Raising the standards of education through teacher training and support. Focused consultancy, hands-on training and provision of top notch materials.
We are a team of young, experienced and highly qualified teachers and facilitators working in various sectors of our economy with a major goal of raising the standards in the workplace through our carefully developed training content for schools and other organizations. We have trained teachers in both public and private schools in different states of Nigeria for about five years. Our faculty is m
18/06/2020
Creating engaging activities for learners in an online environment require a lot of conscious effort and planning.
We would like to share these tools that would bring some life to your online classroom and keep your learners excited and engaged now and after the pandemic.
Let's start with these!
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These Apps rock!
@ Lagos, Nigeria
18/06/2020
Working from home can be tedious. At least, we all now realize this. Although we used to wish to work from home, some of us now really want to go back to our "offices".
However, office🏬✍️ can be home🏠and home can be office. It depends on what you make of it. Here are some tips👩‍🏫 to guide🕵️ you through maximizing your space as you work from home.
Enjoy! @ Alausa, Ikeja
14/06/2020
Here comes your brunch.🥣🍔
14/06/2020
Sunday breakfast for Educator's.
Ponder upon this!🤔✍️
11/06/2020
Many children who have been labeled “disturbing”, “unserious”, “restless”, “problematic” and all the likes have gone on to either prove us wrong by turning out exceedingly unexpectedly opposite or help us strengthen the label we have given them out of hopelessness. “If they think I am dumb, then, I am”. Over the years, we have seen how some of these children have gone on to become great in life, with record-breaking achievements and excelling quite beyond their contemporaries but most often, with the right support and sometimes with someone, just someone, who believes in them. Examples can be seen in Richard Branson , , Bill Gates , Mark Zuckerberg , , , Ben Carson .
The education system failed to recognize that all children are talented in their own way but some have special needs that must be met for them to optimize their full potentials, although, today we now have many schools coming up with programmes and even departments to cater to these children with additional needs. In a physical classroom, teachers struggle to facilitate learning and support special needs children especially when they are plunged into mainstream, sometimes with little or no information, data or training for the teacher to work with. They find out along the line that these children have some peculiarities. The teacher is forced to play the role of a psychologist, education therapist, counselor and special needs care-giver/facilitator. Today, almost every school is online and the struggle to facilitate effective learning for special needs learners continues.
In this programme, we will be featuring two experts in the field of special education to facilitate this discourse on strategies to support special needs learners in an online environment. Our facilitators were carefully selected because they have proven track record in working with children with special needs. Please swipe left to meet our facilitators.
Don’t forget to invite your friends and colleagues to join. Click here to register https://forms.gle/wUvTpboFnccKKL3b9.
See you online!
In the last few weeks, I have heard about school owners who are compelling or cajoling teachers to teach for free I these times of the COVID-19. So, I have a little bit for a teacher.
Dear Teacher,
It is not OKAY for anyone to say the children you teach come before your welfare or personal needs. Teachers do a lot and are professionals.
That means, you are not supposed to get a service if you don’t pay for it. You will not go to the hospital and ask the doctor to treat you free because the angels of the patients will bless them? What happens to the teachers’ children who are at home and unable to feed because daddy doesn’t have a salary anymore. They also probably don’t have access to online lessons at this time because they are attending a lower quality school because their parents who are teachers cannot even afford to enrol them in the school where they work - I have seen this scenario many times.
That opinion is self-centered, egotistical and myopic. It is even worse when the teacher is a man who has a family to fend for. What will he be saying to his wife and hungry children?
This is one of the things that Trendy Teachers Hub stands for. To, in our own little way, repair the damage to the teaching profession through cognitive restructuring. Teachers are professionals I repeat and must be paid for their services. When or where an employer is unable to pay, don’t expect service because you have collected loan or whatever. Any teacher who chooses to teach a child free, then it is what it is, a choice probably done out of love. No one should blackmail anyone to teach out of love for students or boss. It is an unprecedented time for school owners, just the way it is for teachers. No one planned for it so school owners cannot put themselves before teachers, just the way it will be inappropriate for teachers to say school owners should continue to pay full salaries or look for money to pay them when they are not offering service.
I encourage us all to hang in there, things will get better and this too shall pass.
We are teachers!
We are not ordinary people, we are superstars!
17/09/2018
Bruner’s learning theory has direct implications on the teaching practices.
Here are some of these implications:
1. Instruction must be appropriate to the level of the learners. For example, being aware of the learners’ learning modes (enactive, iconic, symbolic) will help you plan and prepare appropriate materials for instruction according to the difficulty that matches learners’ level.
2. The teachers must revisit material to enhance knowledge. Building on pre-taught ideas to grasp the full formal concept is of paramount importance according to Bruner. Feel free to re-introduce vocabulary, grammar points, and other topics now and then in order to push the students to a deeper comprehension and longer retention.
3. Materials must be presented in a sequence giving the learners the opportunity to:
a. acquire and construct knowledge,
b. transform and transfer his learning.
4. Students should be involved in using their prior experiences and structures to learn new knowledge.
5. Help students to categorize new information in order to be able to see similarities and differences between items.
6. Teachers should assist learners in building their knowledge. This assistance should fade away as it becomes unnecessary.
7. Teachers should provide feedback that is directed towards intrinsic motivation. Grades and competition are not helpful in the learning process. Bruner states that learners must “experience success and failure not as reward and punishment, but as information”. Credit:
https://www.myenglishpages.com/blog/implication-of-bruners-learning-theory-on-teaching/
17/09/2018
Jerome Bruner’ theory is very influential and has direct implications on the teaching practices. The main ideas of the theory can be summarized as follows:
*Learning is an active process. *Learners select and transform information.
*Learners make appropriate decisions and postulate hypotheses and test their effectiveness.
*Learners use prior experience to fit new information into the pre-existing structures.
*Scaffolding is the process through which able peers or adults offer supports for learning. This assistance becomes gradually less frequent as it becomes unnecessary.
*The intellectual development includes three stages. The enactive stage which refers to learning through actions. The iconic stage which refers to the learners use of pictures or models. The symbolic stage which refers to the development of the ability to think in abstract terms.
*The notion of spiral curriculum states that a curriculum should revisit basic ideas, building on them until the student grasps the full formal concept.
*Although extrinsic motivation may work in the short run, intrinsic motivation has more value.
Credit:
https://www.myenglishpages.com/blog/implication-of-bruners-learning-theory-on-teaching/
17/09/2018
Discovery learning is an inquiry-based, constructivist learning theory that takes place in problem solving
situations where the learner draws on his or her own past experience and existing knowledge to discover
facts and relationships and new truths to be learned. Students interact with the world by exploring and
manipulating objects, wrestling with questions and controversies, or performing experiments.
As a result, students may be more likely to remember concepts and knowledge discovered on their
own. Guided discovery, problem-based learning, use of simulation and case studies are based on discovery learning model.
Proponents of this theory believe that discovery learning:
encourages active engagement,
promotes motivation
promotes autonomy, responsibility, independence,
develops creativity and problem solving skills, and
tailors learning experiences.
Bruner's theory suggests it is efficacious, when faced with new material, to follow a progression from enactive to iconic to symbolic representation; this holds true even for adult learners.
Bruner's work also suggests that a learner (even of a very young age) is capable of learning any material so long as the instruction is organized appropriately. Like Bloom's Taxonomy, Bruner suggests a system of coding in which people form a hierarchical arrangement of related categories. Each successively higher level of categories becomes more specific, echoing Benjamin Bloom's understanding of knowledge acquisition as well as the related idea of instructional scaffolding.
16/09/2018
At the Meadow Hall EduCamp 2018.
It was a fantastic experience with educators of diverse interests from all parts of the country.
As a facilitator, I had so much fun and I am sure my participants did too plus that all resources used were created by us
Two unique sessions... G-Suite for education and The Power of Games in stimulating learning.
Looking forward (the more) to help educators bridge the gap and break barriers to learning, teaching and fun in the classroom.
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