THE TEACHER TRAINING FOUNDATION
Date: 4th to 6th of May, 2026 Duration: 3days
Conducted by: The Teacher Training Foundation
Attended by: All the teaching faculty
Teacher training is critical for enhancing pedagogical skills, improving student outcomes, and adapting to modern, technology-driven, and diverse classrooms. It ensures educators stay updated with new teaching methods, enhances classroom management, boosts confidence, and facilitates professional growth, ultimately leading to higher-quality education and student achievement.
A three-day workshop was scheduled to equip ourselves for the new academic session – 2026-27 about Behaviour Management, Group Work & Collaborative Learning, Learning the Brain Friendly Way and Multiple Intelligence paving a way to enhance our skills, thoughts and rejuvenating the body and mind.
Key points of the workshop:
Behaviour Management:
- Understanding of Discipline
- Basic needs:
- Belonging and attention
- Personal power
- Freedom
- Creativity/ Fun
- Factors influencing the student behaviour
- Physiological
- Psychological
- Behavioural/ Social
- ABC stands for:
- A – Antecedent
- B – Behaviour
- C – Consequence
- Shifting from consequence to Restitution
- Consequence is external and restitution is internal
- Restitution involves creating conditions to repair mistake and return to the group
Group Work and Collaborative Learning:
- Circle time: Feely Dice
- Key essential for group work – Establishing ground rules
- Types of group formats:
- Think-Pair-Share
- Snow balling
- Rainbow
- Jigsaw
- Home group
- Expert group
- Home group
- Envoying
- Fish bowl
- Inner circle
- Outer circle
- Carousel
- Inner circle
- Outer circle
- Stages of group work:
- Forming
- Storing
- Norming
- Performing
- Adjourning
- Peers Assessment:
- Learning support and direction
- Organisation and management
- Ideas and suggestions
- Data collection
- Data analysis
- Report writing
Learning the Brain Friendly Way:
- How does the brain work?
- Learning takes place when neuron cells activate
- Sensory inputs from the neuron cells which helps dendrites expand
- Synapse is formed when two neuron cells meet
- Giving rise to new ideas, encourage creativity and skills
- Brain based learning: (12 Brain Principles)
- Engages mind and body
- Brain/ Mind is social
- Complex learning is enhanced by challenging and inhibited threat
- Search for meaning is innate
- Meanings are made through patterning
- Emotional are critical to meaning
- Brain processes through parts and wholes
- Brain involves both conscious and unconscious processing
- Brain involves focussed and peripheral attention
- Organising memory in 2 ways:
- Spatial memory
- Taxon (Rote) learning
- All learning is developmental
- Each brain is unique
Multiple Intelligence:
- What is intelligence?
- 8 intelligences:
- Visual-Spatial
- Linguistic
- Math/ Logic
- Kinaesthetic
- Intrapersonal
- Interpersonal
- Nature smart
- Musical
- Lesson plan integrating group work and multiple intelligence
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TTF TRAINING – DAY 1
TTF TRAINING – DAY 2
TTF TRAINING – DAY 3
