The overall aim of this course
is to provide teacher trainers and teachers with the tools they need to initiate
a general transition from traditional classroom management to guiding students
towards lifelong self-reliant learning.
A number of concrete course
goals that support such a general transition are reached in two steps:
Step 1 Get to know the
self-reliant learner
(The course Self-reliant Learning)
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Understanding general human
potential |
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Understanding individual
human potential |
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Participation
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Understanding the concepts
of knowledge, skills, and individuality, and also how they interplay |
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Understanding the learning
brain, and what happens during learning sessions |
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Understanding how learners
realize their potential |
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Understanding how a
learner's metacognitive level can be improved |
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Understanding how a
practical framework that supports brain-friendly learning strategies and
routines can be consciously obtained |
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Understanding the processes
that transform potential into competence |
Step 2 Write your Code for
Excellence in Education
The concrete goal for Step 2
is to get course participants to use what they have learnt in Step 1 to write a
CODEX* (Code for Excellence in Education) + a dummy, guidelines, research, and
interaction with course participants.
* A CODEX is a document that
regulates the work within a school, institution, subject, etc., and generally
includes the following headings:
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Basic views on human
potential, knowledge, the relationship between teaching and learning, and
educational policies |
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Goals - Interpreting
curriculum goals and getting the learner to set his or her individual
realistic goals |
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Using the right resources |
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Planning
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Method
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Assessment
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Evaluation
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