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Understanding Your Students

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Course Description

This course, Understanding Your Students, is designed for educators to be able to apply their competencies gained and the tools to create safe and inclusive learning spaces, and create engaging lessons that meet students’ needs and support their achievement of their learning outcomes. The course covers the following modules:

1. Know your students

1.1. Learning principles

1.2 Active and passive learning

1.3. Learning needs and preferences

2. Learners’ readiness in challenging times

2.1. Types of stress and developing healthy coping mechanisms

2.2. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

2.3. Addressing barriers to learning

Key terms

Active learning; Autonomy; Barriers to learning; Cooperative learning; Differentiation; Effective learning; Emotional wellness; Esteem needs; Exclusion; Feedback; Inclusion; Intellectual wellness, Learning principles; Learner-centred approach; Love and belonging needs; Passive learning; Physiological needs; Positive interdependence; Reflectiveness; Resilience; Resourcefulness; Safety needs; Self-actualisation needs; Stimulating and supportive learning environment; Stressors; Toxic or negative stress; Well-being.

Course Objectives

This course helps you to understand and practice the principles, approaches, and strategies for understanding their students.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, teachers will be able to

Relate learning principles to effective learning;
Identify effective learning principles in examples from the classroom context;
Differentiate between active and passive learning and identify activities that reflect each type of learning;
Connect effective learning processes to understanding how each learner in your classroom learns and what they need to succeed in their learning;
Identify learning preferences and learning readiness in an example case study;
Identify toxic stressors that may be affecting students in the classroom;
Examine the importance of the teacher noticing and active listening to students;
Examine the implications of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs for addressing learning barriers and student stress;
Identify additional learning barriers other than those posed in an emergency or crisis-affected context;
Describe the features of stimulating and supportive learning environments; and
Identify the core components of social emotional learning activities and how these support the developing of healthy coping mechanisms.

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Lectures

Introduction

Module 1. Know your students

Module 1.1. Learning principles

Learning principles

Seven learning principles

Quiz for seven learning principles (Part A)

Quiz for seven learning principles (Part B)

Module 1.2. Active and passive learning

Video for active and passive learning

When to use active and passive learning?

Quiz for active and passive learning

Module 1.3. Learning needs and preferences

Module 1 Summary

Answer Key for Module 1

Module 2. Learners’ readiness in challenging times

Module 2.1. Types of stress and developing healthy coping mechanisms

Stress symptoms in children

Developing healthy coping mechanisms

Quiz for developing healthy coping mechanisms

Module 2.2 Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs

Module 2.3. Addressing barriers to learning

Ten learning barriers

Quiz for learning barriers

Social-emotional learning (SEL) activities for psychosocial support (PSS)

In practice activity for SEL and PSS

Module 2 Summary

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Summary

Final Reflection

Course summary

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