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werdelin E D U C A T I O N
facilitating 21st century skills through Cooperative Learning
‘‘Mr Werdelin has developed a propitious educational project...
melding fluency of subject matter with an interactive pedagogy, his sensitivity to faith traditions and the challenges faced by teachers ensures its continued relevancy.’’
- M. Zaman, Faculty of Education, Cambridge University
PAST EVENT:
Opening Minds, Closing Achievement Gaps
- Empowering Identity and Community Building through Cooperative Learning
“We need a
paradigm shift’’
Ashfaque Chowdhury, Chairman,
Association of Muslim Schools,
IEC, 2 June 2014, Full article >
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…applicable across nation states and religions.
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Conleth Buckley, Teacher and Teacher Trainer, British Council
Healing Fractures I, 2014
New client: British values & faith school PHSE
Following the recent media focus on independent Islamic faith schools in Tower Hamlets, Ebrahim Academy has adopted Cooperative Learning as a part of its 2015 CPD program... more >
21st century British Muslim
- the Solution?
This course provides Muslim faith schools with a series of guided enquiry exercises for KS2-4 with cross-cultural historical and social literacy to proactively deal with requirements in relation to PSHE, Citizenship and SMSC.
It explores themes such as positive contributions to British and Western society of the Islamic World and vice versa, two-way negative stereotyping, current and future "British Muslim" identity, distinguishing culture from religion, and safe enquiry into potential conflict areas between Islamic and British Values.
Perhaps most importantly, this course explores ways to facilitate pupils' meta-reflection on learning and higher level thinking skills, to facilitate engagement, responsibility and authentic identity formation. Debating, listening and other core social skills, as well as tools for assessment, are fully integrated into the exercises.
All course modules are facilitated through structural Cooperative Learning, which not only ensures easily accessible Ofsted-compliant student-centred learning, but is also judged the most cost-effective approach in relation to Pupil Premium by the Sutton Trust's most recent report. Please see cooperativelearning.works for links and details and related videos with Stalham Academy's staff.
The Cooperative Learning strategies used are all tried and tested, are simple to apply in the classroom, and many will be familiar to teachers; in the words of Ms Jane Savill of the IoE's Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment, they are:
‘‘...a reinforcement of known strategies
and a recognition that they work.’’
This event is provided by AMS at
£50 for non-members / £25 for members.
Please book from AMS directly >
An ancillary aim of the course is to provide attending educators with an opportunity to reflect on their own learning process and its relation their professional situation, and to discuss and negotiate various solutions to current problems relevant to Muslim faith schools. The intention is that this feedback should be used to organically develop and adapt these strategies over time through a nationwide network of Muslim educators.
PAST EVENT:
Seminar presentation
BRAIS Conference
Edinburgh University,
11 April 2014
The Student-Centred Classroom &
the Self-Centred Student
listen >
This presentation at the British Research Association for Islamic Studies presents some of the challenges and opportunities posed by Student-Centred Learning related to epistemology and identity for Muslim minority schools in the UK as well as any teacher interested in RE and P4C.
PDF transcript >
‘‘Education is a purposeful and collaborative experience that is inherently normative and community based.’’
Garrison, D. Randy (2003)
“Self-directed learning and distance education,”
Handbook of distance education, p.166. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates