Commonwealth Education Trust
Through providing teachers with access to digital professional development materials and a community, we improve the learning outcomes of the children they teach.
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Foundations of Teaching for Learning 5: Planning for Teaching and Learning
This course will help you consider how to develop appropriate learning goals for individual and groups of students. You will learn how to plan learning activities to engage your students in ways that will achieve these goals. Announcement for US base...
Foundations of Teaching for Learning 7: Being a Professional
This course will emphasise what you can do to act professionally. This includes developing your own philosophy of teaching and making sure that you continue to improve your knowledge and skills. It also considers what it means to be part of a communi...
Foundations of Teaching for Learning 2: Being a Teacher
How we teach has its foundation in how we were taught and how we learned. This course provides an opportunity for you to reflect on your personal and professional development as a teacher. Through reflection and portfolio development you will enhance...
Foundations of Teaching for Learning 3: Learners and Learning
About this Course The teacher’s work becomes meaningful when it is informed by research and theories of learning, and their relationship to actual practice. This course provides an opportunity for you to identify and understand students’ expectation...
Foundations of Teaching for Learning 8: Developing Relationships
One focus of the course is to help you develop strong relationships with families to enable them to support children’s learning. Positive relationships with your students enable you not only to teach them but also to get to know them as individuals....
Foundations of Teaching for Learning 1: Introduction
About this Course Foundations of Teaching for Learning is a program of study primarily for people who are currently teaching but have had no formal teacher education. This course is an introductory one that considers the three domains of being a tea...
Foundations of Teaching for Learning 4: Curriculum
Curriculum is a framework for guiding teaching and learning. This course provides an opportunity for you to consider the relationship between the teacher, the learner and the curriculum. Announcement for US based teachers: Coursera and its partners a...
Foundations of Teaching for Learning 6: Introduction to Student Assessment
About this Course You will consider various techniques which help to assess student learning. The course also will help you to acquire the skills to develop and use appropriate assessment procedures. This course is part of the Foundations of Teachin...