve the students in learning; teacher-student and student-student interactions

Use techniques such as open-ended questions, discussion, role-playing, investigating, creating, small group work

Spaced or distributed learning (repeating new concepts and practicing over time)

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Teachers need to learn and implement

Language and education in multilingual settings

Most places today are multilingual

  • Basics of Implementing Multilingual Education (MLE)
  • Importance of developing the L1
  • How to correctly teach L2 and sometimes also L3 (and L4) in phased and sequenced stages
  • Use and continue to develop both languages

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During Teacher Training

  • Model how and what the teachers need to do in their classrooms
  • Teachers follow and practice in small groups: hands on
  • Discussions, small group work, practice methods/strategies

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Teacher Training

  • Trainees demonstrate to bigger group
  • Practice writing lessons plans
  • Reflection on own practices

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  • Training for involving parents: preschool and early grades

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�Have Fun Indoors�

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�Have Fun Outdoors�

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Materials

  • Create and contextualize materials

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  • Encourage teachers to make their own resources